Drawing Health
with Georgia Webber
ON HIATUS
DRAWING HEALTH PODCAST
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Drawing Health is on hiatus. It was a good run we’re proud of.
SAW and Georgia are parting ways.
We wish this great teacher and kind soul the best.
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Where did DH come from and why should I do it?
Everything we do in Drawing Health is coming from my own need to repair the relationship between my health and my creativity.
In my short life, I’ve had so many health issues that seemed at odds with my creative practice.
Intractable hand and arm pain stopped me drawing.
Chronic insomnia kept me feeling exhausted and behind on life.
Undiagnosed neurodivergence added pressure to perform normalcy.
Chronic unexplained voice pain felt like punishment for talking.
Trauma living in my body made every moment, especially alone, feel threatening and bewildering.
All of these symptoms, and the lack of guidance, support, and answers made me angry, desperate, depressed, and drawn to numbing myself out.
Drawing, writing, dancing, making comics - these were all supposed to be intuitive and cathartic, helping me get through. Instead, they were distant, pressured, and resulted in pain for hours or days that I couldn’t prevent.
Finally, I decided that I don’t want my body to be the enemy of my self-expression, so I made Drawing Health to practice a kinder way.
You might enjoy my classes if you want to:
Make friends with your body
Find relaxation and restoration in your creativity
Discover your desire to draw again
Disconnect from ideas of productivity, extraction, and PRESSURE
Connect with others who deeply care about art and health
Using compassionate self-investigation, following my emotional landscape to new creative paths and locations, I am now making my art from a place of self-attunement! It’s so fun!!
In the support of small group Drawing Health sessions, I am utilizing skills I learned over many years from studying and practicing yoga, meditation, Craniosacral Therapy, herbalism, Continuum Movement, and Emotionally Integrated Voice.
I generate these practices spontaneously according to my own needs each week, and then offer you space to come along, join in, and ultimately practice listening to yourself with care.
The one thing I want you to take away from my classes is…
Your body is not a block to your creativity; it’s the source.
Some Testimonials
“It’s not that you’re going to get a product, it’s the process of doing this thing, of experiencing the drawing, finding out how something feels, even listening and getting ideas from somebody else. It’s all process, and people accepting other people where they are.”
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“My sense of self and attitude towards my body and what it does for me, even through a disabled lens, has softened as a result of her insight and the warm, encouraging community her classes create!”
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“It feels like connection to me. The way Georgia incorporates somatic stuff into the experience really helps to anchor connection, it enhances the possibility of connection – it’s an aspect of her classes I really appreciate.”
“Without judgment or expectation, with open embrace and acceptance, her class was a breath of fresh air sorely needed. I’m proud of what I accomplished and never thought I’d get a chance to learn drawing from a comic artist, especially one who shares in being differently-abled and using art as a means through.”
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“I’ve really enjoyed and benefited from Georgia’s gentle guidance into meditation and its intersection with comics and creating. I’ve met and found long lasting friendships from those in her workshops.”
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“I left with certainty that she’s not only doing work that matters as a teacher, but that I am also as her student …and moreso, that I matter. That, how I see things matters. My voice matters.”