Resham MacFarlane slinks in and out of pages of sketchbooks, making time in real-time to breathe deep, follow intuition, move her body, and remind others to do the same. Stemming from expressions by smaller muscle movements, Resham has been a fine and creative arts teacher for both children and adults for at least 15 years, and also enjoys a practice of offering the hands-on detective work of massage therapy—primarily as a volunteer with low-income or houseless folks at the Berkeley Suitcase Clinic--exploring how emotions and circumstances can be held and expressed through the body. She sees and hopes to free the child within every human and loves to blend roles between teacher and student, under the value and acknowledgement that we all learn from each other.

Resham pays great attention to the beauty and restlessness of the wandering creative spirit. She sees the unseen and underspoken, taking note of patterns in nature. She grew up with her nose in books, drawing and painting, closely observing the stirring life around her. She would witness lines of ants along the trunk of a tree, how the small beings moved in search together and how they would become divided with an introduction of barriers to learned paths. Resham was a quiet child but studied close, learning to listen through a variety of senses and knowing at a very young age how there is always so much that goes unseen with people's personal stories. She knows there exist multitude of ways of being and knowing and has always found space to show compassion and understanding. 

Resham is committed to redefining ways we relate to each other, the spaces we inhabit and the stories we weave. A beautiful quotation suggests that “we think we are a guest, but instead we are a host” speaking volumes of the connective powers we wield if we realize and unlock potentials to expand ideas of what is possible. Our bodies are containers for stories in motion.

Whether with the human body or body of people, Resham’s vision and hope is for children and adults to discover tools to empower themselves to connect hand in hand to take care of each other.

For the experience alone, Resham enjoys being barefoot, eating avocados, creating stellar meals with leftovers and unusual ingredients, meeting avocets (small wading birds) along waterfronts, hiking into deserts mountains, rowdy music jams, buckwheat-free toast and jams, writing, shedding skins, and invitations to just BE. She is committed to a lifetime exploration of communication to shift perspectives of social construct and stands for nothing short of collective liberation!