Heartsong Studio

Do you cringe at the thought of drawing anything with life inside ?

Do you know these key steps to finding your shy horses and losing your fears, without breaking your spirit or losing your freedom ?

You long to make drawings that come from your heart, but feel awkward. The expectation of imitating reality doesn’t feel natural to you. You long to follow your own creative urges, and tap into a wealth of original expression.

Whether you haven’t yet found the courage to start, or you’ve taken some lessons and still feel reluctant, you may feel clumsy, fearful, or unsatisfied. You may feel as though your inner wild horses are too scared of losing their freedom.

What’s the secret to discovering your inborn talents, trusting your wild horses, and riding them free ?

The secret to freeing your talents.

In a word – - – gentleness.
Trying to draw by taking charge and making it happen, is like trying to break a wild horse with threats and fear.

For your inborn talents to be found, trusted, and freed, you need to learn to approach them gently with respect, by learning your own visual language.

So how do you find wild horses ?
If you want your unique creative spirit to run free, these three steps will help you:

• Discover your natural talent. In order to discover your own unique drawing skills that lie dormant within, you need to access your heart. Gently whisper to your wild horses and this inborn talent will come out to meet you more than half way.
• Trust your wild horses – unique talents, in a willingness to be surprised. Give your horses plenty of open space to run without restriction, and they will begin to trust you. This new found relationship will expand with possibilities that surprise you.
• Free your newly found talents and strengthen your artistic confidence as you begin to express your inner resources more naturally. Your drawing from within, in connection with your heart, is as empowering as riding your newly found horse. A richer chance for beauty and a release of creative energy will empower your whole life.

It’s as natural as one, two, three.
Once you’ve found, trusted, and can ride with your wild horses, you’ll be genuinely free.
Together, you’ll be empowered !

Introducing a creative Telecourse: “Expedition in Search of the Creator Within.”

In 8 sessions, find the doorway to your heart, and allow your creative spirit to emerge and run free.

“Expedition in Search of the Creator Within” will help you to:

    
• open your connection to your inner resources of expression
• become a partner in the creative process, instead of trying to create it alone
• find your natural visual language, without the pressure of producing art
• broaden your horizons of appreciation and acceptability
• develop a deeper sense of belonging and empowerment

Wild horses that are scared of being captured and hurt will flee by nature. In order to help you find your hidden talents, 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 art 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 uncover, recover, discover.
• Specifically designed exercises which circumvent the mind, pulling authentic images from deep within.
• Rule-breaking experiments which unblock you and give you access to your own powers of improvisation.
• Fun challenges that relax the struggle, that unchain your confidence to create.
• Using time constraints in specific ways to break you free of old habits and discover new ones.
• De-training techniques, which help remove unhelpful prior learning, so you can recapture your original potential for visual language.

 

 

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

    
• 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 art in an authentic new way.
• 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.

 

 

Your newly found artist will expand with possibilities and begin to feel belonging and empowerment, leading to deeper personal discovery through these acts:

    
• A clarifying encounter which avoids illustrating what is already created in your mind, causing a desirable partnership between the roles of your hand and mind.
• Supportive feedback which describes new features you’re too close to see, so that you can see them too.
• A simple project through which you acknowledge the abundance of anonymous gifts in your life that frees up creative potential to give freely of your gifts.
• A reflective process that takes you deep inside your core, so that you find and express your truly unique qualities as an artist.
• An empowering ritual which leads you to let go of a quality you no longer need in your life and work, and make clear a new quality you intent to develop.

 

 

How close are you to giving up ?

Many people struggle to draw from their own hearts. 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 trying to draw with personal feeling altogether.

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

Once you convince yourself that you “just don’t have it”; that talented artists are “born with something special”, you bury the 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 expression already within.

Why go it alone any longer ?

How the course works:

Telecourse : “Expedition in Search of the Creator Within”.

8 Class meetings with no more than 12 participants:

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific Time – Wed. 12 Sept., Tuesdays: 18, 25 Sept., 2, 9, 23, 30 Oct.,
6 Nov.,’07

We meet on the phone all 8 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.

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 other’s work, and insights from the processing.

Value: $ priceless

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Here are selected bonuses to assist your
continuing growth throughout this expedition.
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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.
Value: $ 120.

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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 artwork.
Value: $ 60.

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Premium Bonus:

“Art as a Healing Process” pdf booklet
An invitation to breathe life into the creative process.
This guide is a culmination of many years experience,
and will assist you in your ongoing growth as an artist.

Value: $ 75.

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Premium Bonus:

“Drawing from Within” pdf guidebook.
A guided way of drawing from within with innocent eyes, which takes you gently all the way to drawing with life.

Value: $ 60.

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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 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 expectations. I also delight in breaking the rules, and have turned this into an advantage.

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

“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 8 classes of Expedition in Search of the Creator Within, then 100 % of the money you put on the horses will be refunded without a whinny.

	Regular	Premium
8 – 2 hour class sessions - “Expedition in Search of the Creator Within”	√	√
Written class notes for 8 classes	√	√
101 Inspirational Ideas PDF Booklet	Â	√
Art as a Healing Process PDF Booklet	Â	√
Drawing from Within pdf guidebook.	Â	√
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Telecourse – “Expedition in Search of the Creator Within” After 28 August ’07

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