[New Musing] Are Your Actions Aligned with Your Intentions?

Published: Tue, 10/29/13

New Musing:  Are Your Actions Aligned with your Intentions?

Greetings Creative Ones - ( yes, that means you!)

I am in a wisdom circle of women where we meet weekly on the phone for an hour.  People dial in from all over the country and this question came to me when looking at the wholeness of our group.  Some people were naturally more committed than others and the whole group was feeling affected by this.  Energy was leaking out and we all began to feel it at an energetic and emotional level.  It was impacting the healthy and well-being of the group.

So I posed this question for group inquiry:  Are your actions aligning with your intentions?

When ever I feel disengaged with something in my life, a relationship, my business, a client, or painting, writing piece etc, I ask myself this question.

Are my actions aligning with my highest intentions?

Where is my commitment level to this group, this relationship, this creative process to MYSELF and my dreams?

How can I re-evaluate without judgement my intentions/vision and re-commit in a more empowered and therefore passionate way?

What can I let go of in order to commit to my life more fully aligned with the truth of who I am, rather than what others expect of me?

One thing I know for SURE is that commitment is a powerful force that moves mountains.  It is when we take that leap of faith, and commit to following through on our deepest impulses that lead us to find greater levels of trust, inner security, confidence, passion and flow in our lives.

 At the moment of COMMITMENT,  the Universe conspires to assist you.

I have seen this in my life and in the lives of my clients for years.  So if your feeling apathetic in any area of your life, ask your self...

Do my actions line up with my deepest desire for my life and contribution?  And if not, what can I do to change that?  Where can I get support and recommit to living life that is purely inspired by my open heart?

I would LOVE to support you in getting clear on your intentions and finding the courage to take action on what is most important to you.

And if you don't know what you want, fret not!   We know that what isn't working is what we don't want!  Once we know what we don't want, we get more clear about what we DO want and become that much closer to creating it in life.

Join me and my apprentices next month in the Texas Hill Country for a retreat of journeying back to your WILD Knowing heart!

*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 wonderful integrated approach to creating change and momentum in your life and/or business.

Offer ends November 1st 2013, payment plans are available.



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 primal force?! 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...

This retreat will guarantee to:

  • Tap into your inner wild intuitive 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.


Registration ends November 1st, 2013.


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.

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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.