Art and Spirituality

Weaving Yourself Toward Wholeness

Weaving can be a form of prayer and spiritual nourishment. Create a weaving that embodies healing specific to your needs, in the spirit of an altar cloth, a prayer shawl, or a medicine cloth. Guided meditations will help you identify your personal place of healing. As you weave your piece, the meditations will guide you in the process, and you will be led in its creation, its colors, its patterning, and more. There will be opportunities for journaling, sharing with one another, and spending time in nature. Both those new to weaving and established weavers are welcome. Bring your own loom, or use a Pendle Hill hand loom.

Looking Within: Painting as a Spiritual Practice

Give yourself the gift of time, introspection, and delight, as you connect to your heart and soul. Painting as a Spiritual Practice uses the intuitive, creative process to connect you back to yourself, your heart and Source energy — one brushstroke at a time. A spiritual practice is any way that you can connect deeply with something greater than your day-to-day self.

This intuitive-based painting journey is a powerful spiritual practice, because it invites you to listen deeply to your body, your feelings, and your inner wisdom. Then — by expressing yourself by putting paint to paper — you invite joy, peace, and centeredness back into your life. The aliveness that comes from heart-full personal expression often looks like an abstract painting. That’s why no painting experience is needed. All you need is a willingness to take this journey of selfdiscovery and play with paint. All supplies provided. Limit of 16

Mindful Mark-Making: Abstract Drawing as Meditation

Explore meditative drawing methods using a variety of techniques in pen and ink that encourage and nurture creative flow: continuous line drawing, freeform patterns, Zentangle and more contemplative mark-making.

Visual Storytelling: The Transformative Art of Altered Book-making

Learn how to recreate an existing book into your own interactive work of art. Altered book-making is a powerful way to process a life change, or to honor an important memory or vision. Journey through a creative and spiritual process of introspection and self-expression. Use paint or fancy papers. Build windows, doorways, drawers, or scrolls. Embed sentimental objects. Add your own words or find a poem within the existing text. Your book will carefully hold what you give it. As you transform your book, you may find yourself transformed as well.

Registration

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