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Handcraft
your life using the bits and pieces of the memorabilia and photos you
currently have stored away to make a Shamanic Journal. What makes it shamanic?
You will not simply be collaging the stuff you brought, but learning how
these fragments when put together in a fresh way can dynamically influence
your life.
In
class with a small group of other women, we will create a clan of encouragement
that will contribute insights to the stories of our lives. You will experience
a cauldron of creativity in which everyone's ideas and artful morsels
coalesce into an amazing brew.
If
you are a woman on a path of spiritual self-discovery and who cannot help
saving every "good for something someday" tidbit, you are one
of us. We will bring these memory segments and photos of our life experience
into an integrated whole in the form of a personal handmade journal.
You
will learn the physical journal-making process and you will be guided
through easy, meditative exercises and shamanic journeys relating to your
life "pieces" that will enable you to capture and hold the deeper
meaning of your gathered strands of personal "her"story. Often,
through this process, old wounds are healed, current relationship challenges
are resolved, life purpose is clarified, and new determination arises
to help you achieve your personal goals.
By
choosing one of the following themes, your collage pieces are given a
foundation structure from which to build your story:
*
My Home, My Life - a feng shui journal to fine tune the energetic
expressions of your house to support your life theme
* Life Story Liberation - recreating your life story to liberate
stuck energy of past experiences
* The Hero's Journey - telling a tale of how you will achieve whatever
seems currently beyond your reach
* Personal Divining Deck - creating a deck of cards to help with
life decisions
* Dream Carrier Diary - exploring your dream images and meanings
* Coming of Age - whether young or old, working through the new
challenges to capture the passion of every life phase
* From Sickness to Health - a healing journal to empower your path
to wellness
* and there are probably more themes we will come up with as we go along
Working
with photographs, clipping apart the old poses that keep you mentally
stuck in old patterns and collaging yourself into new situations dramatically
affects the psyche. If we were not powerfully affected by images, advertising
would not have the influence it does. You will learn how to replace disempowering
photo memories with energy-freeing new visions, thus removing the foundations
of illness and disharmony and replacing them with pages of images to support
your health and wholeness. You will learn how the soul communicates through
image, color, light and the tones held silently in your words. Deep insights
are easily available through this thoroughly enjoyable art form.
You
will be given time in our private forest to commune with the deeper aspects
of yourself and make connection with the spirit of place that vibrantly
resides here. You will have the opportunity to share with others who are
also compelled to make art of their lives. No "artistic skills"
are necessary because your soul has its own vision and voice that will
naturally express itself in the process we have developed. I think of
A R T as Allowing the Release of Truth; this process
is always beautiful, no matter what the finished product!
You
will take home a journal handmade of your art and your life, your freshly
expressed truth and inspiration, in a form that you will treasure.
Students report:
"I am so deeply grateful that I was able to make a collage showing
an improved relationship between my mother and I after a life of not getting
along. When I came home from the workshop, she and I had some excellent
times together. Two months later, she passed on. How good it is to have
come to a better place with each other!"
"Just
putting my son's photo image ‘in the picture' of my kitchen when
making my collage journal actually brought him home for a visit for the
first time in years."
"I
clearly see by the images I've created that I need to leave my present
job. My next collage will illuminate how to do so."
"I'm
so thankful for the great times of my life; this Shamanic Journal is a
good way to express my gratitude."
"I
could do this all day everyday; it's so much fun."
Carol
Bridges is a published author of both art and writing. Her works include
The Medicine Woman Tarot; The Medicine
Woman Inner Guidebook, A Woman's Guide To Her Unique Powers; A
Soul In Place, Reclaiming Home As Sacred Space; The Code
of the Goddess, Sacred Earth Feng Shui Oracle; The
Medicine Woman's Guide To Being In Business For Yourself; and
Secrets Stored In Ecstasy.
Carol
is the founder of Nine Harmonies School of Feng Shui and has extensive
experience in shamanic practices, having taught classes ongoingly since
1976. Visit www.nineharmonies.com
for further biographical information and training opportunities.
Mentoring:
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