Anavami Center for Mastering the Art of Life

A workshop for the Soul’s Pilgrimage, a collaborative weekend workshop with Majio and Marsha Hudson: Dreams & Transformational Painting

A three day workshop, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, in a powerful combination of deep process painting and collaborative dream work with Majio, mixed media artist and facilitator of dream work and creative process, and Marsha Hudson, dream worker, writer, and teacher. In this workshop you will experience the exhilaration of discovering a soul making task through the illumination of dream work and painting, all in the supportive embrace of community. This, and subsequent workshops, offer a pilgrimage into soul through encountering the creative interplay of our dreams and our creative, art making selves.

No experience in art or painting is required or recommended in this safe and freeing atmosphere of trust and playful expression. Like the images of dreams paintings arise for healing, integration and guidance to empower participants and community. Fee: $225 before November 1st and $260 after November 1st plus $25 materials fee which includes digital photos of paintings development; Bring bag lunch on Saturday and Sunday. $100 Registration fee to hold your place through Pal pal: www.anavami.com Call for more information: Majio 420-1349 or Marsha 425-8167.

Marsha Hudson has studied projective dream work with Jeremy Taylor and somatic dream work with Robert Bosnak. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD).
Her background in literature, languages, and culture has given her powerful tools for dreamwork. She earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from UC Berkeley. Her B.A. combined cultural anthropology and comparative literature. She knows ancient Greek, has studied both Greek and Latin literatures, and is well versed in the myths and legends of western culture.

For all of Life, it is a powerful and blessed time of transformation. Both individually and collectively, we are continuing our purification. Each trial, each success, is steadily shifting us more fully into our Light Beings. I wanted to share briefly some tools that may support you, as they have me, in this profound metamorphosis.

Our progression towards the Light is about a deeper level of experienced union between the Divine and the physical. It is about “Heaven upon Earth.” The “Tree Of Life,” as it is honored in diverse spiritual ideologies, is a symbol of Divine creation. It is a profound vehicle for the greater understanding of Self, Life and Divinity. We are the “Tree.” It’s Truth is alive within us and within all of Creation.

As we learn the art of merging more deeply the spiritual with the physical, we must increase our understanding of, and heighten our sensitivity to, the bounty and support of our Earthly Mother. The Essenes taught that the Earth nourishes us not only with what she produces to feed, clothe and shelter us, but with a constant flow of loving energy from her own heart. They teach that our feet are like mobile roots in our “body-tree,” receiving the energy of the Earth. They emphasize our learning to identify with even the smallest grain of sand in order to develop our compassion, as well as our receptivity to, the Earthly Mother’s Love. Following are the tools I mentioned:

Michele DeMoulin (831) 457-7788 www.voiceofthesoul.net or www.micheledemoulin.com

Some twenty of us began this month PAINTNG into the HEART of BEING as a means to realize and embody the Qabalistic teachings offered in the monthly talks on the first Tuesday of the month by Susan Heinz. In our first weekly painting session at Studio Anavami, we explored the experience of the Cosmic Tree of Life as Axis Mundi. We related it to the macrocosm and microcosm of our being through the body. A large variety of images emerged depicting the diversity of our individual experience and also emphasizing how we offer each other a piece of the whole. We will continue to paint into this image as we relate to this archetypal structure in our personal and collective journey of the Qabalistic Tree throughout the year.

In the second week we began our experience of the sphere, or sephira, at the top of the Tree of Life, Keter, to understand how creation began and simultaneously who we are. Stepping into the timeless, spaceless stillness of Before-Being, before the Beginning, together we experienced the emergence of Keter, “the crown of creation”, calling forth the powers of imagination. Keter began as a point out of the darkness, moving into a beam of light. So began the primal will of the Divine to experience itself through all creation.

Einstein claimed, that his imaginative ride on a light beam through the Universe began his true exploration of light that was to last his entire life. We also begin our adventure by stretching our imaginal abilities to invite in the new cosmological paradigm, “We are a center of creative expression, rooted in Being, through which the universe expresses itself”. Our images like those of the Tree informed each other’s experience as we began our three week cycle of painting into Keter.