11: How Nature Inspires Creativity with Christina M. Burress

The Imaginal Podcast

This episode with Christina M. Burress is so special and transformational.
Christina shares colorful, meaningful stories that will awaken all of your senses and catalyze a new way of understanding your interconnectedness with nature and with all beings.
She explains how everyone is an artist and how art is a way of being.
Christina is a teacher of writing and will give you inroads into your own expression. She describes how each of us are witnesses in this world and how important it is for you to bring your own stories forward.
She shows us how to slow down and notice. She suggests wonderful ways to develop a relationship with nature and how to cultivate sacred reciprocity.
She also brings other voices forward within her own reflections. There are so, so many beautiful facets to her interview. I think you're going to love it.
Christina M. Burress has been teaching writing since 2007 to students of all ages. She has designed and implemented both in-person and online courses with the aim to increase confidence, inspire creativity, and encourage artistic collaboration with the natural world. She currently teaches at the University of California at San Diego Extension’s Creative Writing Certificate Program and the School of Education’s Arts in the Curriculum Masters degree at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a BA in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley, and a MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She is a published poet and a Reiki practitioner.
Ways to connect with Christina (she/her):

• Upcoming Course:
  • Remembering Our Place in the Sacred Circle of Life
• Social Media:
  • Website: https://www.christinamburress.com/
  • Instagram: @christinamisenburress
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-burress-b2071839/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christina.burress.3

Links mentioned in this episode:

• The Taiji Dolphin Hunt
• Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Suzanne Simard
• The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser
• Eric Booth’s book The Everyday Work of Art
• Film Worth
• Generation 9/11
• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
  and the HBO mini series Chernobyl
• Francis Weller
• Thich Nhat Hahn’s poem “Drink Your Tea”
  • Drink your tea slowly and reverently,
    as if it is the axis
    on which the world earth revolves
    – slowly, evenly, without
    rushing toward the future;
    Live the actual moment.
    Only this moment is life.

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