Jaya Narayan Expressive Arts Practice

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Jaya Narayan Expressive Arts Practice

Reflection of my psychotherapy practice. Its intermodal somatically inclined creative arts therapy. Most services are currently online. Visit my website.

https://www.jaya-narayan.com/ to book a 20-minute free consultation with me.

28/11/2025

“To ask 'What's good?' was to move, right away, to joy. It was pushing aside what was inevitable to reach the exceptional. Not great or well or wonderful, but simply good. Because good was more often enough, it was a precious spark we sought and harvested of and for one another.”
― Ocean Vuong

How do we arrive at this place of good, when coping mechanisms have been about getting it right, with no scope for errors? The cost of making mistakes has felt like life & death. In this context, I learn to find balance in what is impossible. To the extent that I forget what stability feels like, my feet wobble when nothing is happening, and I have an impulse to find the familiar. In this exploration, I work with fragile material that moves around, caves in and is in a shape that I cannot grip. I've been trying for a long time, and I could keep going. Instead of changing what is happening, how might I appreciate that my responses make sense?

27/11/2025

Folks looking at therapeutic support in 2026, please set up a zoom consultation to sense if we are good fit. I am now opening a new in person venue in Fairfield, 3078, extending my practice to all genders.

25/11/2025

growth
occurs in stages
little by little
a tiny seed in the soil
sprouting into a shoot
Erupting into a tiny leaf
moving in connection to the sun
inhabiting space and dimensions
A cell at a time
resting at Dawn
waiting
until the next day
never hustling
not competing with scarcity as a paradigm
not too much, too fast or two steps where one is enough
trusting time and readiness

21/11/2025

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
Conrad Hall

Making mistakes and being imperfect can be challenging in life, and it's even harder in therapy. It is here that lies the frailty of being human. I don't mean ethical mix-ups and invalidation. Owning up, being gracious when being corrected, acknowledging a misstep, or forgetting something. Someone I respect in the field mirrored my humanity, expressing what mattered with tenderness. They let their guard down and showed me that I could do it. I made space when a client asked me to tell them about you at the end of the session. I realised they have a right to know too, and I cannot hide behind the guise of professionalism. I cannot make something up for the sake of it. I need to find my way through the chaos. In this exploration, I move with the mess; I make it larger. I let it interact with my body. I notice having fun and being less rigid. We may have to reframe what relational spaces in therapy look like from an ecological paradigm.

18/11/2025

The field of Perception
is most likely shaped
by the spaces between
in the gaps
away from rigid Expectations
accepting the dis- continuity
interruptions, knot and entanglement
when pausing to take them all in
Dwelling in the textures
noticing feelings that matters
dismantling familiar conception
of what is meant to be
and how it flow next
by cultivating spontaneity
a willingness to be surprised

15/11/2025

In this video, I introduce myself and outline my plans for 2026. If you haven't followed me, I encourage you to do so. It means a great deal to have you witness my process and support me as I envision how my practice unfolds. I also have a YouTube channel and blog that I upload to once a month. You can find all the links via my website. If you know anyone who might be interested in engaging with me, please don't hesitate to share the information. Word of mouth is the best vehicle for me. Thank you for your presence here.

12/11/2025

where we look is
as important as
what is seen
AN appropriate distance
not too far or close
shifts perception
widens the scene
invoking the wise part
A capacity for describing and sensing
compassionately feeling
and follow creative impulses
to reconfigure
and integrate

08/11/2025

“Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds, and shapes of an animate earth — our eyes have evolved in subtle interaction with other eyes, as our ears are attuned by their very structure to the howling of wolves and the honking of geese. To shut ourselves off from these other voices, to continue by our lifestyles to condemn these other sensibilities to the oblivion of extinction, is to rob our own senses of their integrity, and to rob our minds of their coherence. We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”
― David Abram

In this exploration, I move beyond the fixed notion of structure, mechanics and anatomy. That the same body is a vessel for relational wisdom, ancestral knowing, and vibrational. In my work, many elements of sacredness emerge. I am amazed at how I can listen and hear when I clear the space within myself of trust and openness. I hope the reverential quality grows and enfolds everything I offer.

05/11/2025

the background
shapes
integration
beneath the obvious
of felt qualities
about relational fields of perceptions
warm, caring, soft?
and/ or
busy, untenable, harsh.
shape shifts
the contours, shades & lines
acknowledging unseen dimensions
foregrounding the invisible
weaving
individual and their environment

01/11/2025

“To what and to whom are you committed? What do you long for? And what is worth travelling through the unknown to reach?”
― Prentis Hemphill,

In the moments of stuckness and immobility, how can I pause and look up at the world around me? How do I receive its reciprocal offering of connection and reach? What might facilitate me in pivoting out of the narrowing and disappearing into movement and expansiveness? This is the focus of my inquiry here. As I sit down and take in the environment around me, I notice a tree across the road in direct field of perception. I see that it is interacting with the wind through unrestricted movement. Like the tree, I anchor myself with my lower body and slowly mimic my upper body. I begin tentatively and then notice an opening towards and in communion. I feel the we- in connection. I reflect on the presence of inspiration and the difficulty sometimes in trusting that I know.

24/10/2025

The room was very quiet with that familiar deepening that arrives when something is happening underneath, beyond the words.”
― Bonnie Badenoch

I am constantly glancing at the feet, mine and theirs. So much implicit knowing is discovered in the the ways the feet meet the ground beneath. I get a sense of what is not being trusted and how safety is being perceived moment to moment. At times, there is an indication of readiness to leave, and at others, a lack of familiarity with how to influence the limbs. The feet, overlooked within the confines of the shoes are the familiar actions of gripping, tensing, and curling. A form in which the least amount of space can be used in return for finding stability and balance. In this exploration, I foreground my feet, celebrating their wisdom and the potential of walking away, taking a stand, and moving fluidly.

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Eve Studio
Melbourne, VIC
3072

Website

http://jaya-narayan.com/

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