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✨ a cosy creative circle, lovingly hosted by weiyu, psychotherapist, making Congruence, Wholeness & Beautiful Connections, everyday, together with all bodies, in pure delight ✨

15/06/2026

📿 Beginner’s Mind 🪷
aka ✨CLOWN✨

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.

~ Shunryu Suzuki (?Gemini midheaven)

Modern life often pulls us into our anxious mind. The goal is to know. Not knowing is shameful, contemptible, even dangerous. Endlessly we strive and drive ourselves and each other crayyyyyzzzzzyyyyyy!!

But Real Life comes with a blindfold. To not know is a given. And to live, without knowing, is enough. Vulnerable, stuck, lost, anxious, scared, fearful i may be, the practice of Clown (*physical theatre) returns me, again and again, to my Beginner’s Mind, not confused but wide awake, not limp or weak but soft and floppy, not inexperienced but open and curious, not ignorant but discerning, not ingenious but naturally and scrumptiously stupid ✨🍰✨

Whoever you think you are, I hope you’ll soon find your dearest self a stupidly warm and loving and pleasure-filled clown family!! ✨💖✨

Special thanks to one of my favourite clowns joey for letting me practice clowning *blindfolded* so very most satisfyingly with a beautiful bunch yesterday ✨🌀✨

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🌱P.S. Curious about clown practice but not quite ready for it yet? Our upcoming online mindfulness group can help uplift your faith and your capacity in your Beginner’s Mind aka your precious dormant Clown! (This i do know! 🤓)
Find out more at
https://events.humanitix.com/compassion
(Link in bio)
Selma and I would love to practice with you! ✨🌱✨

13/06/2026

Meet Ananta, this year’s ambassador for Many Arts Studio, graciously delivered by Minuteman Press Hawthorn

She is round. She is smooth. She is strong. She is tender. She is sharp AND she is infinite. Never needing a sharpener, she is here to stay tall and pointy.

Carrying a kind word and a love heart on her sturdy bamboo body, Ananta promises to be our most loving, enduring, agile, and loyal squiggling companion. Radically and quietly q***r, she is the embodiment of sovereignty AND belonging.

200 uniquely beautiful Ananta’s are heading to the Gala & People’s Choice Awards Australia 2026 hosted by Euphoria Group tonight. They are to be gifted to all the finalists, nominees, volunteers, performers, presenters, supporters, guests, new visitors and members coming together to celebrate the people who show up, support others, create change, build connections, and make our community stronger.

If Ananta ends up in your hand, even brings you here, please don’t hesitate to say hi and proudly make yourself known!

03/06/2026

You are warmly invited to join our very special 8-week online mindfulness group!

A wonderfully hearty and solidly evidence based group offering from lovely friend Selma and yours truly, dedicated to burnout prevention, and the cultivation of kind, curious attention and compassion.

With a generous magical sprinkle of poetry and story to help deepen our mindfulness practice, not as a relaxation technique or a productivity booster, but as a Remembering and Returning to the wonders of our body-mind and the universe ✨

Starting July 15, this might just be the nourishment we need to help each other through this winter into spring!!

Learn more at
https://events.humanitix.com/compassion
(Link in bio)

Know someone who might benefit? Please help us spread the word! No one turned away for lack of funds!

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31/05/2026

🏹 ATTENTION 🪬

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves - so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery (a deeply attentive Sagittarius)

Half a moon ago, i was invited to pay and shift my attention between Intuition and Purpose. Intuition felt like permission, drawing me inwards, airy, soft and open. Whereas Purpose felt like rejection, shutting me out, solid, sharp and cold. Talk about psychological splitting!

And for a moment, let’s zoom out from the stubborn and loud trance of this weird modern society! Do you see, truly, Intuition and Purpose are two sides of the same coin. Simply, as intuitive and as purposeful as my eyes see, my heart loves, and my hands gather. Amidst the wonders of the universe, i get to choose what i pay attention to by aligning my Intuition and my Purpose.

May Intuitive and Purposeful Attention be with you!

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17/05/2026

🪵 Tree 🔥

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

- Rabindranath Tagore (a very poetic Ta**us)

Once upon a time, I wanted to be a tree because I was fed up with people. And then I wanted to be an arborist because the idea of being a Tree Protector felt deliciously glorious. Reality didn’t take long to convince me that neither was possible in the confines of my human flesh and bones.

