Loss, Love, Renewal - Workshop

Loss affects us all differently.  Love is a powerful universal healing balm.  Join us for a day of renewal through movement & art.

The workshop will begin with quiet time and a space for personal practice of art, writing, prayer, divination, yoga, meditation, and movement.   Including the option of creating your own Kintsugi Mended Heart with guest artist JuliAnn . 

Our opening circle will be held in our dance studio. With a grounding exercise we will connect to each other, to spirit, and set our intentions for our day of healing. 

The flow will gently transition into conscious movement, JourneyDance, to apply love,  allow emotions, and bring forth renewal of spirit, hope and joy. 

We will close with a pentatonic sound bath to integrate our experience.

Art, music, writing, prayer, divination, yoga stations will be available to participants in our spacious meditation room throughout the workshop.

JourneyDance:

JourneyDance is a dance movement practice that releases stored energy to make room for healing and growth.

There is no teacher, just a facilitator.  This is your dance.  Your time.  Your story.  You get to move to music in any way that your body wants to move.  There are no mirrors in JourneyDance.  No right or wrong.  There is no comparing yourself to anyone.  Get into your own zone, make your own shapes and movements, all without judgement.  Open to people with any level of physical ability.  Co-facilitated by Jean and Terri

Kintsugi Mended Heart Art : 

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, silver, or platinum.

Transformation is not just about putting the pieces of one’s broken life back together, it’s about a total reinvention of self in which our shattered pieces are alchemized into a beautiful, thriving masterpiece.

Join artist and conscious relationship coach JuliAnn Gessler during the workshop where you will create a personalized piece of art using the kintsugi concept to honor your strong, beautiful heart. Every experience we have, whether joyful or heartbreaking, can make us stronger and increase our capacity to love ourselves and others.

Each person will receive a painted heart which you will then rip into pieces symbolizing any heartbreaking and disappointing experiences you have had. Next you will reassemble the pieces and paint the “cracks” with metallic gold paint making the piece even more beautiful than it was when you began. This process is very therapeutic in itself and you will have a beautiful visual reminder of the power of transformation.

During the process we will be discussing our experiences and paths to transformation.

JuliAnn's Bio:

JuliAnn is an artist with a BFA in painting from Syracuse University. She has taught art classes and workshops for many years and sells her work on Etsy at ArtbyJuliAnn.Etsy.com.  She is also a certified relationship coach certified in Conscious Uncoupling and Calling in The One, two programs created by best-selling author Katherine Woodward Thomas.