I’ve been running womb painting workshops called ‘Reconnect With Your Womb Through Painting’ to help people connect with their womb and express themselves honestly through art. The journey to facilitating this very specific kind of art session has been a long and winding road.
Some of the first life events that really pointed me towards this path started when I was 20.
Hearing the call
I used to sit in bed during the day while at university on my period, in pain and unable to process my emotions. I was stewing in this pain and unable to get the energy moving.
I even loved yoga at this time and I listened to gurus that talked about how ‘you aren’t the body’, an ultimate kind of truth that encourages trancendance from all suffering. This appealed to a very masculine part of me that wanted to push this pain aside and get on with my life (even though the yoga and teachers weren’t really pointing to ignoring the body.)
I wanted to be healthy but I wasn’t. When people asked me how I was, I completely left out the disaster my periods felt like and said I was doing well. I said I was fine even though the biggest health marker in my life was screaming out to change something.
Truthfully I knew I wasn’t on the right path. I was doing a degree I didn’t feel any passion for and every time I sat down to work I felt so shut down. It was only when I left that I started to feel truly at ease in my body.
The clarity to leave the literature degree came from painting and it was the hours that I spent painting in this transitional period that kept me sane. Painting was the force for transformation that I could lean on and feel propelled forward by.
Of course in leaving there was all kinds of old conditioning to confront about what success should look like. It felt like I was releasing an ancestral burden that so many of us have about needing my life to look good even when it feels out of sync with my soul.
But it did work, and here I am feeling the best I ever have in my body.
Now, beyond being stable I feel blissful on my periods. It’s such a delicious release when I can let go of all that I’ve been pursuing during the month and have a deep reset.
I used to curse having a womb, but now I feel a little bit bad for people who don’t have one and can’t experience this. It adds so much depth and richness to my life.
The Secret Sauce?
This ecstatic groundedness in my body has rid me of the crippling menstrual pain I used to have.
This pleasure’s come from being able to paint the womb and process my emotions around it. I actively release the old energy that causes pain and amplify my vitality through creating art.
I’m feeling fully connected to the regenerative power of the womb, not just to renew itself, but also my thoughts and feelings, basically anything stressful that’s been looming over me.
I can also understand now that womb healing goes beyond ticking boxes with health and routines, which by themselves won’t necessarily get to the root of the problem. The root chakra cause of the pain for me was being out of alignment with my true path.
Now I love to share this incredible gift I’ve received from painting with people through workshops and 1-1s that nurture the womb, releasing shame from the taboo it’s wrongly been given.
It makes me so happy to see people release menstrual pain, feel connected to themselves and turn those messy emotions into an amazing work of art.
Through my method I’ve been able to help people create honest work, connect with the parts of themselves they felt were lost, and realise the potential of art in relaxing and healing the body.
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