However, and even though it probably took a bit longer, I also realised that I could simply bow down to the blessings of the Tree, rejuvenating through the liveliness of its scents, marvelling at the decisiveness of its roots, listening to the hum of its trunk, receiving the protection from its boughs, and delighting in the dances between its many branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits.

So blessed that I found the possibility of living life up to the Spirit of the Tree, rooted in the earth, reaching for the sky, cycling through the change of weather and seasons, even spanning across time and space. I also found new friends, human friends who share the love and appreciation for the Tree. Lovely wise friends so effortlessly hush my stubborn karmic gremlins, and draw me back to the honey pot of life, again and again.

May the Tree be with you!!!!

Drawing inspired by the singular willow tree in my local park, and with the universe’s most special thanks to fellow Ta**us Sun and Celtic Willow, , my one and only dearest Teacher of the Tree and the Tarot ✨🌳✨

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02/05/2026

🌺 Miracle 🌀

I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity.

Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy.

The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.

~ Albert Camus (a very loving Scorpio)

The memory lane keeps pulling me back to that unassuming corner of a warehouse space where I spent much of my first year as an art therapy student. Few words said and nothing learnt, i just made and made and made, with foraged items, my hands, and my body. What emerged from that place was an undeniable aliveness, a vibrant sense of self, in touch with all things.

Life did not get easier or sweeter from there, but a foundation was found, not the engineered rock solid kind, but a wild shifting one, much older and deeper like the earth and water. Life really isn’t easier but through this “being alive by silence and secrecy” I’m brought closer and closer to what seems to be the Source, invisible, mysterious, spacious, safe, and beautiful.

What’s your own version of miracle?

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17/04/2026

🌊 RISK 🔥

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

~ T.S. Eliot

Therapy is the business of healing and growth, and I’ve long wondered about what real growth is. Better “coping”? Better “managing”? Better “regulating”? Better “expressing”? Better “understanding”? Better “communicating”? Better “relating”? Better “integrating”? … Not so satisfied until recently I learned that the stages of growth are no better or worse, only more or less complex and choiceful. And that growth is risky business full of unknowns but certainly and fundamentally relational. Plus a great piece of advice I gathered:

Look for those who’re mature and centred, and cultivate those qualities in yourself, and become another reliable person for others to tune into.

I think that finally makes “growth” and “risk going too far” feel okay (and important) for me.

May good company be with you and your growth ✨🌱🔥🌛🔥🌱✨

03/04/2026

🌬️NORMAL🍃

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Many of us come to therapy in pain and seeking Normality. More and more I am seeing that Difference is the best medicine that breathes vital Curiosity, Justice, and Unity into our hearts, bodies, and minds.

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19/03/2026

🌬️ SOUL 🌱

I used to think my soul was
light - ephemeral, untouchable,
fragile. Something that floated
above the ache of being human.

But now I know my soul is soil.

It holds hundreds and
thousands of composted
ancestors, stories, griefs, and
tender survivals.
It is dark and fertile,
alive with what has been broken
down and transformed holding
seeds of truth and longing.

My soul is not light -
it is the ground that longs for it.
Soil turning toward sun,
tea-coloured, unfurling,
becoming.

— Brigit Anna McNeill

Link to Brigit’s Substack
https://substack.com/

08/03/2026

Saturday March 14, please join me at the 314 movement launch event in person/spirit. We will be gathering outdoor in North Fitzroy sharing food, stories, creativity, and time together.

An LGBTQIAPN+ peer-led initiative for mental health by , I believe it matters to us all, because what sits in the centre, q***rness, isn’t a particular gender, pronoun, s*x, culture, look or worldview, but a vital life force innate to our shared humanity. Queerness is a birthright and a powerful expression of love. It is both survival and flourishing, returning home and going on adventures, diversity and unity, healing and growth.

If you also enjoy gazing at the stars, I’m delighted to share that leading astrologer and psychotherapist Debra Silverman calls this Age of Aquarius we are currently in as “a~q***r~is~us”. Yes! Even the stars are backing and shining upon us and our together-q***rness! So please join us in this steamy nourishing pot of soup that is ✨🍲✨

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Rear/774 Glenferrie Road
Hawthorn, VIC
3122

Telephone

+61401122896

Website

http://manyarts.org/

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