Weaver Audrey Ducas on the Vulnerability of Creativity and Tantric Textile Design [episode 45]

 
 
 

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Audrey is a textile artist and spiritual teacher based on the Oregonian coast. Originally from Provence, France, she keeps consciously breaking the rules of her classical textile training. Her willingness to allow for un-woven spaces, to weave outside of the warp, and to take detours and get intimate with abstract details reflects her drive to explore deeply one's inner landscape and its duality. Audrey sees weaving as a conversation between the permanent and the impermanent, the organized and the chaotic, stillness and playfulness, and the unshakable verticality of the earth-divine plane (steady warp) against the horizontality of the human plane (dynamic weft). The pieces become stories of an instinctual nature where the occasional twist and turns of the weft bring emotions, questions and perhaps understanding to the surface.

We are delighted and excited to share that Audrey will be teaching a workshop with us in May 2021, on Intuitive Weaving: Finding Structure Within Creativity. In this workshop we will be crafting a one-of-a-kind art piece alongside Audrey, embarking on a journey through the realms of your mind, emotions, and spirit. Join us and discover a practical skill that you can return to, to slow down, find calm and presence.

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LISTEN TO HEAR:

  • Intuitive tantric weaving 

  • On being a nomad of both the Earth-plane and the Universe

  • On the different ways of being

  • Why we are all innately creative beings 

  • On being protective of your inner world 

  • Being seen on your creative journey

  • On being a living flowing vessel for creativity

  • Reclaiming yourself as an artist 

  • On weaving stories into being

  • Cultivating creativity in the everyday 

  • On changing and adapting like the nature of a tree

  • How Human Design helped Audrey to know herself more deeply

  • On the vulnerability of creativity

  • On weaving as a physical manifestation of flow 

  • On going steady with your guides and helpers

  • How Audrey works with Camellia sinensis

  • Sacred adornment

  • On the social and environmental impacts of the textile industry

  • Deconstructing our ways of knowing 

  • Audrey shares her process for choosing sustainable yarn

  • On creating with materials that have soul

  • Audrey’s upcoming workshop with Earth Speak

  • And more!

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