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Jun 8, 2018

"I shut my eyes in order to see." --Paul Gauguin

Unu Spiro: One Breath Meditation Paintings

In 2016, artist Filiz Emma Soyak became a mother: "My heart expanded, my life changed, and I changed. But as I transitioned into motherhood, I felt more chaos than clarity as the days and nights blurred by with dizzying speed. I observed myself handling everything with less grace and more discomfort than I had anticipated. Intuition had always been my guide, but I couldn't hear my own thoughts clearly and I lost faith in my instincts. Everything I knew as myself was no more. While my new life demanded me to be more present, I felt my mind manically jumping to the past and worrying about the future. My breath did not come easily." Read on to learn how a meditation practice helped Soyak regain her clarity and informed her art practice and her new life.