Living SOUL

In this class you will explore and embody the nature of soul. Each week will introduce a new quality of soul to play with, examining an aspect or characteristic of soul as a way to internalize your soul and soul's capacity. From the soul's tendency to be playful and creative to the soul's need for depth and transformation, we will walk week by week through a year of soul, culminating in the application of these soul characteristics into a project of your (and your soul's) choosing. In this way, it is as if you are learning to partner with your soul to collaborate.

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Benefits of Embodying Soul

What will you receive from this . . .

1. **Deepened Self-Awareness**: Unearth the hidden aspects of yourself like a treasure hunter sifting through the sands of your psyche.

2. **Emotional Alchemy**: Learn to transmute emotional lead into golden wisdom, navigating feelings with both grace and clarity.

3. **Soulful Connections**: Build meaningful relationships with like-hearted souls, as if you're weaving a tapestry of spiritual family and friendship.

4. **Rootedness in Nature**: Rekindle your innate connection to the Earth, awakening your primal senses and eco-spiritual balance.

5. **Empowerment & Agency**: Gain the tools to take control of your own narrative, like an artist masterfully guiding their brush.

6. **Mind-Body Integration**: Experience the joy of being fully in your body, where the spiritual and the physical dance in harmonious union.

7. **Cultivation of Compassion**: Open your heart to deeper levels of empathy, expanding your capacity to hold both joy and sorrow.

8. **Creative Liberation**: Unleash your inner creator, whether it manifests in art, writing, dance, or whatever medium your soul sings through.

9. **Clarity of Purpose**: Through soul-based exploration, unveil the deeper meaning and mission of your life, like a lighthouse guiding ships through fog.

10. **Holistic Wellness**: Balance the energies within to manifest health and vitality, as if your body were a garden coming into full bloom.

Additional benefits for your journey

11. **Enhanced Intuition**: Develop your "sixth sense," and allow it to become a trusted advisor on your life’s journey.

12. **Sacred Ritual & Practice**: Incorporate daily routines that honor the sacred in the ordinary, transforming mundane moments into spiritual epiphanies.

13. **Unlocking the Chakras**: Utilize these energy centers as a vibrant roadmap for growth, transformation, and healing.

14. **Quantum Expansion**: Explore the intersect between spirituality and cutting-edge science, expanding your awareness into new dimensions.

15. **Joyful Play**: Rediscover the joy of pure, unstructured play as a means of soulful expression and connection.

16. **Energetic Boundaries**: Learn how to protect and preserve your energy, like a guardian of your own sacred temple.

17. **Ancestral Wisdom**: Tap into the ancient knowledge imprinted in your DNA, connecting with the wisdom of those who walked before you.

18. **Global Community**: Feel your role in the greater weave of humanity, fostering a sense of global interconnectedness.

19. **Balance of the Feminine & Masculine**: Integrate both yin and yang energies within, achieving a harmonious inner union.

20. **Manifestation Skills**: Learn the art of soulful intention-setting to bring your dreams into tangible reality.

What is a chakra creativity center?

Ah, the chakras—those spinning wheels of energy that form the luminous tapestry of your inner world. Each chakra serves as a portal to a specific aspect of your life, a wellspring of creativity, a palette from which you can paint your experiences. Imagine a tree, deeply rooted in the earth, its branches stretching towards the sky. Your chakras are like that tree, linking heaven and earth, the spiritual and the physical, in a dynamic dance of creative becoming.

Let's wander through this enchanted forest of energy centers:

1. **Root Chakra (Muladhara) - Red**: Situated at the base of your spine, this chakra connects you to the Earth. It’s your foundational palette—earthy reds and grounding browns. It’s all about survival, stability, and basic human needs. When balanced, it's like having a well-prepared canvas to work on—essential for any creative endeavor.

2. **Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana) - Orange**: Located just below your navel, this is the seat of your emotional and creative energies. Imagine vibrant oranges, sensuous flows. Here, the water of life is painted, birthing artistic pursuits, relationships, and even our sense of self-worth.

3. **Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura) - Yellow**: Positioned around your diaphragm, this chakra is your personal sun, radiating power and will. It's where your inner fire dwells—the bold yellows and dazzling golds. When in balance, it gives you the confidence to manifest your ideas and lead your life's narrative.

