Prints Available! please inquire alyshaktima@gmail.com
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
This image is available to buy as a print
This image is available to buy in print form, the original painting is also for sale at buyers highest bid 
Handpainted Silk Scarves!!
Silk scarves can be ordered from alyshaktima@gmail.comThese scarves can be used for wall hangings, or worn around the neck, waist, or hat. They come in many colors depending what you may want...I can customize for gifts. Some come with images drawn on them others can come with simple color variations.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Serpentine Silk: Fine and Performing Arts
To dance in conscious awareness as a channel of divine intension is to directly ground energetic prayer in and onto the planet Earth. To utilize the energy to propel healing, awareness, beauty, expression, and awakening through the physical form.
Sacred dance was my first form of dance. Growing up on a Gurdjieff community I studied "movements," as early as 7 years old, as an integral aspect of living in community with students of Gurdjieff's practices. I highly enjoyed these practices and experienced unified synchronized meditation through these dance forms with the mind of a child.
I later took up gymnastics and then ballet. Learning to open and strengthen the bodies flexibility and balanced form.
Through highschool I found my connection with my body through long distance running, hiking, skimboarding and surfing on the Oregon Coast.
At 18 I intensionally began my formal meditation practice based upon breath observation. I rejoined the Gurdjieff Work to re-experience the "movements" form in my matured body.
I then started college at University of Oregon in Eugene, where I studied African Dance and Drumming, Modern Dance, Tai Chi, Kundalini Yoga, Rockclimbing, and Kayaking. At this time I became a committed student of Vipassana Meditation as a daily practice which helped me become more intimately intouch with my inner subtle sensations.
After traveling abroad in New Zealand and Fiji I transfered to Portland State University where I studied Ghanaian Dance and Drumming, Afro-Cuban dance and Drumming, Dance Improv, and Dance Choreography. While studying in school I did a 9 month Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, of which I still practice.
I also became emersed in the ecstatic dance community of Portland for a number of years. After graduating from PSU with a BA in Dance, Painting, Outdoor Education, and Cultural Studies, I began an intimate journey of self-discovery through my own dance.
A group of musicians and artists called the "dub tribe" collaborated in weekly meetings to hold space as a consistant meditation in order to open our creative channels to encourage spontaneous prayer through our music, dance and song. Dance became ever more an intimate expression of my inner voice...into subconscious freedom of releasing the mind and letting the body speak with no forced will or supression from my conscious self. A pure and open channel to reflect what energetic codes were being communicated through sound and prayer current.
I then began my study of the Charya Nepalese Buddhist Diety Dance of Dancemandal in Portland. This form grounded and alchemized many aspects of yoga, meditation, diety spirit embodiment, and intensional poetry expression through the physical form.
It is now my intension to continue my dance journey through the choreography that inspires me by initiating this dance company of Serpentine Silk.
The intension of Serpentine Silk Fine and Performing Arts is to formally begin to solidify my dance practice into a cohesion of many cultures, many forms into my expression of prayer. This company's main focus is healing the human experience through expression of the human/spirit relationship, conscious body awareness through storytelling and art in order to ground the experience of Spirit into this physical reality. Giving it a face, a movement, a reflective story of what it is to be human. I dance to express the need for culture, for releasing the bondages that hold us back from living our full empowerment, to fully embody my empowerment, and to live in my highest dream potential. To live in full embodiment for the healing of all relations to our Mother Earth, that I may live in balance and harmony with eachother and all creation.
The artistic aspect of this company comes through my love of Silkpainting. I am working with set production, costume design, and fine art paintings with Silk.
Sacred dance was my first form of dance. Growing up on a Gurdjieff community I studied "movements," as early as 7 years old, as an integral aspect of living in community with students of Gurdjieff's practices. I highly enjoyed these practices and experienced unified synchronized meditation through these dance forms with the mind of a child.
I later took up gymnastics and then ballet. Learning to open and strengthen the bodies flexibility and balanced form.
Through highschool I found my connection with my body through long distance running, hiking, skimboarding and surfing on the Oregon Coast.
At 18 I intensionally began my formal meditation practice based upon breath observation. I rejoined the Gurdjieff Work to re-experience the "movements" form in my matured body.
I then started college at University of Oregon in Eugene, where I studied African Dance and Drumming, Modern Dance, Tai Chi, Kundalini Yoga, Rockclimbing, and Kayaking. At this time I became a committed student of Vipassana Meditation as a daily practice which helped me become more intimately intouch with my inner subtle sensations.
