Asha Croggon's Page

As an introduction, my experience has moved through the arts as an administrator, through the social services field creating a national peer support program and provincial crisis line network, and through the natural building field learning techniques like cob and stackwall ... this 'work' experience is woven into my 'pathwork' experience of deepening my connection to all things while dissolving the illusion of separateness. I am committed to living gently with the earth, totally present.

I attempt to gather and create with the natural world to meet some of my personal needs including medicines, food and toys for my son. One of the ways I choose to complete this circle of receiving from the earth is to create items, art and dialogue that engage and inspire people to deepen their sense of connection with the natural world. In my humble opinion, it seems those engaged in consumption habits that are detrimental are not doing so from a place of 'entitlement' of 'this is my domain to rape and pillage as I see fit', but it is an echo from the numb place of 'disconnection'. When people are sleepwalking through this numbness, art can be a vehicle to awaken them either through shock or through beauty. It is in this way that my path continues, awakening myself and others through acts of compassion and beauty ... through personal experiments in peace and art.