Did you know you can explore your own creative processes as pathways to healing and self-discovery?

Creative practices can be powerful tools for processing trauma, moving through somatic programming, and fostering resilience.

Today, I’m excited to have Jai Knight, who offers a unique perspective on the healing power of art and embodiment practices.

In this podcast episode, Jai takes us through:

- Their journey as an artist and their discovery of ancestral artistic connections

- The role of art in processing trauma and personal transformation

- The transition from recreating trauma through art to healing and presence

- The practice of ritual tattooing and its healing potential

- Somatic awareness in artistic practices and daily life

- The importance of grounding and embodiment in creative and spiritual work

- The integration of Hanna Somatics in Jai's tattoo practice and personal life

And so much more!

Jai knight is an interdisciplinary artist and ritual hand poke tattooist. Their work integrates metaphor and symbol as a tool for communicating deep messages that expand beyond the verbal, the subjective, and into the collective narrative. The work they create is an intimate processing with an individual or group, slowing down time into the kairos.

Through Jai’s own investigation of slowing down through intensive wilderness emersion, 9-year meditation practice, lifelong art practice, crafting their own artistic material including paper, paint, ink, and fibers, and training as a regenerative land and social systems designer, emotional cpr practitioner, and somatic movement junkie informs the work and experiences they share with the world. Their work has always dealt with transforming trauma into creative action.

Their most recent project as channel, creator, illustrator, and author of House Oracle Project weaves together intimate and shared experiences of processing how to be at home in a changing world. This resulted in hundreds of collaborative meaning-making sessions, transformative paper-making workshops, a collaborative publishing project, and more.

Their projects have recently been supported by Arcosanti foundation, CA Artsconnection, and the public arts advisory council of 29palms.

Jai’s work was also invited into several residencies including High Desert Test Sites, Lookout Arts Quarry and Ute mountain studios. Jai currently resides in Joshua Tree, CA where they regularly offer ritualistic tattoos and live simply comnected with land.

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Did you know that our physical and emotional experiences influence our business journeys? Creating a safe space for energy and giving back to the body can lead to increased energy and flow, leading to more clients and a better work-life balance and overall well-being.

Today, I’m excited to host Amanda Renouf, a Business Operations Coach & Fractal COO. She shares insights on the connection between somatic awareness, self-worth, and the ability to receive abundance, offering practical advice for entrepreneurs looking to balance strategy and manifestation.

In this episode, Amanda takes us through:

- Her role as a Business operations coach, including her specialization in helping DFY (Done For You) coaches streamline and automate their businesses.

- Her journey from doing corporate PR to becoming an entrepreneur and business coach.

- Entrepreneurial expansion and capacity, and the importance of creating a safe space to receive more clients.

- Packaging offers, developing inner leadership, and setting up automation systems.

- The importance of creating an aligned hustle; balancing the drive for success with aligned actions.

- Importance of balancing structured, strategic tasks (masculine) with intuitive, creative activities (feminine).

- How to create safety, receptivity, and alignment within yourself as an entrepreneur to attract clients and opportunities that are an energetic match for you.

- Practices for tuning into your body wisdom to discover what energies you need more or less of in your business.

- Creating systems that support sustainable business growth.

And so much more!

Amanda is a Business Operations Coach & Fractal COO who is on a mission to help DFY service providers + online defy coaches automate & simplify their business so they can focus more on living their life and serving their clients from overflow.

She’s been featured in Forbes, BBC News Business Insider, HuffPost, MindBodyGreen and has done brand collabs with Thinkific and Hellobar on her marketing & business leadership strategies. And believes you deserve to have the freedom you set out to get when you started your business!

Stay connected with Amanda on social!

Instagram: @expansionwithamanda

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