In today's episode of the Deep Rooted Healing podcast, I open up and share my journey with Reiki so far, both receiving Reiki from multiple practitioners and offering Reiki to clients as a Reiki Master for the past 6 months in my private practice. Reiki is so beautiful and inspiring as a healing therapy to me and I am so honored to be able to share it with people to support them. Reiki is a gentle hands-on healing therapy that originated in Japan that is non-invasive and has no side...

In today's episode of Deep Rooted Healing, I share some reflections on the transition I'm in the middle of at the moment from identifying as a visual artist and moving into identifying as a healing artist and all of the stickiness that is coming up for me. I also share a new poem I wrote called, "Standing in a New Doorway" which I wrote to help me process and express what I feel at the moment. I’m Emma Freeman, a healing artist, poet, massage therapist and Reiki practitioner in...

In this episode, I talk about why I bury some of my fabric meditation books in the earth for 30 days and then dig them back up. I share how my intuition has guided me in different moments with this process, the serendipity of learning about the Tibetan Buddhist practice of earth terma, or "hidden treasures" that are buried in the earth for others to discover and learn spiritual wisdom from and how that connects to the burying book process. I also share what the books have been teaching me and...

In this episode of the Creative Unearthing Podcast, I share some insights and thoughts I'm having about artists being mediums who channel subtle energies, similar to intuitive or psychic mediums.  Emma Freeman is an intuitive artist, poet, writer and healer. She teaches online art and writing classes through her business, Creative Unearthing, www.creativeunearthing.com. She is a Buddhist, sober, a highly sensitive person and queer. She lives in Wisconsin.  Online classes:...

In this episode of The Creative Unearthing Podcast, I talk with the amazing Chantal Wolf, a Canadian poet, painter and author of the new book called "Painted Words: Poetry, Art & Parkinson's. We talk about her creative journey and her healing journey, being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and how that shifted her art journey, how poetry arrived in her life and how it has been healing for her and she reads some of her beautiful poems.  You can buy a copy of the book here:...

Alana Garrigues is an artist, poet and community leader and space holder. She runs within, a beautiful, deep online community for artists and makers that Daphne Cohn began. In this conversation, we explore what holding space means to each of us, what goes into it, and the magic that can emerge from being held by our art and by being held in spaces with other creatives.  You can learn about the within community and how to join here: www.withincommunity.com You can see Alana's artwork and...

In this episode, I talk with the amazing artist, Zak Foster who is an improv quilter, textile artist, community builder and deep, wonderfully insightful and wise human. We go on a journey together to explore what holding space means to each of us in this moment as artists and creative community leaders.  You can find Zak's online community, The Quilty Nook here: www.zakfoster.com/quiltynook Zak's website with his incredible burial quilts, memory quilts and other work can be seen here:...

I share a meditation journey I took myself on into a memory I have as a child when I discovered I wasn't an artist. I revisited the memory as my adult self and went through a gentle reparenting process in my mind and heart to connect with younger me and gave her the support she needed back then. I offer how you can try this meditation on your own with a memory connected to being creative or being an artist from your childhood and see what you discover. Please don't do this process with any...

I share a poem I wrote called, "The Light Keeper" in the hope that it will be healing or inspiring to someone out there.  Poetry has become medicine to me, both writing it and reading it. I hope to share some of that medicine with more people.  You can read the poem here: www.creativeunearthing.com/light-keeper.  Emma Freeman is an intuitive artist, poet, and teacher. She is Buddhist, sober, queer and highly sensitive. You can learn more about her and the community she holds and the...

Today I'm sharing some realizations I'm having this week about all of this inner work, inner searching and wandering I've been doing over the last 2 years and more like 6 years.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/emma-freeman-art/message

In this episode, I share my love of the Japanese wabi sabi aesthetic philosophy, what it is, the history of it within Japanese Zen Buddhism, what some of the beautiful aspects or qualities of it are and how I explore them within my art making. I hope it inspires you to invite more simplicity, spaciousness, silence, stillness, spontaneity, presence, wonder and beauty into your creativity and art making.  This is about creating art as a meditation practice and as a spiritual practice, which...

