A year-long series
FREE INTRODUCTORY SESSION Thursday January 12, 6:30-9:30 PM
From ancient times, certainly before the invention of electric lights and digital clocks, human beings marked the turning of the wheel of the year by observing changes in the natural world. Initially they recognized two main seasons - summer and winter - which were aligned with qualities of light and dark, hot and cold, work and rest. Eventually the seasons of summer and winter were divided into quarters, based upon the increasing/decreasing amount of daylight/darkness observed as the earth made its annual journey around the sun. The four seasons that we mark today are initiated at the times of the Winter and Summer Solstices, and the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes. Celtic peoples went a step further and subdivided each quarter of the year in two, creating an eight-fold Wheel of the Year. The four days in between the solstices and equinoxes are called the cross-quarter days. Each of these markers in this yearly cycle ushers in a new energy which recognizes and honors changes in the natural world. Most of us who live in a hyper-technological environment miss the subtle nuances and wisdom that these transitional tides have to offer us.
In this year-long series of playshops, we will focus our attention on each of the eight turnings of the Wheel of the Year. We will travel around the seasonal circle, gathering inspiration from poetry, story, song, movement, art, and Mother Nature herself. Participants will leisurely create a circular art book to express and honor their own unique dance through this ancient, perennial cycle.
SCHEDULE: I will be offering a Daytime group and an Evening group.
You are invited to a FREE INTRODUCTORY SESSION on for a more detailed overview of the subject matter on:
Thursday, January 12, from 6:30 - 9:30 PM, fro EVENING group
Friday, January 13, from 10:00AM to !:00 PM for DAYTIME
EVENING GROUP DATES: Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 PM on the following dates:
January 12, FREE Introductory Session
February 2, Imbolc/Candlemas
March 22, Spring Equinox
May 3, Beltane/May Day
June 21, Summer Solstice
August 2, Lammas
September 20, Autumn Equinox
November 1, Samhain/Halloween
December 20, Winter Solstice
DAYTIME GROUP DATES: Fridays from 10:00AM to 1:00PM on the following dates
January 13, FREE Introductory Session
February 3, Imbolc/Candlemas
March 23, Spring Equinox
May 4, Beltane/May Day
June 22, Summer Solstice
August 3, Lammas
September 21, Autumn Equinox
November 2, Samhain/Halloween
December 21, Winter Solstice
COST: $200, includes access to studio throughout the year
CALLING ALL WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES:
SING THE DEEP SONG OF YOUR WILD SOUL
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of the wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped."
"So what is the Wild Woman? From the viewpoint of archetypal psychology as well as from the storytelling tradition, she is the female soul. Yet she is more; she is the source of the feminine. She is all that is of instinct, of the worlds both seen and hidden—she is the basis. We each receive from her a glowing cell which contains all the instincts and knowings needed for our lives."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run WIth the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes' best-selling book, Women Who Run With the Wolves, has been described as a "fertile and life-giving psychology of women in the truest, sense", "a knowing of the soul." In honor of the 20th anniversary if its publication, you are invited to join with a pack of kindred women to share and celebrate our collective wild wisdom. We will use the chapters in WWRWTW as a springboard for discussion, and we will contact our Wildish Selves by examining the fairytales, folktales, legends, and mythos presented in the book. We will engage in the "craft of making," understanding that "art is important for it communicates the seasons of the soul, or a significant event in the soul's journey." (CPE) Through this year-long process of conversation, storytelling, and expressive art processes, including SoulCollage©, we will allow our fabulous tails to fall below our hemlines, try Wild Woman's footprints on for size, and reclaim the deep songs of our unique wild souls.
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With Wild Woman as ally, as leader, model, teacher, we see, not through two eyes, but through the eyes of intuition which is many-eyed. When we assert intuition, we are therefore like the starry night: we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes.
(CPE, Women Who Run With the Wolves)
SCHEDULE:
I will be offering a Daytime group and an Evening group.
Evening Group: Thursdays from 6:30 - 9:30 PM on the following dates:
January 26 Singing Over the Bones/Resurrection of the Wild Woman
February 23 Stalking the Intruder: Initiation
March 29 Retrieval of Intuition
April 26 Union with the Other
May 17 When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter/ retrieving Sacred Sexuality
June 28 Finding One's Pack
July 26 Self Preservation
August 23 Returning to Oneself
September 27 Nourishing the Creative Life
October 25 Marking Territory
November 29 Battle Scars
December 27 Initiation in the Underground Forest and Closing Celebration
Daytime Group: Fridays from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM on the following dates:
January 27 Singing Over the Bones/Resurrection of the Wild Woman
February 24 Stalking the Intruder: Initiation
March 30 Retrieval of Intuition
April 20 Union with the Other
May 18 When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter/ retrieving Sacred Sexuality
June 29 Finding One's Pack
July 27 Self Preservation
August 24 Returning to Oneself
September 28 Nourishing the Creative Life
October 26 Marking Territory
November 30 Battle Scars
December 21 Initiation in the Underground Forest and Closing Celebration
COST: $275.00, includes access to studio throughout the year
INNER LANDSCAPES:
A JOURNEY WITH EXPRESSIVE PAINTING
If you want to discover the images that grow in your heart and soul, do not search in the drawers of the mind. To start a new painting, you need not look inside mental closets; you just need to stand erect in the unknown, in the creative void, in the empty space, open to forms and colors. If you resist the silent space, if you want to know where you are going and what result you are going to get, you, then, would rather live with a fossil of happiness in your pocket than with the untamable flow of life in your blood.
Michele Cassou, in Life,Paint, and Passion
Experience the freedom of creation and intuitive playfulness that you once experienced as a child, before external and internal critics tried to convince you that you are "not an artist." Learn to create from your intuitive self, and free yourself from the demands and expectations of producing a product. Experience an environment of encouragement and reawaken your artist's soul, without concern for results. Create for the sheer joy of expression, and gain access to those secret places inside that have closed themselves off to their longing for expression.
In this playshop, you will not be learning the techniques of painting. You will be invited to let go of your verbal, analytical, and critical self in order to express your inner landscape in shape, form , and color. We will be using non-toxic tempura paints; all materials will be provided.
Tuesdays, February 7, 14, 21, and 28, from 10:00AM to 1:00PM
Cost: $100.00 for 4 sessions
SOULFULS SUNDAYS
Does your SoulCollage© practice need a jump-start? Have you been making cards, but aren't sure how to glean their wisdom? Join with other like-hearted and like-souled women to make cards in community, ask questions, and share insights. Each session will begin with a brief presentation that goes a bit more in depth on a specific topic related to the SoulCollage© process. All materials provided.
Cost: $15 per session, or $80 for all six ($10 savings). Please RSVP by email (Artsy56@aol.com/607-727-5332) by the Friday before so I can plan accordingly. Sessions will be held from 2 to 5 PM, at the Art Barn, on the following Sundays:
January 15 Creating a Vision for the New Year
January 22 The Gifts of Midwinter
January 29 Honoring Death in our Decks
February 5 Inner Critic Party
February 19 Discovering Our Personal Mythology
February 26 Random Play with our Decks
Class will be held at The Art Barn
Go to www.lalobacreations.com for directions
To register for series and playshops, send an email to me at artsy56@aol.com
Please specify Daytime or Evening Group for yearlong sessions.
If you have questions or would like more detailed information, please call me at
607-727-5332
Artfully yours,
Yvonne |
