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Let’s Explore Breathing

Adele Satori
Text in video reads: Let’s spend a moment with our breath. Without changing it in any way, notice the rhythm, texture, temperature, and sound of your breath. Inhale and receive breath. Exhale and give breath. Know that in any time, in and any place, you can be with, and savour the gift of breath.

Breathing is our primary source of life-giving nourishment. Spending time appreciating and celebrating breathing is one of the many ways in to meditation.

It’s not necessary to breath in a certain way or pattern. Simply be with your breathing. Play with the sound of it if you like. Sound like the ocean. Sigh like the wind. Be as silent as snow falling in the dark of night. Let out a roar. Yawn. Follow where your breath takes you.

We inhale oxygen from plants, and exhale the carbon dioxide that plants need to survive. Breathing is the most simple act of giving and receiving.

The music is an excerpt from my composition “Meditation Drone in C and G”

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Breath as an Art Material

Adele Satori
Image shows handwritten words on lined notebook paper: Art as revelation of self. Breath as an art material, Breath cycles as life & death. Visual mantra practice.

As so often happens, I was looking for something completely different when I came across an old notebook. I think it was from an expressive arts conference I’d attended years ago.

I turned the page and this phrase was glowing off the page : Breath as an art material. Everything stopped as those words carried me away on a mind journey.

The way breath gives voice to poetry and stories.
The collective inhale of a concert band before playing the first note.
Blowing on a dandelion and sending off little white skirts as gifts to sky faeries.
Shaping molten glass, or inflating two slabs of clay into a pillow.
A deep grounding inhale and exhale before stepping onto stage and dancing.
The play of rhythm between lovers.

How breath informs our senses. The sense of smell in cooking. More subtly reaching our instincts, sniffing out adventure, or danger, or a potential mate. Communicating emotions when words don’t suffice.

I began to wonder about using breath in other ways in art, such as using a straw to blow watered down paint on a surface.

What would it be like to receive a breath, and use the energy of releasing it through a paintbrush, in movement, or in whatever other way one might imagine? How does how you vary your breath affect the quality of lines, colours, textures, or gestures? What would the flow of creative practice be like while intentionally incorporating breath as one of the art materials?

I invite you to set some time for your favourite creative practice, and intentionally incorporate breath into your process. I’d love to hear what your experience is!