What if “time to create” is not simply a luxury, but a necessity? What if the melodrama you live out in your daily life could be eased by giving some attention to you creative self-expression?
Whether you feel lost on your current path or feel the tug of a new path wanting to unfold, tapping into the energy of your unique creative soul may be just what the doctor ordered. As you have figured out by now, there is no easy answer or final solution that will keep you satisfied forever. The truth is, things change. The Mystery of life is alive and well. Developing your willingness to play in the unknown spaces and collaborate with the Mystery through the Expressive Arts will help you:
All images are welcome
- deepen your listening and connection to spirit
- trust the call of your untamed self
- dance with the dynamic forces
- learn the art of surrender
- engage the fair witness
- get comfortable with not-knowing
- step into your dreams
- create your own mythology
- not compromise one’s uniqueness
- celebrate life’s transitions
- remain playful & curious
Take the insights of your Intuitive Consulting work with Heather to the next level of expression, integration and dare I say, fun! Nothing moves energy & creates openings like the process-based expressive arts. As Shawn McNiff says in his book Art as Medicine, “Creation is a collaborative process and an intimate relationship between artists and their materials in which the participants continuously transform one another.” Between not pushing and not holding back, we find balance, creativity, and our true selves. Sound fun?
About Your Session
Enjoy a Private Expressive Art Session in Heather’s artist studio @ The Petaluma Art House. With Heather as your guide, this 2 hour session leads you through active meditation, Oracle Reading, automatic writing work and process-based painting or InSight Collage, depending on the needs of the day. Let’s Play together! If you have more questions, check the FAQs below.
Time 2 hours
Clothing Wear comfortable clothes, bring an apron and a journal
Materials art materials are included
Location Petaluma Art House in Petaluma CA
Scheduling Email me – Expressive Art Sessions offered Mid-March through Mid-November.
FAQs
Can I do an Expressive Session if I am not an artist?
Process-based Art, Self-Expression & the understanding one’s unique Creative Process is for everyone. You don’t need to be an artist to make art. You just need a body. And believe it or not, every body is a body that wants to make, create, play, and move.
How can the Expressive Arts help me with my real problems?
If you are having a problem consider that thinking about it (which often includes worry, stress, blame, scarcity and judgment) might not be the only pathway to relief and often isn’t. Moving your body can literally move energy, free up space, and open you to possibility. When we engage in the arts, we tap into a much deeper level of knowing and access parts of ourselves that only speak in images, feelings, sensations and sounds. The language of the soul is deep and complex. Since the early days of Humans, people have danced, sung, painted, drawn, acted, cooked, dreamed in response to their problems - ritualize it or be doomed to live it.
Why Process-painting?
Painting is a physical act of the body. You are literally dipping a brush into color and moving it around the paper. Marks and images are the language of the soul and the unconscious. By painting, one is giving physical expression to the soul. As you being to paint, energy will start to move and become available to you – not only in the session – but in your daily life. In process-painting, nothing is off-limits. No images or colors are too dark or scary or sad, or ugly. In fact, we welcome everyone to the party – all parts of the self are considered sacred and wanted. , t
I feel nervous. I haven’t painted since Kindergarten.
We are all beginners here and that is the frame-of-mind that we will continue to cultivate – open, spacious, available, curious, non-judgmental. We don’t interpret our work. We simply pay attention to what we are feeling in the moment and focus on the present. Sometimes a whole painting is for one moment, one realization, one insight, one feeling. Process-painting, or any other process-based expressive work is about being where you are in that particular moment, feeling what you feel and learning to play again and be spontaneous. At some point, you knew how to paint. It’s about reconnecting to that bright energy of life being an adventure – and bringing it back into your life. As Joseph Campbell used to say,“If you find yourself falling – DIVE!”
If you have more questions, please contact me. I will be happy to answer them.
