A day of art, body and meditation practice. Together let us rest into our bodies, calm our minds and soften our hearts. Weaving practice forms throughout the day, we will move between periods of meditation, light movement and art making. Meditations to listen into your body, movement to bridge what you hear into being and time to make a clay amulet or talisman as an expression of what you are seeing and feeling. The day is an invitation to vision, sense, craft and reflect on your own creations as teachings.

If you are new to meditation and art making, both processes may support your deeper capacity to hear and follow your intuition and inner voice. As an artist who is newer to meditation, it is a potent tool to help calm the mind and expand your sensory experience. Both of which, allow for a more consciously aware connection with creation and the moment that ideas are coming into being. As artist we are visionaries, we grow the ability to vision in the dark. To turn the shadow, the blurry edges of a form into full bodied expression. The body is a source of language, a library of our life experiences and the lives of our ancestors, as well as a receptacle of the future. Body practices encourage us to be more fully in our bodies, allowing inner expression to easily flow through it, from mind, heart, soul into our materials. If you are a meditator, art practice is a powerful way to enrich your imaginative capacity and felt sense, to be with what is not yet seen as it emerges into presence, as well as develop an awareness of naturally arising patterns and symbols. As meditators we foster steadiness and embodied presence when facing the unknown, the new, the unfamiliar. A solid foundation of awareness as we explore being present to creation, the birth of form - thought, feeling, event, object. If you are already a deep practitioner of meditation and art then the day may be an opportunity for you to play and practice in community. Together let us sit in circle and create so that our wisdom and capacities support one another walking our chosen paths.

All levels of meditation and art making experience welcomed. The daylong is dana (generosity) based, all are welcome regardless of financial contribution.

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Erin McGuiness is a Berkeley California based sculptor, her art dharma practice holds the core principle that our bones are vast repositories of wisdom, records of our individual and shared myth and mythologies, prayers and sacred teachings.