The Embodied Vessel Podcast

Loren Lewis Cole
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Podcast hosted by artist Loren Lewis Cole exploring themes around the vital necessity of artistic practice throughout the stages of our lives. From the conversation on depression and the 'meaning crisis', to our desire to dance a dance that only we can dance, the importance of creativity, curiosity and play are more important than they've been for some time. As we approach an age of increasing technological enmeshment and disembodied information hoarding, craft and the dexterous skillsets allow us to glimpse an ancient kinaesthetic intelligence that can completely revitalise our lives.  Art is medicine. We create art to heal, we heal to create Art.  @lorenlewiscolejewellery www.lorenlewiscole.com Gorgeous cover image by @raynjermain , Ben Rayner 

  1. 31 - The gifts of women, a fragrant economy.

    APR 10

    31 - The gifts of women, a fragrant economy.

    I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast The etymology of 'economy' comes from the ancient greek 'oikos' which is the word for home. Economy is the sharing of gifts from the home.  Let's reclaim the movement of trade as an exchange of gifts forged in the home, in small workshops, in the gifts of people's efforts. There's a radiant economy alive at all times.  The everyday gifts of women. In a season of such tenderness and expansion, deepening roots into the fertile soil, I feel so in tune with the gifts of women, so supported by people's unique contributions. Some tired musings on this fragrantly alive economy... let's intentionally strengthen it day in day out with our verbal praise. The more on our path we are, the more we can see others, clearly, in their radiance. This is the balm for the wounds of competition. Sit back and receive the gifts of women, then praise.  What are your thoughts? Join the LLC Jewellery Family  https://lorenlewiscole.lpages.co/jointhetribe/ Come say hi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lorenlewiscolejewellery/?hl=en

    21 min
  2. 30 - Remaining fully alive and responsive in the presence of doubt and fear.

    APR 3

    30 - Remaining fully alive and responsive in the presence of doubt and fear.

    I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast Fear and doubt tend to make our experience and world smaller. We take less risks and play things safe and reasonable.  There's no way we can live a life fully expressed without falling on our faces, feeling consumed with doubt and fear, and wondering if we should just quit.  If we're playing it safe artistically or in any other area of life, we won't feel doubt. Doubt is going to come, and what matters is who we are and how we work with it WHEN it comes. Because it will baby, and instead of running from it, we can learn to dive into the ego death of a portal that is doubt, and instead of crumbling, we can find presence there, find aliveness there, find the spirit to continue there.  What we run from has power over us. What we face courageously we internalise the power of.  Greatness is forged in the fire of emotional intensity, what I often see is the desire to make what could be acute emotional experiences more diluted and chronic. chronic fear can actually ruin our lives, but acute fear fully embodied just makes us deeper, stronger and more alive. We all feel good when we feel confident, but what really makes us, where we earn our stripes is how we deal with the times we're tired and doubt ridden, fearful and uninspired. We don't rise to the level of our confidence, we grow our confidence by our ability to inhabit and metabolise doubt, fully alive, through the portal of uncertainty, into a new awareness and more powerful ground. Doubt and fear are inescapable on a true path of heart, it means you're not playing it safe, welcome to the human race my love. Keep going. There is no security in life, in our work, in our futures, only the courage we have to keep going no matter the circumstances, to choose to celebrate being here in an imperfect circumstance,  only full aliveness is here, no security. So keep going, keep working, keep bringing your gifts forward. With love,  Loren Go to the Limits of Your Longing- Rilke . God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand. Book of Hours, I 59 Join the LLC Jewellery Family  https://lorenlewiscole.lpages.co/jointhetribe/ Come say hi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lorenlewiscolejewellery/?hl=en

