Posts Tagged ‘retreat’
Art Vocabulary for the Soul – Collaboration
The June Art Vocabulary for the Soul was amazing. I love teaching this retreat and seeing the creativity of the participants flow. The art mediums this time were watercolor, acrylic and oil, pastels and poetry. We had people trying watercolor, oil and pastels for the first time. I took some pictures of the retreat and…
Read MoreRest? What is that?
Whew! It has been a full fall with opportunities to teach, play on the worship team, assist in an Enneagram retreat and show my art. The solo art show, Birds and Flowers, at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital went up last Thursday. The watercolor painting of the Egret Landing is one of the 19 paintings on…
Read MoreGiving Grace
Has it really been so long since I wrote to you last? I had some health and home issues that apparently sapped me of some of my creative energy – more than I realized. It is disappointing to find myself without inspiration and energy. Just enough to keep me going but not more. I was…
Read MoreFabric of Life
Psalm 139: 7-16Ephesians 4:11-16Eccles. 4:9-12Colossians 3:12-17 I was talking to my massage therapist recently about fascia tissue, which is like a web or net of tissue that wraps around all the muscles organs and bones in the body. The fascia holds everything together, holds the shape with tensegrity and works to protect you. When you are…
Read MoreErika’s Response to the Art Vocabulary of the Soul Retreat
Art, Vocabulary for the Soul RetreatJune 19-21, 2015By Erika Elektra Ewen (Reprinted from the Trinity Team newsletter of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Edmonton) In spring 2015, I picked up a brochure at Trinity Church entitled “Art Vocabulary for the Soul Retreat” which changed my life. Its contents stimulated me as the approach described was new and…
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