My Work Has Always Been For Women

My work has Never Really Been About Yonis, Wombs, Goddesses or Trees.

For years people have asked me what my work is about. They see me offering experiential art for self esteem, confidence, resilience, trauma healing... 

The Tree of Life process, WOMB: Where I Came From, Healing Your Inner Child, Honouring Your Yoni, Goddess Unleashed...

And the answer has always been yes. And no...

Because whilst all of those things exist in my work, none of them are really the point.

The point has always been Women. Everything I offer is for Women.

I've always known this. I just haven't always said it out loud. The women I work with know this instinctively because they feel it as they experience my offerings.

The women who have sat with me in therapy.
The women who have painted trees with me.
The women who have journeyed through WOMB, Goddess, Yoni...
The women who have explored creativity, grief, relationships, boundaries, sexuality, self-worth, dreams and possibility.

When I got to 25,000 hours of sitting with women, I stopped counting... It's been 28 years next month
that I've been doing this work. 

I am dedicated and passionate and I offer all I have To Women.

Yes, the methods vary.  I'm very creative and can dream up wonderful experiential art courses for women.

Women are as deep as the ocean and wide as the Universe.  One single online course could never cover such depth... which is why I poured everything into Planet Kas.

A woman becomes more fully herself with every process she undertakes with me.

Not who her family wants her to be. Not who society wants her to be.

But who SHE wants to be. 
Who she was before conditioning and the patriarchy got it boney fingers round her throat.

When I trace that thread back through my own life, to find the root of my work, I find myself arriving at my beloved Grandmother.
She was the first woman I loved deeply. The first woman whose life I truly paid attention to.

The first woman whose suffering broke my heart.

She taught me many things. Some through what she said. Some through what she lived.
And some through what I wished had been different for her.

It took me many years to understand the ways I was entangled with my Gran's story - 
to understand the love, the grief, the loyalty and the learning that sat beneath it all.

But looking back now, I can see that my concern for women did not begin with a business plan, or my love of art making. 
Nor did it begin with my qualifications, as much as I loved the process of becoming a counsellor and psychotherapist.
Therapy training shaped me profoundly, but it was in my own therapy that I unravelled much of what connected me to her story.

It began with caring.

Caring about a woman I loved. Caring about what had happened to her. Caring about the life she carried.
Caring that she deserved so much more than life had given her.
Caring that a life like hers could so easily be overlooked, diminished or forgotten.

That is where all my work began.

It began with love.

Not the kind of love that rescues. Not the kind of love that tells people who they should be.
But the kind of love that pays attention.

The kind of love that wonders what happened. The kind of love that wants people to be seen.
To be heard. To be understood. To be remembered.

And perhaps, in some ways, I have spent much of my life responding to that.

Not by trying to rescue women. Not by telling them who they should be.
But by creating spaces where women can ask:

What do I want?
What matters to me?
What is true for me?
What needs to change?
What wants to emerge?
What kind of life do I want to live?

Tree of Life process was never the point.
WOMB: Where I Came From was never the point.
Honour Your Yoni was never really the point.
Art was never really the point.
Therapy was never really the point.

They are all vital doorways in the process.

But WOMEN have always been the point to everything I do.

Everything I offer in Planet Kas exists to help women become more fully themselves.

To remember who they are beneath the expectations, the roles, the conditioning and the stories that were never truly theirs.

My creative processes are the way a Woman can truly meet herself.

And perhaps that is what I have been trying to explain all along.

I create spaces where women can remember who they are and it's all there for you in Planet Kas. 

love,
Kas
www.kassimartin.com