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Greetings Creative Ones!
Are you feeling stuck, burnt out and/or depressed?
Are you tired of living life in your usual 'same burger same fry' experiences?
Are you craving for change in your life but you are scared, overwhelmed and don't know where to start?
Are you feeling bored and unfulfilled?
Do you feel ripe for transformation and change?
Do you long to create more meaning for your life?
Are you begging to make a shift and the fear keeps creeping in-- keeping you paralyzed and stagnant?
Are you wanting a deeper connection to yourself and others?
Are you ready to refuel your tank with your Creative Source?
If your answer to any of the above is YES! Then join me on Martha's Vineyard next month and re-light your fire!!!
Top 10 Reasons why YOU joining us on the Martha's Vineyard Painting Retreat will radically shift your life:
1)It is time to look at those self-sabotaging beliefs and express those toxic feelings that keep you stuck-- in a safe environment. They are not going away until you. deal. with. them.
2)"I bet you love can make it better!" to quote Eryka Badu! Love your self and give yourself the gift of a mind-body-spirit Love-immersion. Investing in your own well-being positively affects the world around you.
3)When you release what is no longer serving your well-being, you make way for growth and extraordinary opportunities to present themselves.
4)Being surrounded by authentic like-minded individuals in a supportive and nurturing environment is like rocket fuel for the soul. A cocoon for creative explosions to surface.
5) Reconnecting to nature and to the flow of life will center your being
and nourish you deeply so you may create your life and art from a place
of clarity and wellness.
6) If you are truly hungry for a breakthrough, you will create one. I promise. (and because my passion is for catalyzing breakthroughs. All you need to bring is your willingness)
7) Investing in yourself will nurture your sense of value and self-worth.
8) Tired of the status quo? Leap off that creative edge and get comfortable discovering the unknown...
9) Your ability to trust and listen to your intuition will grow and deepen with leaps and bounds!
10) Connecting to your authentic self...moves mountains when you discover & express YOUR VOICE.
ok maybe 11 reasons!
11) Fill your creative tank. Then you will be ready to take on the world!
It is hard to be bored or miss your mojo in a creative studio for a
week. Everything is there for your creative genius to rock out!!
The 7-day Painting Retreat on MARTHA's VINEYARD
Every year we offer a 7 day intuitive painting retreat on Martha's Vineyard. Ever  since I spent my first
summer on Martha's Vineyard, it has long inspired many return pilgrimages and I have longed to create a creative retreat on this magical island-- ever since I picked up a brush in re-discovering process painting.
The studio will be open 24 hours a day so you may paint at any time, day or night. Scheduled facilitated painting sessions will take place daily varying each day from 10am to 9pm.
We will be staying at an incredible private artist's retreat in a whimsical main house and writer's cottage. You will have 24-hour access to a art-barn that will be set up as our painting studio, and a private pond in the lovely Lambert's Cove area of West Tisbury.
The week includes:
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accommodations for 7 nights at the artist retreat on Flat Bottom Pond.
- private painting studio with 24-hour access in an art-barn on the property
- all materials
- teach
ings on the creative process
- morning movement to get the creative juices flowing
- individual coaching & guidance on your unique creative process,
blocks in your creativity and life and discovering your authentic
voice
- a week of guidance and support individually and as a group
- all gourmet chef-prepared local-organic meals
A local private chef will be serving up healthy gourmet, organic and locally grown food (when available) for all of our meals.
During this retreat everything is taken care of for you so that you
may relax and sink into yourself and your creative process. Morning yoga & movement will be offered to start the day off grounding ourselves and igniting our life force prior to painting sessions.
Massages & spa treatments will be available on the property during
the week for an additional investment, and you may rent bikes to
explore the island during a few free afternoons and evenings.
The week includes:
- accommodations for 7 nights at the artist retreat on Flat Bottom Pond.
- private painting studio with 24-hour access in an art-barn on the property
- all materials
- teachings on the creative process
- morning yoga & movement to get the creative juices flowing
- individual coaching & guidance on your unique creative process,
blocks in your creativity and life and discovering your authentic
voice
- a week of guidance and support individually and as a group
- all gourmet chef-prepared local-organic meals
Praise for the Martha's Vineyard Retreat.
- "The Martha's Vineyard Retreat is positively awe-inspiring. The
tranquil environment surrounded by nature made it easy for me to
connect with my higher self. The painting retreat has catalyzed my
personal growth. Through this experience my heart has opened
and allowed me to receive the abundance of love that life has to offer.
Melissa provides a safe harbor in which to explore, express, play,
take risks and be creative. She is compassionate, spontaneous, energetic, playful, intuitive, respectful and passionate. Melissa has a knack for holding space and inviting to you hear the truth within your own heart. I'm grateful for my experience and the lovely people I encountered on my journey, and I can't wait till next year.
-Sara Hufford, Photographer
Rejuvenating, memorable, momentous and cathartic, these are the
words I use to describe my week at Martha's Vineyard with Melissa's
Fire Tree Studios. It couldn't have come at a better time. I sat idle
for three years after completing a three year MFA program in painting. I guess the critiques and the harsh judgments
took their toll on me. Melissa, however, has reawakened the passion and the joy of painting as a process. I'm truly enjoying what I'm doing. Thanks to Melissa's freeing process...
I couldn't be happier, I'm painting every day, and when I'm not, I
want to be. It was the best investment in the future of my happiness."
-Bonnie Orbach, Artist, Landscape designer
This years Martha's Vineyard retreat is September 9th - 16th, 2012.
There are only 2 spaces left for this extraordinary retreat experience.
About the Intuitive Painting Process
- surrender the inner critic and transcend perceived limitation to experience our true essence
- commune with the creative life force to experience connection, joy, transformation and higher states of consciousness
- discover your own unique expression of Self
- begin with a guided awareness practice to center and align ourselves with our creative source
- painting sessions are followed by a brief mediation in a continued non-verbal space
- share and explore your creative experience within sacred space & community
- spiritual teachings, poetic musings and readings are explored
together as they parallel the creative process & natural cycles of
life
- All levels of painting experience are welcome.
This years Martha's Vineyard retreat is September 9th - 16th, 2012.
There are only 2 spaces left for this extraordinary retreat experience.
**If you are inspired to join us and are still unsure if this experience is right for you. Regardless of what is holding you back, contact me. I would love to support you in any way that I am able.
With love + passion + unabashed creativity...
Founder + Director + Master Creative Catalyst
F I R E T R E E S T U D I O S
...the art of creation.
painting + coaching + training
www.firetreestudios.com
512 524 0687
melissa@firetreestudios.com
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