Ritual Tattoo and Somatic Healing Through Art with Jai Knight

Free Your Soma with Aimee Takaya

Did you know you can explore your own creative processes as pathways to healing and self-discovery?

Creative practices can be powerful tools for processing trauma, moving through somatic programming, and fostering resilience.

Today, I’m excited to have Jai Knight, who offers a unique perspective on the healing power of art and embodiment practices.

In this podcast episode, Jai takes us through:

- Their journey as an artist and their discovery of ancestral artistic connections

- The role of art in processing trauma and personal transformation

- The transition from recreating trauma through art to healing and presence

- The practice of ritual tattooing and its healing potential

- Somatic awareness in artistic practices and daily life

- The importance of grounding and embodiment in creative and spiritual work

- The integration of Hanna Somatics in Jai's tattoo practice and personal life

And so much more!

Jai knight is an interdisciplinary artist and ritual hand poke tattooist. Their work integrates metaphor and symbol as a tool for communicating deep messages that expand beyond the verbal, the subjective, and into the collective narrative. The work they create is an intimate processing with an individual or group, slowing down time into the kairos.

Through Jai’s own investigation of slowing down through intensive wilderness emersion, 9-year meditation practice, lifelong art practice, crafting their own artistic material including paper, paint, ink, and fibers, and training as a regenerative land and social systems designer, emotional cpr practitioner, and somatic movement junkie informs the work and experiences they share with the world. Their work has always dealt with transforming trauma into creative action.

Their most recent project as channel, creator, illustrator, and author of House Oracle Project weaves together intimate and shared experiences of processing how to be at home in a changing world. This resulted in hundreds of collaborative meaning-making sessions, transformative paper-making workshops, a collaborative publishing project, and more.

Their projects have recently been supported by Arcosanti foundation, CA Artsconnection, and the public arts advisory council of 29palms.

Jai’s work was also invited into several residencies including High Desert Test Sites, Lookout Arts Quarry and Ute mountain studios. Jai currently resides in Joshua Tree, CA where they regularly offer ritualistic tattoos and live simply comnected with land.

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