Lylah Jarvis

Wisdom is setting in! I have had a lot of life experience. I am grateful that I have lived a creative life, not without challenges but with a certain amount of sovereignty and strong heart. Being over 40 comes with grace and self-acceptance and I am grateful for that. I have a deep connection to nature, culture and have worked a number of years with children, which keeps me young in spirit and creative in mind. I hope to continue to have strong relationships with my family whom I love.

I continue to stretch my mind and heart through nature connection, culture connection and through movement and art! I do a Brazilian martial art, Capoeira and spend a lot of time in nature. I traveled to Salvador, Bahia and Burkina Faso, West Africa in the last couple years where I visited schools that strive to maintain cultural connection for their children. I think it' important that we create peace through understanding one another and knowing that what we do affects generations to come.

I would put half of it down on a piece of property to help develop into a retreat space for myself and other artists. I would use the other half to put towards graduate school. I would love to go back to school to study Art Therapy so I can support people in their transformation towards healing and wholeness, especially children who have been through difficult experiences early in life and adults who may be on a healing journey by reconnecting to nature, art and culture. Foundation building!