    1h 21m
  3. 29 - Life itself is the sharing circle

    MAR 7

    29 - Life itself is the sharing circle

    I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast 'To love anything, at any cost, is a bargain.' Wendell Berry Some recent reflections on my own confusion around spirituality and the artistic path. Because Art is not seen as a path in many circles, I didn't trust my own gifts when I was young, and in an unconscious attempt to overcomplicate my life and do something more meaningful, I tried to do all manner of things, all of which left me depleted and uninspired. Being on an artistic path, which includes of course anything we're bringing from our heart into the world- in craft of not, requires a level of rawness and vulnerability that leaves us feeling defeated on a daily basis.  This sense of being defeated I have come to realise, is in itself a spiritual experience, because what we're trying to do feels so immense, we grapple with vast currents of energy, and always fall short, and that is how it should be.  We transcend the limited individualist trauma culture of our times by stretching out into a vaster cosmology that includes wild beings not human not animal- whispers we feel but cannot truly see because when we focus on them they vanish. The slippery nature of the creative inspiration is in itself a frustrating and soulful experience. In this way, the creative path brings us to our knees as well as to exalted states of wonder and connection, and a sense of feeling raw pervades. A full human being, not a perfectly healed or optimised human being. The last two stanzas of 'The Man Watching', R.M.Rilke When we win it’s with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. What is extraordinary and eternal does not want to be bent by us. I mean the Angel who appeared to the wrestlers of the Old Testament: when the wrestlers’ sinews grew long like metal strings, he felt them under his fingers like chords of deep music. Whoever was beaten by this Angel (who often simply declined the fight) went away proud and strengthened and great from that harsh hand, that kneaded him as if to change his shape. Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. –Translated by Robert Bly Join the LLC Jewellery Family  https://lorenlewiscole.lpages.co/jointhetribe/ Come say hi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lorenlewiscolejewellery/?hl=en

    1h 24m
  4. 28 - How PLEASURE and OBSESSION redirect and heal the distortion of 'people pleasing'.

    FEB 19

    28 - How PLEASURE and OBSESSION redirect and heal the distortion of 'people pleasing'.

    I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast How PLEASURE and OBSESSION redirect and heal the distortion of 'people pleasing'. OBSESSION WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE- RECLAIMING THE SACREDNESS AND NATURALNESS OB CREATIVE OBSESSION AND HOW WE ARE TAUGHT TO FEAR AND QUESTION IT, BE GOOD AND FIT IN. NO BABE, NO. NOT US. WE ARE ARTISTS, ONE CANNOT CREATE WITHOUT OBSESSION. Join the LLC Jewellery Family  https://lorenlewiscole.lpages.co/jointhetribe/ Come say hi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lorenlewiscolejewellery/?hl=en https://mundoshabitables.com/media/pages/biblioteca/los-usos-de-lo-erotico/a52dc8c4d7-1754436835/the-uses-of-the-erotic-audre-lorde.pdf Patti Smith on creativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FocA9OECFy8

    1h 37m
  5. 27 - Where are you afraid of within yourself?

    FEB 7

    27 - Where are you afraid of within yourself?

    I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast For an Artist, our primary material is our inner world. From the material we engage with there, we blend our internal energy with the force of upward moving inspiration, connecting with material of expression...clay, dance, the voice, the body, rocks, gold, food, sound....the list is endless. If we are full of ideas about how we have to be, we're unavailable for the energy of our voice to move through us, and everybody's voice is unique, stemming from an internal impulse.  Yet sometimes we might find we can't quite grab onto the feeling of Authentic Voice moving through us, because the current of authenticity is asking us to feel anger, ugliness, annoyance, desire, frustration, aggression, or anything else our sense of self has disassociated from.  There is medicine in the courage required to be fully alive.  Here are some ideas for how to create a short but potent deliberate experience of the very emotion we're hiding from, which brings relaxation and flow because it's energetically very expensive to hold ourselves in any shape other than what's natural.  To create work that's vibrant to us and others, we want to be in the authenticity of the body. May you be unafraid of the entirety of your inner experience, and alchemise it all in the cauldron of your practice. An introduction to Butoh, you can look into other videos and here might be a jumping off point... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcn55T-jNE The Aesthetics of Bhuto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUuNF_o2gM Beauty in the Grotesque... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f6R8Ry9qVo Join the LLC Jewellery Family  https://lorenlewiscole.lpages.co/jointhetribe/ Come say hi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lorenlewiscolejewellery/?hl=en

    45 min
  6. 26 - How Do We Improve and Deepen Our Artistic Work If We Don't Have a Mentor?

    FEB 2

    26 - How Do We Improve and Deepen Our Artistic Work If We Don't Have a Mentor?

