INSPIRATION
Creative Tips to apply Every day
- Have a little book in your handbag/laptop-bag to scribble
in, jot down silly poems, or write a colorful description of your
present moment in those spare moments waiting or resting.
- Turn off the radio while traveling in the car: rather sing,
tone, hum or just let those feelings inside make a sound.
- Make an 'artist-date' or soul-date with yourself (see Julia
Cameron's book below for more ideas) and schedule a specific time for
you to do something inspirational this week: visit an art museum,
listen to live music, attend an art- class, visit a second-hand book
store, material shop.... what ever nourishes your creative soul.
- Attend a Biodanza
class or a 5 Rhythms class
(if you are in Cape
Town), or just move and dance to your favorite piece of music.
- Hafiz said: “It only takes a second in the morning
to kiss the Beloved....” Greet the Beloved every day – it needs only to
take a second.
Inspirational Reading
- Natalie Rogers: The creative Connection: Expressive arts as
Healing. Science and Behavior books, 1993.
- Julia Cameron: The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher
Creativity. Pan Books, 1992; or The Right to Write.
- Anything by Shaun McNiff like: Trust the Process: An artist
guide of letting go. Shambhala Publications, 1998; Creating with Others: The practice of Imagination
in Life, Art and the Workplace. Shambhala Publications, 2003; Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy for the
Imagination. Shambhala Publications, 1992; Art Heals: How Creativity Cures The Soul.
Shambhala Publications, 2004.
- Michelle Cassou: Point Zero: Creativity without limits; Life, Paint and Passion:Reclaiming the Magic of
Spontaneous Expression. Penguin Group, 1995.
- Joachim-Ernst Berendt: The World is Sound/Nada Brahma: Music and the
landscape of consciousness. Destiny Books,1991.
- Cathy A Malchiodi: The Soul’s Palette: Drawing on Art’s
Transformative powers of health and well-being. Shambhala Publications,
2002.
- Pat B Allen: Art is a way of knowing: A Guide to self-knowledge
and spiritual fulfillment through creativity. Shambhala, 1995.
- Don G. Campbell: The roar of silence: Healing Powers of Breath,
Tone & Music. Quest books, 1989.
- Gabrielle Roth: Maps to Ecstasy. Nataraj Publishing, 1998.
"Through dancing I navigated the badlands of endless
headtrips and found my way back to the stomping ground of my own two
feet. Through dancing I discovered that when you put the psyche in
motion, it heals itself.” page xvii
Inspirational Music
- Arvo Pärt: Alina: classical stillness.
- Hildegard von Bingen: Illumination
- Fire of the Spirit: Music composed by this 12th-century Christian
mystic.
- Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors: Tribe, Bones & Totem or
any of her other 5Rhythms albums. Also see her Dances of Ecstacy DVD.
- Don Potter: Facing the Wall (acoustic sketches)
- Other music used in the workshop come from old favourites:
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