4. **Heart Chakra (Anahata) - Green**: At the center of your chest lies the cradle of love and compassion. Picture lush greens and rose-tinted love. This is where your painting comes to life through relationships, not just with others, but with yourself and the world.

5. **Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) - Blue**: Located in your throat, it resonates with the sky-blue of expression and sonic creativity. Think of it as the voice that brings your internal symphony into the world, whether through speech, song, or written word.

6. **Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) - Indigo**: Nestled between your eyebrows, this chakra is the seat of intuition and inner wisdom. Envision dark indigos and the velvety night sky. This is where your imagination roams freely, and your "sixth sense" guides your brush strokes.

7. **Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) - Violet/White**: At the top of your head, it connects you to the divine and the cosmos. Picture ethereal violets and cosmic whites. This is the palette of spiritual wisdom, where you understand that your individual creativity is a part of the Divine Creativity.

In essence, each chakra is a potent center of creative energy that allows you to engage with various aspects of life in a meaningful way. They are your innate tools for painting the unfolding epic that is your life. Through the act of balancing these chakras, you cultivate a harmonious inner environment, where each shade and hue can express itself fully, creating a complete and vibrant painting of your existence. 🎨🌈🌳

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Introduction

Why should I take this course?

Embarking on this class is like stepping into a secret garden of soulful discovery. Whether you’re a seasoned traveler of inner realms or a curious newcomer, you’ll leave this journey with a treasure chest full of jewels that will enrich your life in ways you’ve yet to imagine. 🌿🌌🎨.

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Its beautiful the language that you use. . . I really feel that you have made such a huge contribution to our souls, to our artistic creative selves. . . You have come in and created a furthering of neuropathways and pathways for us to look at the artist, the archetypal artist, and give us a place where we can have soul. I have great appreciation for what you have done with your dissertation. I would like to have a lot more Jungian work like this.

Fanny Brewster, MFA, PhD, analyst, artist, educator,, and author

Heather is a masterful educator on how to heal and grow through art. Her presence is open, kind, wise and playful. She is skilled at creating an amazing and safe container for individuals to explore, go deep and have meaningful transformative experiences while guided by her. Her engagement with nature as a vessel for her work is powerful. Embarking on a journey of personal growth with her guidance will be blessing in your life.

Mary Gibbons, MD, physician, policy maker, educator, and facilitator

Heather is an exceptional teacher and group facilitator, as well as a beautifully soulful artist and person. She is gifted in leading persons in learning how art evokes the soul while also guiding them into creative exploration of their own inner images. Heather's depth and breadth of knowledge on Jung's Red Book is rare and is complimented by a graceful adeptness at teaching others how to journey into the spiral of their own depths through art and creativity.

Fanny Brewster, MFA, PhD, analyst, artist, educator,, and author

Heather clearly brought scholarship and art together to achieve a transcendent function in a really beautiful way.

Jennifer Leigh Selig, PhD, educator, speaker, and award-winning co-author of Deep Creativity

You and the work you are doing are an inspiration.

Susan Rowland, PhD, educator, speaker, and co-author of Jungian Arts-Based Research

Heather is a creative genius, making artists feel safe to explore and create.

Victoria Christiansen, MFA, MSW, therapist and award-winning author of Feminine Mysticism in Art

Heather is excited by the soul's ability to transform our lives and ourselves. Through years of self and soul-directed exploration, she has explored how to work and play with the soul's nature to transform our nature. In connecting to and embodying our soul's nature we connect to the natural world and the nature of the soul which is life itself. While she has a doctoral degree in psychological (a study of psyche or soul) and decades of experience in diverse spiritual traditions, Heather is the most excited about soul as a lived experience. This is a living experiential path that combines eco, art and play therapy in soulfully simple teachings that are embodied, playful, practical, creative, magical, simple, and natural.

"I got into the dark, and I groped along my path. That path led inward and downward. I found the right way and it led me to you, to my soul. C G Jung
Just as Jung began by calling out and pursuing his soul, you begin by seeking and calling out to your soul to answer their call. This is a path lead by your soul. It is the soul you follow and only you can connect to your soul (You). The Soul of Creativity is about realizing your Self (whole or ensouled) potential through the qualities and guidance of the soul. This path has the power to transform your life and the world because the soul IS LIFE. While we may feel alone, we walk side by side in the darkness on the path with our soul