***Thank you so much to everyone who entered, and congratulations to the winner! This giveaway is now closed. Please be sure to check out Petrea’s amazing course to get in touch with your creative muse!***
I’m so excited to share a creative giveaway with you! My friend, Petrea Hansen Adamidis (whom I met through the amazing Goddess Circle) has created a beautiful, fun ecourse to help you reconnect with your inner muse!
I asked Petrea to share more about the course here, and then be sure to keep reading to find out how you can win a spot in the next course, which starts on 1/27!
Your ecourse is called, “Painting with Your Muse.” What does the word, “Muse” mean to you?
Thank you for inviting me to Soul Speak, Jodi!
When I speak of your Muse, I mean that part of you that is creative and wise. The part that reflects your authentic self. We all have an inner Muse. For some of us our Muse may be elusive, or perhaps her voice is quiet or drowned out by other “should” voices, so we find it difficult to connect with her.
Why is it so important to connect with your muse?
Connecting with your Muse is more than connecting with your creativity. We are all creative beings, and when we create we tap into our full potential for expression and connection with the world. Connecting with our inner Muse allows us to utilize our intuitive side. When we create through painting and other expressive arts, we invite the alchemy of creation. By visualizing our inner world outwardly, we become clearer about who we are and where it is we need to go. When we tap into our creative power through our muse we are in essence tuning into our inner wisdom and internal guidance system.
How does your course help with this?
Each and every one of us has an artist within. Permission is key. Once that inner artist is out, there is no stopping her! Give her the space and tools and she will create. Give her the right messages and support and she will flourish.
Sometimes it can be hard to hear your heart over those loud inner voices of self-doubt. I created Painting with Your Muse to help those who long to connect with their Muse more authentically. I offer it as a way to guide you back to your creative power, and inner wisdom.
This e-course is not about painting technique, it’s about re-learning how to trust your creative intuition. I share what I have learned and un-learned both as one who has struggled to claim the name “artist” and as an Art Therapist. I know how powerful it can be to reunite with your muse. I know how hard it can be to make that connection without support.
In Painting With Your Muse you will discover and tap into your creative source deep within through expressive arts exercises, guided meditations and videos guiding you through the intuitive painting process.
Can you share a bit more about what is covered each week?
Definitely!
- In Week One we will lay the grounds for creative expression preparing your external and internal environment in order for your artist within to feel more comfortable.
- In Week Two we begin to peel back the layers to your creative side, inviting you to loosen up and let go through different creative exercises.
- In Week Three we explore the shadows, calling out and challenging the monsters that inhibit creativity.
- In Week Four we continue to break the patterns that block your creativity. Following your natural internal rhythm to connect with creativity.
- In Week Five we delve deeper. Gently exploring your inner-landscape and creativity, and further connecting you to your creative source.
How does your Painting With Your Muse e-course work?
Each week we will start with some expressive arts exercises, I will guide you through some creative warm-ups to prepare you before you begin, then move into a guided meditation to help awaken your inner muse. Through videos I will gently guide you through the intuitive painting process.
Each week you will receive several videos and a new e-book with expressive arts exercises, inspiration and guidance to make shift happen. There will be 2 live scheduled video conferences (to be recorded) to check-in and talk about utilizing process painting to its fullest. Plus you will receive 4 different guided meditations to compliment the theme of the week and to help you connect on a deeper level with your muse. Museful Inspiration via e-mail will be sent out regularly. There is also a supportive private forum where you will have the opportunity to join with other painting Muses as well as receive guidance for your process from myself.
Do you have to be an artist or is it also meant for people who consider themselves non-artists?
If this course speaks to you – it’s for you. I have had both participants who considered themselves to be artists and also those who had never painted before in their lives.
This course if for you if:
- You feel like your creative expression has plateaued and needs some reviving.
- You want to explore your creative side & tap into your potential.
- You’re tired of feeling creatively blocked.
- You see yourself as an artist but would like to take your self-expression through art further.
What are some suggestions you have for people so that they can connect with their muse?
- Stop being so serious: If you want to engage your Muse then be prepared to loosen up a little and stop being so serious. If you find yourself making excuses not to create then yes you are being too serious! Your Muse needs the freedom, the room to be playful. She doesn’t like to be confined to restrictions and expectations. Don’t scare her away with your serious face. She wants to have fun, throw those rules out the door
- Stop judging yourself and your Muse: Allow yourself to have fun with your creativity. Your Muse can be very sensitive. She doesn’t like to feel judged. Be gentle with her.
- Give yourself the time to be with your Muse: If you are always rushing about busy with other more important things she is going to feel snubbed and likely she will feel like she is not important enough. Be sure to set aside some time to play with your muse regularly.
