{"id":2948,"date":"2023-10-18T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:14:01","slug":"el-porque-de-meter-las-manos-en-el-barro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/2023\/10\/el-porque-de-meter-las-manos-en-el-barro\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY SHOULD WE GET OUR HANDS DIRTY?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou say that nothing is created? It takes the earth\u2019s mud to make a cup for your brother to drink.\u201d Antonio Machado<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summer I took to making churros out of mud. The ground where my family and I spent our \nsummer vacation was made of clay, and I spent my afternoons sitting on it with a bucket of water. \nThe water permeated the ground and I made a mountain of churros with my hands. What did I enjoy \nmost? My hands being covered in clay and the sound that it made when I worked it, nothing else. \nIt\u2019s something I talk about in my workshops, that today more than ever we urgently need to connect with the earth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to note that not all mud equals wellness, just as not all clay denotes health. Just as \nnot all foods provide equal energy, clay contains a specific series of beneficial nutrients<\/b> The \ntype of clay that we work with at The Healthy Art Club<\/strong> can be considered a vitamin for the soul and \nskin. It took me a while to find the best, but once you come into contact with it, its properties are \ninstantly felt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virtues <\/strong>of clay are many, but today these are what I consider the most important<\/strong> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n


1. EMBODIMENT<\/strong>. Think of all the ideas you have in a day which don\u2019t end up concretising thanks \nto the (digital) \u2018Cloud\u2019 we rely on. We sign contracts without paper, shop online without human \ncontact, or follow a video recipe without staining a cookbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


While we are aware of the time and \nspace we save, more and more doctors and psychologists are warning us of <\/strong>the danger of disconnecting from the physical when it comes to making decisions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Mud helps us embody our \nideas with something we can touch, transform and feel the weight of<\/b>. It allows us to link <\/strong>ourselves with our life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. TOUCH<\/strong>. We constantly have fewer reasons to touch. By this, I mean touching warm and natural \nmaterials with our full attention. The hours we spend with screens and smartphones are also \nincreasing: using our digits to interact with the digital, which directly relates to thinking with \nreason. But where do we keep our hearts? In the palms of our hands. When we work with clay at The Healthy Art Club <\/strong>our whole hands are used to touch<\/strong>, and that\u2019s how we tackle issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. LANDING. <\/strong>Clay is an element of the earth, the solid material which is most alive. Faced with the \ninertia of soulless activity, of superficial feeling, clay allows us to bajar las ideas, “poner los pies en la tierra\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. REDUCING APATHY. <\/strong>When you work with clay you\u2019ll find a healthy increase in appetite of \nhealthy food and liquids. The \u2018vital forces\u2019 within clay help us be more eager to live and \n\u201cconsume the world.\u201d <\/strong>This is activated exponentially to help us feel enthusiastic in our day-to-day \nlives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On joining The Healthy Art Club, many of you tell me about previous experiences with clay, and \nthese often include the use of a potter\u2019s wheel or creating decorative pieces such as vases and plates. \nBeautiful though they may be, I consider this to be a leisure activity rather than an experience of earthly warmth<\/b>. Focusing on a piece to exhibit is less about working through deep-seated \nideas, and at The Healthy Art Club, we aim to reconnect with our thoughts and emotions, which we \ncan purposefully do with our hands. It\u2019s at this point that many participants say that \u201ctime and space \nstops\u201d, because we have dedicated a moment of our body and soul to the group and not simply \nindividual time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


This is why one of my key workshops is: \u2018The Art of Listening from the Heart\u2019<\/strong>. Through group \nexercises with clay, the benefits I have shared here become evident. But they also help you calm \nyour mind, pace your breathing, empathise and understand others, stop taking things personally, and \ncreate bonds of respect with your collaborators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


These types of courses are perfect opportunities to dedicate time to yourself<\/strong>. They\u2019re fun, and leave \nyou with the confidence of having discovered a new version of yourself. They need between two \nand three hours of your time, and you can subscribe to the newsletter to find out our latest date<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00bfDices que nada se crea? No te importe, con el barro de la tierra, haz una copa para que beba tu hermano. Antonio Machado Este verano me ha dado por […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}