WORKSHOPS Workshop: Expressing your Goddess Self Through Art Through the tools of the inner child we will explore who we are as women; as Goddesses. How do we feel in our skin, our bodies, as lovers/mothers/daughers/women of the work world and society? Through art, we will allow our spirits to rise up to express and share our deepest essence, whether that be to shed old beliefs or to embody and celebrate who we are. Bio: Sophie Brunet, BFA, DVATI,
is passionate about working with women to guide the creative spirit
to come out and express through image all that words cannot capture.
Her enthousiasm for working with people combined with her affinity
for art bring her to facilitate workshops where creative expression
is about process rather than product and attaining deeper understanding
of self. She currently has a Solo Oil Painting Exhibition and has
a private practice in Art Therapy in Vancouver and Squamish. www.sophiebrunet.com
Workshop: Re-Invent Your Life, Discover Your Purpose, Renew Your Creative Spirit, Expand your gifts while making a difference by Magalie Bonneau-Marcil, Life Coach Are you interested in change, health and in expanding your true gifts while contributing to make the world a better place? We all have a powerful resource within us, our subconscious, which can be easily tapped and used to expand our creativity and find our purpose. Our consciousness, often known as the mind, is only the tip of the iceberg. In this session I will lead you on a journey underwater, visiting the powerhouse where your creativity, imagination and inner wisdom lie. This vision quest will be centered on the question "What is my Purpose?" and followed by an integrating period using mixed art medium. This workshop will help you navigate through the world and make choices aligned with who you really are, enriching your life moment to moment. Bio: Magalie is a life coach
who serves as a powerful compass for unleashing team and individuals’
true potential, awakening a sense of self-mastery and harnessing
their power to create and succeed. Acting as a facilitator, world-class
Olympic sailor, an entrepreneur, an artist and a spiritual seeker,
she draws on her diverse experiences and trainings to suit the situation.
Magalie has been trained as a coach with The Coaches Training Institute
(CTI). She is also a certified Tantra instructor and has a BAA in
Marketing. Magalie is committed to empower women to shine the light
and love that we are - a reflection of courage, integrity, resilience
and power. The world desperately needs our conscious presence for
the highest good of society, Mother Earth and future generations.
With Barbara Bernath This is an upbeat, hands-on, creativity workshop for women needing a holiday from the stress and strain of everyday life. Through simple drawing and writing exercises, you will be taken on a beautiful and relaxing journey. There you will re-discover your passion and purpose; you will recognize and release unnecessary negativity and stress; you will learn to implement your own, ongoing method of rejuvenation, and you will leave feeling calmer and clearer about your future. Looking forward to vacationing with you! Bio: Barbara Bernath “Since 1995, I have had the honor of working
with an amazingly diverse range of people and circumstances. From
refugees to plane crash survivors; from Eastside artists to Westside
bankers; from three year olds to ninety two year olds. No matter
who comes, or how far they have wandered --or been derailed--from
their path, my goal is always the same: To help people 'come back
to life' with a renewed sense of meaning, trust, passion, and purpose.”
