Ep. #240: Being in Devotion to Creativity, Interconnectedness + Moving Through Life In More Spacious Ways with Nadia Payan

Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Nadia Payan (she/they) is an educator, speaker, artist, third culture human and Montessorian whose life is filled with reverence towards creativity as a pathway to healing and power. Nadia explores and cross pollinates her own creative expression with her experiences as an early childhood educator, a spiritual practitioner and artist.

In this episode, Eryn and Nadia talk about:

• Cycles of death and rebirth
• Being held through the decay
• Asking for support
• The interconnectedness of all things
• Moving through life more slowly & in more spacious ways
• What Nadia has learned about life and creativity from working with and spending time with children
• Seeing the world in different ways
• Being in devotion to creativity
• The power of creativity
• Being indoctrinated into thinking creativity isn’t part of us and it’s something that we gain versus be
• Embracing creativity as reclaiming power from capitalism and other systems of domination
• Expanding what creativity means
• Witnessing art-making

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/nadia-payan

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Get a copy of the Religious Trauma Workbook. Register for the virtual erotic poetry writing class.

Connect with Nadia on Instagram, her website, or over email at [e-mail]. Check out Aligned Visionaries.