Hollyhock, May 10-14, 2010

Creativity is an authentic devotional and healing path. Its flavors and shades and peculiar demands assert, at every turn, the work of hands as an exemplary guide in the unfolding of awareness. Explore — collaboratively, playfully — creative work as devotion, as revelation, as a gentle opening polished by the shapes of beauty.

Through the work of hands — in art, poetry, movement, sculpture, music, and ritual — you’ll reach for the essence of creative endeavor. Become familiar with various creative approaches, including those in Ross Laird’s book, Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft. Learn how to follow the simple alchemy that begins in the hand as it opens the palm and reaches, with supple fingers, outward. This reaching, in which the hand and heart together grasp the world, is the core of creative work. No prior creative or artistic experience is expected or required.

Tuition: $495 CDN.
Four nights; meals and accommodation extra.