Published on Jun 23, 2015
This is my story "Earth Blossom" as recorded on opening night of the YoniVerse Monologues, in Santa Cruz, California, on Beltane (May 1), 2015. Ten women told their own personal Yoni (vulva/vagina/uterus/sacred embodied temple/origin of life) stories. A group of 13 women worked closely together for three months to create safe and fertile ground for publicly speaking Truths about living in a female body. My monologue was the last act. I co-produced this emotional, spiritual, transformative, empowering offering with my friend and master storyteller Sirena Andrea. BIG LOVE from the Yoniverse, Lara Birchler ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡VIVA LA VULVA!!!!!!! (()) ({}) (&) (http://www.yonibeauty.com/yoniverse)
Biographical information on Lara Birchler:
Before returning to Santa Cruz, California, Lara worked for five years as an art educator in a Los Angeles County public high school. She served as Co-Director of a grant-funded Arts Technology Academy while teaching graphic design, fashion design, video/animation basics, and multi-media sculpture. During the summer of 2008, she was hired to write curriculum for and teach a new Claymation course at The Tech Museum in San Jose, CA.
Lara graduated with honors from UC Santa Cruz in 1996 with a major in Fine Art. Her Single Subject Credential, BTSA, andCLAD certificates were completed through Cal State Long Beach in 2002.
Previous to becoming a credentialed teacher, she traveled through South and Central America, West Africa, and Europe. She worked as coordinator for a transitional housing and shelter program for women and their children. Also, she served as a wilderness survival instructor in therapeutic programs for at-risk teens.
For five years, she enjoyed the rewards and challenges of her job as a public high school educator in Santa Cruz county, teaching Ceramics, Art 1, and Art 2 full-time. This year, she is taking some time for her own artwork while teaching two Ceramics courses at Aptos High School. (http://larabirchler.com/LaraBirchler/Teacher_Educator.html)
Elements and Principle design:
Film, video, and digital arts are taking the world by storm. Art of the stage and monologues have been lost until social media and video has taken control. Monologues such as this one by my dear friend Lara Birchler is more available due to social media. I feel video as a medium has revolutionized the power of words as an emotional thought provoking art piece. Her ability to use the space of the stage to give a dramatic approach to emphasis the meaning in her words shows great talent and artistic abilities.
Connection:
I chose this video, not only because Lara Birchler is a young and talented artist and a dear friend, but because she admires the miracle of the woman's body and the joy of what motherhood is all about. Not only do young women feel insecure of their bodies but it is very common for a mother to feel unwanted or unattractive after child birth. Mother's should be taught to embrace their anatomy and the changes that childbirth may cause. Our bodies will endure the most significant changes during childbirth and it will be a test of confidence. In Lara's words, “Yoni” is a Sanskrit word for the vulva, vagina, and uterus. English translations are: womb, origin of life, and sacred temple. Yoni Beauty is here to help spread a Lovely truth: each woman is and has a wildly unique, exquisite, one-of-a-kind flower. There is an astounding diversity of yoni shapes, sizes, proportions, and colors! May we one day live in a world where all people recognize the yoni as sacred, and absolutely, naturally, gorgeous."(http://www.yonibeauty.com)
Many women have been made to feel insignificant or unattractive in some way and have never thought of this area as a beautiful part of a woman. As women, we should celebrate our anatomy and cherish our unique flower. For, it is what gives life.
Stella's Belly Cast
Many women have been made to feel insignificant or unattractive in some way and have never thought of this area as a beautiful part of a woman. As women, we should celebrate our anatomy and cherish our unique flower. For, it is what gives life.
Other works of art that celebrates Motherhood by Lara Birchler:
Belly Cast made with plaster and acrylic paint
Dimensions of human body
2008
Stella's Belly Cast
Tati with Guilhermee
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