Heartsong Studio

Do you long for a natural way to express your deepest spirit when words just won’t do ?

If you’ve only imagined making art, you may feel intimidated, or not artistically gifted. Even if you’ve tried to learn a method of drawing to imitate reality, it was a far cry from expressing your heart’s wisdom naturally with ease.

You may be fearful, unsatisfied, or bogged down.
Whether you are a newly emerging, a seasoned artist, or searching for the courage to start, you may feel as though your inner wild horse is too scared of losing its freedom. If you’d love to stop feeling inept, so the fear of meeting expectations no longer blocks you, you need a new way of seeing.

What’s the secret to discovering your inborn potential, and befriending your own wild horse?

Trying to make images with your mind alone, is like trying to break a wild horse with threats and fear. For your inborn potential to be found and befriended, you need to approach it gently with respect, by learning your own visual language, not taught “mine”.

So how do you find a wild horse ?
If you want your unique creative spirit to be found, these three steps will help you:

* Discover your natural potential. In order to discover your own unique visual language that lies dormant within, you need to access your heart. Respectfully observe your wild horse through exploratory exercises, and this inborn potential will come to meet you more than half way.

* Trust your inborn potential, in a willingness to be surprised. Give your new found horse plenty of open space to run without restriction, and it will begin to trust you. This new relationship will expand with processes that help you see surprising possibilities.

* Befriend your newly found potential and strengthen your artistic confidence as you begin to express your inner responses in safety. Your heart-centred visual expression is the beginning of exploring your newly found potential. A richer chance for beauty and a release of enormous creative energy results.

It’s as natural as one, two, three.
Once you’ve found, trusted, and befriended your wild horse, together you’ll begin to ride in freedom !

One client said:

“I didn’t like to draw because I wasn’t satisfied with my results. I didn’t have the patience to practice technique. I had been too dissatisfied with no progress to paint for three years, and hoped to get back to my original enjoyment.

I had no preconceptions about what your classes would be like, but I liked your art and you, so I was open to see what happened.

After taking one of your teleclasses, not only did I come up with amazing drawings that I never dreamed to do, but now when I look at people, trees, plants, or animals, I see them differently and draw them with life inside.

I finally love drawing, and discovered how to draw from the inside. Things are much more alive and interesting that way. I found life in my drawings, not a reproduction, but getting into the life of the subject overcame my inability to draw people.

There was a class which freed me from rigid work. It was really something ! I didn’t know I could make so many variations on one subject.

I was biased about my own work. Sending photos of my work by email, seeing it on the monitor had a really great effect. It detached my prejudice. Suddenly I could see it objectively ! It wasn’t my work anymore. Looking at my paper, it was just okay, but framed on the screen, it’s really great !

Some of the exercises reached beyond art, helped me get in touch with a part of me that’s usually quiet. I knew about this characteristic, but didn’t want to see it before. I’m amazed to find similar forms in many pieces, a reoccurring movement or flow in all my work. This lively, dancing flame scared me before, but now much less.

I had a really great time. Next I want to explore more and see where that leads. It’s not just art that I learned. I’ve only scratched the surface – there’s more to discover. What’s next for me ? I’d take the next course and get to another level.

Celeste is a great teacher and a pioneer, if you want to discover your hidden talent, take one of her classes NOW!!!! ”
Catherine Marechal, Central Italy
http://www.tatrit.com/

How can you learn to make art on the telephone ?

It’s ideal for privacy with no one watching, and lets you put the creative process ahead of the end results without fear. From the comfort of your own home, you can learn to draw and make images with heart like you never imagined !

A recent participant had this to say about the class:

My intention in taking the class was to find a way to reconnect with creative flow in my life as a whole, not necessarily to develop a pastime or become a visual artist. Going into it, I thought my creativity was broken in some way.

By the end of the second class, I realized that my creativity was extremely alive and very well. What was interfering with its flow was a very harsh and ever-present runaway train of an internal critic. Funny thing is, I discovered that it’s possible to give this critic something helpful and constructive to do to free me to actually create in peace and freedom. It became an ally – quickly, easily, with a very small and simple shift.

I definitely feel much more creative flow showing up in small unexpected places in my world. (And that started to happen after the first class.) I certainly no longer fear sitting down in front of art supplies and playing around. I know my creativity is perfectly intact and accessible whenever I want it. Mission accomplished — and then some!

Doria Gallant, California

Introducing a transformational course: Journey to Discover the Creator Within – Level 1: Telecourse.

In 6 sessions, find the doorway to your heart, and allow your creative spirit to emerge and join you in freedom.

Journey to Discover the Creator Within will help you to:

• Open your connection to your inner resources of expression.

• Discover your hidden visual language potential and develop it.

• Become a partner in the creative process, instead of trying to create it alone.

• Find your creative birthright, without the pressure of producing art

• Learn a new way of seeing and being seen, which leads to mindfulness, and inner healing.

• Develop a deeper sense of belonging and empowerment.

• Discover a direct transmission from your heart that manifests visually in your work.

Wild horses that are scared of being captured will flee by nature. In order to help you find your hidden potential, here are processes and subjects that we’ll be exploring.

• A 5000 year-old heart-centred practice, that helps you access your deepest self, so you can leave the struggle and self-doubt behind, and begin making more meaningful images from your very core.
• A non-threatening encounter that helps you physically find your natural rhythms and stroke patterns, so that you can feel more self-confident in your natural expression.
• A meditative experience which allows the knowledge residing in the deep musculature of your frame to guide your hands , letting your eyes only witness what your hands discover, uncover, recover.
• Specifically designed exercises which circumvent the mind, allowing authentic images to emerge from deep within.
• Rule-breaking experiments which unblock you and give you access to your hidden powers of improvisation.
• Using time constraints in specific ways to break you free of old habits and discover new ones in safety.

