Painting Our Dreams Alive

Five Weeks : Live via Zoom (Recordings are available)

Fridays at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CEST

Beginning February 7

February 7, 14, 21, 28 + March 7

Each class is ~60 minutes in length

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What would it be like to explore our dreams through art? We will be tending to this question with curiosity, in relation to both our dreams for our life, our lucid dreams, and the dreams we have while we sleep at night. 

We will be keeping a dream journal as part of our class. This is a place to record and hold the dreams that you remember. These can be dreams from the dreamtime, small snippets of feeling and imagery that you hold onto upon waking. These can be dreams that you remember from your childhood, things you wanted to be and do. These can be dreams that hold fire and inspiration for you for your future, things you want to manifest and bring into form, qualities you want to embody, places you want to visit. We are tending to our dreams in all forms.

Art is a process of bringing energy into form. My inspiration for this class is to bring devotion to my dreamtime, and through the daily tending of it through the dream journal and subsequent paintings and drawings that emerge from that, to be more consciously involved in my waking and sleeping dream life.

Back in college, I took a class about dreams and kept a very detailed dream journal. I wrote down every dream that I could remember, and I found that the more dreams I recorded, the more I remembered to remember them, and the more details of them that were available to me. However, I kept my explorations in the written form, and didn't take them to my paints.

My vision for this creative container is to see what it's liike to honor our dreams with our art. What happens when we paint them out? When we give them color and form? How do we understand them differently when we see them this way? How can our dreams become a more present part of our lives? If we engate with them in this way, do they come more alive for us? Does our life become more magical, more meaningful, more serendipitous? Will the dream symbols and medicine of our collective weave together, bringing us a deeper understanding of our own archetypes?

If this speaks to you, please join me for a five week exploration of art and dreams. I will be guiding painting meditations during our classes, and based on the information we collect through our dream journals, we will each have different themes and stories that will be unfolding through our dreamwork. Each of these painting meditations will have a somatic element to them.

For this class, you will need:

• a dream journal, preferably with paper that can handle watercolor and other art medium
• a set of watercolors
• a watercolor brush or two
• a pen or pencil that you enjoy writing with
• other art supplies as desired

(Supplies are not included in class price. Please let me know if you'd like any recommendations for supplies.)

A Zoom link will be sent the evening prior to each class. Each class will be recorded and the recordings will each be available for 30 days. 

Please note that I am not a dream “expert.” This is not a class about how to dream, but an invitation to tend our dreams with our creative devotion. We will share our collective wisdom about dreaming throughout the five weeks, and learn from each other as we explore through our art and somatic practices.

This class is for you if:

*You want to immerse in daily creative practice

*You want to connect/reconnect with the journal

*You want to be a part of a collective field of inspiration

*You want to explore the expressive arts and connect with new/old parts of yourself

*You want to bring more connection to your DREAMS into your life

*You love the magic of synchronicity and wonder

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Disclaimer: Please note that this class provides a fun and intuitive space for the exploration of art and creativity. Melissa is an artist and lover of sharing the joy of creativity. This class is not a substitute for professional therapeutic council. Please consult a Professional Therapist or Art Therapist for any such support. The material shared in this course is not intended to treat or cure any disease.

All rights reserved. No material from this course may be reproduced without express written permission of Melissa McConnell.