Category: creative process

  • Creation As Meditation

    The creative process is to me the eight limbs of yoga practice. Even the breath is essential …prana….life. I prepare my body with asana, then connecting to the breath I slowly begin to distill and concentrate my senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, so I am awake, intensely alert in the moment. My concentration is…

  • Alan Watts Quote

    You are an aperture from which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. ~ Alan Watts

  • Thoreau Quote

    According to Henry David Thoreau: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” That is true in art, and it is true in life. ~Sharon Pontier

  •      I don’t remember the exact moment I met Sharon Pontier. It was probably a summer morning in 1998 when she was on break from teaching school, she arrived for a yoga class at my small schoolhouse and is still practicing her yoga and meditation with me all these years later.      I’ve watched her…

  • “An artist only creates maybe ten great paintings in a lifetime.” I first met Don Stettner in 1998 when he and his wife Jane attended a few of my yoga classes. Over the years we collided on the dance floor each August when the River Festival brought live music to the field along the Delaware…