Instagram story viewer> @subtle_practice> Tagged

Subtle Practice

@subtle_practice

597

followers

285

following

Creative life, in practice ⚘
→Listen to the podcast, Conversations on Practice

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

Join me and @subtle_practice wherever you are on Sunday Nov 1st for an active breathwork session to let all the complexity of these days pass through you. Give yourself the chance to listen to what the din of modernity so often cancels out. I’m forever moved by what I hear when I breathe with commitment and so grateful to this practice for allowing me to laugh about all that rises up, to wail about it, growl about it, sing about it.

If you tend to find it difficult to fully surrender in group practice then this is the beauty of joining from the safety of your own nest - you can really let loose!

DM me for any questions and find the link to register in my bio.

18

2

It needs presence in order to open.

My reflections on the past two weeks as I explored the concept of Shunya with the gentle guidance of a dear friend and alchemist @almatetto 🐚

If you are interested in exploring more of Alma’s offerings, you can find them at @subtle_practice ✨

3

6

I’m honored to be in conversation with Armenian filmmaker and multimedia artist Emily Mkrtichian, whose debut feature There Was, There Was Not opens in theaters today.

We speak about the act of witnessing, and about the ways story, body, and land carry memory across generations. Emily’s film follows four women from Artsakh, a historically and ethnically Armenian land, through invasion and eventual ethnic cleansing. The film poetically weaves their daily lives and gestures of care into a living archive of a lost homeland.

Emily’s timely film touches something very deep, showing how art carries what history tries to erase, how cultural lineage and beauty persist, even through rupture.

Listen to our conversation on Conversations on Practice wherever you listen to podcasts.

There Was, There Was Not opens in NYC today at DCTV Firehouse Cinema, in Los Angeles next weekend & more cities to follow.

3

4

A few years ago, the visual artist and poet Alexandra Fuller reached out to me with a proposal to exchange letters in poems. It began as a playful experiment and a way to get to know one another. What unfolded was a correspondence of image, fragments from dream and ordinary life, passed between us in verse. We reflected on the betweenness of time in our personal lives and in the collective, the death of winter, the tension of being both mother and daughter, and the cycles of death and renewal in our interior worlds.

This week we read our poems aloud to one another for the very first time and reflected on our exchange for Conversations on Practice. Giving voice to the verses gave them new register and life. We were reminded of the necessity of language to have breath and resonance, and of art’s capacity to awaken presence, connection, and possibility.

Our recorded conversation picks up just after our reading. We explore the discomfort of being between and the way attention is our greatest creative currency. Alex shares a waking-dream image of a white plastic chair that invited her to sit, to notice, and respond. After the waking dream encounter, she found that very chair and carried it to the Great Salt Lake. That playful gesture seeded A Participatory Universe, a body of work on framing the in-between, an inquiry on how gaze shapes nature.

We circle around surrender and play—the way art asks us to let go and be carried by the current, the way it asks us to be remade.

Listen to our conversation via link in bio.

If you’d like to hear us read our poems, we’ve made them public on the @subtle_practice site. We share the rules we made for our exchange and some ideas if you’d like to start your own epistolary exchange.

3

5

I sat down with artist Ceara Metlikovec to discuss her practice: a devotion to silence, sculpture, and shaping space as something sacred and alive.

In our conversation, Ceara shares her early instinct to gather materials into altars, her deep attunement to the rhythms of the natural world, and a vision she had of Georgia O’Keeffe that radically shifted her creative practice.

This is the very first episode of my new podcast, Conversations on Practice, where I’ll speak with artists, dreamers, and makers about the subtle ways practice transforms how we live, create, and imagine.

🐚 Listen to the full episode via the link in bio

You’re invited to come practice with Ceara in our upcoming @subtle_practice series, The Art of Making Sacred Space

🤍Alma

3

3

I’ve been in play developing a new line of signature plant & flower essences to support your embodied practice. These vibrational medicines have been harvested and crafted from the magical mountains and shores I call home in California and Greece.

Essences work by way of vibrational imprint. They hold direct wisdom from the trees and flowers who generously remind us of our own innate nature. I like to say the flowers teach us to revel in our own generosity :)

These essences address specific emotional, physical, psychological, and creative blocks, helping to dissolve the distortions that hold us back in our becoming. Their imprint is one of gentle prompting, constantly inviting us back to ourselves. They help us to grow roots within the depths so we can expand and grow into our highest creative expression.

To see the full menu, click Apothecary in the link in bio. Scroll to the end to find an order form link 🏹 (a temporary home while the new Subtle Practice site is under construction).

🌹 Alma

57

2

Subtle Practice begins again Jan 4. We’ll be exploring subliminal space and its relationship to the sublime within us. Join me for a month of weekly meditation classes to expand awareness and invite in hidden aspects of the self. Link in bio for details 🐚

Image: shells containing pigment used by Paleolithic artists found in cave at Altamira

3

2

Flowering begins again SEP 16. We’re going deep into psyche with kriya meditation and active imagination work. This is 8 weeks of engaged practice. DM for details, space for this one is limited.

3

3