Crazy Wisdom
How do you act when surrounded by stress and difficulty? - Julia Vasquez
- Consciousness & Philosophy
- Breath, Body & Stress
- meditation
- creative flow
- mindfulness
- stress management
- energy work
- creativity
- ritual practices
Why you should listen to this episode
Julia has some really great techniques and tips for practicing mindfulness and meditation. She is an experienced teacher and has taught all around the world including in refugee camps. Julia offers some powerful wisdom about how to operate when surrounded by stress and friction. She does not sugar coat her wisdom and if you value truth you will find it here. I've found that many people are unaware when they meet truly compassionate and wise people. Julia is one of these people and I ask you to listen closely to the wisdom she has to offer as it is powerful.
Episode transcript
Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about their meditation and mindfulness practices and how those practices help them tap into creative flow on a daily basis. Today I interviewed Julia Vasquez, who has some powerful words of wisdom to share with the audience about how to remain stable during periods of friction, how to move through blockages, through energetic blockages and creative blockages, and you. And she has some really amazing tips and techniques for how to bring your meditation practice into a daily life. If you like what we talk about, please subscribe on itunes by finding us at Crazy Wisdom and hitting the subscribe button. Thank you. And so what's your name?
on a daily basis? I do a lot of things. I sing, I write, I dance, I craft. I do a lot of wild harvesting and work with herbs, and then I also craft ritual pieces, everything from dream catchers to altar spaces.
Do you find blockages in your daily creation, or how can you explain your relationship to friction or difficulty with. With creation?
I don't feel that I necessarily have blockers unless I'm aimed at creating something in particular. I just find that it ebbs and flows, and I feel particularly drawn to certain things to work with at different times.
So you're saying when you kind of, like, put executive control over the creation process, then you can encounter blockages, but if you're just creating with no kind of preset goal in mind, you can continue to create?
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