Hello Contemplative Creatives!
You’re invited to join me in “Naked + Empty”, a self paced, week long Contemplative Art Retreat where we will journey into the inner landscape to uncover and retrieve our “Erotic Innocence”, that we may step more fully into who and how we really are!
Sweet Friends,
Welcome.
Naked and Empty is a mixed media, self paced week long contemplative art retreat that explores the concept of “Erotic Innocence”, as in, who we are underneath the noise and bustle of the world.
We will strip down to simple materials for most of the guided art lessons — and explore the rich interior through written reflection and an ancient gazing practice.
This class is for anyone who is willing to explore both the inner wilderness — and bring threads of what is found to the creative process. One does not need to walk a particular spiritual path, or be an experienced artist.
The Flow looks like:
Day One, we're going to begin this course with a deep guided imagery journey, a meditation that will lead you into the inner landscape and hopefully reveal an archetypal presence that embodies your Erotic Innocence, along with other guides and inner life threads that will infuse your works with deeply personal meaning and act as altar objects for the inner life season that you're in. We're walking into the scalding heat of the inner life desert on purpose in this class, and this might sound a bit intimidating, but it's through allowing the fire and infinite expanse reveal more of who we are underneath the stories and noise of the world and the players in it. Within the desert is a lush and fertile oasis where an archetypal version of you lives. In this place of greening and fecundity, we are free to exist unencumbered by the weight of roles, projections, even purpose. We just are.
Let's walk through fire together,
Let's be revealed together.
Day Two we will be invited to “enter into”, and make our way out from the inner self through the practice of Lectio Divina, an ancient gazing flow that has been a staple of my contemplative arts practice for nearly 20 years.
For Day Three, we'll drop into a writing practice called French Pantoum, where what we think we know of the story will be reordered and a fresh perspective will be gained through the effect of repetition.
In Day Four, we'll create three quick (30 minute) black and white self (ish) portraits with stabilo, charcoal, white paint and clear gesso to create raw and revealing pieces. We'll use reference pictures to get some visceral feedback and inspiration from as we practice capturing our encounters of the aspects of ourselves that are revealed, translating them from the inner world to outer expression.
For Days Five and Six we'll bring all (or some) of the pieces together in a gorgeous final mixed media project that can live on our altar, holding the potency of our encounter with our Naked and Empty selves.
And finally, Day Seven will be for rest and reflection, that we might more deeply steep in what has been offered to us in the process.
Bonuses:
Exclusive Discord Thread to cultivate community
Lifetime access (as long as this site is live)
30 Days Of Practice - 30 Faces, 30 Minutes
You in?
See you in the classroom!
Naked and Empty is a mixed media, self paced week long contemplative art retreat that explores the concept of “Erotic Innocence”, as in, who we are underneath the noise and bustle of the world. We will strip down to simple materials for most of the guided art lessons — and explore the rich interior through written reflection and an ancient gazing practice. This class is for anyone who is willing to explore both the inner wilderness — and bring threads of what is found to the creative process.
Hope to see you in the classroom!
It's a radical thing to reclaim and reinstate who we are uninterrupted and to live from this stance of potency and wholeness. As we allow ourselves to touch base with what is just out of sight by navigating within the infinite interior, we open to new depths of delight, pleasure, and fulfillment.
It's my delight to be your guide as we play in the desert and see what's revealed in the oasis of the soulscape.
About your guide: Meg has been cultivating and teaching what she calls, “Contemplative Art Approach” classes for nearly 15 years now. She’s been experimenting with blending contemplative practices with her own creative processes for a lifetime, and has observed in both herself and her students radical trust in the process and a generative unfolding of technical skill as a result. More than mindfulness, this process based approach invites collaboration with the unseen, and allows the creative process to be portal into often unattended realms. Low, slow, and gentle is the way — leading to radical freedom and sustaining peace and joy in the process, both on the canvas and off.
