Nadia Payan (she/they) is an educator, speaker, artist, third culture human and Montessorian whose life is filled with reverence towards creativity as a pathway to healing and power. Nadia explores and cross pollinates her own creative expression with her experiences as an early childhood educator, a spiritual practitioner and artist.
In this episode, Eryn and Nadia talk about:
- Cycles of death and rebirth
- Being held through the decay
- Asking for support
- The interconnectedness of all things
- Moving through life more slowly & in more spacious ways
- What Nadia has learned about life and creativity from working with and spending time with children
- Seeing the world in different ways
- Being in devotion to creativity
- The power of creativity
- Being indoctrinated into thinking creativity isn’t part of us and it’s something that we gain versus be
- Embracing creativity as reclaiming power from capitalism and other systems of domination
- Expanding what creativity means
- Witnessing art-making
Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/nadia-payan
Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Get a copy of the Religious Trauma Workbook. Register for the virtual erotic poetry writing class.
Connect with Nadia on Instagram, her website, or over email at nadia@nadiapayan.com. Check out Aligned Visionaries.
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