- Plan ahead: Schedule the time in your calendar. Don’t just say you are going to paint or play with your art materials when you have time on the weekend or maybe some other time this week. Actually schedule it in and make it part of your routine – like you would brushing your teeth. Start with a small amount of time and work your way up.
- Stop the drama: Identify the messages that others have said to you in the past or present. Which ones have become the stories or excuse you tell yourself that keeps you from letting loose and creating fully?
Be sure to click on the banner below to learn all about Petrea’s course! Class starts on 1/27!
One lucky winner will be randomly chosen to win a spot in the next Painting With Your Muse e-course beginning January 27th!
To enter:
- Follow both Petrea – Art Therapist and Soul Speak on Facebook.
- Follow both Petrea and Jodi on Twitter.
- Leave a comment below sharing why you would like to win this Intuitive Painting ecourse. (If you’re reading this via a reader or email, please click here to leave a comment.)
One lucky winner will be chosen randomly on 1/25 at 11:59 pm pst.
Good luck!
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Petrea Hansen Adamidis R.C.A.T. is a Registered Art Therapist, a mom, artist, & an avid nature nut with over 18 years of experience working with children, families and adults. Join her at ArtTherapist.ca where she offers a free e-course “Free Your Inner Child” plus other creative resources to draw the self out. http://www.arttherapist.ca
Awesome giveaway as usual. I have just towards the end of last year discovered intuitive painting and have been experimenting and exploring in my own. This course seems perfect as the next step to follow by receiving some guidance and proper channelling. Love and light.
Thank you for such an inspiring give away! As an occupational therapist and meditation teacher I would like to take this course for my own experience with the intent to enrich others. Loving kindness begins with ourselves and this looks like a brilliant tool and path!
This sounds wonderful, exactly what I need to break the chains that have been keeping me tied to a very painful creative block that is wreaking havoc on my self-esteem and self-confidence. I truly hope I win this giveaway!!!! Thank you so much for your generosity in offering us this amazing opportunity.
Namaste,
Jade
I really need this course … I am going through a ton of life changes, including many financial worries and I feel this course could help keep my head where I need it to be .. on my creative side and writing, etc. I need need need to wake up my Muse as all of the stress between the money to mine and my son’s disability ~ I am just needing a good, thorough and enlightening escape. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Much love!
I would love to win this ecourse. Some of my best times as a child were when I sat by a lake and did watercolor painting. Having a rough family life with a brother struggling with cystic fibrosis and a mentally unstable mother, these quiet times brought me back to my core. Reading about this ecourse, I think this can bring me back to a time where I could find peace without my critical voice.
I used to create amazing jewelry and prayer sticks and in the past couple of years have felt blocked, it would be awesome to join Petrea in once more opening up my creativity. Seems my inner child and inner Goddess has gone to sleep, time to wake her up. Thanks.
I’m trying to explore my creative side these past months and I feel quite overwhelmed with the load of things I don’t know and the amount of self-doubt I face every day. So, this course would really help me forget my fears and move on with creating pictures for my picture books.
I have been a life coach for over 12 years but have lost contact with my inner artist, the child has succumbed to the “expert”! Clearly we need a coup d’etat! Would love to hear more from Petrea.
This is awesome Jodi! I would love to take this course. I have been working on coaching for eating disorders recovery and part of my learning process is how to use art. What a great addition to my toolbox. Thanks so much!
I have recently started with hypnosis and am working through some issues that started in my teens. I work in advertising and at times I am “at the mercy” of what the employer wants. Would love to have a chance to get my own creative muse awake and out there. I am finding out that there is so much in me that needs and wants to get out there and this sounds like the perfect release.
What a great giveaway! This course sounds wonderful! I’ve been working a lot on trying to improve my intuition lately. I think this course might help. I’ve always had a lot of hang ups art artistic expression. I want to be free and uninhibited when I create, but it’s really hard for me. I’ve recently started art journaling, but my muse is pretty confused these days. It would be so great to win the course giveaway and hopefully get her back on track. 😉
What a wonderful give-away! I used to be so creative and just get into such a flow when I painted (I have been painting and drawing all my life, it is my life’s energy). But for a long time now I am stuck. I just cannot seem to make time for it and I am just not creating anything that touches my soul. I lost the spark. I can feel it is still there, eager to emerge, but I cannot seem to do it by myself. I need help and inspiration. Art is so important to me and needs to become a big part of my life again. I am just so tired and well lost at the moment.
something wants to awaken within, it’s been asleep for sometime and it longs to stretch and reach, expand and blossom… the seed needs water… it wants to grow
Thanks
I took a one day workshop with Petrea last fall and I loved it. As amazing as it was, I feel I need more time to connect to the process and an online course, 6 week course would certainly allow further “conversations” with my Muse. I loved to be able to do this.
