The World Needs Creatives with Rachael Sardelich
The World Needs Creatives is hosted by Rachael Sardelich, Vedic Meditation Teacher and Consultant to Creatives. Rachael has spent over two decades working at the confluence of creativity and spirituality and now leads her clients to explore, germinate and birth their creative visions into the world. During this weekly podcast, Rachael shares wise and inspired conversations to expand our creative consciousness.
Join Rachael in a space where the deeper questions are always asked and learn exactly what has shaped the humans behind remarkable ideas, cultural movements and visionary art in all of its forms.
Within you’ll find stories on embracing darkness and finding wholeness, the blurred boundaries between human and nature, breaking limitations and building legacies, rich inner-landscapes that hold untapped potential, and prophecies that will open portals of possibility within you.
These conversations are regenerative moments of incubation, creation and renewal. They won’t ask you to sit still and play nice. They will awaken your senses, wildly inspire the muse within and remind you: the world needs what you’ve got.
The World Needs Creatives with Rachael Sardelich
02. Heath Wae on Cultivation, Reciprocity and Making a Living Ecology of your Art.
This week's episode is one you might like to carve out some intentional space for, not only to listen to deeply but also to fully feel in your body, as it's bursting with wisdom that will leave a lasting impression on you for days to come.
Today, we step into the ethereal realm of multidisciplinary artist and mentor, Heath Wae. Heath crafts masterpieces from hand-foraged and elemental materials, singing each creation into being with the whispers of nature's symphony.
What drew me to Heath was more than just the magnetic pull toward his work; Heath also holds a sacred space as a mentor, guiding individuals through a Daoist-informed journey.
Join us as we delve into the boundless creativity of Heath Wae’s creation story, where the past meets the present, and we learn that cultivation is the key to our unique expression.
In this episode you’ll hear from Heath on -
- His evolving journey and relationship to nature
- How surfing and fatherhood inform Health’s artistic practice
- His partner Tais Rose Wae, who is also an incredible artist.
- The importance of rest and spaciousness to change the frequency of being a parent and an artist
- Heath’s rituals and generative practices that support his process
- Biogeometry to neutralise the energetics of your space
- Heath’s wild journey with a Balinese High Priestess
- How totems and symbols arrive and how to journey with them
- The oyster as a talisman for Heath’s family
- Simon Yunkaporta - Sand Talk
- Moving away from dogmatic practices and into personal truth
- "Kids swim around in your subconscious" and the importance of doing inner work
- Heath’s creative journey and the moment he took his art seriously
- The archetype of the silver handshake - working with quality materials
- Heath’s work and process as a mentor
Follow Heath -
Heath’s instagram - https://www.instagram.com/heath_wae/
Heath's mentorship instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tao_wae/
Health’s website - https://www.heathwae.com/
Follow Rachael -
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rachaelsardelich/
Website - www.rachaelsardelich.com
The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling.
Episode editing, engineering and the creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.