good questions....I need yoga too lol, but I still also need to create even when I practice yoga daily. This creative act doesn't always have to be with clay, it can be drawing or even writing sometimes, but ultimately something that involves finding something inside of me and pulling it out in a new form. It also has to do with a kind of quality of focus and I come out of it completely cleansed. Meditation is great, but like yoga it doesn't satisfy the creative drive in me.
And yes, it can make a bad day good but there are just some shitty days regardless ;-}. Does your photography give you something like this? What about the explorations in the world you do or teaching?
Yeah I guess traveling does do that. But it provides more of a "high" and excitement rather than an appeasement or feeling of being cleansed. Teaching yes, although I'm unfortunately not teaching right now... And photography used to. I might have to get back into that, buy a new camera and rekindle with this former hobby which I've dropped a bit lately (the photos I've been posting are made with my phone camera and I'm really not very proud of them... the quality is horrific).
Thanks for giving me a small insight on what your art brings to your life. It's inspiring.