[New Musing] Where has your WILD Spirit gone...?

Published: Thu, 10/17/13

New Musing:  Where has your WILD Spirit gone?

wild

adjective \ˈwī(-ə)ld\  of an animal : living in nature without human control or care : not tame 

of a plant : growing or produced in nature : not grown or farmed by people

of land : not changed by people : not settled or developed

-Merriam-Webster's Dictionary

You know that voice.  The primal stirring and yearning voice that lies deep within you.  The voice that is connected to the cycles of the moon, the rhythms of the ocean and the pulse of every living, breathing thing.

The voice that is your innate connection to the wisdom of the Universe and holds the knowingness that is only true for your divine, brilliant heart.

She is your inner wildness.   And she holds the keys to your power as a woman.  Not your power over others ...but your force of nature.  Your potency, potential and delight.

Has she disappeared, left abandoned-- by you?  Locked in a cage of other people's expectations, shame of the fire that inhabits your truth and the stress and routine of modern day life?  Hidden under fear, resentment, and raging at the grief and loss of our connection to Spirit.

"To be fully human is to be wild.

Wild is the strange pull and whispering wisdom. It's the gentle nudge and the forceful ache. It is your truth, passed down from the ancients, and the very stream of life in your blood. Wild is the soul where passion and creativity reside, and the quickening of your heart. Wild is what is real, and wild is your home."

 - Victoria Erickson

It is silly and required really; this trend in modern day society to return to the earth, return to what is real, true, organic and authentic.  The reality is it all starts within us.  We must shift the inner world, to see change in the external.  Be the Change.  Begins with going in.  And in the coming times if we do not honor our natural intuitive selves, we will only create more suffering for ourselves and for our planet.

And if we don't give that inner wild child a safe, sacred place to express herself where she is honored for her gifts and wisdom, she tends to frail up and die inside or unconsciously wreck havoc in our lives by creating addictions, drama, conflict and dis-ease.

So go ahead.  Give your inner wild thing a little love...

It is not what you are doing...it's....How are you being? 

Are you connected to your inner wildness?

Where are you limiting yourself from your true organic, untamed impulses and natural instinct as a woman?

Where have you been taught that to be free and authentic was shameful? 

Where have you been conditioned to not trust your intuitive knowing? 

"Restore the wild and the warrior.  You shouldn't have to get sick or halt domesticity to find it; you just need to remember that you are human, still very much alive, and wickedly, wildly extraordinary. "

- Victoria Erickson

Free your WILD SPIRIT from it's cage.  And tap into that inner strength, creativity passion and power that lies within you.

Join me in a safe and sacred space as we liberate the intuitive Wild Spirit with paint in the Texas Hill Country next month!

We are moving into some very transformative times in the next several weeks.  This retreat will be a haven of nourishment and freedom from bondage of old paradigms that no longer serve.

Discover repressed passion, joy and prosperity by liberating your self from limiting beliefs and overcoming the inner critic that keeps you unfulfilled.

Register by November 1st. 2013.


The Call of The Wild: Intuitive Painting Retreat for Women
Friday, November 8, 2013 at 6pm - Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 6pm
Located on a private vineyard in the TX Hill country, Pontotoc Texas

Wild and Woman.  When women here these words an old old memory is stirred and brought back to life.  The memory is of our absolute, undeniable and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore.  We may have forgotten her names we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her; we know she belongs to us and we to her.

-Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PH.D,

Are You Ready to awaken, express and reclaim....your inner knowing your authentic feminine essence that is uniquely you?! You know, that raw creative life force that lives and breathes deep within you?

Then this, my Sisters...is for YOU!

Join us for a painting retreat of deepening your intuition and wild primal sense of intuitive knowing... t

This retreat will guarantee to:

  • Tap into your inner wild feminine nature
  • Free you from feeling stuck in your life, creativity and business
  • Explore your imagination and discover your authentic voice
  • Give you permission to BE yourself and FULLY express yourself in a safe and sacred space
  • Let go of limiting beliefs that keep you stuck and small
  • Awaken your raw juicy passion within to fuel your life, projects and purpose
  • Re-energize your relationships with the courage to speak your truth
  • Connect with other women in a real, authentic way
  • Encourage you to Paint your heart out
  • Tap into your inner wild nature that holds all the answers to everything you need to know and lies within.
  • Express repressed parts of your self and psyche to reclaim lost vitality and a sense of wholeness and well-being.

WHAT HAPPENS at a The Call of The 'Wild': Woman's Intuitive Painting Retreat?

  • Escape your regular life to the magic and mystery of the Texas Hill Country.  We kick the weekend off with a down home BBQ under the Texas Sunset and follow it with a Vineyard & Winery tour and tasting of the award winning Tempranillo from Pontotoc Vineyards.      *Awesome Christmas gifts!
  • Stoke a camp fire and tell stories that will make you howl and for sure inspire your imagination, creativity and sisterhood.
  • We start everyone morning off with authentic movement and dance to get your soul grooving and creative juices flowing.
  • Healthy Conscious Gourmet Cuisine provided by Brandy Gibbs, from Fine Home Dining of Austin.
  • Express your Self with paint and passion in an old milk barn and let the charm of the Texas Hill Country soften your mind and invite you to relax, play and be inspired.

*At last year's tasting!

*FALL SAVINGS*  For a limited time, I am offering a special 3-month Ignite your Life Coaching Program!  Receive the retreat FREE when you register ---- a $750 savings!  WOW!  This is incredible and a wonderul integrated approach to creating change and momentum in your life and business.

--> Email Melissa at firetreestudios.com to inquire if it is the right program for you.


For details click here.
To register click here.


Praise for the Wild Women's Painting Retreat in Pontotoc, TX:

"The Call of the Wild: Woman's Painting Retreat in Pontotoc, TX filled me with inspiration, strength, and happiness.  I left with an overflowing feeling of abundance. Thank you all.  I will definitely go again.  If you go bring your boots, bright red sparkling boots.  With that said.........what happens in Pontotoc stays in Pontotoc!".

-Anon, artist & graphic designer

Working with Melissa:

"Melissa has the gift of holding space with safe and compassionate boundaries whilst still exuding her very personable and savvy self. Her insights have allowed me to see and embrace myself in my wholeness, opening me up to new ways of being in the world. Through her guidance, I feel empowered to honor my own innate capacity to intuit my own insights and transformation. Melissa truly is a unique catalyst for change. Kahlil Gibran said, 'The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.' Melissa embodies this, living her own wholeness in everything she does, inviting you to walk alongside her on your own path of transformation." - Bec Knaggs, Artist & Teacher & Certified Fire Tree Method Creative Catalyst


*Please forward to anyone who may benefit from letting loose on a blank canvas and may be inspired to join us.

Learn more and register HERE






I look forward to serving you!

With love + passion + unabashed creativity...






P.S. A passionate welcome to all of our new subscribers!  Welcome to our tribe!



A B O U T  M E L I S S A  D ' A N T O N I

Melissa D'Antoni is the visionary force behind Fire Tree Studios. After leaving a highly-successful-by-certain-standards-yet-unfulfilling career in Internet and technology marketing, Melissa set out to pursue her real passion---Creative Self Expression and to live a truly empowered and inspired life.

A vision keeper and creative catalyst for the last 15 years, she inspires others on their journey of Self-Realization in order to transform their art, life and business, with passion and practicality. Fire Tree Studios offers intuitive painting retreats, Ignite your Life & Coaching Programs, The Phoenix Rising Experience, The Art of Entrepreneurship and The Fire Tree Method Creative Catalyst Training Program to serve clients in unlocking their full potential, on the canvas and off.