Posts Tagged ‘marlene lowden’
Keeping It Personal: Why I Practice & Teach Yoga
Why does PowHERhouse Creativity Editor, Marlene Lowden practice and teach yoga? Here are her top 5 reasons. You can visit Marlene’s blog for her full article. 1. Connection to My Body: I’ve tried all sorts of other “activities” and sports in my life and while I enjoy them, yoga is like no other. 2. …
Read More10 surprisingly easy ways to enjoy a stress-free holiday season.
PowHERhouse Creativity Editor, yogi and visual artist, Marlene Lowden, encourages us to be playful and exercise our creativity! Why? Read Marlene’s latest blog to learn how creative play can banish stress and make your holidays a whole lot happier! Marlene shares these Top 10 creativity tips as well as some of her favourite books,…
Read MoreWithout discipline, there’s no life at all
“Without discipline, there’s no life at all.” Katharine Hepburn Well that’s a bit of a killjoy isn’t it? Or is it? We had a beautiful long extended summer here on the West Coast. Divine. However, by the second week of September I was struggling. Routine was calling me to return to order and productivity. Fall…
Read MoreDo you doodle?
By: PowHERhouse Creativity Editor, Marlene Lowden When was the last time you doodled? Did you hide what you were doing? No need to keep it under wraps any longer! Doodling is actually proven to help you relax allowing other ideas and solutions to come to mind AND it increases your ability to focus. In her…
Read MoreA PowHERful Life Is A Work in Progress: Celebrating Imperfect Action
By Marlene Lowden, Creativity Editor Imperfect action is something I strive for when I paint. Really, I do. I want to capture energy, freedom, pure expression and that requires letting go. I switch my brushes every few minutes, I mix my own colours quickly, often on the wet canvas, I paint with my left hand, purposely…
Read MoreCultivating Creativity with Distance and Difference
By: Marlene Lowden, PowHERhouse Creativity Editor “Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” Jonah Lehrer I paint in a small room. The most distance I have between canvas and me is about…
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