Living Open

Nadia Payan (she/they) is an educator, speaker, artist, third culture human and Montessorian whose life is filled with reverence towards creativity as a pathway to healing and power. Nadia explores and cross pollinates her own creative expression with her experiences as an early childhood educator, a spiritual practitioner and artist. In this episode, Eryn and Nadia talk about: Cycles of death and rebirth Being held through the decay Asking for support The interconnectedness of all things Moving through life more slowly & in more spacious ways What Nadia has learned about life and creativity from working with and spending time with children Seeing the world in different ways Being in devotion to creativity The power of creativity Being indoctrinated into thinking creativity isn’t part of us and it’s something that we gain versus be Embracing creativity as reclaiming power from capitalism and other systems of domination Expanding what creativity means Witnessing art-making Blog for this episode: www.livi