Today: Don’t let behind-the-scenes mess discourage your belief in magic! Let it encourage you to make some of your own!
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Find More Creative Living TV at the StudioToday: The site has moved (thank you, Kim!), the course is in progress and I’m facing my fears!
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Find More Creative Living TV at the StudioToday: The site is migrating today and I’m deep in making videos for my upcoming Seven Soul Symbols class. Dreamboards have been instrumental in my own discovery process. And whatever else is going on I can’t help but be aware that Holland is getting closer by the minute!
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Years ago, sitting in my mom’s living room, hanging out with Mom and my sisters, cutting and gluing, dreaming, chatting, I had no idea that a life-changing practice had entered into my life. Who would imagine that a simple, creative activity could open up the door to my dreams.
And I’m not alone.
Over the years, I have learned to make dreamboards not only as manifestation tools (which they are!) but also as powerful reflecting pools. Creating a dreamboard with each full moon has helped me tune into my inner compass; it keeps me focused on true north. Join me in this Full Moon practice and connect to your self, the Universe and your dreams: big and small, tender and brave, mundane and wild.
This year I have launched something new, something rooted deeply in dreamboards, in moon cycles, in creativity and magic, rooted in my deep belief in dreams and in you: a Year of Dreams.
On every New Moon, I will launch a new workshop that will guide you in creating your dreamboard under the specific influence of the upcoming Full Moon (e.g. Full Snow Moon, Full Worm Moon, Full Pink Moon). Every monthly offering will include not only the moon-specific workshop but also the How to Make a Dreamboard the Studio Way lesson so that we are all creating in the same context and on the same sacred ground. Once you purchase your first Year of Dreams workshop, you will receive a coupon giving you access to a special price for every workshop this year.
And that is the question we will be focusing on for this workshop. From the moment you arrive, that question will start to steep in your heart. Clues will begin to bubble as you gather your materials, holding the question in your heart. As you step into the creative process, you will start to engage with your dreams. When you enter the circle with the Full Moon, you will have the opportunity to discover the messages she has for you. In that moment, you will create a dreamboard that will become a manifestation magnet but that will also serve as a reflecting pool, helping you discover the dreams in your heart – and the parts of yourself – that want to emerge.
A Note About Timing: When you register, you’ll have immediate access to this program and everything you need to know in order to create your dreamboard for the Full Sturgeon Moon on August 10th. You’ll continue to have access to the workshop resources until the next Full Moon on September 8.
(Psst… When you register, you get a $20 discount coupon for each remaining workshop of the year! That’s a 40% savings!)
Today: Every weekday morning creative living coach Jamie Ridler invites you Behind the Scenes at her studio. It’s the New Moon and time to start dreaming our way to the Full Corn Moon. Plus I’m fully immersed in Soul Symbols for my workshop at 21 Secrets. And I share how much I got done in my art journal during tea-time!
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Imagining your ideal day is a powerful way to begin inviting your dreams into your life. It’s a core exercise in many a self-help book and definitely in a coach’s magical toolkit. Here’s how to do it.
Give yourself some quiet time to sit down with your journal and your imagination. Take yourself to the very first moment of your ideal day. How, when and where do you wake up? When you look around, what or who is there? What are you going to do with your day? Start to write about it in great detail. What do you eat for breakfast? What do you wear? Do you get dressed at all? Follow the narrative of the day and let yourself feel into it. Steep yourself in the day and let it become a part of you. Write down and experience what it feels like, looks like, sounds like, smells like.
Knowing what we want is the first step in welcoming it in. Picturing your ideal day tunes your inner compass so that more and more you’ll find yourself naturally steering towards the life that you’ve imagined.
What else can you do to encourage your ideal day vision to come to life?
Once you have your perfect day on paper, look through all of the broad strokes and all little details of your ideal day to see what you can start living right now. And I mean right now. Today.
Did you wake up without an alarm clock? Could you do that tomorrow? How about Sunday? Go to your datebook and choose a day for “No alarm.” Write it in.
Did you do some yoga? Take time for some yoga today.
Did you go to a coffee shop and write? Do that.
Did you start your day with a green smoothie? Start doing that.
We underestimate how many of the little pieces of our big dream we can and even do have right now. Look for all the ways that you can start living your ideal day right now – and also to acknowledge all the ways that perhaps you already are.
Next, a look at the things that are slightly more out of reach and start getting creative with all the ways you can get as close as possible to these things within your current resources .
In your ideal day vision, did you wake up in 200-count Egyptian cotton sheets? What would be as close as possible? Fresh clean sheets? A well-made bed? What was the feeling the sheets gave you? Was it the sensory pleasure? How can you create that? Was it luxury? What feels luxurious that you can have today?
Did you wake up in Paris? What is it about Paris that’s appealing to you? Is it the beauty of the French language, the coffee shops and galleries, the sense of style? How can you bring those elements of Paris to your life right here and right now?
Look for the essence of the ideal elements and see how you can have and experience more of that starting now.
As well as living every bit of our ideal that’s available today and then getting as close as possible to that ideal wherever we can, how can you begin to bring that ideal day ever closer?
Did you wake up and get ready for a photo shoot? What’s one thing you could do to get closer to that? Do that today.
Did you wake up beside the love of your life? What’s one thing you could do to get closer to that? Do that.
For many of us, putting aside some savings is a key element. Start that today.
We can get shut down by making a project too big, by deciding that we need a complete itinerary to get to our destination. One way to get closer to your ideal day today is to brave taking whatever next step is in front of you. Trust that next steps and next steps will reveal themselves.
We are often so much closer than we think to what we dream of. Instead of letting your vision of an ideal day become a dusty treasure written in your journal, use it as a road map, one that step by step will get you closer to your dreams.
Today: Finding a pair of great boots, becoming a more confident traveler and preparations for the Full Corn Moon and Holland continue!
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