Wild Imagination Arts & Healing

RESOURCES

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Links for creativity and healing

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NEWSLETTER

Be the Blessing: creative practices to embody awareness September 2008

Summer to Fall

It's back to school time, what the French call "la rentree" or "the reopening" or "the return." We resume our workaday routines, learn new things, and make a fresh start on projects, changed by our summer travel or local adventures.

Moving into harvest season we may be more focused on our goals. Paradoxically, it's a time to set intention then open up to not knowing exactly how they will manifest. Be clear on what you're asking for and keep your eyes and ears open for unexpected ways it may be coming to fruition.

With a few weeks of Visionary time left, give yourself over to manifesting your ideal life on the first level- daydreams and guided meditations; on the second level- telling friends all about it, journaling, drawing/collaging your ideal life; and on the third level- taking the baby steps needed towards your goals.

Healing Awareness

Catch up with yourself. Take a moment to be here now. True change, deep healing, and surprising creativity happen only in the potent present. Bringing our compassionate awareness to what's here right now creates more space and more time for a healing shift to naturally occur.

- Where am I holding back from living my truth?

- What authentic part of myself do I hide?

- What is my big intention and how do I return to it daily?

- What new teacher or teachings am I seeking?

Creative Practice

Let one authentic, yet hidden part of you emerge and write with your non-dominant hand. Our brains are wired so that the non-writing hand is more directly connected to intuitive wisdom. Give it a judgment-free zone to be and express itself. It may need a blank book instead of lined pages, colored pens instead of business black. Set aside a good 20 minutes to just learn about it.

It's better to ask only, "What do you want to share with me now?" This is not a time to argue or cajole or judge! You can do write with your dominant hand or speak this question and reflection back out loud. Remember your job is to stay open, curious, and patient as if with a frightened child. Try to understand how this part feels, thinks, moves, longs for more life, from its perspective. Invite it to let you know what it doesn't want to happen, and what it does want. This part has great wisdom and can be your finest teacher.

Let it know you hear and see. Reflecting back accurately what you've witnessed can bring this part great relief at being allowed to just be itself. Isn't that what we all want?

If you'd like company with this practice, contact me for a no charge consultation. Kindness to self is powerfully healing, and it's what Wild Imagination is all about.

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LINKS

EARTH CYCLES

Angeles Arrien: The Four-Fold Way is a rigorous cross-cultural shamanic training to bring out and balance the power of the Warrior, Healer, Visionary, and Teacher in each of us.

Kami McBride: Herbalist, Medicine Woman, and wellness educator helps people to return to earth cycles and sense of place through our relationship with healing plants.

INNER WORK

HCH Institute: An Institute for Hypnotherapy & Psycho-Spiritual Trainings: Holly Holmes Meredith and other excellent teachers dedicated to cultivating skillful practitioners who honor the client’s inner wisdom.

Creative Source SF: expressive arts therapist, hypnotherapist, and somatic movement therapist Adriana Marchione brings her love of art and dance to supporting creative healing.

Soma Sense: Spiritual Counselor, Certified Hakomi Practitioner, Certified Massage Therapist, and Movement Educator Denise Martini offers a deep sense of nurture and presence that invites healing transformation.

ART AND HEALING

Arts and Healing Network: people and resources at the crossroads of creativity and healing.

Kaleo Ching: practices and teaches Qi Gong, bodywork, and ancestral maskmaking. Collaborates often with Elise Dirlam-Ching: astounding poet, healer, artist, and yogini. Dynamic Duo!

INSPIRATION

Astro Spirit: Jacqueline Lasahn, storyteller of the cosmic currents through her newsletter AstroFlash. Wisdom guide and compassionate ally at the crossroads of inquiry, intuitive astrologer and ritualist.

Soul Flares: Annie O’Shaughnessy writes a beautiful newsletter and leads retreats to invite people to reconnect their inner nature with outer nature.

Center for Visionary Activism: Caroline Casey brilliantly, humorously weaves together astrological themes, politics of the day, and eco awareness to help us align our daily actions for the good of all beings.

RIGHT LIVELIHOOD

Work with Ease: Visionary Coach and Business Consultant, yoga teacher and practitioner, Athena Williams-Atwood supports people to bring ease and flow to their work lives.

Life’s Work Center: Tom Finnegan helps you find your true calling with your authentic gifts and talents.

WRITING

Mary Wagner: embodied writer and teacher, somatic practitioner and coach.

Creativity Goes Wild: Writer naturalist Suzanne Murray unites writing with life/creativity coaching.

Writing the Whirlwind: Jill Jepson teaches online and in person on writing as a sacred path.

MOVEMENT, SOUND, RHYTHM

Continuum Movement: Leaders in somatic self-inquiry based in cosmic neurobiology. We access the learning lab of the body using the breath, sound, deep listening, fluid movement and micromovement.

Ta Ke Ti Na: Rhythm for Evolution: fun, communal, whole body learning. Fall out of rhythm, fall back in.

Healing Music Organization: Sound Healer Amrita Cottrell’s vast resource for vibrational sound healing.

Somatic Expression: Jamie McHugh guides explorations of the body’s landscape with the five somatic and expressive elements of breath, vocalization, contact, movement, and stillness.

WEB DESIGN

Rapsheet Consulting: If you like this website and are looking for a fine creative collaborator for your own website or small business needs, please contact the amazing Rebecca Pieper.

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