It’s 2020, a new year, a new decade, and a new invitation: Join me for my all new creative practice exploration, PAINTING inSpirit, as I release new lessons and invitations each month this year.

We begin PAINTING inSpirit later this month and my hope is that this offering will be inspiring, challenging, uplifting, nourishing and totally do-able at your own reasonable pace, with the realities of full lives.

We so often neglect and overlook the foundational soul-care needs of rest, play and intentional time with our creative nature and Spirit. Or the ways that our centering acts, practices and openness to what makes us feel alive, heart-mind-and-soul, inform how we show up to our lives, people, world and sense of purpose.

PAINTING inSPIRIT will be focused on the exploration of instinct, intention and intuition in our Art Practice, delivered through a variation of monthly invitations/lessons, videos, audios, supporting text and photos. New guiding content, demos and invitations will be released during the third full week of each month.

We begin on January 23, 2020

There will be themes related to HOW we see and approach our creative practice, what we can glean from mindful self-awareness in the creative process, and our unique and forming life perspectives (they are completely related, of course).

An inspirited creative art practice can be a rich and guiding way of welcoming coherence, vitality, AND the gifts of Mystery into our living experience.

We will...

Start and keep our own ongoing Soul Language Visual/Art Journals
Explore life-giving symbols and archetypes... to listen for and respond to the call of Creative Spirit, and see the threads of connection and healing available (and decide what that means to each of us)
Consider, dissolve and re-frame obstacles and perceived barriers to our creative practice, resting and playing as our wonder-filled selves, and living from our holistic well-being
Create intuitive, meditative and prayer paintings and mixed-media art to explore our unique creative energy, language, healing, and soul vision
Deepen our understanding of how we uniquely show up and DO creative process, change, transition - and how we can BE more fully present to our development, sense of connection, renewal & relationship to the Sacred through our embodied creative expression and awareness
Hold Q&As for ongoing connection, encouragement and depth support for your process

Instead of waiting on life or “the muse” to show up & strike us with creative inspiration, we will Practice our Art and reflection with a posture of Presence, on Purpose, letting our innately human created-ness and sacred sense of connection inspirit our lives.

In this, we are participants - not just recipients - in the cycles and care of beauty, change and creation. Within and before us. We were made for this.

The themes we will explore are contemplative, creative and nuanced.

They relate to developing a holistic, soulful art practice and life - and you will be invited to consider and explore them in both reflective and fun art, journaling and painting practices.

You can spend as little or as much time with the monthly practice explorations as your life allows, and the content can be integrated into either a beginning or developed practice and process.

If you’ve worked with me - you know I love the simple joys, wonder and playful energy of creative explorations - and that I will encourage you to take deep soulful dives with your process, consciousness and inquiry as you feel called to as well.

Art, healing, and matters of the Spirit are interwoven - so come as you are, wherever you are in your process with any of these.

And if you don’t know where that is, come and see.

2020 themes:

Creative Rhythm: Finding & Playing to Your Beat
Laying Down, Picking Up (agendas, beliefs, values)
Holding Space, Taking Shape
ONE
Silence, Stillness, Sensation
More or Less
Naming & Proclaiming, Matters of Identification
Being With Discomfort
Calling In, Letting Go
Emergence Care
Trust Matters
Befriending Time

These themes are intended to help us cultivate how we uniquely listen for and respond to the call of creative Spirit.

How we do this guides our approaches, development, decisions, meaning-making, sense of freedom, openness to connection, and the process of inner and outer awakening and transformation.

We will ground our creative and journaling explorations with a sense of play, practice, presence and purpose.

Cultivating a sense of holistic purpose, and a posture of well-being and presence to Spirit, through intentional and intuitive practices and contemplation, enhances our experience of joy and enables us to receive AND give more fully from the truth of our authentic, creative selves.

What will this look like in terms of our ART-making? Dips, dives, tutorials, prompts, immersions, experimentation and lessons with line, shape, pattern, texture, layers, lifts, shape, discernment, contrast, composition, size, dimension, supplies, approaches, perspectives, series, making with and without intention, capturing the creative fodder of our psyche and life, and other fun mixed-media ways of making visible the invisible threads of creative wonder in each of us!

I will share both demos and the thinking or non-thinking behind my current creative process as we go.

We will bring these foundational art elements and simple techniques into our Soul Language Art Journals and more immersive, intuitive painting practices.

You will learn more about what it means to express with your creative voice - visually and otherwise.

HOW TO JOIN PAINTING inSpirit 2020:

PAINTING inSpirit will be the first all-new program offered as part of my Patreon membership community.

Becoming a member - or “patron” - is easy to do, and is a month-to-month commitment (or an annual membership). There is the convenient option to enjoy the multi-media content, interaction and support from an app, as well as from your computer.

Be sure to join the SEA-Changers membership tier for access to the PAINTING inSpirit 2020 experience.

New inSpirit content will be released each month, and you will have access to all the other rewards available at that tier as well.

Join PAINTING inSpirit 2020 at my Patreon!

I hope to get to connect, create, deep dive and play with you in PAINTING inSpirit.

And let me know if you have any questions at all!

Join me for PAINTING inSpirit: Creative Art Practice, Soulful Presence, Living with Purpose