Compassionate Brush: Calligraphy & Communication Practice with Barbara Bash

Making a mark, with brush and ink, brings vision down to earth, through the body, onto the page. The practice of Nonviolent Communication is also a grounding act. How we speak can come from our embodied awareness and create connection with ourselves and others. Working with large horsehair brushes and buckets of ink, we will explore this interweaving of silence and form, space and body, aloneness and connection through brush stroke and dialogue. Barbara, a Shambhala meditation instructor, combines Asian aesthetics with Western art, guiding groups in experiences of creative aliveness and natural ceremony.