Documentary Series

“I think imagination as a capacity is very important in our time. In other words, our ability to not adversely or negatively imagine a future, but to positively imagine a future and to move toward the future with uplifted energy to meet that vision.”

“My grandmother used to tell me “so when you cook, you always make sure you cook plenty of food because you never know who’s going to show up”. So every time I would cook, there always was extra.”

“We are making decisions every single day that makes our mind so busy. And these are monks who need to focus on their religion and taking care of their people. So their training was to free their mind, not thinking about what they’re going to do the next actions, so their mind can focus on what’s really important and think about their religion, their spirituality, their philosophy, and how they can contribute back to their community.”

“Women are reclaiming their waters and their wild nature. And I call her wild woman in the truest, most integral sense of the word. The way that we call nature Wild. Wild is natural and is full of integrity. It’s really tapping into your inner essence.”

“I’ve really come to consider movement as my ally and my greatest ally in life really. It’s my therapy, it’s my art form, it’s my prayer, it’s my way of connecting to the bigger world and life. And it’s my friend.”

“If I ask myself what my heart’s desire is, I just immediately go into painting, allowing myself to be in a space like that where I can use my imagination, make paintings, make the paintings I want to make, and then make the next painting I want to make. And then the next one.”

“I want to tell you the story of the root children. Are you ready? Come sit. Gardening for me, doesn’t feel like a job. The plants do most of the work and the way that I do it, I just get to come out and reap the bounty most of the time.”

“I practice every morning, every day since I was 17. I usually start by rolling around on the ground a little bit, I’ve done some Feldenkrais work, and I love how gentle that is for my body, to get my body moving and to really just start to feel aligned and centered. And then I move into qigong practice.”

“It’s like a coat I can put on or a carpet I can ride or a dream I can revisit. It’s still a creative endeavor. It’s still creation, it’s still synthesizing, it’s still becoming, so I’m not tired of it yet. Resonance is an agreement of attitude, an agreement of emotion and an agreement of certain properties or facts of existence and the resonance among human beings is a palpable thing that can be encouraged.”

“I believe that ritual helps us to come to a place of inspiration, to come to a place of reverence. The song and the ritual helps me to feel so deeply into my being. So if my own being and my own resonance, my own voice, my own movement of air through my own being can draw me, draw that sense that we’re all longing for, of union, of togetherness, of companionship, if it can move me through my own efforts, then why not?”

“We all have within us the power to be our own healer (in that way). The wisdom is there-it’s about whether you listen to it. When you listen to it, that’s when you’re on the path to balance which becomes the path of wholeness, the path of health.”

“I have a spot, my sit spot and I sit and meditate or just sit and be. I just sit and, you know, enjoy the beauty of the sunset or the warmth of the sun.”

“You know, what I do right now matters. Am I making it better or am I making it worse? And more. It’s our constant choice. And I want to be able to die and live feeling like I contributed.”

“I go to collage like I would go to church is to go to learn something is to have something revealed to me. I work purely from intuition. I don’t like having an idea of what you want to do because the images are so sacred that you’re just letting something magical and wise within you do the collage for you.”