welcome, creator
from stagnation to flow
a six-week course to launch your creative loops and receive from your creations
As creators, we are vessels for those answers to prayer, their guides, stewards, parents and protectors. It is our job to receive them as ideas, move those ideas into physical form through creations, share those creations so they connect with the people who prayed them into existence, and receive what is meant for us in completing the cycle as the prayer bearers. This is your creative loop. It is designed to spiral and expand each time you complete it, and you along with it.
Under our current system, however, we are intentionally constricted into a state of creative decay. We are held in stagnant waters. This can look like any one of the following:
Inspiration is a prayer asking to be answered through you.
STAGNATION
You have an innate desire to be a creator but you doubt yourself.
You have dreamt of a life as an artist since you were little, or perhaps once did, but never trusted or honed your abilities enough to create a life with them. You used to get inspired—you have created before—but that bolt of lightning has not struck in years. Your gifts and spirit wither. Nothing feels possible. You don’t know where to start.
Your imagination is active but it feels more flood than flow.
With so many ideas, visions, dreams, and possibilities your grow overwhelmed, unsure of what to do and wanting to do them all. You ideate endlessly about the creations that could be but never are. The buildup causes guilt, shame, panic, or even grief about the unstarted projects which ultimately lead to avoidance. The backlog feels insurmountable.
You have started and even completed some projects but with great effort.
Your flow is inconsistent and you will go days, weeks, or even months without working at your art. Your pieces lay hidden under fears about showing them to others or excuses for why you do not do so. As much joy as it brings you to create for the sake of creation, you can’t help but feel that there is something missing from your life and practice. You want your art to be more central in your world. You are afraid of what that will mean (sharing it).
You share your art with others to lackluster results.
You may have sold some pieces or played a few gigs but can’t seem to build the momentum into a consistent stream of opportunities. You doubt your abilities as a creator and slip in and out of sharing your work. You feel your well start to dry up. Your hopes fade when the reception of your work does not meet or surpass your expectations. You backslide into old creative blocks. The downward spiral points toward despair.
Any one of these blocks is a product of being stuck in your creative loop.
No matter where you are stagnating, a halt in your wheel is a dam in your flow. As creators, ease in receiving what is meant for us is our birthright. While the system puts many obstacles in place to keep us from achieving this state of being, it is not only possible to overcome them. It is our purpose to overcome them.
From Stagnation to Flow is designed to help you break down your dams and unlock your creative current. If you do the work, in six weeks you will go from being a blocked or inconsistent artist to a full-fledged creator who receives from the continuous flow of their own creative loop.
the course
week one: Excavation
Your channel is not blocked, it is buried. Years of conditioning have made it difficult to hear the voice of your intuition and the prayers asking to be answered through it. Week one excavates and strengthens that channel and teaches you to hone your hearing, so you recognize inspiration when it strikes.
week two: Inspiration
Your faucet is on and you hear the prayers asking to be answered through you, but your follow through has not yet kicked in. Your overwhelm is a product of inaction. It is time to clear the cache. In week two, you work through the blocks that cause creation paralysis and select an inspired idea to bring into physical form.
week three: Creation
Like a parent hiding a critical piece of luggage or blocking the doorway as their child prepares to leave the home, you are afraid to allow your creations to come to fruition. What excuse will you have for not sharing them then? In week three, you take your inspired idea from prayer to answer. You create a piece of art that you tend into a sharable work.
week four: Connection
You reach the critical maturation point in the creative cycle and cling to life as you know it. The possibilities for your piece are still endless. To release your piece into the world and allow it to go where it is meant to go is to release your dreams about where it could go. Now enters reality. In week four, you take the leap. You share the piece. You let go.
week five: Reception
In week five, you learn to surrender. Whatever comes of you sharing your work, you learn to see it as the gift that it is and celebrate the reception that comes from the mere fact of having completed your creative loop. You confront the blocks that arise to keep you from starting your next creative loop.
week six: continuation
Creative flow is not a singular event. It is an ever-expanding current that spirals us up and outward. Maintaining that cyclical motion requires movement. Fresh off the high of your creative loop, you set your long-term momentum in motion by launching the next one. Week six is the course’s culmination. You complete a full creative loop. You unlock your creative current.
the teacher
who co-creates a sovereign life outside the system of extraction in the so-called United States. Deeply committed to collective liberation, Fenix uncovers and lives by his precolonial ancestral ways within his Greek, Mexican, Scottish, Swiss and Welsh lineages. From Stagnation to Flow is rooted within the wisdom of the traditional medicine wheel as taught to Fenix by Cole LaRochelle. When they’re not making music, writing, drawing or painting, Fenix grows food in community and learns carpentry so they can build out the van they will one day use to tour with his band and two cats, Niko and Teree, with the goal of connecting with trans people all over the country.