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Quotation of the Week
In order to create, you've got to eliminate thinking,
then focus and listen to your internal voice. ---Elizabeth Winter-Noyes  Soul Friends The Voice of a Different Kindred Spirit Each Week  Jane LothianMaynard, MA I'm Jane Lothian of Maynard, Massachusetts, and I discovered SoulCollage® in July 2007. When I read the description in the schedule for a local retreat center, I loved the idea of a simple, art-centered process for self discovery. What I like best about SoulCollage® is the surprising insight that surfaces during readings. SoulCollage® helps me slow down and be in the moment - the moment when I am flipping through a magazine, sifting images I've clipped, arranging them in a frame or drawing a card for a reading. As a technical writer, I make my living organizing words and concepts, immersed in detail. I often feel drained and overwhelmed, and the act of working on cards or reading them shifts my energy and gives me an opportunity for play, creativity, and reflection. SoulCollage® lets me lose myself in images and impressions. When I set aside my natural tendency to plan and analyze, and assemble cards in a state of trust and spontaneity, the results always surprise me. My advice for others is to have fun with it. I recently challenged myself to create a card using pictures from a single magazine based on a suggestion in one of Anne Marie's e-books, and loved the result. When I can't think of a project, I look through my deck and work on a card for the suit that has the fewest cards. My usual process is to begin with a theme and select images that feel like they reflect it (I usually use an odd number, typically three pictures, one large and two smaller ones). Then I go through my big folder of backgrounds and pick a background that seems to work. Of course, there have been many exceptions, where some images just seemed to fit together! I like to use colored matte board and put my picture on the colored side, leaving an edge like a frame. Selecting a color that complements the background and images is half the fun for me. You can visit my website at From the Riverbank. Here are a couple of my favorite cards -- one of my oldest, and one of my latest:  Turtle Artist Committee I am one who takes my time I am one who is at ease with my art I am one who is ready to create I am one who is inspired This was the first multiple-image card I created.
 SoulCollage®
ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Idea of the Week Tear lots of small pieces of different colors of textured paper and glue them down on your mat board for an interesting background effect. 
Kindred Spirits Member NewsMaking the Most of Your KaleidoSoul Membership It's really easy to get to your Members' Home Page: 1. Go to KaleidoSoul.com and click on the "Members Log In Here" Logo on the left, under the lavender menu buttons. 2. Type in your Member's Password and press the Enter Key. . 3. If you've forgotten your Members' Password, please send a reply to this email and request that we re-send it to you. 4. Voila! You're on your Kindred Spirits Home Page! From here, you can access the Discount Shop, The Audio Library, all back issues of Soul Treasures and everything else. |
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Our Next Tele-Class Spicing Up the Soul of Life: Random Play with Your SoulCollage® Deck Presented by Laurel Aston, Creativity Coach, Artist, and SoulCollage® Facilitator and in California  Join
Laurel as she guides us to discover ways to use play and random ideas to
rejuvenate our relationships to our SoulCollage® decks. Sometimes we
just don't have time or energy to do a full-fledged reading with just
the right question, but we'd like a little interaction with our cards.
Sometimes we may just want to juice things up. These little exercises
will catalyze you to use your intuitive nudges on the fly, and you'll be
surprised at the renewed excitement you have about the Neters you get to
know better. Please bring with you to the call:
Phone number to call: 218-936-4700 Access code: 18761 Time: 6:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Central, 4:00 pm Mountain, 3:00 pm Pacific, noon Hawaiian, 11 pm in London, midnight in Rome, Monday 8 a.m. in Melbourne Australia and Monday 10 a.m. in New Zealand
Save the date now.
All of our tele-classes are FR*EE for members, always! And remember, don't worry if you can't attend... we'll be recording it and you can listen to it anytime in your Member's Only Audio Library. We will give you the phone number and access code to call in that week's issue of Soul Treasures. Upcoming Tele-Classes and Presenters: May 15, 2009 (Friday, 8 pm Eastern) - Using the Wisdom of the Medicine Wheel in your SoulCollage® Journey, with Alexa Singer-Telles, LMFT, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California. The Native American Medicine Wheel offers us a sacred container to honor the wisdom of the seasons and cycles of life, the elemental qualities, and the guidance of animals and archetypal energies. We will imagine ourselves sitting in the center of our own medicine wheel, inviting in the elements of the four directions in relation to the four SoulCollage® suits as a gift of support. We will work with the guidance of the Visionary, Healer, Teacher, and Warrior as they represent the energies of the four directions. Our time together will be experiential, with lots of time for questions and sharing. Alexa has led women's rituals including rites of passage for over twenty years using the medicine wheel as the sacred container to hold the experience. She has been actively engaged in the use of dreamwork, movement, and expressive artwork (both personally and therapeutically) as a process for guidance and healing. June 14, 2009 (Sunday, 5pm Eastern) - Meditation and SoulCollage®: How Each Enhances the Other, with Marti Beddoe, Meditation Teacher and SoulCollage® Facilitator in Illinois. For new as well as experienced mediators. Marti will share with us some ways that her SoulCollage® practice has benefited her meditation practice, and vice versa. If you are looking to deepen your SoulCollage® work, this is the class for you! July, 2009 - SoulCollage® and the Art of Sacred Listening, with Laura Hegfield, SoulCollage® Facilitator in New Hampshire. Consider allowing silence to be the container that holds your SoulCollage® practice. I believe that silence can open us to a more intimate listening experience, ultimately allowing us to drink a more satisfying cup of the sweet wisdom our cards have to offer. During this tele-class, Laura will offer some practical tips for incorporating more silence into your life and your SoulCollage® practice (alone, with friends or as a facilitator in workshops). Laura is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, Yoga & Jewish Spirituality Teacher, Artist, Blogger, Wife and Mom practicing the sacred art of "life" in Southern NH. Please visit her blog, Shine the Divine to get to know her better before the call. (Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned.)
Kindred Spirits SoulCollage®
Retreat
Come As You Are:Nurturing Self-Acceptance with SoulCollage®, A Weekend Retreat June 25-28, 2009 Rolling Ridge Retreat Center Andover, Massachusetts There are only TWO spaces left.... is one of them for you? Everything you need to know is on this KaleidoSoul page. |
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, by Randy Mead. This is one of my favorite cd's to journal and create with. It's perfect background music: unobtrusive yet uplifting and quiet.
, by Ted Andrews. 3 CD’s- 3 hours. According to Ted, the universe is whispering its wisdom to us through the hidden language of animals. This three-hour workshop helps us tap the power of the animal spirits in our own lives. Highly recommended for any SoulCollager working on the Companions Suit.
, by Steven Brower. Did you know that Satchmo (a.k.a. Louis Armstrong) had a passion for collage? In between sets, he snipped words and images from ads and greeting cards, letters, photos and then pasted them into jazzy, colorful collages. This book is an awesome collection of his beautiful and surprising art.
, by Shaun McNiff. If you are interested in any way at all about how art is also personal growth and soul work, then you will love this well-known book by the internationally known leader of expressive arts therapy as he reflects on the life-enhancing practice of imagination.
