A place to reconnect with your creative well-being 💌

Heliotropic: the growth or movement of a plant towards the sun. From Greek hēliotropion, from hēlios "sun."

Many of us feel uninspired, burnt out, or disconnected from our creativity—not by chance, but by design. Since The Enlightenment and Industrial eras, our culture prioritised logic, productivity, and efficiency over intuition, play, and imagination which Scholar Iain McGilchrist says has led to a lot of the individual and collective problems we have today. But it wasn’t always this way—Ancient Greece, Rome and The Renaissance prioritised both. This left-brain dominance has led us to devalue creativity, seeing it as frivolous or reserved for artists only. But creativity is a pillar of well-being—like movement, rest, and connection. Without it, life loses its colour.

A creative practice:

• Regulates the nervous system — singing, dancing, and drawing tone the vagus nerve, calming the body.

• Teaching us to live better — creativity doesn’t thrive under control, perfectionism, or rigid outcomes. It flows in play, exploration, and process. The perfect counterbalance to internalised hustle culture.

• It reconnects us with whole-brain thinking—most of us overuse logical left-brain processes while neglecting the intuitive, holistic right-brain. Creativity brings these hemispheres back into balance, which improves all areas of our lives.

• Provides a healthy emotional outlet—when we create, we transmute emotions into beauty, giving them form instead of suppression.

• Bringing us back to our unique expression and alignment—creativity puts us in touch with what makes us feel most alive, helping us live more in alignment.

• Opens a channel to deeper connection—many ancient traditions see creativity as a direct line to the life force within us (our ‘spark), the energy of inspiration and intuition. The more we create, the more connected we become.

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