With Shiloh Sophia McCloud |
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Rory, When was the last time you made something without worrying whether or not it was any good? As children, we draw, scribble, build, invent, and create things without wondering whether or not we’re talented enough. Yet somewhere along the way, many of us become more self-conscious. We hesitate. We judge what comes out. Sometimes we stop creating altogether.
There’s something deeply freeing about letting your hands lead for a while and allowing your thinking mind to loosen its grip. That’s part of what founder of MUSEA: Center for Intentional Creativity® & Consciousness Shiloh Sophia McCloud has spent more than three decades exploring through neo-shamanic painting. The creative process can help us enter flow states where the inner critic grows quieter and our own intuition, imagination, and deeper knowing have more room to come through. And beginning today, Tuesday, October 13, at 1:00pm Pacific, Shiloh Sophia will guide you through a 7-week live video journey where you’ll explore those states for yourself while creating one evolving medicine painting, layer by layer. |
You don’t need any previous artistic experience. And you don’t need to know what you’re going to make before you begin. You’ll start with a canvas and an intention. Then, through intuitive painting, movement, ritual, and inquiry, you’ll learn to shift out of your ordinary thinking state and into the creative flow of Alpha and Theta, allowing colors, images, sensations, and symbols to emerge. And this is where the process becomes especially interesting. An image you never intended may appear. Your hand may reach for a color that surprises you. A symbol may keep returning. Something you painted one week may disappear beneath another layer the next. Shiloh Sophia will teach you to listen to what’s coming through on the canvas and develop your own symbolic language, so the painting gradually becomes more than something you’re creating. It becomes something you can enter into conversation with. By the end of seven weeks, you’ll learn to read your completed medicine painting as your own personal oracle, turning to its colors, images, symbols, and patterns to hear more clearly what your own inner wisdom may be showing you. During this highly experiential course, you’ll: - Experience the Stardust Lineage Full Body Meditation, inviting your body to communicate through sensation, image, color, and movement
- Create an elemental landscape with soil, water, plants, stones, and other natural elements as part of your creative practice
- Explore how movement and embodied awareness can quiet self-judgment and help you enter more deeply into creative flow
- Experience a ritual of symbolic death and rebirth, marking what’s ending and honoring what’s beginning to emerge
- Discover your personal medicine, recognizing the gifts, wisdom, and strengths you’re ready to embody and share
- Create concrete ways to carry what you discover through the creative process into your relationships and daily life
- And much more…
After seven weeks of adding, covering, revealing, and creating, the canvas itself will hold the traces of the journey you’ve taken: the intentions you began with, the images and symbols that surprised you, and the parts of yourself you chose to bring more fully into view. And you’ll take something with you that reaches beyond the finished painting: the experience of stepping out of the noise of your usual thinking, entering creative flow, and discovering another way to listen to yourself. You can find the full description — and register. |
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 | | With love, Stephen Dinan
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P.S. From The Shift Network Team: The 7-week live video course with Shiloh Sophia McCloud, founder of MUSEA: Center for Intentional Creativity® & Consciousness… Neo-Shamanic Painting: Paint Your Inner World to Awaken Intuition, Expand Your Consciousness & Liberate Your True Self … begins today, Tuesday, October 13, at 1:00pm Pacific, with the first module, “The Call: Awakening to Your Inner World & Receiving Its Guidance.” In this opening session, you’ll: - Experience your first journey into the hidden world within, blessing and anointing yourself and your canvas, writing an intention onto it, and laying down the first layers of color and emotion
- Discover how to approach the canvas as a sacred landscape, opening a gateway into subconscious imagination rather than simply beginning with a blank surface
- Explore simple rituals for opening your imagination, setting intentions, and creating a container for transformation
- Discern how the Observer Effect shapes what you’re able to perceive and why bringing emotion, intention, and curiosity to the canvas changes what becomes visible
- Learn to recognize how symbols, colors, emotions, and images can carry messages, and begin translating what arises through intuitive listening
You can still enroll in time to join Shiloh Sophia’s first session TODAY. |
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