Painting: Learning to See in the Light 2010 by Shiloh Sophia

Can ‘Healing’ Make Us Too Tame?

Does our version of healing, tame us into submission? Is our desire for domesticity, over-riding our call to the wild? How can maintaining originality help us navigate the rough terrain of life with innovation? Is our potential for pleasure, and even bliss, being forced into the background in the name of moderation? “Learning to See…

My search for healing + Intentional Creativity Training

  I’ve been studying healing since I was a child. From the moment that I first learned that people hurt I have been watching, practicing, feeling, searching. I saw that people sometimes hurt themselves and that people sometimes hurt others, even those they love. I wanted to help, to do ‘something’ to change how we…

Medicine Painting – What is it?

What if we could turn our wounds into wonders? This is an invitation into the Alchemical Heart of Intentional Creativity… to alchemize difficult parts of ourselves & stories into tools of transformation… Working with the idea of the ‘canvas’ as your apothecary, to create an expressionistic intuitive medicine painting… what will the brush reveal?  …

Painting my prayers : Marks for Las Vegas

  In times of great sorrow, may you learn to be with the knowing and not lose your joy. In times of great collective undoing, may you maintain a strong connection to your inner self. In the journey of intense grief, may you feel everything, and not lose your way home. In times when it…

After 1000 Broken Vows

After 1000 Broken Vows After 1000 broken vows We will rise again. I promise. Surrendering to the Mystery of knowing and not knowing, we finally understand that we will not do everything we say we will. This confession should feel like a relief. We have transcended getting it right when we finally get it that…