Awaken Your Monastic Muse through Contemplative Creativity : Count your Blessings

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Count your Blessings

I am Blessed

Today I count my blessings, small and large, and I notice the new gifts that come to me from God.

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Books Used in Class

Collage for the Soul by Paula Grasdal
Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt
Sacred Circles by Robin Deen Carnes and Sally Craig
The Artist's Quest for Inspiration by Peggy Hadden
Women of Wisdom by Kris Steinnes
Sitting By the Well by Marion Woodman
The Once a Future Goddess by Elinor W. Gadon
Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss
Magdalen Rising by Elizabeth Cunningham
The Dance of the Dissadent Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
Dance of the Spirit by Maria Harris
Creating Mandalas by Susanne F. Fincher
The Mandala Workbook by F.Fincher
Circle of Stones by Judith Durek
The Practice of Process Meditation by Ira Prognoff
Adventure in Meditation by Carol Parrish Harra
Deep Writing by Eric Maisel
The Soul's Palette by Cathy A. Malchiodi
Wisdom Seeks Her Way by Maria Riley,OP
The Cloud of Unknowing Penguin Classics
The Goddess by Rudolf Steiner
Journaling a Spirit Journey by Anne Broyles
Symbols by Kathleen R. Prata
The Star in My Heart by Joyce Rupp
Aquarian Rosary by Rev Carol Parish Harra Ph.D
The Artful Journal A Spiritual Quest by Jacqueline Penny
The Feminine Face of God by Sherry Anderson
Meditations by Shakti Gawain
Art of Dreaming by Jill Mellick
Centering Prayer by M. Basil Pennington
Freeing the Creative Spirit by Adriana Diaz
Living in the Light Workbook by Shakti Gawain
Working with Your Chakras by Ruth White
Sacred Circles by Robin Deen Carnes and Sally Craig
Meditation Secrets for Women by Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche, PH.D
Ink and Honey bt Sibyl Dana Reynolds
The Artist's Rule by Christine Valters Paintner
Sacred Circles by Robin Deen Carnes and Sally Craig
The Artist's Quest for Inspiration by Peggy Hadden
Women of Wisdom by Kris Steinnes
Sitting By the Well by Marion Woodman
The Once a Future Goddess by Elinor W. Gadon
Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss
Magdalen Rising by Elizabeth Cunningham
The Dance of the Dissadent Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
Dance of the Spirit by Maria Harris
Creating Mandalas by Susanne F. Fincher
The Mandala Workbook by F.Fincher
Circle of Stones by Judith Durek
The Practice of Process Medition by Ira Prognoff
Adventure in Meditation by Carol Parrish Harra
Deep Writing by Eric Maisel
The Soul's Palette by Cathy A. Malchiodi
Wisdom Seeks Her Way by Maria Riley,OP
The Cloud of Unknowing Penguin Classics
The Goddess by Rudolf Steiner
Journaling a Spirit Journey by Anne Broyles
Symbols by Kathleen R. Prata
The Star in My Heart by Joyce Rupp
Collage for the Soul by Paula Grasdal
Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt

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My Story in creating the Awaken Your Monastic Muse through
Creative Contemplation

. It was from prayer and simply God told me to
create the group. This is how I work both in forming my groups and in my own
art... I believe in daily guidance and stay open to the Inner Voice in all that
I do. It has been a practice from my first experience of meditation at 19. I
also worked as an intuitive counselor before I started teaching but am still
very close to my intuition within the work that I do today… .
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The other reason is I met Dana through the online class that
I took from her Book of Wonderment which I found amazing! I loved the way that
her class used image, writing, reflection, and deep inner work as well as
creativity to initiate my own Monastic Self. Shortly after that I wrote The
Monastic Self and started using it in my own meditations…

I heard Christine talking about her own
history and the book on a podcast Art and Soul Radio. What she said spoke to
me. I was raised by nuns and the Catholic in a very crazy home life. The nuns
were my stability and I even wanted to become one when I was 15. I am still that same little Catholic girl and
have always felt connected to the deep mystical aspect of that religion. I also
have a love for Mary and the feminine
face of God….anyway what she said inspired me to purchase her book The
Artist’s Rule which when I read spoke to both the spiritual self and the artist
in me. Shortly after that I put together a face book group based on her book…

I have integrated
creativity and journaling with other books including Women Who Run with the
Wolves and The Mandala Workbook. It is something that I use a great deal in my
Women of Wisdom groups… When Dana announced her book Ink and Honey and that she
had a group on Face book I immediately went to it because I was excited to be a
part of a discussion. It was than that I found out that she did not have a
discussion group except in her retreats so I asked her if she would allow me to
create a discussion group. She said it was ok and I put it on events having no
idea what would happen… That is how things happen and how Good works and so
here we are…

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Count your Blessings

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