June 09th, 2025

Heart Bloom Full Moon Coming Soon
Painting Loom Weaving Love
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Let us weave with a rainbow  loom of liquid colored light  a solid nest  of many strands of care and kindness  that can create, hold and deepen our creative community as we journey individually yet together. 

It is time for Intuitive Painting  classes to resume. Yay! 
I have gone through more twists and turns and changes than I would have liked to. I'm just now on the other side of another move and I feel so grateful from this point in the journey, as I see how life has been supporting me to be more open, more flexible, and more comfortable in general with change. And also more kind to myself and ALL the weather that moves through me as a human on the journey. 
My only goal for the multiple overwhelming moves, and amazing but incredibly destructive weather events became to just be nice to myself no matter what. I decided that if I did that then I was successful. There could be no other gauge for success except that. Was I kind to myself in the process? 

This makes me think of my painting practice and how I love my painting teacher from Sweden named Claudia. I love her gentle voice and presence; How she teaches me to be kind to myself no matter what by being so compassionate and gentle with me when I hit my tight spots inside and want to quit. She never judges me but instead always really trusts my process and gently invites me to be more curious than certain. I hear her kindness with the other students as well and her voice is like a soothing balm making it safe to feel feelings and be vulnerable.

Creative exploration can open neuroplasticity in the brain making the brain more open and less set in stone so to speak. A regular creative practice based on the principle of letting the bigger creative current move through me and learning to trust spontaneous expression will build trust in the process. I can't take anyone's word for it. I have to show up for the practice and let my own embodied insights and knowings be revealed. 

But what I have experienced with my own 12 year painting practice and seen in others is that the principles of creativity that my teacher Michelle Cassou who founded this work stated are true:
1. Creativity is a benevolent force that doesn't give me more than I can handle (if I'm staying connected to the body).
2. That creative intelligence wants to free me from my judgments and have me experience the embodied Love underneath concepts of the mind. 
3. That my creative intuition is completely trustworthy even if my mind can't figure it out.
4. That Creativity can unstick and heal me in ways that I can't explain.
5. That the inner creative spark and intuition is always there waiting to be tapped into. It can never be destroyed.
6. That everyone has everything they need to create and paint. No one needs to be taught. 

But it is not always easy. We need each other to hold our feet to the ground and just keep showing up and painting. It takes Courage to enter the Creative Quest and without the painting sangha, nest or herd we often quit when a difficult feeling arises and believe whatever thought came with it. 

So let us make Sacred Painting Circles - containers to hold our feet to the ground while our Soul can fully express through us on paper with paint. If it feels risky that just means it is alive. Let us get comfortable with our aliveness together!
Reach out to me if you have any questions or would like to register.