Rachel Sermanni's Finger That Points to the Moon

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

Rachel Sermanni makes a new offering, in the form of a Podcast: The Finger that Points to the Moon... She says: 'What I am pointing at, with whatever I am saying or whoever I am interviewing, is only the finger. It is only the direction in which I’d like for you to Look and then you can see what you see.This podcast, I hope, can be ignition, inspiration and curiosity for others whilst sating my own inquiry and desire to integrate creative form with general living life. To make something that transcends boundary and genre.' Here, with your ear, you can delve into various streams of thought, narrative, dialogue & creative-workshop all rooted and growing from Rachel's own curiosity and experience. https://www.rachelsermanni.com

Episodes

  1. 06/29/2021

    Cultivating a Creative Life: Episode 7

    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...

    16 min

  2. 06/22/2021

    Cultivating a Creative Life: Episode 6

    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...

    15 min

  3. 06/15/2021

    Cultivating a Creative Life: Episode 5

    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...

    26 min

  4. 06/08/2021

    Cultivating a Creative Life: Episode 4

    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...

    23 min

  5. 06/01/2021

    Cultivating a Creative Life: Episode 3

    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...

    21 min

  6. 05/25/2021

    Cultivating a Creative Life: Episode 2

    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...

    29 min

  7. 05/18/2021

    Cultivating a Creative Life: Episode 1

    For more information on the workshop, including tickets, follow this link - https://www.rachelsermanni.com/workshopIn this episode I introduce you to Sister Corita Kent & her 10 rules for a Creative Life. Then we dive deep, mainly swimming in the pools of my own psyche (where else could I go?!), into Rule number 1. ‘Find a Place you Trust then Try Trusting it for a While’As you listen in, I hope you find some fun stories to inspire & some helpful hints or tips for finding yo...

    23 min

  8. 08/06/2020

    Episode Three - Practicing Compassion for Neighbours & Those we are Closest to

    This episode of Rachel Sermanni’s Finger that Points to the Moon is the recorded practice of a visualisation meditation meant to aid any open-minded listener to having a little bit extra of compassion and generosity for the near and dear who, so often, bear the brunt of our other, less gracious qualities. Better to be late and authentic than on time and untrue. It took me a while to get to recording this podcast and practice because I had to get there myself first. I needed to feel the concep...

    28 min

  9. 05/29/2020

    Episode Two - Meandering Musings on the Muse

    What is the Muse? Rachel Sermanni does not know. But in this Episode she goes on a bold pilgrimage within herself. Exploring her personal experiences and her murky psyche to convey some aspects of what it is to be inspired, how it is to make something of it and what it might mean when The Muse is witnessed in a shocking nakedness.https://www.rachelsermanni.com

    21 min

  10. 04/17/2020

    Episode One - The Inner Critic & Other Stories

    There is a famous Buddhist analogy about The Finger that Points to the Moon. It means that the Value is in what is being pointed at and not in the thing showing the way. To focus on the finger that points to the truth would mean you miss seeing Truth itself, for yourself. In this podcast Rachel Sermanni will explore her relationship to creativity and inspiration, with the hope that it will help point in the direction of truth for herself and those listening. In her own words "I hop...

    20 min
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Rachel Sermanni makes a new offering, in the form of a Podcast: The Finger that Points to the Moon... She says: 'What I am pointing at, with whatever I am saying or whoever I am interviewing, is only the finger. It is only the direction in which I’d like for you to Look and then you can see what you see.This podcast, I hope, can be ignition, inspiration and curiosity for others whilst sating my own inquiry and desire to integrate creative form with general living life. To make something that transcends boundary and genre.' Here, with your ear, you can delve into various streams of thought, narrative, dialogue & creative-workshop all rooted and growing from Rachel's own curiosity and experience. https://www.rachelsermanni.com

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