People have been drawing with charcoal as long as people have been people. It is strangely soothing to look and draw and look and draw, with no end goal or great ambition beyond being there and looking and drawing. Nice too to be with a bunch of other nice people, all quite separately rediscovering in each pose the incredibly complicated bits and amazing whole that is a body.
I do my best to get to at least one life session a week, it is a one of those soul nourishing activities that make life’s general irritations all a little less irritating.