creativity coven
a 3 month online immersion into the realms of creativity + sensuality
spring 2024 (dates TBD)
online
CREATIVITY:
the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.
COVEN:
a group of witches who meet reguarly
muse creativity coven is a permissive space to be in relationship to the creative process through the lens of sensuality and the nervous system.
creativity is a birthright.
So many of us long to be creative. Even if we don’t identify as artists or writers or we haven’t spent hours honing a craft…
There is a beautiful, intrinsic longing to create that is very human.
Creativity is not about being productive or following rules. Creativity is a form of playfulness. It gets to be an organic wild impulse - a movement of energy. Something feral and sensual, or soft and so close to home.
You don’t have to be conventionally talented (whatever that means) to create.
You can do it for the sake of joy and pleasure.
if you have been waiting for a permission slip and/or space to play within and be nourished by the realms of your creativity and sensuality, this is for you.
BUT WHY IS IT SO HARD for us to connect to our creativity?
So many things get in the way. Systemic capitalism bases our worth off productivity and causes us to feel guilty about play and creation.
Systems of oppression and harm have cut us off from our bodies, our joy, and from collaboration. Then there is the big P of PERFECTIONISM which is so intrinsically connected to these systems.
Let me say more about perfectionism, and the fear of failure. Or the fear of even beginning if it is not perfect. Often this perfectionism is so deeply rooted and ingrained that we may not even notice it is there, we just wonder :
Why it feels like something is defectively wrong with us
We may have a hard time finishing any creative project or even making time for one.
We may regard our own work with so much criticism that it sucks the joy out of the creative process.
We may endlessly compare ourselves to others and think our work doesn’t match up.
This is not just an individual situation! Often this is connected to the systems I named above and they have deep roots in our bodies and nervous systems.
This is why when attempting to revive the creative process, it’s helpful to approach with softness and somatic awareness.
We can slowly begin to create more spaciousness and permission around our creativity. We can enter creative spaces TOGETHER and experience the healing power of support, accountability and acceptance.
The energy that was stuck in perfectionism can thaw and move through as as precious gifts.
We can USE the energy of our pain, darkness and longing to generate creative gems + offerings.
We can begin to re-establish a relationship with the creative, sensual, erotic parts of ourselves; with messiness and play…
And in this process we may witness even more of ourselves coming alive again.
This is what I deeply want for the world: for people to feel permission to explore their creative and sensual capacities - to express their unique and wild and weird ideas and thoughts and make them into art.
this is for you if:
you identify as a woman, non-binary, trans or queer person and :::
>> you want to explore and/or deepen your relationship to creativity*
>> you feel held back by perfectionism or self doubt in the creative process
>> you want to experience SUPPORT for your creative endeavors in the human and non human realm
>> you want to find more ease and flow, and less “forcing” energy in the creative process
>> you want to learn tools + context for alchemizing painful experiences into creative offerings
>> you want to feel more in touch with your body, sensuality and eroticism
>> you want to feel more safety and ease in sharing your creative offerings with the world.
* this course is open to all levels of creative experience
creativity and sensuality
I have a theory that creativity feeds sensuality and vice versa. That when we tap into one we are also tapping into the other.
Creative and sensual energy both feed beauty, and life. They are life-giving. In this course we will explore how cultivating erotic energy contributes to our creativity and how feeding our creativity imbues our life with sensuality.
Course Themes:
foundations of the nervous system
courting + being in relationship with the muse
dismantling perfectionsim
creativity + somatics with Madison Abdallah
cycles + rest within the creative process
sensual movement exploration with Amani Minter
courting the divine through art
creativity as a spiritual pursuit
the art of creative “channeling”
mysticism, dreaming and the subconscious
Your Guides
Rosalie Amber Grace - host/curator
Hi! I’m Rosalie. I’m a Fertility Awareness Educator, poet, beekeeper, somatic student and devotee. I’ve been channeling the deep waters of my feelings into poetry and writing since I could hold a pen. I’m an apprentice to the creative process, and a student of the nervous system. I am in devotion to the miraculous wisdom and aliveness held in the body. I’m a sensual explorer and mystic. I love nothing more than using art, somatic awareness and the senses as a path to experience divinity.
I recently published a poetry book which was a hard and beautiful process of overcoming my perfectionism and fear of being seen and presenting the world with an alchemy of my creative process over the past few years.
Now I really want to create a space for creatives to be held in exploring and nourishing their relationship to their creativity through a sensual and somatic lens.
Guest Teachers
Madison Abdallah
// Radiant Somatics
Madison is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and creative coach, supporting creatives, caretakers and queer people in resolving trauma as a means to unlock their potential. She is also a co-creator of Soma Hona Design, which aims to mend the gap between the body and the spaces we inhabit.
Amani Minter
Amani is passionate about living a fully expressed life, livening our senses, and waking up our bodies through movement, energy, and sound. She weaves individual artistic flare, with sensuality, and connection in her Lunar Liquid Flow classes.
She teaches through a trauma informed lens holding classes, privates, and workshops supporting folks in awakening their inner power. She provides tools to help support people in feeling freer, more empowered, and fully expressed.
Melina Seeto
Melina is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner ™ and Embodied Awakening Teacher who for the past 10 years has assisted and guided retreats through the Awakening Women community and supported individuals to tend to their nervous system resiliency, safety and healing through the intelligence of their bodies. They are dedicated to the path of mysticism and the mundane and how to weave the sacred into practical every day living for deeper meaning, ease, joy and connection to self and life.
Details of the course:
>> 7 live 90 min calls (every other week for 13 weeks):
every other wednesday at 2 pm PST from 3/22 - 6/14
including incredible guest teachers
>> 3 creative co-working sessions( 90 min) - 1 per month
a space to come and work on your creative projects in community
>> access to a private telegram thread
for support and accountability
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FAQ
Will this course teach specific skills related to creativity like writing poetry, drawing, etc?
The focus on this course is supporting you in nurturing your relationship with the creative process. You will be encouraged to focus on whatever creative mediums feel most alive to you but we will not be doing any in depth tutorials or technical teachings on any art forms. There will be a sensual dance class with the aim of exploring dance and movement as a way of awakening creativity and sensuality.
Is this course just for women?
This course is for women AND queer people of any gender identity as well as trans and non binary folks.