Down to Earth

Pottery is one of those rare activities where your mind is calm while your hands are engrossed in creation and the act of shaping the mud and earth with your fingers grounds you entirely in the moment. As such, this hobby has incredible benefits at the mental, physical and spiritual levels. Let’s explore:

Provides a creative outlet
Pottery is an essential hobby for self-expression. Learning new techniques with the satisfactory feeling of completion at the end can contribute to a lifetime commitment to a productive hobby that creates tangible results, your skill only improving with time.

Reduces stress
Severe concentration is required while you’re making pottery, thus, your racing thoughts are quietened for the moment. The sense of touch is of high importance as it delivers a sense of belonging.

Strengthens the hands, wrists, and arms
Despite being gentle, the movement of making pottery strengthens the hands, wrists, and arms. This can benefit those prone to arthritis in the hands as it promotes joint movement and dexterity.

Pottery can’t help but feel miraculous: a lump of mud set spinning on a wheel, transformed by motion and friction into something useful. As we shape pots, vases, and little figurines, we all become creators in our own right, giving rise to objects that are as ornamental as they are useful. All you need is the motivation to keep practicing, experimenting, and creating to craft masterpieces at the potter’s wheel. We’ve set the clay spinning on the wheel. Are you ready to sink your hands into it?