    I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast I've been speaking recently with other artists about how we recognise when we need to improve, or how we know when we're stuck in a sort of numb comfort of our work. It's so difficult to assess our incompetence or the vibrancy of our own work, the illusive and non-existent objectivity of our work. Within that, there are some parameters I use to scrutinise my own work and can be useful if you're wanting to deepen in really any area of applying complex skills.  The true pleasure of life for me is being in the vibrant heart of learning and challenge within my passions. I don't want to create easy and pleasant work, I want my work to ask something of me, really ask something of me, that's where Beauty always lives, not in what's easy, automated and without effort.  If effort is a given, the question then lies in what kind of effort and applied how and in what aspect of my life and skills. I assess my work within these frameworks but you could apply this filter to anything and find a place to improve or seek coaching or the improving of skills. Luck vs Skill (Annie Duke) Skill (technique, tradition, manual repetition) + Soul/Spirit (emotional expression, creative improvisation, energy, personal courage within using the technique) Freedom and constraint for artists, the paradox of limiting our options to make our work better, which requires discipline in the time of the tyranny of choice and seemingly unending possibility.  I hope this is helpful in your practice and learning any complex skillset. With love,  Loren https://www.instagram.com/lorenlewiscolejewellery/?hl=en Join the jewellery family  https://lorenlewiscole.lpages.co/jointhetribe/

    39 min
  7. 25- How Therapy Culture can Distrust Artistic Experience

    JAN 24

    25- How Therapy Culture can Distrust Artistic Experience

    I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast As an artist, our job is to pay attention to the imagery of our interior world, be it musical, kinaesthetic, poetic, based in painting, sculpture or anything at all. We live in a therapy culture that tells us everything we experience is some aspect of the self and can be analysed and understood through intellectual scrutiny stemming from Freudian ideas.  When we analyse something we kill it. It ceases to be shimmering with the vast potentiality of being here.  Day to day, rational and applied intellectual understanding of things is needed and welcomed in the appropriate setting- of which artistic experience is not. I'm saying that we need to see this experience as a non-ordinary state where we don't pounce on things and shit them down, second guess them or 'witness them dispassionately.' Rather, what's required is raucous and chaotic abandon, complete attention and interest in the thing, letting it have its way with us, chew us up and spit us out, the other side, after swimming in the depths, fresh faced and soulfully renewed, ready to take on the mundane activities of a mainstream artistically impoverished world. Dive baby, dive. Since feeling is first- e.e.Cummings since feeling is first who pays any attention  to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate  than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis Join the LLC Jewellery Family  https://lorenlewiscole.lpages.co/jointhetribe/ Come say hi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lorenlewiscolejewellery/?hl=en

    51 min
  8. 24- The Fractal Nature of Inspiration // ART, DOPAMINE and EFFORT

    JAN 17

    24- The Fractal Nature of Inspiration // ART, DOPAMINE and EFFORT

    I'd love to hear your thoughts in this podcast You know that feeling when you look at something, either literally or imaginatively, and as soon as you land on it you can see a thousand things flowering off of the main thing, then a thousand more flowering off of those fractal children ..? Sometimes we can be so inspired the we become all imaginative vision and no earth based implementation, no connection with the elements other than space, and our art gets spaced out and we lose grounding in our lives.  This incredible fractal experience of the infinite potentiality of the world, of co-creating and contributing, can also be too much and completely overwhelming when we aren't actually creating. Artistic inspiration is in one lung staying open to spontaneity whilst in the other being disciplined, narrow and focused.  This is why as artists we walk between worlds. It is a mystical experience, deep in the sinew of our mitochondria, long before religion, agriculture, modern language and national borders. Human beings were bringing things from the formless into form, and navigating all the challenges associated with this immense yet choiceless task.  Because of this, from an evolutionary perspective, I'm thinking about AI and our dopaminergic pathways, the modern desire for reward without effort, and how that's deeply effecting our trust in ourselves as artists and as true human beings. The more we expect hormone drenching feel good rewards to be without exertion and effort, the less we will strive to dig deep within ourselves and bring out what's buried deep in our hearts.  An embodied life is nothing like a video game, a Netflix show, or social media, it is desperately more beautiful, intricately more alive, nuanced and activating.  Join the LLC Jewellery Family  https://lorenlewiscole.lpages.co/jointhetribe/ Come say hi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lorenlewiscolejewellery/?hl=en Share this episode with someone whop would love it,  With love,  Loren

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Podcast hosted by artist Loren Lewis Cole exploring themes around the vital necessity of artistic practice throughout the stages of our lives. From the conversation on depression and the 'meaning crisis', to our desire to dance a dance that only we can dance, the importance of creativity, curiosity and play are more important than they've been for some time. As we approach an age of increasing technological enmeshment and disembodied information hoarding, craft and the dexterous skillsets allow us to glimpse an ancient kinaesthetic intelligence that can completely revitalise our lives.  Art is medicine. We create art to heal, we heal to create Art.  @lorenlewiscolejewellery www.lorenlewiscole.com Gorgeous cover image by @raynjermain , Ben Rayner 

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  • Creator
    Loren Lewis Cole
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    31
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Embodied Vessel Podcast
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