Nadia Shana Krauss

Nadia Shana’s Soul Art Day Interview

What challenges have you overcome to claim your life as an artist?

For a long time, I outsourced my identity.
To roles. Titles. Achievements. Even healing work.

I was the wellness guide. The coach. The customer experience queen. The spiritual student.
But underneath all those expressions was a woman whose body already knew:
I am art. I don’t need permission.

Claiming myself as an artist meant releasing the idea that my worth had to be “useful” or “earned.”
It meant allowing beauty, aliveness, and presence to be the point.

It meant no longer hiding the part of me that channels inner worlds through color, rhythm, and soul movement — even if it doesn’t “convert” or “make sense.”
That reclamation was an initiation. And I chose it.

How do you move through challenges that come up in your creative process?

I come back to my body. Always.
My nervous system is my compass.

When the mind spirals or doubt creeps in, I return to rhythm. To breath.
I let my body lead the way.

I’ve learned that resistance is often not “the block” – it’s the invitation to go deeper.
To listen. To feel.
To trust that something wants to come through, but not on the timeline of the ego.
I don’t force flow.
I am attuned to it.
And sometimes that means letting go of the outcome and remembering:
Presence is the masterpiece.

If your art could talk, what would it say?

“I am the part of you that was never broken.”
I am the breath you held in for decades — now finally released onto canvas.
I am your soul’s soft roar. The color of your becoming. The blueprint of your wholeness.
You don’t create me to be understood.
You create me so you can come home.