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I walk towards her part 4

on May 14, 2018

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Once in a shuttle between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown

A miner and an au pair. It was that moment when you meet someone you have never met before in a public place and hold your breath, wave all friendly in the vein hope that that is the person you are looking for. I think it was a Toyota of some kind, a gunmetal green shuttle; if that is a colour, and a driver waving at me across the zebra crossing. A match! He was in fact from Blunden Tours who have the monopoly in the Eastern Cape for Airport trips between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown. I had been on a Mango Airlines early-bird flight from Cape Town International: Lock door, get into Uber, arrive at airport, thank driver, pull little case on wheels to the sign board, check the check-in counter number, check myself in, check my need to be controlling when I’m stressed, stand in a queue that is not moving despite gate closing in 5 minutes. Deep breath, bite bottom lip. It was not yet 06:30 and my heart rate was racing as I had do...

The amazing health and well-being benefits of Creative Practice

According to the world health organization February is Healthy Lifestyle Awareness Month . The world has taken a different turn since the Covid pandemic and physical, mental and emotional well being is much more considered. There is awareness about the well-being benefits of creative practice on the psyche, spirit and the mind. I can recall a time when many creative practioners were not physically healthy at all and were bound up with unused energy spinning off the planet with anxiety. Now there are more integrated practices like yoga and somatic movement techniques helping people and artists to process better. In 2022 I did a qi gong course with my teacher Dr Thomas Jahn. I was one of those creatives who was bound up and having panic attacks. I had a far too great accumulation of energy from over stimulating myself drinking, drinking coffee, in my personal life, at art fairs, galleries, arti...

Once I drove along the coast line of the Western Cape looking searching for some seascapes

© Monique Pelser 2017 https://www.instagram.com/moniquepelserstudio/ Drawing is by it's very nature process orientated. You start with a mark which becomes a line and develops into an image. Making drawings you are therefore processing. Hi my name is Monique Pelser I am a South African artist, producer, researcher, educator, creative recovery coach and Chi Gong practitioner. I teach drawing as a skill as well as a wellness practice to children as well as adults. https://www.facebook.com/doodlesdailydrawings/ On this channel I share the experiences and insights I have gained in my life and research process. The methods I use are breathing, drawing and writing and are used to support self-awareness, mindfulness, self-development as well as creative problem solving. I am the co-founder of The Art Of Wellbeing, an organisation working with multi-disciplinary researchers focusing on well-being practices for individuals as wel...

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