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Who’s in agreement? I’ve discovered that creating artany kind of art is a wonderful way to ‘escape’ and ‘run away’ from the current state of our world. Actually, it’s not really a running away, it’s more of a becoming aware, present and alive! I’ve got some awesome expressive + intuitive art courses, classes, and one day workshops coming up for every age and all levels. ... Creating art helps us be present, see from a different perspective, appreciate more, feel resilient, and be an important part of the whole as we create in community!! Registration opens Monday! I can’t wait to create together again!! #onlineartclass #onlineart #creatingincommunity #createincommunity #artheals #expressiveart #expressivepainting #expressivearts #healingarts #arttherapyheals #intuitiveart #intuitivepainting #intuitivehealer #selfcare #innerchildhealing #createfromhome #kidsartclasses #artclassesforkids #mentalhealth #mentalhealththerapy #mentalhealthtips #presentmomentawareness #mindfulness #mindfulnesspractice #mindfulfamily #mindfulnessforkids #twylatharp #createeveryday #createtogether #createyourreality

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius Losing myself with this tiny, beautiful piece of thread. It’s movement, it’s flow, the way it captured my eye by just sitting there on the floor until I picked it up to see it, honour it, and turn it into art.... And as I did, I was reminded that art is the journey, the process, the story that keeps us in wonder, curious and present. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton Let’s experience the creative journey together! Stay tuned for these upcoming courses, which will be up for purchase on the new moon this Monday January 11th. Journey Through the Chakras Inner Space-The Energy of You Creative Gatherings -for kids + families DM or opt in our our website in link in bio. Can’t wait to create in community! #selfcare #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #wellness #wellnessjourney #togetherisbetter #createincommunity #creatingincommunity #createeveryday #createyourreality #createtogether #arttherapy #arttherapyheals #expressiveart #expressivearts #expressivepainting #intuitiveguidance #intuitivepainting #intuitiveart #intuitiveartist

Goodbye sweet friend! You came here to show us strength, resilience, gentleness and a loving-kindness that will forever touch our hearts. What an honor to have been your friend. May you Rest In Peace. Heaven is a little brighter now with you there.... We will miss you so much Daina and I know we’ll always feel your radiant light nearby. I love you! See more

Its my birthday today and I’m so excited to share this exciting offering with you! The idea for this course came to me in a meditation. Creating is so important during this time. We are being asked to know, be, and embody our truest selves and making and creating is a beautiful and easy way to getting to know your true, authentic self. ... I can’t wait to share this course with you as we continue to create together. It’s not just about creativity, it’s about the person you’re becoming while you’re creating. Charlie Peacock As we create, we become more and more ourselves. As we create, we access the subconscious mind and the messages from our higher self. Join me on a journey of discovery, compassion, transcendence and a coming home to you. Explore the layers of you-physical, etheric, emotional, mental, and spiritual through meditation, movement, and a playful creative process using multi-media art materials. Be with the colours within you, exploring technique and a variety of creative practices and become the witness to the flow, connection, the energy and consciousness that is you. Anchor into your heart center and ask if this is what you need right now. If it feels expansive in your heart and belly, that’s a yes! Registration opens tomorrow! Right now, I’m off to make this day an amazing day in this Tiz body!

When you take time to go within, meditate and tune into your own energy, you realize you are an important part of a greater force field. There is a beautiful interconnectedness with all life. The more we practice being this unlimited vibration, the more we bring ourselves and the planet back to a place of health, vibrancy and wellbeing. We are consciousness. We are brilliant light! ... #bethelight #youarelight #consciousness #highfrequency #highvibes #meditate #dailypractice #creativepractice #onewithnature #heartchakra #interconnectedness interconnected #weareone

Fun times painting in the snow today! #selfportrait #selflove

Meditation Monday Chakra Meditation-enjoy moving through each energy centre through this colour visualization. #meditation #meditationpractice #meditationmonday #chakrameditation #chakracourse #chakras

Is this another distraction from meditating or is it being present and in flow? During my morning meditation today, I sat all ready to close my eyes and sink into my body and my being...but then, I couldn’t help but capture the light and the way it was casting on the objects around it! Again, this was exciting , beautiful, majestic. ... Like a child, I was: Curious Investigating Exploring Figuring out Immersed in beauty Being I laughed at myself and thought ‘Ok-no more getting distracted Tiz. But I later realized, that this detour in capturing the light is also my meditation. It brought me deeper into the present moment with excitement and aliveness. This is being in flow. So what do you think? Distraction or in flow? When was the last time you were pulled away from something only to find yourself deeper in the present moment? #presentmoment #presentmomentawareness #awareness #bethelight #meditation #trust #trusttheprocess #trustyourintuition #flow

I began this altered book journal page with a letter to my dear friend who is not well. I actually didn’t feel like painting. I just wanted to feel into the heart breaking news. I cried. This was emotional and a reality I’m not ready to face. The letter started off heavy, sad. I was trying to release what was weighing on my heart. ... I only used blue and brown. I allowed play to take over. I then took this picture and I’m noticing now a figure emerge....it feels like tree energy. Deeply rooted in earth but strong, flowing, and swaying to the rhythms of life. This is all I could do today. I’m sitting with these emotions and trying to acknowledge it all. Whatever you’re feeling, and wherever you’re at, take a moment to place your hand on your heart, acknowledge and be with the emotion and where it is being held in the body. You can even repeat I see you. Be with this feeling, giving it and yourself love and compassion until you feel it dissolve. Thank it all and breathe in light and love into your heart and body and to those that need it most right now.

