Rachel Sermanni's Finger That Points to the Moon Rachel Sermanni

For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshopIn the final episode of this series I explore the last two Rules written by Sister Corita Kent, plus the ‘helpful hints’ at the end….Rule 9 : ’Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.’Rule 10: ‘ “We’re breaking all of the rules even our own rules and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.” John Cage’Helpful Hints: A...

For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop‘Don’t try to Create and Analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.’I absolutely love this reminder. Comparing the two processes to feminine, masculine principles (energies that exist in us as whole individuals).This is one of the rules I return to often. This episode also features another favourite line of mine: ‘Kill Your Darlings’ and looks at the importance o...

For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop‘Nothing is a Mistake, there’s no win and no fail. There’s only make’‘The Only rule is Work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.’I talk about the good old Inner Critic and how it comes up in a big way at different, but predictable, cyclic moments for those who menstruate.I read an excerpt...

For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshopSo this, I think, is a really interesting rule:‘Be Self-Disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart & choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.’I choose to go a little off-piste / off-road / off-topic (?) with this one; I interpret this rule in my own way as, in truth, I don’t know wha...

For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshop‘Consider Everything an Experiment’In this episode I get talking about a favourite hand book of mine, written by Chogyam Trungpa, interpreting the ‘Slogans of Atisha’ which are a bunch of succinct one or two liners that are, in some way, supposed to boil the magic of Buddhism and Buddhist practice down to something concise. I look at what ‘Experimenting’ looks like for creat...

For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshopIn this Episode I explore rules 2 & 3 of Sister Corita Kent’s ’10 Enduring Rules for a Creative Life’.2) General duties of a student; Pull everything out of your Teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students3)General duties of a teacher; pull everything out of your students. I take us into the learning environment, exclaiming the wonders of finding a ‘good’ teache...