By the way Jodi, I love the words of wisdom you send to my inbox. I always look forward to reading them.
What a great course this will be. 😀 I’d like to win because I would like to see what I could do!
Thank you for this opportunity to make a positive change in my life. I know I have an intuitive creative muse within that is yearning for a way to express herself so that she, in turn, can share her soul with others in a beautiful, creative, imaginative way.
Namaste. Kim
Everything in my life is telling me to slow down and to play. Yet I find life has a way of pulling me away from my intentions and at the end of the day, the week, I realize that I didn’t do much by way of play. I know I need a reason, an impetus, to make it happen. If my intrinsic drive isn’t strong enough then I perhaps a little extrinsic inspiration will make me finally stop. 🙂
I would love to win for my Mom because she loves painting so much but she focuses too much on trying to be perfect with her paintings and I really think this course could help her ease up and go with the flow more. She uses a lot of judgement in her artwork and that is what stood out to me with this class, to stop being so judgmental and stop being so serious and instead just be free.
My muse has been sleeping for quite awhile, she dreams of creating but never seems to get out of bed to start. I need jumper cables attached to her feet and I think this course is just the jolt she needs. I need inspiration and a push to help peel back the blankets of stress, frustration and creative blocks that have my muse trapped. Thanks for the opportunity to win this awesome course and good luck to all that enter.
So inspiring….My muse is beating on my heart ready to dance. In the words of Edgar Degas ‘Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance’
Great giveaway! Would love to meet with my use and have some fun with her. I have been working 6-7 days a week so my muse is being neglected.
I would be so honored if I won this course. I’ve dealt with severe depression for years and haven’t been able to walk into my studio and create. It would be wonderful to have something to follow to help me break back into my creative life that I born doing.
Wow..this is what I have been asking for..thank you Universe…I was living the life of my dreams, working for the employer of the decade, made nationally televised Budweiser commercials..only to have my life almost snuffed out after a drunk driver crossed the center median and hit me head-on….was in a coma for a week..shattered almost every bone in my body, had to learn to walk again as an adult….to go from one end of duality of having the world by the tail to the polar opposite in all of about 5 seconds…oh, add into the mix 28 surgeries! I started falling into what I thought was a bottomless hole..people outside still looked at me like I was living the dream life….buying into the illusion…right about the point I thought my life couldn’t get any worse, I was wrong, it could and it did….one night I made a decision to end it all….was rushed to the emergency room..the next morning, the best visual I can give is Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, going from black and white to color…the veil had been lifted……I then realized through a bizarre ‘co-incidence’ with a Reiki master, that I had a near death the night of the accident…this shot me into a completely different awareness…I stepped into being an transformational speaker….there is a book within me that is screaming to get out and the gentle nudgings are becoming like the pebbles, stones and boulders of my story…first, God throws stones, then tosses a little more vigorously pebbles, then when you are REALLY not paying attention, God lofts mega boulders at you …..I am here for something amazing and I am ready to start writing about it ! ! !
What a wonderful idea! ( I had already followed you both on Twitter an on Facebook :D) I feel very blessed to have found Petrea’s blog. I’ve listened to her free course and also a guided meditation of hers about the New Year that immediately got me into a calm, relaxed, and joyful state.
I’m also a part of the Goddess Circle and have found so many wonderful creative spirits there.
I plan on buying Petrea’s other guided meditations this year since that New Years one was so helpful. I would love to win this course but I know that it will go to the right person whomever it is.
Love and light to you 🙂
Eren Mckay
Wow, this sounds wonderful! My paints are dusty…I really want to do it, but somehow I get stuck because I have no idea where to start! I really need a shove…I remember it being so good for my soul.
I would love to win this because I have been so involved with my family,grandkids work,I just let my creative side an art fall by the wayside. I know that the part of me thats lacking is my creative side that I must return to or Im going to bust..Its time to get reinvented,remotivated and let my inner muse out! Thank You for this opportunity..
Thank you so much for entering this wonderful giveaway everyone! I loved reading your responses. I wish you could all win, but please continue to tap into your creative muse on your own. It’s inside of you just waiting for that spark to be reignited again!
Congratulations to Jade for winning! Petrea will be in touch soon with details for you! 🙂
Thanks again Jodi for hosting & thank-you to everyone who entered! I wish you the best on your creative journey. Congratulations Jade!
Thank you so much Jodi, I am grateful beyond words! Love and light, Jade