Susan Barrett Merrill’s Weaving a Life Class

The Weaving a Life class helps us translate our ideas and values into a deeper vision for life through the physical act of weaving seven archetypal forms called keyforms.

True self-understanding happens when we use our hands to make something as a creative expression of what we are thinking and feeling. This energizes us in a learning process that feeds our hearts.

Weaving in particular, right to left, left to right, uses the parasympathetic mode of the brain to relax us. Its rhythms and repetitive motion are also tactile and visual with with pattern and color, which gives us a creative way to find peace during life’s challenges.

Students in a Weaving a Life Leader's workshop

Freedom and Healing

The structure of the Journey EarthLoom represents the constraints of living in a body, a community, or society. You can’t weave cloth wider than the loom itself. Yet within that structure, the choice of shape, color, pattern and texture is yours.

This shows us that freedom is not the absence of limits, but the creative mastery of working within them.

Your spirit, your mythos, becomes a story of your own artistry within a given framework. You are the storyteller with your loom; yarn; needle; scissors; and the deeply personal process of weaving your keyforms.

Healing ceremony of the keyform of the doll