I renamed my podcast, "Creative Unearthing" from "Reflections from my Art Table" and in this episode I share why I made the change and what I'm dreaming up for the podcast right now. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/emma-freeman-art/message

In this episode, I read a few poems I have gathered about darkness and light, offer prompts and reflect on what the solstice has meant to me this year. I started a new collaborative art project called The Buried Earth Book Project that is free for anyone in the world to join, which you can learn more about on my website: www.emmafreemanart.com.  Happy Solstice to you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/emma-freeman-art/message

In this episode, I talk about my the spiritual and deeply healing process of writing poetry over the last year, what I am learning from it, and share some of my deeply personal poems with prompts so you can write with them if you want to.  Writing poetry has become a deep listening practice in silence and slowness and not knowing. It is mysterious and fascinating to me, how the words collect and assemble themselves into something that speaks so profoundly to what I have experienced in a way...

Ep. 27: Writing Prompts Are Doorways into Our Imaginations In this episode I talk about my new writing practice that has become a writing as meditation practice and is incredible healing and powerful for me. I share some reflections on my relationship to writing throughout my life and how it has been opening and expanding lately.  I also talk about the gift of prompts to open the doorway to our imaginations and how I have been living that through different workshops I have been part of and...

In this episode, I open up about my relationship to contemplation within my art practice and my life and how it has helped me and continues to help me heal deeply and find a rich, more meaningful relationship to myself, to my art making, to other humans and creatures and to nature.  I read a poem by Mary Oliver called, "Today" and a poem by John O'Donohue called "For the Unknown Self."  I share how through contemplation I created a self-guided visual meditation to help heal a childhood...

This week I open up about my decision to become sober after 20 years of drinking alcohol. I share my vulnerable story about it, how it impacted me over those many years, why I would use it, why I decided to stop, all of the intense inner resistance I met when I started to look at my relationship to it and what gifts have been coming through the clarity within my art practice and my life.  Recovery Dharma is a sobriety group that focuses on Buddhist teachings. https://recoverydharma.org/....

In this episode, I talk with the incredible fiber artist, Cheryl Janis based in Taos, New Mexico. Cheryl is a deep spiritual being and an empath and she shares her experience going through a dark night of the soul period, how her spirituality connects to her fiber practice, her love for animals and how she makes conscious choices in her art practice to support companies that create ethical fibers like Love Fest Fibers and Yarn Yarn, we talk about the energy around money as an artist and doing...

In this episode, I share how I discovered I am a highly sensitive person, what that means, how it has shown up in my life and my art practice.  I talk about Dr. Elaine Aron's book, The Highly Sensitive Person which changed my life.  I also mention a class I took with Myree Morsi, a spiritual healer and trauma therapist who taught a class on being a highly sensitive person.  You can see the fiber art I have been creating that I mention at the beginning of this episode on my website and on...

In this episode, I open up about my spiritual awakening, healing journey, dark night of the soul experiences that happened over 5 years. I share how those deep experiences shifted my art practice in profound ways. I talk about discovering all kinds of uncomfortable things during this process including attachment styles (I was avoidant to a T), emotional regulation, distress tolerance, highly sensitive people, anger and different emotions and my relationship to them, codependency, conditioning...

In this episode of Reflections from my Art Table, I talk about my love of textiles and fibers and all of the different ways I have explored them within my life and my art practice. I share my favorite materials and books on textiles and fibers that I love.  Patreon page to support this podcast: https://www.patreon.com/emmafreeman.  Etsy Shops I buy supplies from: -I get many of my Japanese sashiko and Kogin embroidery threads here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/kimonomomo -I get beautiful...

Lauren Oland of Mezame Designs is a sustainable textile artist and weaver based in Austin, Texas.  Lauren is passionate about sustainability and runs a zero waste studio where she uses only remnant fibers and fibers made or grown by small farms and artists. She creates wearable, functional weavings including bandana cowls, jean jackets with her weaving put into the back, shawls, tops, coasters, patches and mending kits.  In this interview, we talk about: -Her background studying apparel...

In this week's episode, I talk about my obsession with color and how I love to tell color stories in my art. I share my strong feelings and opinions about colors that goes back to my childhood as a sassy little kid. I share the techniques I use currently in my art practice, how I play with colors across different mediums and what I do to continue to expand my color horizons. I love to tell color stories in my art and thinking about them as stories makes it really playful and fun. I don't like...

In this episode, I share how I discovered slow stitching, how I create my fabric meditation books full of stitches out of repurposed fabrics and textiles including dish towels, sweaters, shirts, shower curtains, napkins and curtains. In addition to stitching, I add textile and fiber collage to the book pages. I find inspiration in Japanese Boro textiles and Indian Kantha blankets, the hidden layers within stitches and textiles that I wonder about and how healing and meditative stitching is...