Do you take time to imagine? Do you dream? Can you close your eyes right now, breathe into your heart and visualize where you’d like to be in 1 month, 3 months, 6 months or a year from now? ... See who you’re with, what’s around you-is it a lake, ocean trees, a lush garden? Use your sense of smell to inhale the sweet air, to hear the sounds. Reach for what you truly desire and use all your senses to bring you there. You are not limited. You are an unlimited being! Imagination is powerful. Go dream big today and know you can have anything your heart desires!

The sun is glorious this morning! I was inspired to take a pic of the sun when I saw the capture of @just.this.bliss this morning. I tried to took many of the sun and although this one is not as exciting, I love how the light is so illuminating that it cuts right through part of the tree! It reminds me to keep being the light. Be so bright that everything around you has no other choice than to be bright light too! ... Happy Sun-day! See more

Don’t you just love surprises? As I was prepping to record my Monday Meditation yesterday I caught a glimpse of myself as the beautiful movement and motion of the smoke from the sage burning released before me across my laptop! It was so much fun to capture the dance of this flow.... It reminded me of our perception and how we see and look at things. It reminded me that I am an energetic body always in motion just like the smoke. It reminded me that possibilities are everywhere and endless! You are way more than what your eyes perceive! You are a magnificent body of energy always in motion, movement and in flow. Take time to notice and feel your vibration. #vibration #smoke #unlimitedpossibilities #possibilitiesareendless #highfrequency #highvibration #motion #movementexploration #movingart #movementismedicine #inflow #energetichealing #energeticbody #chakrahealing #auracleansing #smudging #inquiry #expressivearts #intuitivepainter #intuitivehealer #seebeyond #trusttheprocess #trustyourintuition

There is great insight to drawing/painting your self portrait. It allows for: Self expression that only you can do. Introspection.... Transformation. Freedom. Aliveness. Deep compassion. What a great way to continue to get to know yourself. #selfportrait

Self Portrait. Have you ever attempted to draw or paint yourself? Grab a mirror. Look into your eyes and draw yourself. ... It’s always a such a beautiful process of self-discovery and insights! Always. This one still needs some refinement. But like real life, my creative process teaches me that every moment and every day is a work in process and progress. We always have a choice to make the next moment a moment of high energy, high frequency and positivity and awareness. Even at our lowest low, there is so much power in knowing we can shift our consciousness. This is a big deal and so exciting to me!!! Comment with a if this excites you too!

Don’t be alarmedI’m aware that I’m painting with my brush upside down. This is how we explore and examine different perspectives and ways of approaching things when we create and play! Possibilities are unlimited and endless. And when we can explore in this way in our art creations, it is so much easier to apply it and manifest in our daily lives. I’m using the end of my brush here to etch and write into my wet paint in my altered book. ... Today is the last day of my Altered Book Challenge! It has been a beautiful, insightful journey!! I always feel sad at the end of a course. The connections with the beautiful souls that join are true, vulnerable and authentic heart connections! Every course is always so unique and special because of you! So thank you! Now to create more exciting content. I’ve got something so very exciting coming to you soon! Stay tuned! #innerspace #thelayersofyou #selfcare #innerchild #innerchildhealing #creativeexpression #expressiveart #expressiveartstherapy #arttherapy #wellness #createeveryday #paintingheals #dailypractice #creativepractice #artjournaling #alteredbooks #alteredbook #artjournal #artjournalpages #artjournaleveryday

It’s not just about creativity, it’s about the person you are BECOMING while you’re creating. Charlie Peacock My creative practice is my therapy! I become more myself every time I create. Who wants to give it a try? ... #creativepractice

There is a deep correlation between wellbeing and creating. If meditation is hard for you, try a creative practice. It doesn’t have to be complex. All you need is a paper and pencil or pen. Then try this:... close your eyes make an intention for your day/week or month with eyes closed, make a dot on your paper and clearly state your intention. begin to bring your awareness to your breath and as you do so, allow your pencil/pen to move with your breath-inhaling and exhaling do this for at least one minute or as long as you’d like thank yourself for this time with yourself. gentle open your eyes decide what you’d like to do with your breath art. It’s not about what you’ve created, it’s about how you felt while you created. Give it a try and let me know how you feel! #creativityandwellbeing #creativepractice #creativeprocess #createdaily #drawyourbreath #breathart #breatheanddraw #artjournal #artjournaling #artjournalpage #wellbeing #wellbeingandcreativity #wellbeingthroughcreativity #wellbeingthroughart

Have a look at how this snowy owl showed up in my altered book journal. I love starting my paintings with a wash of black and bringing back the lighta process inspired by daVinci’s quote: A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.... Originally, a bird showed up (swipe to see). It didn’t feel right so I thanked it for showing up and painted over with white (to continue being that light). When I looked at it later in the evening, I saw this snowy white owl...I’m calling him Hedwig. Check out this exciting message! I looked up owl spirit animal and medicine: Owl represents the Gift of Higher Knowledge and Insight. They carry the medicine of Sight Beyond Illusion. I’m loving this altered book challenge!