After traveling abroad in New Zealand and Fiji I transfered to Portland State University where I studied Ghanaian Dance and Drumming, Afro-Cuban dance and Drumming, Dance Improv, and Dance Choreography. While studying in school I did a 9 month Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, of which I still practice.
I also became emersed in the ecstatic dance community of Portland for a number of years. After graduating from PSU with a BA in Dance, Painting, Outdoor Education, and Cultural Studies, I began an intimate journey of self-discovery through my own dance.
A group of musicians and artists called the "dub tribe" collaborated in weekly meetings to hold space as a consistant meditation in order to open our creative channels to encourage spontaneous prayer through our music, dance and song. Dance became ever more an intimate expression of my inner voice...into subconscious freedom of releasing the mind and letting the body speak with no forced will or supression from my conscious self. A pure and open channel to reflect what energetic codes were being communicated through sound and prayer current.
I then began my study of the Charya Nepalese Buddhist Diety Dance of Dancemandal in Portland. This form grounded and alchemized many aspects of yoga, meditation, diety spirit embodiment, and intensional poetry expression through the physical form.
It is now my intension to continue my dance journey through the choreography that inspires me by initiating this dance company of Serpentine Silk.
The intension of Serpentine Silk Fine and Performing Arts is to formally begin to solidify my dance practice into a cohesion of many cultures, many forms into my expression of prayer. This company's main focus is healing the human experience through expression of the human/spirit relationship, conscious body awareness through storytelling and art in order to ground the experience of Spirit into this physical reality. Giving it a face, a movement, a reflective story of what it is to be human. I dance to express the need for culture, for releasing the bondages that hold us back from living our full empowerment, to fully embody my empowerment, and to live in my highest dream potential. To live in full embodiment for the healing of all relations to our Mother Earth, that I may live in balance and harmony with eachother and all creation.
The artistic aspect of this company comes through my love of Silkpainting. I am working with set production, costume design, and fine art paintings with Silk.
Who am I?
My truth belongs to living in balance. To questioning on every core level that I can, what it means in my heart and spirit to live my truth in society today. I am often overwhelmed with a feeling of not knowing where to begin...in helping a society that I feel has lost it's roots. I strive to better understand what it is that could help me to help others in our path as wounded healers. The striving has brought me into deeply devoting my path to learning the meaning of "Creatress." What do I bring into this world? And may it be an expression of awakened beauty. When I feel empowered to spread love, sincerity, joy and beauty I feel that I am right where I need to be, living my truth.
One way of living that I feel I come from is the ways of the living close with the earth, the teachings of our indigenous elders and the honoring of all earth's living creatures. Having a relationship with Nature on a daily basis is completely essential for my well being to shine. Another piece that offers me help in understanding the world is the path of learning spirit through our body in Yoga and Meditation. Through conscious body awareness I feel that I learn to be truly alive. When I merge this conscious body awareness with the natural world, moving with the awareness of an animal, with complete presence, I feel the closeness of spirit within me. I feel I am the land. I am the Earth. One body, one heart, one mind.
In this journey of experiencing spirit through the body, the expression of music, dance, and painting are ways I open myself to being a channel to express what I experience as divine. I dream of living in a culture that acknowledges with all its heart that spirituality, music, art, dance, and our connection with the land is as essential as our breath.
One way of living that I feel I come from is the ways of the living close with the earth, the teachings of our indigenous elders and the honoring of all earth's living creatures. Having a relationship with Nature on a daily basis is completely essential for my well being to shine. Another piece that offers me help in understanding the world is the path of learning spirit through our body in Yoga and Meditation. Through conscious body awareness I feel that I learn to be truly alive. When I merge this conscious body awareness with the natural world, moving with the awareness of an animal, with complete presence, I feel the closeness of spirit within me. I feel I am the land. I am the Earth. One body, one heart, one mind.
In this journey of experiencing spirit through the body, the expression of music, dance, and painting are ways I open myself to being a channel to express what I experience as divine. I dream of living in a culture that acknowledges with all its heart that spirituality, music, art, dance, and our connection with the land is as essential as our breath.
Sisterhood
Prints of this image are available upon request, contact alyshaktima@gmail.com for more info."With love and humility I release any bonds that hold me back from releasing old stagnant patterns and with an open heart I extend my hand in our willingness to meet each other in the truth of our divine unity where we shall forever hold one another dear."
Friday, November 13, 2009
Breath, Death, Ascendance
Prints of this image are available upon request, contact alyshaktima@gmail.com
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