Make Art a Sacred Practice ™

I love creating Sacred Circles and the deeper I go into the process of making and sharing them, the closer I am getting to something that has been calling to me.  Sounds all mysterious, right?! I have been on this path in my journey for a few years now. There has been this golden thread that has been guiding me and whispering to me. It's a bugger, this elusive thread because it only gives me hints and a glimpse of a very vague future. Let me go back a bit. I started creating with watercolors around ten years ago to get...

I launched my first online class today. It was many months in the making. As with all of my projects it was a slow build. It swirled around in my head for quite a while and slowly built up momentum. Before I realized, it was like a freight train and that's all I could think about. Then, poof, it's here.  I planned on today being productive. I was busy with the launch for an hour or two and then poof, I was on the couch in full on sloth mode. lol. I decided not to give myself a hard time and...

What does it mean to make art a sacred practice? You create art, you share it, you create some more and the cycle continues, right?! That is how it seems to be these days, especially in the Instagram world. It all kind of blends together. Everyone's art starts to look the same based on what is trending. I love it when I find an artist's work that feels different. When it is unique or has a different quality about it. I imagine they are the artists that are connected with their work and telling their story through their art. How...

The new moon was today and I love performing rituals on this day. Setting intentions is a powerful way to harness energy, but to coordinate it with the new moon amplifies it in a meaningful way. I spent some time preparing for my ritual by writing down and getting very clear about my intentions for the coming month. There are many things that go into rituals that are personal and specific to the person performing them and what their needs are. This is something I will get more specific with later. Today, I just wanted to ease into talking about it...