August 20-24, 2012. Unfurling leaves, muscular branches, luminous flowers: growing things offer rewarding challenges for painters! This richness goes beyond techniques, to touch on themes of growth and rootedness, decay and flowering. This course empowers students to learn techniques and processes while exploring symbolism and metaphor. Technical demos, art historical mind-openers, and outdoor image quests …
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MICHAEL S. GLASER AND KATHLEEN W. GLASER Oct 26-28, 2012 Fri 5:00 p.m. thru Sun lunch Cost $425 Derick Walcott’s provocative poem, “Love after Love,” invites us to reconnect with those parts of our essential selves that have been suppressed, ignored or cast aside –to bring into the present that which has unwittingly been relegated …
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Prepare to behold! As fall unfolds its glories, set your camera to worship mode and come to Pendle Hill. Taking advantage of the magic light of morning and late afternoon, we will literally “hold in the light” and “frame the sacred.” Worship, poetry, Taizé chanting, and worship sharing will enrich our time together as we …
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Explore art-making as spiritual transformation. Nurture your inner life and activate your expressive energies by creating paper arts collages in a variety of forms, including three-dimensional possibilities. Using Melanie’s inspiring prompts and festive materials, let Spirit guide you in bringing the pieces and pages of your unfolding life story into creative expression. $555/shared room; $665/private …
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Words change hearts; changed hearts change the world. David helps participants overcome practical and emotional challenges to writing well, debunking some myths along the way. Through guided exercises and instructive examples, he teaches tools to invite inspiration, enrich content, and polish craft. You will focus first on writing strong poetry, then turn to ways to …
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Evocative exercises and group sharing in a nurturing setting allow us to remember and write about the most meaningful parts of our life’s journey. Re-experiencing events from our past, we gain fresh perspective and appreciation of the richness of our lives. Both in telling and hearing stories of these crucial turning points, we discover why …
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$350.00 We all have stories we live by: family stories; stories honed out of hard or celebratory experiences. We all have come, over years of feeling and observing and living, to believe in certain things and hope for eventual resolutions. This course, through specific assignments, brings those thoughts and events to the surface and enable …
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$350.00 In this course, participants will explore in poetry or prose those events, relationships, coincidences that have created minor shifts or major chaos in their lives. We will look especially at ways to reframe and re-envision those interruptive experiences by using techniques employed by literary writers: fresh juxtaposition, charged diction, magical realism, metaphor and other …
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$355.00 We all have stories to tell and by putting our words on the page we feed our souls and benefit our physical selves as well. Writing stories is one of the most healing activities in which we can engage. When we put pen to paper and recapture events in our lives, both happy and …
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$390.00 Come do art and yoga! Combine the beauty awakened in you through yoga and meditation with painting or sketching the magnificence of the Ghost Ranch landscape. Practice Kundalini yoga (the yoga of awareness and your potential) to connect the Infinite Creator to your “inner teacher.” Each day we will enjoy sets of breath work …
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