This is where it all started, with my mentor Sue Hoya Sellars. When I headed to the hills from San Franciscos for a chop-wood-carry-water mentorship in Mendocino in 1994, I had no idea this would happen… A mentorship that would last one year, and then go on for 20 years. A conversation that would…
When you think of creating, does fear arise? Does your inner critic get really loud when you pick up that paintbrush or that pen? Do you strongly desire to release the fear and connect more deeply with your Muse? This letter is for you… Red Thread Letter #775 from Shiloh Sophia About Fear arising…
Then she asked me, “What do you care about the most?” Satisfied with my answer – that I wanted to do my part to end violence against women and children – she went on. If my answer had not pleased her, I doubt she would have told me what came next. I doubt she…
Dear One, Intentional Creativity Teachers sign the back of their paintings with this seal. A gold circle surrounded by a red circle. My teacher Sue Hoya Sellars used to sign her paintings with a gold thumbprint. When we sign the Intentional Creativity Guild book at graduation for Color of Woman, we sign with this symbol.…
It is not in knowing ‘things’ that you become conscious. Rather it is in inviting the great mystery to tea, that you find out who is actually doing the asking… InsightExperience.org A date with the Muse that lasts two weeks… It is like falling in love every day! Will you schedule time just for…
We are all connected by a red thread, shortening the distance between one another until we are finally here, in community, together. Then we will say, “I remember you! I have been waiting for you. I have missed you, my sister!” Even if we have never met before… When we feel a sense of belonging,…
So often in our lives we are missing a rights of passage – an experience of having arrived, or having made a transition. We long for the marking of change to say – see, I am different now…..can’t you see it? We aren’t raised to know the way to ritual. For some of us it…
“Through teaching Intentional Creativity I intend to share my past with it’s pain and it’s healing journey with other women who have been hurt by showing the women how they can release their hurts visually.” Phyllis A. Taylor, Pannet Art Studio & Intentional Creativity Teacher Watch on FB Artist Shiloh Sophia Watch Grandma Go…
Do what you desire not because you might die but because you might live Six Generations – Photo by Hobby Parent of her family UPCOMING HAPPENINGS! TEACHER TRAINING & RED THREAD GUIDE Color of Woman Teacher Training 2018 : Applications due Monday RED Thread Guide Global Certificate Program 2018 “You never…
Doing Color of Woman isn’t reasonable. In fact, it is really unreasonable. It is a big commitment in time, resources and most of all, allocation of consciousness. To take the next step on the path doesn’t always come with trumpets hailing our choice. Some of the biggest choices of my life made me shake in…