Drawing from Within
In this live online course, you will have the great opportunity to step into a place of inner peace and calm. Here you can explore your creativity with kindness and gentleness for yourself. We will enjoy together a space which is supportive and encouraging, allowing our ideas of what ‘art’ is supposed to be to drop away. Instead, we will be developing our intuition and our perception of the world around us through guided practices of mindfulness and heart meditation.
These practices are naturally relaxing, helping to calm the mind, focus attention and allow a joyful, playful approach to art and to life. The course will help us all to rediscover a more expansive sense of vision, learning to see the world through fresh eyes.
Each workshop in the series offers the opportunity to try out a mixture of media and experiment with different processes in creating a piece of art. Each session has been planned to build upon the previous one and you will be able to take these practices to enhance your daily life.
Course outline
Week 1: In the palm of the hand (indoors). materials needed: biro, marker pens, felt tips, paper
Week 2: In the palm of the hand (outdoors). materials needed: tea, coffee, wax, found materials, paper
Week 3: Abstract reflections. materials needed: free to choose but limited to using only the primary colours, paper
Week 4: Noticing the gaps. materials needed: water based paint, sponges and watercolour/mixed media paper
Week 5: Limited light. materials needed: charcoal or monochrome pastels, paper
Week 6: Abstract reflections. materials needed: clean recycled packaging and/or found outdoor materials
Course facilitators
For me being creative is a joyful and intuitive act, bringing to life unconscious elements, re-cognising the ordinary, and using these elements as a starting point to create work which is rich in depth.
Lor Bird is an award-winning artist and qualified tutor working primarily in mixed media on 2D surfaces in a singular and semi-abstract style. She has delivered workshops in a variety of settings including community projects, higher education establishments, art groups and workshops for private customers. http://lorbird.wixsite.com/artbylorbird
I see meditation as our natural state … which we can become distracted from. Taking time to remember how it feels to be at peace and to allow ourselves time to rest here, in our hearts, is a beautiful gift.
Vishwam is an experienced meditation facilitator, therapist, Heart Of Living Yoga teacher & teacher trainer. He has been sharing the art of relaxation in various forms for at least 25 years and has been meditating daily for nearly a decade. He has led workshops, trainings and retreats around the UK and internationally and teaches weekly classes in yoga, relaxation and breathing practices.
Investment: £95 (25% off for each of you if you bring a friend)
Course times 7-9pm on a Tuesday beginning 23rd June
To register your place, please fill in our booking form (click here)
Time for Self Care - an adventure of self discovery and deepening into the heart
Is your heart calling for adventure? In this time where we are not going out so much, we have a great opportunity to go deeper within – to discover the great adventure of Life. Radical self care is a wonderful way to support ourselves in this and in all aspects of our lives. This gift is not just for ourselves, but for all those whose lives we touch. What a gift to the child to have a happy, peaceful parent! The same for the partner, the boss, the employee, the neighbour, the friend. All our relations benefit from our willingness to be kind to ourselves.
Bringing together all the delicious practices of yoga, meditation, deep relaxation and more wonderful methods of healing our bodies, soothing our minds and awakening our hearts, this course is truly an adventure. If you are ready for this, if your heart is calling for this, you are warmly invited to join us for six heart-melting sessions with heavenly home-play practices to enjoy in between.
Course investment: £108
Payment plans are available.
Full details at Heart Of Living Yoga website
Course facilitators
Bodhini Hridaya is a Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher, sound healer and reiki master with strong, heart-felt commitment to inspiring others to find health and happiness through the combination of ancient and holistic practices which have brought many positive benefits to her own life. Bodhini lives in Hertfordshire where she offers her healing work and loves to spent time in the forest.
Vishwam is a Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer and a well-being therapist who loves sharing the gentle art of relaxation and the joy of being. He is honoured to support others in their journey of dropping deeper into life as he is been supported in his. Vishwam lives in Matlock, Derbyshire, where he gardens, explores, listens and is beginning to live a simple life of service.
Singing the Trees
This is an opportunity to deepen your connection with nature and explore your own wild voice. While we are none of us travelling much, it could be the ideal time to tune in to the landscape where we are.
Indigenous wisdom from around the world recognises an innate intelligence in trees, as in all of life. Modern biologists are learning how trees communicate and care for one another, and increasingly even physicists suggest that consciousness is inherent in all matter. Whatever our own sense of non-human beings’ experience may be, it can be very special to take some time to stop, breathe, and connect with our always immobile neighbours - the trees.
Maybe there’s a tree you already know you’d like to sing with? Or maybe you’d like to get to know a tree before we meet? Together, online and each in our different places, we will take this time to tune in with love and kindness and our hearts’ prayers. With gentle support and guidance from your hosts, we will listen to the trees around and find the sounds or song that wants to come through where they grow. Any sounds that come may be silent and inward, gently hummed, a pretty tune may or may not emerge or even some wild sound.. you may prefer to work choose a tree somewhere you will feel relaxed should other humans hear your sounds ;-)
Whatever emerges will be perfect and unique: to you, to the tree you choose and to that place and time.
Outline programme
7:30 Welcome & introductions
7:40 Wild Voice warm ups
7:50 Locating yourself in the sacred landscape
7:55 Simple Heart Meditation
8:00 Listening to the trees
8:05 Singing the trees
8:15 Closing circle & sharing
8:30 Looking ahead and end
We will be connecting through Zoom, so you may wish to find a tree located where you definitely have access either to phone or data signal. You might wish to use headphones so you can listen to the guidance without others being disturbed. If it’s raining or you are staying in your home for other reasons, you can connect with a tree that you know or perhaps a photograph of one. Please arrive 5 minutes early with your phone’s notifications off to settle in and relax.
This even is free/donation with a portion of proceeds going to support Three Streams (Scotland)
To register your place, please contact us.
Facilitators
Frida Go is … a semi-feral adventurer, Initiate of the Western Mysteries, Master of Fine Arts & Science
Vishwam Heckert is a gentle listener, Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer, and Doctor of Philosophy (the wisdom of love