Please visit www.BarbaraBernath.blogspot.com
Transformative Dance has the power to open our hearts, minds and body to our inner source which is love. Through breathwork, sound, and movement we will creatively express what is going on in our hearts in order to open to the truth of our being. Love is always present and we will learn new creative ways to clear our energy body so that we can experience it more fully in all areas of our lives. Bio: Luna Ravenchilde is a certified Kundalini Dance Facilitator (kundalini-dance.com), and has been facilitating transformative workshops in many settings for the past 9 years. She has studied many forms of dance including Ecstatic Dance, 5 Rhythms, Dance and Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement and much more. It is her passion to share the transformative power of ecstasy through dance. Workshop: The HeART of Intention This workshop provides an opportunity to focus on an intention you have for the New Year using the Expressive Arts techniques of movement, drawing and writing. By exploring the relationship between movement, feelings, imagery and art we become artistic channels for our inner experience. You are invited to allow Creative Source to inspire, guide and support you in transforming intention into action. Bio: Alia Gunnlaugson, BSW, has studied a wide variety of Movement and Healing Arts for the past 25 years. She has a Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy, is a Certified Yoga Teacher and is the co creator of Psyonic Yoga (a fusion of yoga and dance). She loves being a guide on the creative path and offers a safe and supportive space to facilitate the journey Spiritual Alchemy: Creating Your Reality We live in a magical world, where everything is made of energy. You are a divine being with infinite creative power. Whether you realize it or not, you are designing your reality in every moment. By knowing consciously about the Laws of Manifestation, you can have more fun materializing opportunities, careers, money, things, people, experiences and great joy. In this introductory class, you will discover how simple the laws actually are, and how to play with them with more intention. (Please bring paper and pen/pencil if you wish to take notes.) BIO: Little Woo is a performance artist and spiritual counselor in Vancouver who offers a series of workshops in Spiritual Alchemy (energy-based teachings). She is also the creator of Burlesque Yoga (a dance and movement-based program). Her workshops help to empower and inspire, with practical teachings about how to work with energy and how to feel more bliss in your life. Website: www.littlewoo.org Workshop: The Breathing Drum, with Neith Doffing Drumming taps into layers of the mind and body that other modalities cannot and brings about a state of calm, a focused awareness and deep inspiration. This play shop accesses our natural expressions of rhythm, which originate from our hearts and are continuously played through our breath. We will offer these unselfconscious rhythms to the drum so that we can hear others and ourselves more clearly. In this way we build community and connectedness while honouring the individual within. We will experience many expansive and playful practices with the drum and also learn traditional African/Cuban drum circle rhythms to share with the entire gathering in the closing circle. Please bring a drum if you have one. Otherwise, drums will be supplied. Bio: Neith has been sharing drum circle magic for two years at various gatherings and substance mis-use treatment centres in Vancouver. She has been a practicing musician for over 15 years. Neith also offers awareness activation through photography as art therapy and permaculture within workshops. Workshop: EXPLORING SELF IMAGE THROUGH ART This class offers you both a creative, and intellectually stimulating, opportunity to explore what C.G. Jung’s concepts of the ego, the persona, the shadow and the Self mean to you personally. With absolutely no experience, skill or talent in art making, you can explore how these different aspects of the self operate in your personality, as well as how they interact with each other. Fun and simple art making activities such as scribbling, blind drawing etc, are used to draw out self images that will surprise you and offer insight into parts of yourself you would like to know more about. Through viewing and discussing your artwork in a playful, non-judgmental manner you will discover the different roles the ego, persona, shadow and self take to help you perform the many tasks in life, as well as move you towards wholeness. Bio: Susanna Ruebsaat has done extensive research in the process of image making, her primary focus being the relationship between image and image-maker, and the encouragement of the development of insight through this relationship. Susanna holds a BFA, Teaching Certificate, Graduate Diploma in Art Therapy, Masters in Art Education and is currently working on her doctorate exploring the relationship between perception and consciousness and the role image plays in this dynamic. Workshop: The Art of Authentic Sound and Spoken Word The workshop will start with exercises to awaken
your connection to your authentic sound. These exercises are designed
to dissolve boundaries, release inhibitions, and connect with the
primordial nature of sound. Through this experience you will be
able to release built up tension as well as cultivate the ability
to freely express sound within a group or partner setting. Next
we will explore play with words using games designed to open up
the free flow poet. You will have time to individually explore the
words that come forth. Then with the aid of singing bowls or selected
musical accompaniment you will have the opportunity to bridge the
worlds between music, poetry and authentic feeling expression by
sharing your creation. Jane Panek's love and training are in creative writing and the dramatic arts. After fleeing the academic world she took to traveling extensively for 11 years, sharing her poetry and theatre skits with various venues around the globe. Through these experiences she noticed many people feeling unable to express themselves creatively due to an imposed idea of perfection. She is dedicated to aiding people in expression using spoken word, sound and body language. Her motto is as long as you offer from the heart everything is divinely inspired and will change you and the world. Workshop: Dances With Words This workshop offers the opportunity to explore
movement and sensory
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