Cultivate your nature in nature to honor the living balance of Spring's Equinox & initiate the new growth of Aries as we move into a LIVE Easter retreat together. Now is the time to tend to our life's garden, as we seed, weed, water & blossom in community.

Planting & watering the seeds of your SELF

Beginning with a virtual weekend retreat designed to release & remake the past, we gather together for a second live weekend of creative sharing, gentle yoga, journaling, story & discovery as we prepare, plant & tend a garden of common ground together. Moving with the seasons of nature, this is a chance to cultivate our own natural movement to honor & integrate the past as rich nutrients for new growth. From COVID to Equinox to SPRING, now is the time to let go & GROW.  

Creating new =

Sessions recorded on the Equinox, followed by a live weekend retreat create inner balance & movement as we create a garden of our co-creative soul in ourselves, lives & world. Prepare your soil before we come together to compost the past into the rich psychic soil of new life.

Friday (or whatever day . . .) 

Celebrate balance & open circle to align our nature to nature in enduring equipoise.

LIVE Friday April 7th

Begin with an intimate evening orientation & open to deep transformation.

Saturday (or . . .?)

Bring balance to our body & life with an art project, ritual, release guided visualization, journaling & dream seeding.

LIVE Saturday April 8th

Gather for guided reflection, visualization, mirroring, sharing & more as we co-create in real time together.

Sunday (or . . .?)

Look to dreams & visions as you move into live gathering.

LIVE Sunday April 9th

Initiate change for the new year with soulful intention.
Our Resolution is to be ourselves, to love, forgive,  empower & embrace our full & real Self. As Oscar Wilde said, everyone else is taken. No more waiting to live! You are perfect & needed. Come out & play!
Heather. Here we go!!!

New Year & You

As we move into the new zodiacal year, it is important for us to release the past & this course is designed to do this. Using self-reflection, storytelling, shadowplay, ritual & ceremony, we move together to remember, honor & release the past over the course of a recorded & live weekend. With daily sessions from Friday through Sunday, we embrace the past to move more fully into the present. All days are recorded & archived if you miss any.

  • Bring friends &

    Gather COMMUNITY

  • Garden with Intention

    Till, seed, water, tend . . .

  • Initiate Soul Space

    & our Artful Revolution

  • Create Real Change

    Be the change in the world

Equanimity & Equipoise

Oh that elusive state of balance in nature & our nature, around & in us! Let's cultivate it together to harvest it for the world. Go green.
  • Drop into the common ground of psychic soil to plant seeds of kinship in transformative community.
  • What would you like to weed out, plant, water? Take something old & grow something new from it. 
  • Now is the perfect time to create a garden of soulful intention to grow & live powerfully & purposefully.

Is this retreat for YOU? 

This retreat is for you if you identify with any of the following statements and answering retreat commitments:
  • You are feeling lonely, isolated or disconnected           & want partner, group & circle to support you  
  • You want to set a deep intention . . . & fulfill it              with guided visualization, meditation & reflection
  • You don't commit to & honor your dreams                   & want to reinforce your commitment to yourself
  • You want to pattern deep self-care & support                to help your realize your passion, purpose & plan 
  • You want to deepen relationships to self & other          with content to make new relationships & deepen old ones
  • You want to make a plan for the coming year                & could use some support to help you make it a reality 
  • You want a community to support you in making change . . . plus new friends & playmates!             
There are many reasons to come. Drop into your heart & see what it says.
Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself [i.e. natural].
anonymous
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A New year is a rite of passage into a new you

Cross the Threshold

The power of thresholds is that they mark our passage in a rebirth & transformation from one form & state of consciousness to another. Thresholds offer a magic ability to step outside of time to reach into the past to recover lost power & draw a line in the sand, allowing us to cross beyond & leave things behind in the past year. 
Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams. [Live as if you were dying.]
avina celeste

What to bring

As we co-create a circle of power & purpose, you are invited to bring what you need to drop deep & be comfortable. Along with the objects outlined, we will hold each other around a shared altar of ourselves & souls.

Art Supplies *see video below

Pick what is comfortable, colored pencils, markers, stickers, photos, paints . . .

Fire Gratitude Ritual

Dispatch your prayers with a burnt art offering of love, forgiveness & gratitude

Self-Care Support

Your favorite beverage, water, a blanket, slippers, snack . . . 

Vision Collage

Collage supplies to create a vision to lead you forward

Object to remake as new you

Transform something old to a self-portrait of your growth

Seeds/Plant & Soil (& a pot)

Connect with natural growth by planting & tending life

Project Guidelines  

Gather the supplies above for both weekends, since they will be created & included in both. For more information, watch the video & click on the link below for more details. Images of Heather's project are included to the right . . . but your project will take your own form.
First & foremost you need comfy items like . . . 
Gather art supplies from paints to collage 
Remake the old into a new item in your practice
take something old & remake it
Add your own imagery, power & meaning
Make art to support new soul growth
The first is a "weekend" but can be done at any time. *Remember the soul is not bound by space & time.

Friday. Separation
What will you leave?

Evening with Dream Prompt

Overnight dreamwork and journal play: Create your circle of intention and 
invite your soul and unconscious to come in your dreams to guide you. Record and explore your dreams by journaling the following morning. Asking again for guidance and center yourself, dropping into your heart. If you can, take a walk or sit in nature, echoing the call for guidance. See what comes and record it in your journal. 

