I hope you are keeping well where you are. Today’s letter is part of the artist interview series and with so much going on this year, it felt like the right time to reintroduce myself with a bit of a self-interview. In everything i do to create space for art and wellbeing to be accessible and genuine, i think showing you a peak into my mind and journeying may give insight into what brought me into creating this space. Injoy!
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​About the series: ​These interviews exist to inspire us on our journeys to creating the lives, communities, families, and inner environments needed to house ease. i select artists from around the world with different modes of creation and lifestyles to show how possible it is for us to build ease and art into our lives. The intention is to deepen our understanding of what is possible, to think limitlessly and in community.
Artist Interview with AMARA
Who is AMARA? ​
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i AM AMARA. Before anything else, i’m a soul on a journey to gathering the things that keep my light vibrant, growing and in a frequency of expansion and never shrinking.
My life’s path has been defined by home-making and travelling – i’ve been living abroad for 5 years this month, i’m a West London girl who left to live in the mountains and beside the bay and the small islands in search of a home that the journeying has taught me exists inside of my very spirit.
In the world of astrology, by sun sign i’m an Aquarius, an 8th house and 9th house stellium, a Capricorn and Aquarius stellium, a Mercurial, and a deeply intuitive soul - a Scorpio moon. Within the world of human design i’m a 4/6 Sacral Generator and i AM a woman continually coming home to herself.
Even while i value stillness, i still define myself as a highly ambitious and highly creative person. My ambition led me to one of the top universities in the country where i graduated with a First class English degree and a dissertation that left me awarded as the highest on my course. This led me to climbing the corporate ladder as a marketing professional until i decided to follow what felt aligned. For most of my twenties i had one foot in the ‘safety’ of being in an industry and another foot in the artful ways of being. i always kept my artist soul alive though, writing plays, poems that would eventually compile my debut pamphlet ‘The Opposite of an Exodus’ published in 2021 and being invited to read and hold space for poetry in various countries and publications. i took the first step in no longer sacrificing what felt good for my energy and swapped my hyper-online career for a slower-lived one around the world, writing and learning and translating it so others may connect the dots.
And now i AM here, recentring my interests in holistic wellbeing and creative power. The Easeful Place is two this month and it continues to be a community learning environment for creative mindfulness and restoring and practicing easefull living together. When i’m not building safe spaces via The Easeful Place, i’m creating wellness for myself through yoga, herbalism, healing modalities we inherit from wise lineages and expressing myself through fashion. At this part of the timeline, my path is dedicated to sharing what i know about the medicine of ease, expression and exhale. Whether through studying to become a bodyworker with focus on the nervous system and fascia or holding space as a facilitator and founder in creative wellness, i’m allowing myself to injoy the process, have fun and connect with like-hearted souls.
What is your one word mantra in life?
Presence.
That we’re especially well-resourced when we decidedly and easefully choose the here, now, presently.
Who are your favourite artists?
So many. i fall in love with Caribbean poetry and dub poets every time. i remember being in my local library as a teenager and picking up a book by Benjamin Zephaniah, feeling worthy of writing and experimenting with language after seeing my home language and cultural experiences written down so boldly and carefully. Miss Lou, Grace Nichols, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze and Linton Kwesi Johnson all influenced me, to name a few. Other prose writers i appreciate are Jesmyn Ward and Tricia Hersey.
i also love artists who work with sound and pour authentic life into their music – D’Angelo, Cleo Sol, threetwenty, Yussef Dayes, Sade, Lauryn Hill, Greentea Peng come to mind. When it comes to sound, i find myself drawn to artists and music-makers whose languages aren’t fully lived in my bodies and memories: Brazilian, Senegalese, Ethiopian Jazz music is often playing loudly wherever i find myself doing my living.
Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, bell hooks, Angela Davis, and Toni Morrison are some of the Black women writers whose books kept me going through girlhood to womanhood, from academia through to soulful art-making.
What or where is the easeful place for you?
The Easeful Place is a living dream made material in you and i. It’s in our consideration and vulnerability, how gently ease comes to the surface because we are all here as reflections of each other. It is finding a community of other creators, feelers, thinkers in the work of being honest, those birthing new things and worlds and beings who will intimately know ease, those who care about mindfully doing the inner work internally and in community, the builders who rest and stay tender and firm enough for this type of soul work to work its magic.
When i think of the easeful place i sense it is a place somewhere between where the thoughts are formed and where the soul is nourished by them. It feels like waking up at 4am or laying down to nap in the sun at 4pm. It’s an oasis that exists wherever like-hearted and minded people gather.
What are you learning and unlearning right now?
I’m learning what my ancestors understood about the power of our language, and reclaiming it to reclaim my true selves, pasts and futures. A poem from Guyanese poet Grace Nichols comes to mind
I have crossed an ocean
I have lost my tongue
from the roots of the old one
a new one has sprung
i’m unlearning separation from the Divine and acting from a knowing that i AM Divinity experiencing Divinity on Earth, i’m encouraged by the knowing that many are remembering this.
And i’m relearning who i was through the alchemy of creating without fear - the joy of choosing joy just because i can, and designing my life and daily rituals from this place of agency.
What are you currently creating?
Right now i’m creating safe spaces for others who value open and idea-rich environments and those who will create things more important than what i AM, things to enact change and create more of the good we wish to see in the world. A space to foster worthiness and restore ease so we can reconnect mind-body-soul, because i believe with my whole heart and soul that so much can happen when we are comfortable enough to bare our truths.
i’m also creating an internal environment for deeper healing. This includes a devotion to creating fuller audacity and endless communion with myself. This act of recreation is personal and rooted in not bowing to patriarchal, colonial and other love-less systems that have impacted my body, health, community, lineage and lands, in the true essence of la loba & La Que Sabe (IYKYK) .
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You are so worthy of ease. How do you remind yourself of this?
i drop my shoulders, relax my jaw, relax behind my eyes and let this truth hold space and take me to where it lives innately.
Where to connect with me
Aside from this newsletter, you can join me in our monthly meet-ups. The next one will be at the end of the month on Sunday May 31st, 2026 where we will be gathering for the Compassion for who we are called to be in a virtual event. It will be a safe space for meeting like hearted and minded souls, discussion, tea, and somatic release and writing, and it will also be a full moon.
Otherwise, you can find me on Substack or YouTube (May is for new beginnings) where i’ll be sharing more meditations, healing messages and holistic lifestyle habits for unwinding from modern life.
Thank you so much for reading and sitting with this self-reflection interview ꩜꩜꩜
Upcoming events at The Easeful Place::
Compassion with who you are called to be in this moment :: a virtual gathering and space for discussion, tea and somatic release to be in community. i can't wait to sit, sip and share with you.
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When:: Sunday May 31st, 2026
2pm -3:30pm UK (GMT) / 9am - 10:30am New York (EDT)
Where:: Virtual event
Who:: All welcome to gather and share
Price:: A 'pay what you can' structure
Hope to see you there 🌀
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