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Celebrate spring with a morning of art and meditation practice. Clear your mind, get your hands dirty and dream your intentions for the spring growing season into being. In a beautiful secret garden, we will move between short periods of seated meditation and making small clay pinch pots. Perfect for alters or other small containers to hold big ideas!

Part of Erin’s Art a Way of Practice series, that gathers people in circle to explore the place where art and meditation meet. 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 expression. Somatic practices connect us with the body as a source of language, a library of our life experiences and the lives of our ancestors, as well as a receptacle of the future. Encouraging us to fully be 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 are welcome.
The morning sit is dana based, a generosity practice that encourages
all to cultivate generosity and give from the heart.

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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.