Why Dechen is in Soul Art School

Hi my name is Dechen and it is essential for my being to express herself through creativity. It is like watering a plant, without the water the plant dies after some time.

I joined the Soul Art Certification in 2017. As soon as I opened Laura Hollick’s website and read about the Certification I knew: this is for me!

Soul Art is medicine for me. Art medicine. It makes me see myself in a way I can’t see myself. It makes the invisible visible.

It helps me to feel whole, happy and loveable, it makes me see myself from a different perspective, looking at what I have made, I think “ooh wow….is that inside of me???”

It’s a mirror to the invisible world of Dechen, which was and still is so needed so she can love herself and truly see herself.

It grounds me while I fly.

It acknowledges who I am, my story. It shows me that from the manure of depression creative fertility can grow. It reminds me of the joy and playfulness that is part of my being. It is caring for that creative inner child that just looooovvvvvess to play in the garden of creativity.

I was a creative child, but my parents didn’t support creativity; “artists are losers” my father used to shout at me when I came home from art school with a finished work. I was 18, and after a 3 months trip to India had started evening art school. My father only did what he thought was best for me, another generation, another time, and I’m sure he wanted the best for me…but that day is like a landmark on my soul, “artists are losers” he shouted while his anger and frustration turned not only in verbal but also physical violent towards me. Ugly remarks about the work I had brought home, it was a 3 dimensional work which I loved and so proud of, but my father treated it like a piece of shit. I wasn’t allowed to keep it… it had to go out of his house.

Not very long after that day I left my parents house to live on my own.

My life continued and though I kept the creative spark burning inside of me, somehow my dream as a kid and teenager of becoming an artist, or earn my money with art turned into something not more than an impossibility…deep inside the “artists are losers” believe had done it’s work.

Since my parents got grandchildren they have changed a lot, and are very supportive grandparents, open-minded even, a total opposite of how I experienced them as a kid. Art, artist and anything creative was a no go, a ridiculous thing, impossible to earn a living with….my dad used to say that artist are parasites of society…
Up to this day I can feel how it has marked my live.

Soul Art is like a refreshing shower to my soul, my creative spirit. It’s like a beautiful rainshower in a forest on a warm day…

Soul Art reminds me who I am.

Being in this creative process is healing, nourishing and makes me happy, every step in the creative Soul Art process is showing me something. The insights of all the above works are many and have been real medicine for me. I am so beyond words grateful for it. It is the gift of creating your own medicine…art medicine.

Soul Art also allows me to see creating as a joyful & playful process. It doesn’t need to be perfect, it is part of a process. Since the Soul Art Certification I have been exploring many different creative mediums, things I never have done before. It is a great adventure, discovering new ways of creating , new techniques to try out and experience.

It is total freedom for my Creative Spirit, and I looooove it!

The above 3 Art pieces have been all made during my Soul Art Certification.

Today I am sharing this beautiful art medicine as a Certified Soul Art Bodymapping guide through workshops & retreats. It’s truly a dream which has come true!