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WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
Zak Foster
13 episodes
4 days ago
Starting something new—especially a year-long creative commitment—can bring up all kinds of questions. Do I really have time for this? Am I good enough? Is this selfish? This introductory meditation creates space to acknowledge those doubts while establishing something foundational: you have full permission to be here. We'll explore what sustained creative practice actually looks like, visualize the natural rhythm of beginning and deepening, and help you identify a guiding intention for the year ahead.
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Starting something new—especially a year-long creative commitment—can bring up all kinds of questions. Do I really have time for this? Am I good enough? Is this selfish? This introductory meditation creates space to acknowledge those doubts while establishing something foundational: you have full permission to be here. We'll explore what sustained creative practice actually looks like, visualize the natural rhythm of beginning and deepening, and help you identify a guiding intention for the year ahead.
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Visual Arts
Arts
Episodes (13/13)
WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
Welcome to Your WONDER YEAR
Starting something new—especially a year-long creative commitment—can bring up all kinds of questions. Do I really have time for this? Am I good enough? Is this selfish? This introductory meditation creates space to acknowledge those doubts while establishing something foundational: you have full permission to be here. We'll explore what sustained creative practice actually looks like, visualize the natural rhythm of beginning and deepening, and help you identify a guiding intention for the year ahead.
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4 weeks ago
20 minutes 58 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
YOU BELONG HERE
So many makers carry a quiet voice that says "I'm not good enough." This meditation helps you remember your inherent creative worthiness—not something earned through skill or output, but something that exists simply because you choose to show up. We'll reconnect with moments when creating felt natural, anchor belonging in your body, and recognize that your particular way of seeing matters.
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1 month ago
16 minutes 36 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
OPEN TRADITION
Making with textiles connects you to something vast—humans across every culture and century have worked with fiber and fabric. You don't join this tradition by having a long line of quilting grandmothers. You join by pulling up a seat at the table and picking up a needle and thread. This meditation helps you recognize the knowledge already living in your hands, understand that textile wisdom is open-access, and feel your place in the universal human practice of making.
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1 month ago
16 minutes 5 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
BODY AS GUIDE
Our bodies have so much to tell us—where we hold tension, what hurts after hours of making, what feels tight or soft. This meditation guides you through a gentle full-body scan, not to fix problems, but to notice what's present. We'll develop body literacy so you can recognize what your creative practice asks of you physically and respond with practical care.
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1 month ago
16 minutes 38 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
FAILURE AS DATA
What if you approached your creative work like a scientist approaches experiments—with genuine curiosity rather than pressure? This meditation helps you shift to a "What happens if...?" mindset. We'll explore experimental questions (doing the opposite of what you usually do, using the "wrong" tools deliberately, combining things that supposedly don't go together) and practice reframing failure as results rather than mistakes.
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1 month ago
18 minutes 30 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
NOTICING EVERYWHERE
Creative inspiration isn't scarce, requiring special trips or perfect conditions—it's abundant, hiding in plain sight. This meditation helps you expand your attention to notice inspiration in places you usually overlook. We'll practice a particular quality of noticing—curious but not hungry—and build cross-pollination between creative and everyday activities.
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1 month ago
20 minutes 35 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
WHAT KEEPS SHOWING UP
Your visual language isn't something you need to invent or discover hidden deep within yourself—it's already emerging in the choices you make each time you create. This meditation guides you through observing your recent work with friendly curiosity: what patterns keep showing up? We'll practice bringing conscious awareness to what's already there, so you can work with your patterns more intentionally rather than accidentally.
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1 month ago
20 minutes 2 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
DIALOGUING WITH OUR WORK
When you write in a journal, you often discover what you think by seeing your thoughts on paper. Making works the same way—your hands think through materials, and you discover what you know by seeing what emerges. This meditation explores creative work as externalized thinking, a conversation between your conscious intentions and your intuitive knowing.
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1 month ago
21 minutes 29 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
MANY LAYERS MAKE A STORY
When we encounter textile work—especially quilts—we often perceive multiple stories at once: what the maker stitched into the surface, what materials they chose, what techniques they used, and maybe even what it meant to them personally. This meditation helps you understand how these four narrative layers can align to reinforce meaning or contrast to create complexity. We'll explore "the net and the air"—what you make explicit versus what you leave open to interpretation.
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1 month ago
21 minutes 1 second

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
HOLDING QUESTIONS
Some questions close quickly—you answer them and move on. But other questions open outward, revealing more complexity and interest the longer you explore them. This meditation helps you identify questions worthy of sustained inquiry and practice holding them open rather than rushing to resolution. Series work isn't repetition; it's sustained investigation that builds intimacy with what genuinely matters to you.
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1 month ago
20 minutes 37 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
WITNESS YOUR WORK
What does it mean to document our work in witnessing mode rather than performative mode? This meditation helps you practice being a witness of your own process—noticing your choices, responses to difficulty, and surprises without immediate judgment. When you document from genuine witnessing, you create records that serve your learning and, when shared, have a greater chance of helping other makers because the messy reality of making resonates deeply.
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1 month ago
19 minutes 4 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
SOLITUDE-COMMUNITY RHYTHM
Creative work requires two movements: going inward into solitude and reaching outward into community. Neither is better than the other—what matters is learning to sense which one you need in the moment. This meditation helps you feel the gifts each offers, recognize the signals that you need more of solitude or connection, and trust your own rhythm.
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1 month ago
23 minutes 6 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
MOVING FORWARD
You're approaching the end of a year of focused creative development—not an ending, but a transition into something new. This meditation helps you recognize what you've cultivated over time, understand what self-directed practice means, and visualize your continued growth. We'll explore what supports continuity moving forward and help you make commitments based on genuine interest rather than obligation.
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1 month ago
20 minutes 8 seconds

WONDER YEAR: The Guided Meditations
Starting something new—especially a year-long creative commitment—can bring up all kinds of questions. Do I really have time for this? Am I good enough? Is this selfish? This introductory meditation creates space to acknowledge those doubts while establishing something foundational: you have full permission to be here. We'll explore what sustained creative practice actually looks like, visualize the natural rhythm of beginning and deepening, and help you identify a guiding intention for the year ahead.