Weaving a Life

Weaving is a very powerful metaphor for life that has been used often throughout history. If you can allow the vertical, or warp, threads that give strength and stability to the finished cloth to represent your innermost beliefs and values, then the horizontal, or weft, threads that give beauty and interest represent your choices and actions. How well these weft threads (your actions) touch each of the warp threads (your values) determines the quality and integrity of the finished product. What does your fabric look like?

Weaving a Life^® is a process that guides participants in re-visioning their life through a series of hands-on weaving projects. Each of seven keyforms – amulet, bowl, doll, belt, mask, sacred bundle, and shawl – is woven while exploring a different aspect of life’s journey. The keyforms are well known in cultures around the world, bearing special significance for the owner/creator. When woven by your own hands, they are particularly powerful in reminding you of the discoveries you make in the process.
The first keyform, the amulet, holds your calling for change close to your heart. What is your heart calling you to? Hold tight to that as you continue to explore.
But change is hard, especially when one feels incapable. The bowl makes evident that even a most imperfect life can be made perfect. Accepting one’s self results from this joyful revelation allowing you to continue on the journey.
What if you had the wisdom today that you will have twenty years from now. Would you make the same choices? What if I told you that you do, you just haven’t discovered it yet. The doll holds your future wisdom allowing you to access it now.
The sheath on the belt of power holds the tool that provides you with the ability to make effective choices for yourself, freeing yourself from situations that no longer serve you.
Though the mask requires much patience in its weaving, it’s hard to really understand how each pass will affect the outcome, it gives powerful insight into one’s identity.
Through all of this we discover the tools, the gifts, that we have at our disposal to do the work before us. We collect these tools in our bundle to keep within reach so we can always choose the most effective one for the task at hand.
And the capstone to all of this is the shawl which envelopes us in our most precious values. It remains with us as we pursue our calling and follow our dream.
To experience the Weaving a Life ^® process, or to learn more, contact Audra Holden. No weaving experience is required, just a willingness to look within.