Saturday. Transformation 
Liminal Space Together

3 hours

Building on the previous night and day's prompt, start by creating your power circle, journaling noting any unconscious response. Draw to you the sense of the dream or any previous communication before bed, asking for further clarification or insight overnight. Drop into your heart or center and invoke further guidance while your record your dreams upon waking. Deepen your connection with a walk or time in nature. 

Sunday. Integration
What will you take?

3 hours

Create a circle of what supports and sustains you. This can be entirely imaginal or include physical ritual. Sit in the power and truth of your understanding of the movement from dusk to dawn. What have you learned? Create an evening and morning ritual that will continue and deepen your connection to the dark night of the soul, integrating it into your life with an ongoing affirmation and practice.
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Friday March 30 Prepare
Visioning 2

6-8:00 PM PST

Overnight dreamwork and journal play: Create your circle of intention and 
 invite your soul and unconscious to come in your dreams to guide you. Record and explore your dreams by journaling the following morning. Asking again for guidance and center yourself, dropping into your heart. If you can, take a walk or sit in nature, echoing the call for guidance. See what comes and record it in your journal. 

Saturday April 1 Gather
Threshold 2

10 AM-12:30 PM PST

Building on the previous night and day's prompt, start by creating your power circle, journaling noting any unconscious response. Draw to you the sense of the dream or any previous communication before bed, asking for further clarification or insight overnight. Drop into your heart or center and invoke further guidance while your record your dreams upon waking. Deepen your connection with a walk or time in nature. 

Sunday April 2 Journey
Overnight Prompts 2

10 AM-12:30 PM PST

Create a circle of what supports and sustains you. This can be entirely imaginal or include physical ritual. Sit in the power and truth of your understanding of the movement from dusk to dawn. What have you learned? Create an evening and morning ritual that will continue and deepen your connection to the dark night of the soul, integrating it into your life with an ongoing affirmation and practice.
Below you will find some additional ideas, information & inspiration to orient you to Soul Space & our garden.
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. [Every day, week, year & life is a new threshold.]
Buddha
Below are seeds planted in the garden of self-reflection. Contemplate them & hold them dear in your heart.
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Return

Reflect, witness & let go to return home born anew.
What is transformed in you?
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Remember

Put together the pieces in journaling & storytelling.
What is you old/new story?
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Release

Let go in ritual & ceremony to free yourself for new life. What do you release?
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Receive

Open to the infinite within in curiosity, hope & wonder.
What new comes to you?
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Purpose

Purpose guides us & gives us energy to live with meaning.
What is your deep purpose?
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Passion

Passion is a soul flame of the heart that ignites & awakens.
What kindles your passion?
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Power

Believe & anchor in your power to stand firm & tall.
What roots you in power?
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Plan

Begin to plan & map your vision into the coming year.
What vision guides you? 
Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.
craig D Lounsbrough 
Our motto is there is only one way & it is your way. Your art, like your life, is a reflection or self-portrait of you.
This is about you: your vision, voice & creative force. Create from your beliefs in the image of your calling & soul.
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Go within to find your own way. Let your inner voice & vision guide you. Find your own rhythm. Stay tuned in.

Ritual

Ceremony gives meaning to acts

Journal

Automatic writing & art doodling

Art

Gratitude art & Self mandala

Dream

Dream prompts, incubation & seed

Offer

Give thanks & make amends

Vision

Vision quest & intuitive guidance
I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life. Every thought we think is creating our future.
LoUISE hAY

What people are saying . . . 

This coursework is deep psycho-active or soul activating creativity. It is often described as life changing, offering the gift of getting to know your soul and yourself. It is not easy, but it is profoundly rewarding and life affirming, touching upon the core of who you are and why you are here. At its foundation this art is about your heart's purpose and soul's call. 
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 

a. k. a. Daughter of the Sunrise

The new year represents the turning of the wheel. Shaman means healer and also "one who sees in the dark," so we walk a healing path together to heal and transform both individually and collectively. On this journey we will create a container to help hold our transformation to more consciously transition between one year and state of consciousness to another.  

A New You

A dance of dark and light

You are navigating by the light of your own star to find your way, so only you can really know or find your way.

You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate . . . 
Richelle E Goodrich

This is a chance to transform

"Don't build a wall around your own suffering- it may devour you from the inside." Frida Kahlo
Come and cocoon over the weekend to transform like the metamorphosis of the butterfly from the caterpillar. Individually we experience the darkness as an alchemical disintegration that precedes integration. In the velvet dark of the cocoon, we liquify into the unconscious waters of imaginal cells to be reborn in a new form. But in the pitch black of the darkness, we can feel lost and alone. This course is designed to help hold us as we transition together through a weekend of depth work. 
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

A structure to hold you

This is a weekend deep dive into the new year & your new life. With three evening sessions from Friday to Sunday, this workshop takes us through the transformational stages from dusk until dawn, caterpillar to butterfly, moving from separation to transformation and integration to support your safe passage through a time of darkness. In between the night sessions will be opportunities for deepening reflection and integration, walking in nature, journaling, collaging . . . while we pass through the dark night of the soul.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. 
martin luther king

Vision Quest for your your new life

The end is really the beginning as you embark on a year of new insight, understanding & embodiment of soul . . . your true, authentic & powerful self. Now is the time to walk this deep soul change into the world. You stand at the trailhead to a great adventure & a return path home to yourself & power. Let yourself embrace the mystery of the unknown as you envision the possibility, remembering that the world is a collaborative Great Work of Art in which soul ripples out into an ever greater whole in your life, the world & beyond.