ON GOING PAINTING CIRCLES
September and October we will return to themes of the Major Arcana, with a spin on looking at how the archetypes are ushering in a new paradigm. In September, Adjustment archetype will challenge how polarities keep separation in place. October we will use the Death archetype, that is the Death/Birth Archetype for our painting theme.
WORKSHOP
EROS & PSYCHE, Awakening the Soul to Love: A Feminine Journey into Wholeness, September 24th Friday 6-9 & 25th Saturday 10-5 $190 plus materials. Info at Eros & Psyche
The ancient mythic story of Eros & Psyche tracks the initiatory journey of the Sacred Marriage through sacrifice, loss, labor and redemption to claim the Self. Through Psyche's journey to reunite with Love, we are mirrored in our individual struggle to reclaim wholeness and give birth to joy.
A Marion Woodman Foundation Affiliated Program with Majio and Eva Rider 831 427-9108
Register or for information: www.anavamicenter.com
OPEN STUDIO TOURS OCTOBER 2010 9,10 & 16,17 10am-5pm
Please come by and see my new work! Many sale items because of pending studio move. Loft 118 Tannery Arts Center, 1030 River St. Catolog. # 253
EVENTS
September 14, Tuesday evening 6:30-8 FREE TALK with Patrick Gillis on Nine Rites of Illumination, Munay-Ki, as introduction to 9 week course of receiving, working with, and embodying Munay-Ki.
The Munay-Ki, the nine great rites of initiation are codes for the new human from the prophecies of the ancient Americas. They speak about a new human appearing on the planet who lives free of fear, residing in transcendent nature. Munay means BE AS THOU ART. The rites are to heal us and transform our human energy field into that of homo luminous. See website: www.munay-ki.org and www.anavamicenter.com Limited Space, please RSVP at anvami@cruzio.com.
Majio will offer her Transformational Painting process during the course as a means to embody and personally explore each the archetypes of each rite in an experiential way. No experience in painting is necessary.
CHILDREN'S SAT. CLASS in November in Live Oak, contact for info.
RESIDENTIAL RETREAT Taos, New Mexico, June 2011
There will be a five-day retreat north of Taos in a adobe home in a pine forest, where we can connect to the land and local dreamtime, culture and history. To keep the price down there will be group participation and a dana offering. Registration is filling up, information at:
www.anavami@cruzio.com
VIDEOS
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Skeleton Woman Story
as Metaphor for Creative Process:
Part IV Undefended Love, Surrender
To be intimate is to go down to the essence.
Jett Psaris and Marlena Lyons
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In the Inuit story the fisherman has snagged Skeleton Woman from the depths and inadvertently brought her back home with him. He has untangled and ordered her bones, wrapped her in furs and fallen asleep.
In this stage in creative process we must surrender our innocence to be renewed. Sleep in fairy tales represents trusting in the deeper meaning. Things change in sleep. We can rest assured that things take care of themselves; we do not have to track and translate anything. Sleep is a practice for death, the place of no time, dreamtime. It is a return to innocence or to the deepest level of being. In the process it is a turning off of the conscious mind to be present in another way. Sleep is rebirth. You can not fall into sleep on demand but must release unto it. This stage of the story calls for letting go to what may be. Slumber, bound up with innocence, requires trust to sleep in someone's presence. It is the same in love, without surrender there is holding back and being held back. This is an important aspect of the creative process. In our invocation and meditation in painting circles we call forth this sacred place of resource.
The Latin word, intimus, means about one's nature. True essence of who you are is what is required for Transformational Painting to be transformational. Undefended is vulnerable and intimate. We can only remain there with an open heart. We are asked to let go of mental ideas of what we want to create and draw from our a deeper experience. Only then will the painting paint itself, not in a trite or secondhand way but with personal power. As the fisherman begins to trust in who he is and who she may be, he invites a genuine exchange.
This part is essential for the engagement in the story and also in painting. It is not so much a labor, but surrender letting go. It is the opening to release the traditional control of painting or poetry, believing in the birth/death/birth cycle. It is a learning to trust our imagination, our hands and our heart. Trust is the muscle that develops as you continue to return again and again to call forth images of the psyche and then surrender to whatever shows up.
Surrender is necessary for emotional presence. When our commitment to knowing and revealing ourselves is greater than the call to hide or defend, then what keeps us isolated and disconnected falls away. Surrendering the attitudes of self-defense is making space for creative encounters. Authentic emotional freedom is to no longer need validation and agreement from another to be who we are. We have such profound yearnings for closeness and yet hesitate to be closer to ourselves. Painting is a way to open to that love of self that is the deepest core of who we are. How we love our self is how we love others. Painting is a way of loving self. |
9 Rites of the Munay - Ki
The Foundation Rites are the first four of the nine Munay Ki rites. While each rite serves as a new connection to the recipient's higher self, the Foundation Rites specifically nurture and support the individual on a personal level. The four rites prepare the individual for rapid growth and enhanced personal power. As such, they are an important prerequisite to the remaining five rites of the nine rite series.
The Healer's Rite is frequently given first. This rite enlivens the healing power of the hands so recipients will begin to become more effective in the ways they work in the world. They will begin to have greater capacity to care for themselves, their communities, and their environment. Qualities of manifestation, love & compassion and vision are enlivened.
The Bands of Power, or Great Protections, can be given either first or second. This rite involves enlivening the client's energy field with properties that will either ward off, or convert, adverse influences. Energetically, this rite supports the recipient's ability to convert negativity to nutrients which fuel growth. This rite also allows individuals who have constructed other defense mechanisms to gradually dismantle them and to rely more on the natural defenses offered by the rite. As the old defense mechanisms are comfortably dismantled, the energy used to utilize them is freed up for more creative and life supporting purposes.
The Harmony Rite allows greater access to the organizing principles of the Universe. As its name indicates, increased harmony is the result as this rite becomes operative in the lives of individual recipient. People begin to feel an increasing sense of right relationship and good fortune.
The fourth rite is the Seer's Rite. This rite installs new energetic pathways to the visual cortex. Recipients often begin to see differently than before. They may experience greater subtlety of perception and find themselves being able to observe energy fields and elements within those fields. It is also likely that intuition will become enlivened and recognized as being a most reliable source of information.
With the completion of the fourth rite, the protégé is ready and enabled to proceed with the remaining five rites which connect them to powerful transpersonal resources.
Patrick Gillism, Shamanic Practitioner & Teacher.
(831) 345-6520
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