Clothes for Body, Soul & Spirit
My Challenge is finished! And I feel great. There is peace and a contentment I don’t think I have ever felt before. The last week has been special. It dawned on me that I only had one week left of my Challenge. Doubt surfaced. Had I succeded? Was I where I wanted to be? I [...] Read more...
Do you like striped patterns? Is your closet filled with garments made of stripes? If you answered yes to these questions, it might be useful to look closer, to understand what you are telling yourself with all these lines. It is also a good thing to know how lines affect you. Let’s look at the [...] Read more...
In the 25th week of my Challenge something gets very obvious… Things are beginning to take shape. My days are spent making new garments, fabric patterns and writing. The last couple of weeks I have worked on a tunic with several variations, inspired by traditional garments. As I made one of them, I felt really [...] Read more...
I discovered the kimono on my first trip to Japan, thirty years ago, and started to wear one at home. I still do. I fell in love with the kimono. One of the things I love about it is that it is very comfortable. Nothing restricts my movements. It can hang losely. It can be [...] Read more...
It is the 24th week of my Challenge … My old persona is still hanging lifeless on a hook in the world below as in the myth about Inanna’s Descent. Since I am aware of the timing of the astrological transit, I know that the transformation is in its active phase right now. I reach [...] Read more...
As I started my six month Challenge at the beginning of March, I was focused on my personal transformation. I thought the enactment of an initiation, that included being stripped of clothes that were not an expression of my True Self, would be the perfect set-up. I don’t think I really understood the depth of [...] Read more...
Clothes are like vessels… They carry all the different parts of our personality. They carry our Higher Self. These two levels are very different. While clothes for the Egoic Self are made up of many split and complicated parts, the sign of the Essential Self is wholeness. Its vessels are made up of whole parts. [...] Read more...