- Leonora Oppenheim

Learning to process loss and grief is a continuous

Learning to process loss and grief is a continuous life lesson. The last two years and more acutely the last two weeks have sharpened the need to work through these emotions. In the struggle to let go I keep coming back to this leaf, so graceful in its final form, preparing for release while everything around it blooms with fresh life. It always amazes me how nature teaches us. #grief #loss #aprocessofbecoming #embodiedpractice

Performing to no one. Performing with everything.

Performing to no one. Performing with everything. May 2022.

Scheduled a dance date at dawn in the bluebell woods. Slowly learning to move as part of nature, rather than admiring it from the outside as something separate from myself.

#aprocessofbecoming #embodiedpractice

Synthetic naturalist, May 2022. This city girl is

Synthetic naturalist, May 2022.

This city girl is tramping through the woods again, in awe of what she sees and oblivious to the human interventions in the landscape. It’s all just ‘nature’ to her… but gradually, day by day, the more she walks, an uneasy feeling arises about something moving under the surface of things.

#embodiedpractice #aprocessofbecoming #invisibleimpact

‘Breathe It In’ May 2022, watercolour on paper

‘Breathe It In’ May 2022, watercolour on paper, 145 x 205 mm.

The last couple of weeks I have felt so hopeful and I’m sure it has to do with the greenery sprouting up all around me. On my walks through the fields I find myself inhaling as much of this spring freshness as I can, hoping the delicate scents of new growth will somehow transfer to my being, reenergising me and my creative spark. I’m thankful for this moment every year as I breathe a sigh of relief, glad to have made it intact through the coldest months.

This watercolour is my offer to you with my newsletter going out this week. Sign up at the link in my bio to enter your name into the draw. I always want part of my work to be a gift, so I pick a name out of a hat and send the original watercolour to one subscriber. It’s also available to buy as a giclée print, limited edition of ten 🌱

#springjoy #deepbreath #freshness #LEOonpaper #embodiedpractice #lunareclipse

“In the workshops I offer, I am showing people h

“In the workshops I offer, I am showing people how important it is to think, sense, and interpret through their physical bodies. We are using movement both as a way to release stress and a way to untangle knotty problems. An embodied practice invites people to directly physicalise a question rather than sit still and think it through. How can engaging with the sensory experience of living in our bodies help us think more creatively?”

I wrote about the importance of using our bodies as research tools and the work I’ve been doing with design students and now with professionals too. I’m excited to bring people’s awareness back to their physical bodies and for them to discover the deep well of creativity waiting for them there. @medium link in my bio 👆👆👆#embodiedpractice #stressrelease #creativeresource #shakeitout #thebodykeepsthescore