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Flowing: momentum and the present moment.
I have been sitting with my own patterns, the ebbs and flows, the ups and downs. I realise I experience suffering when not in flow. When my motivation and energy and focus are not aligned, I become anxious and at times, depressed.
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Being (Album #3)
These images reflect the emerging sense of liberation and my growing comfort with showing up as myself. They reflect the confidence that comes form the strength built on loving your self, mind, body and soul. They reflect an increasing irreverence for social norms and the expectations placed on me by colonialist paternalism. In light and shadow, I experimented with balance and boundaries.
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Album #2 – Transcending
“In these moments of deep reflection, I started to make sense of my self, for myself. ” This album reflects the realization that I could use my body to express myself through images, and that nudity enhanced or expanded what i could say…
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The Photographic Journey to here
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself” ~ Simone de Beauvoir. I started looking for myself in places where I knew I’d seen me before. I thought perhaps there would be clues left behind, or perhaps I’d get lucky and find I was still there. In yoga. I saw my shape, my body, the crafting of age telling a story of it’s own. In the garden I saw the crone, smiling as she welcomed me home. The witch standing close behind, ever sultry and full of sass…
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Being shot by an other
The next set of photos I share (next post) will be those I very first shared online with a community of naturists (and some others…). As I share the various albums I have created for this project, I will toggle back and forth between reflection on now and then. I will share where I was at in my journey when the photo was taken, what I saw in the image at the time, and if anything has changed. As well, I will check in regularly with a mindful pause, an update of where things are at with the project real time and a few new pics as the opportunities to collaborate with more experienced artists emerge and unf
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In love’s shadow, anger is a powerful ally
Knowing our self is believed by many to be the path to freedom. So how do we come to know our true self? I stumbled across a means for doing so combining yoga, Buddhism, philosophy, nudism, photography, poetry and prose, and, the secret ingredient, play.
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Sitting with an angry shadow
As I look around I see sisters in transformation rising up. Women’s issues in the workplace, particularly around sexual harassment […]
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Wild woman on the loose
What they now understood, was that it wasn’t that they had grown to become giant, but rather grown into their natural state of being, free from the restrictions of being inside. Something more than those buildings let them be.
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A vision of feathers everywhere
So to what end do I write and share? What does the wild woman crave?
Simone B'Free
One woman's journey to radical freedom
