The light was coming in my kitchen window and shining on my beautiful roses and a special stone. I started buying flowers for myself when I was in graduate school. At the time I was miles away from home and feeling a bit like a fish out of water. I would buy flowers each week or so and place then in a cup in my dorm room. Seeing those flowers on my desk made my little space feel like home. It brought me so much comfort.
To this day I associate flowers with a sense of home peace, beauty and comfort.
So may today be filled with peace, beauty and comfort .
Juicy Soul Retreat Sunday, June 12 2011 11 - 5pm San Jose, Ca
With Andrea & Julie
The Juicy Soul Retreat is an afternoon of journaling and creative play. We will be teaching you how to live and create in your journals as your own personal studio for creative expression. You can begin a new journal or you can continue to build in one of your existing journals. The choice is yours. Our intention is that you spend time in your journal with paints, textures and words and revisit the bliss of journaling through art. You will learn techniques for creating backgrounds, color pages, and share your experiences in the pages of your journal.
RETREAT SCHEDULE:
Juicy Journaling Techniques
Big tables, tons of art supplies...What could be more fun! You will learn some amazing techniques to turn flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. Bring a journal of your choosing.
Living in Your Journals:
Spilling open and celebrating your life through journaling
You will discover the wonderful world of fonts, journal page frames, images and story windows. You will be guided through the journaling process to begin to design a focus for your journal. You will explore the variety of tools available to you to support you in journaling your ideas, dreams, stories, experiences when the creative muse appears in your path. We will explore the variety of fonts, letters and methods of capturing words on a page. We will also give you a chance to journey with words, frames for your words and given journaling prompts and ideas for topics you might explore in your journal pages.
Juicy Journaling Studio
Self Guided time to experiment and play
You will continue to tell your own stories in your journal using the techniques you have learned in the early part of the workshop. We will act as muses for your creative process and offer the space you have been craving to create on big tables with tons of art supplies and friends to play with...What could be more fun! Spend time in community turning your flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your stories and dreams.
I am so excited about preparing to lead our next Juicy Soul Retreat! Andrea and I have been living in our juicy journals all year. We both started creating in great big journals that have 1000+ pages. They are HUGE. It's been a real challenge to be creative on 1000+ of pages but I have been lovin' the process. I have no idea where the journey is taking me but I can tell you I am learning a lot of new ways to cover pages and add textures.
My creative resolution for 2011 was to create more time to be creative. My journal has become my new creative workshop. I can experiment and play to my hearts content. It's the one place I know I can color outside the lines and be free. This journal is for me and the more time I spend creating in my journal the more joy I feel. That spills over on to everyone I come in contact with.
Join us for the Juicy Soul Retreat if you are craving an experience of discovering your own creative space in the pages of your very own journal. If you have been looking for some inspiration to move back into your journals and create...then Juicy Soul Retreat is the place to be.
Welcome to a more vibrant and creatively expressed 2011. We created an opportunity for you to share your creative resolutions for 2011 and you responded. THANK YOU! These brave women answered the call and shared their intentions in a big bold way. This is a declaration to make time for creative play, inspiration and freedom.
As you read the resolutions on the following page, allow yourself to be inspired. You may even want to create a creative resolution of your own. So bring out those paint brushes, crayons, stamps and sparkles, make a big sign and make this year your most creative year ever!
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011
Time: 11:00 am - 1:30pm
Cost: $65/person ($75 after 1/27/2011)
Location: A Work of Heart, 2196 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125 408.266.1005
About the workshop
This workshop will provide a peaceful space to create your vision board for 2011. We will explore the role of vision boards in goal setting and discuss how journaling can support you in the process! I will guide you through a series of steps that I have learned over years of creating vision boards of my own. You will be given time select images and create a vision board of your own.
I will also give you the opportunity to practice a valuable journaling process to help you capture any inspired ideas that might lead you to your goal. I call this process "Idea catching" and I will share with you the process of capturing your inspired actions in an "Idea Cather" or Idea journal. This journal is unique in that it holds every wild idea, clue, phone number, map, quote that will lead you to your goal. These journals have been extremely powerful in capturing inspired actions that result from focusing on my vision boards and has lead me to solutions and surprising results.
With your Vision Board and Idea Catcher, you will have everything you need to creative fabulous year!
What to Bring?
Images (optional) You will have time to pull images during the workshop, but for some people it takes time to find the right images. Feel free to collect images from magazines on your own and bring them to the workshop. Look for images that represent what you want to experience in 2011.
An Image of YOU
For the vision board you will need a photograph of you or an image of something that represents you for the collage. I suggest that you make a color copy of any images since we will be using them in the vision board.
Magazines to Share (optional)
Magazines will be provided for you to rip and tear. If you would like to bring magazines to share, please do!
