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Name: Abundance Alchemy: Create Your Own Economy
Start: 2020-11-22T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-12-23T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Virtual Course

February 24, 2015 by Melissa Leave a Comment

“No one has ever been able to hold space for me, like Melissa. She is a wise and knowledgeable multi-dimensional guide, with the ability to both activate and support me in my true creative spiritual power, to release what no longer serves me, so I felt clear and inspired to surrender my ego & pain and live a soul-led life. Her unique form of coaching, alchemy, and art was the missing piece I was looking for. ”

Simon P

“My experience in Melissa’s painting class gives me time to think about the connection between my heart and the paint brush. The few hours of quiet space allow me time to relax, breathe, paint without criticism, and just see what flows. It’s therapeutic, very relaxing and lots of fun! Melissa is there for coaching, but the unstructured environment she creates really allows you to be free with your creativity.”- Jamie Bernard, Real Estate Agent
“I saw the title Intuitive Painting in the Informal Classes catalog and it looked like something I wanted to experience. The first class, painting in silence with about 20 other people, was the most fun I’d had in a long time. I felt free there. I had paper, paint and a brush, and could just go. Whatever I felt like doing. Just go. I had been estranged from my intuition for some time before that class….but, after painting, I went back to the studio and took another class, and another, and felt that voice, that instinct, that feeling when you know in your body which way to go and what to do and what you mean, coming back. It’s quite amazing really. So simple. It’s a practice. Like anything. Like exercise. Like listening. A meditation.”

David Jewell Photographer, Writer, Painter & Performance Artist

“Wonderful – as always. It never ceases to amaze me the power of setting an intention, releasing it and witnessing with gratitude, its manifestation. This retreat nurtures this process through painting and self-awareness. The energy of the group is an important aspect for me– witnessing and being witnessed with love somehow inspires me to surrender to my wholeness and swim in it. Knowing what that feels like helps me to walk in my wholeness outside of the painting lab. For me, being able to fully immerse myself in the painting process without any distractions for long periods of time is a a gift. The joy of pushing through a block or having an epiphany through the creative process is beyond words– and witnessing others in that process is a great teacher.
I especially gained a lot from the sharing, insights and feelings of my fellow painters through non-judgmental feedback. Their feelings sometimes act as triggers for my own revelations. From a very young age, my Mother has always told me that as long as long as I had a sketch pad and some drawing materials, I would be happy. When asked what I wanted to do when I left school in the seventh grade, I replied, “I want to go to Art School”. After four years at Art School, majoring in painting I felt I had lost my creative innocence-that intrinsic connection we all have to creative life force. I shut down, overwhelmed with the critic, and didn’t fully commit to painting again for eight years until I found the Painting Process through Fire Tree Studios. It was in this studio that I began to reconnect with my creative spirit and my inner child, trusting in my process and begin my journey back to wholeness. The gratitude I feel is immense.”

Bec Knaggs Artist & Teacher