Giving your new found horses wide open spaces to run will build trust through these exercises:

• Fun challenges that relax the struggle, that unchain your confidence in visual expression.

• A progressive process that leads you to select undeveloped but promising new ways of working, and push their development further.

• Using the creative stress of confrontation to remove strong prejudices and reconsider opinions, so that you can access many more artistic tools than you had before.

• Partner assistance that describes another’s experience in witnessing your work, which leaves interpretation to you.

• A palpable shift occurs, when the light goes on – the “Aha ! moment” – and you realize you are making images in an authentic new way.

Your newly befriended artist will expand in possibilities and begin to feel empowered, leading to deeper personal knowledge and belonging.

• Innovative exercises that help you find ways to naturally express what is happening within you, that reveal to you the surprising meanings that reside in your work.

• De-training techniques, which help remove unhelpful prior learning, so you can recapture your original potential for visual language.

• A clarifying encounter which avoids illustrating what is already created in your mind, causing a desirable partnership between the roles of your heart and mind.

• Supportive feedback which describes new features you’re too close to see, so that you can see them too.

• A blending exercise which helps you marry old favourite ways of working with your newly emerging talents.

How close are you to giving up ?

Many people struggle to make images with their minds alone. With mounting doubt in their own talent, they eventually edge towards intimidation. I’ve seen many people apologize for lack of artistic talent, then give up even starting to make images.

In the past month, if you have avoided making images even once, then you could be on the brink of giving up altogether.

Once you convince yourself that you “just don’t have it”; that talented artists are “born with something special”, you bury your natural urges to unique expression.

What a colossal waste not to discover the knack for releasing your own authentic creativity ! Your crying need is to find access to the wealth of dormant visual expression already within.

Why go it alone any longer ?

How the course works:

Journey to Discover the Creator Within -Level 1 -

Telecourse

6 Class meetings with no more than 8 participants.

There will be no Level I courses in the near future, but they might resume later.

We meet on the phone all 6 times. Class sessions are a combination of teaching, hands-on exercises, and guided internal processing through questions and observations. If you’ve never been on a teleconference before, it’s easy, and the group energy is surprisingly effective. You just need a phone, with a headset so you can work with free hands.

The calls will be to a regular long-distance number in the US. Calls from Canada can be made through www.LooneyCall.com at $1 for 100 minutes, and 5 cents per minute after that, and charged on your regular phone bill.

You will need some very inexpensive materials, like ordinary paper, or newsprint, ready to use coloured pastels, and the like. You will need the use of a digital camera to send photos of your work to your buddies and me.

Buddy System:

Creative energy is powerfully enhanced in a small, supportive group. Though you work in the classes from your own home, you won’t be alone. The rest of the class and I will be taking part on the call at the same time. You will be paired with a buddy after each class to break your isolation and spur on your process.
You and your buddy will “meet” by phone between classes, exchange digital photos of your last class work, and exchange feedback of each others work, and insights from the processing.

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Here are selected bonuses to nurture your
continuing growth throughout your journey.
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Bonus:

Detailed class notes in Pdf will be sent to you after each class, including the questions that guide your processing.

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Bonus:

Buddy system to help you see more objectively, mutual witnessing, and sharing feedback.

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Premium Bonus:

“101 Inspirations for Art Projects” pdf Booklet contains 101 ideas for a rainy day, when you need an inspirational boost for your work.
There are 101 different approaches to art projects opening endless possibilities.

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You have a unique gift, and the world needs it to shine more fully.

What gives me such confidence in you ? My own long road to intrepid art making, by trial and error, convinces me that if I could navigate it alone, I can help to light your path as I have many others.

My Story:

I was always the kid who longed for a pony for every birthday. Of course I never got one, but I never stopped hoping. When life gave me trouble, I would dig and dig, reasoning that with all this horse manure there was bound to be a pony in here somewhere.

It was not until recently, in my sixth decade, that I started to realize that I’ve actually uncovered many ponies. We all have ponies inside, and the ones we long for are wild and free. If we compromise and allow our ponies to be tamed, we give away our essential gift, our free spirit. You can ride your pony to freedom without losing your spirit.

I consider myself somewhat of an expert at holding on with my mind at the wheel. I once repeated an image 60 times instead of improvising, so I have lots of empathy for others. Having always been an artist at heart, I have learned, by now, how to free myself from the vice-like grip of outer expectation. I also delight in breaking the rules, and have turned this into an advantage.

After 35 years as a practicing artist, I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, that everyone who wants to, can participate in unique, meaningful, creative expression.

Here’s what another client said:

“Once again thank you for such an inspiring course; it certainly took me to my Creator within, and made me realise there are lots more ways to do this in all areas of my life.” May Johnstone, Scotland,
http://www.delicioushealing.com/

“Good Horse Sense“ Guarantee:

I am betting on your horses.

If you haven’t found a new partnership with your own natural creative skills after participating in all 6 classes of Journey to Discover the Creator Within, then 100 % of the money you put on the horses will be refunded without a whinny.

While my business remains in hiatus, there will be no classes.

Components	Basic	Premium
6 Sessions- Journey to Discover the Creator Within-Level I Telecourse
Bonus - Detailed class notes in pdf
Bonus - Buddy system
Premium Bonus – “101 Inspirations for Art Projects” booklet in Pdf
Journey to Discover the Creator Within – Level 1 Before early bird deadline
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If you are unsure in any way at all, if this course would be suitable for you, email me and we will set up a phone conversation, so you can decide one way or the other. I don’t want you to register if it isn’t a good fit for your situation. If you have any question at all, please don’t hesitate to ask.

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