Sensing Creativity- Awakening the Imaginative Body with Mobina Nouri

Sensing Creativity offers a sacred space to slow down, reconnect, and rediscover the rich wisdom of the senses as a pathway to imagination and creativity. Rooted in ancient ritual and supported by modern neuroscience, this course reawakens our natural capacity to feel, imagine, and create from within. Each session focuses on a different sense (touch, sound, smell, taste, and sight) guiding participants through embodied practices that stir inspiration and cultivate presence.
Through meditation, intuitive movement, sensory play, and reflective journaling, we enter the body not just as a vessel, but as a portal. As we listen to the subtle messages of our inner landscape, creativity begins to flow, not from effort, but from attunement.
Rather than teaching artistic technique, Sensing Creativity opens a deeper channel, where emotion, intuition, and sensation become the true materials of creation. It is a ritual journey of reconnection, inviting participants to reclaim their sensory intelligence and trust their inner voice.
This course is a journey inward, where the senses awaken the imagination and the self is remembered not as a concept, but as a living, breathing source of creative power.
Each session is structured in three cascading phases of Perception → Interpretation →Expression guiding you to:
Perception: Quiet the mind and open the channel to raw sensory data.
Interpretation: Listen to what your body, memory, and imagination make of those impressions.
Expression: Translate that inner knowing into movement, sound, image, or form.
Sunday, July 13th
Module 1:
Touch – Haptics & Tactile Storytelling
Perception: Blindfolded exploration of clay, fabric, found objects and natural materials—letting textures speak directly to the nervous system.
Interpretation: Reflective journaling on how resistance, warmth, and grain trigger memories, metaphors, and imaginative impulses.
Expression: Craft a tactile “story relic” and share its narrative in a circle ritual, witnessing how touch becomes language.
Dates for next sessions: to be announced soon!
TICKETS $80 (in-person event only)
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Module 2:
Sound – Deep Listening & Voice
Perception: Guided silent listening to field recordings, ambient tones, and breath—tuning into subtle shifts in timbre and rhythm.
Interpretation: Sound‑to‑symbol mapping: transform timbral impressions into words, colors, or movement notations.
Expression: Vocal improvisation and “sound journaling” to weave your sonic insights into an improvised soundscape.
Module 3:
Smell – Olfaction & Memory Alchemy
Perception: Curated scent stations (herbs, resins, essential oils) to unlock buried memories and emotional textures.
Interpretation: Poetic free‑writing that maps each aroma to inner landscapes and imaginative narratives.
Expression: Create a scented “memory mandala” or micro‑performance that gives form to fragrance‑driven stories.
Module 4:
Taste – Gustation & Flavor Metaphor
Perception: Mindful tasting rituals with bitters, salts, sweets, and tangs—attuning to mouthfeel, aftertaste, and emotional resonances.
Interpretation: Taste sketches: use flavor profiles as plot outlines, mood boards, or character studies in your journal.
Expression: Design and share a “flavor poem” or micro‑narrative that embodies the arc of a single taste.
Module 5:
Sight – Vision & Imaginative Projection
Perception: Exercises in focused looking—color‑mapping light, contrast‑play, and shifting visual fields.
Interpretation: Imagery journaling: translate visual sparks into dream fragments, symbols, or movement scores.
Expression: Rapid prototyping via quick sketches, collage studies, or live “vision dances” that animate your inner imagery.
BIO
Mobina Nouri, PhD, is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar whose work explores the intersections of creativity, Persian mysticism, and archetypal storytelling. Born in Isfahan, Iran, she draws from ancient poetic and philosophical traditions to reimagine how art can awaken inner knowledge. She holds a PhD in Creativity Science from City University of London and degrees in Performing Arts and Design from Tehran University.
Mobina’s practice spans calligraphy, symbolic ritual, and Poetography, a visual form in which the poetry of Rumi and other Persian mystics is hand-inscribed on skin and photographed as an act of remembrance. Her major projects, including Cosmic Dance and 1001 Nights, merge the sacred and the sensory, using myth, symbol, and embodied storytelling to explore the soul’s journey toward wholeness. Influenced by Persian cosmology, her work offers viewers contemplative spaces to reconnect with what is eternal, intuitive, and transformative.
Presented internationally, her works offer contemplative spaces where personal and collective narratives can resurface. Rooted in the sacred, her practice seeks to rekindle what is timeless, intuitive, and still becoming.
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