Jane Clapp

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. C.G. Jung Coming back to ourselves by committing to creative practices with regularity and intention is a way we can bring ourselves back to life, create movement in our psyche and then be placed in a position of facing our shadow or waking up to what complexes ‘have us’ at any given moment in our lives. The life energy in embodied creativity is one way can acknowledge the self regulating aspect of the psyche in its attempts to move us towards wholeness. I can’t wait to explore this with the first group of CREATIVE BODY practitioners starting in June. https://www.janeclapp.com//creative-body-practitioner-leve

No idea what this giant doodle will become as I start adding colour and feeling. I just know it feels good to work with colour and shape with no goal in mind. Then something new emerges I didn’t plan. It’s a beautiful way for me to connect with embodied feeling states and allow for shifts to emerge in me. Ideas around my work come to me when I’m in this process. Im not a great painter. That’s not the purpose. This personal process informs a lot of what I’m bringing to the Creative Body practitioner program starting in June. Link in profile.

Time and place for everything, for sure. If you’re always judging your breath as ‘wrong’ or incorrect or needing to be fixed every time you notice it, this is the message your brain sends to your body every time you relate to your breath this way. Poor body! It breathes about 20000 breaths per day without you telling it to. It sure is doing something right, isn’t it? If we habitually try to fix our breath, we might lose access to what it’s telling us about our nervous system ...state and what resources need to come in to support the whole body. We open to listening instead of fixing and learn that our breath reflects what’s going on in our psyche and how it’s presenting can lead us to more fundamental, loving lasting ways to deal with chronic or traumatic stress. More on this and much much more with Breathe Better - Jennifer Snowdon and my webinar starting in January TRAUMATIC STRESS AND THE BREATH. I so appreciate how Jennifer brings a trauma informed lens to Buteyko Breathing! https://www.janeclapp.com//traumaticstressandthebreathjan2 See more

Digging into and excavating personal, intergenerational and ancestral trauma when we are already feeling overwhelmed, isolated and under resourced can be destabilizing and harmful. With the holidays unfolding during a pandemic to boot, now is the time to discern when to not dig. Much Love to you.