Red Madonna Mother Nature

The world around us is moving quickly, out of rhythm with the natural world. You can feel it in your body and in the Earth.

What can you do? You can gather with women to rewild your natural cycles in collaboration with creation and community, tending to the pace, place, space, and grace of a rewilded life.

Let us gather our life force from the Source of all Creation, the Natural World of Mother Nature.

Step out of overwhelm and into ceremonial time as part of a consistent creative spiritual practice.

Rewild Yourself Through Intentional Creativity®

MOTHER NATURE
Red Madonna Sisterhood
Guided by Havi Mandell and Shiloh Sophia
June 21, 2021

A 13 Moon Homecoming of
Rhythm, Ritual, and Relationship
with Mother Nature
and Your Natural Body

The Benefits and Blessings of Red Madonna

Red Madonna is a creative path of devotion and is the spiritual home of Intentional Creativity®. Our online sanctuary is a unique and precious space to be held by the Sacred Feminine while surrounded and supported by a global circle of sisters, daughters, mothers, aunties, and grandmothers, sharing wisdom and gifts with each other, and in devotion to future generations. We do not just honor diversity, we cultivate it, inviting each of you to actively participate and bring in teachings that come from you sharing the beautiful essence of who you are, that enrich all of us, and invite all of us into deeper inquiry, exploration, and the creation of our own spiritual at-homeness.

And we are a spiritual HOME, a community devoted to safety, non-judgment, support, and mutual exploration, so that you can trust that you are in, as Sue Boardman says, “a place where we can go to find a place where we belong.”

The teachings are invitations, sparks to light up what your soul already knows so that you can enrich and empower your personal world and make a meaningful difference in the world around you.

To join Red Madonna invites you to:

Develop meaningful intentionally creative spiritual rituals and practices.
Experience presence, painting, and prayer in community.
Feel the support of a non-judgmental loving sisterhood as you navigate your spiritual journey.
Engage in monthly red thread circle calls, meditations, and explorations.
Connect to your spiritual center and your innate wildness and intuitive knowing.
Embody your Self-Sovereignty and Sensuality, informed by your wild natural self in harmony with the rhythms and cycles of Nature.
Honor sacred rest with the practice of the Sabbath.
Develop a body of writing, sketches, and a powerful painting and share your wisdom with others.

By being a connected part of Nature, you’ll discover how to access your own inner knowing.

When you can’t hear your own voice, it's easy to start searching outside yourself for answers—and that often leads you down a path that doesn’t feel true to who you are.

This sisterhood has been gathering in circle for 15 years, since 2012. When you say yes to this community you say yes to sacred practice.

A MESSAGE FROM US

Dear Sister of Earth,

Deep within your bones, in the marrow of memory, you remember a time when we lived each moment in harmony and dialogue with all the beings of creation. We knew them as our family, with Mother Nature as the Beloved Feminine, nourishing us all. It was a time of living in sacred relationship and reciprocity with Life, following the cycles of the natural world. All of that is still here if we open, listen, and remember.

Perhaps, you feel that soul longing for a life of conscious interbeing, to be a living prayer to Life. Imagine each breath a holy dialogue, a creation, and a song of connection with all breathing Life. In each moment, we are creating with the trees in their creative dream, blooming with the flowers, singing with the birds... all of life participating in every act of creation. We each share our voices in their gorgeous diversity, yet all come from oneness, birthed from Mother Earth. We are part of a limitless, loving web of creation.

As you open to color, light, shadow, and texture, you become a sacred artist of Life. As you open to the sounds, harmonies, silences, and rhythms, you become a sacred musician of Life. As you open to the movement, breath, space, and dance, you become a sacred dancer of Life. As you open in awe to the lyrical voices of creation unfolding, you become a sacred poet of Life.

Through intentionally creative processes (painting, praying, writing, moving, and singing), devoted time and attention in Nature, ritual, and sisterhood, Mother Nature will invite you into deep coherence and love with Life, blossoming into your True Nature, coming home to yourself and to your place in the spiral of Life.

An Experience of ReMothering while ReWilding Yourself

Imagine...

What would it mean to intentionally honor, listen to, and welcome Mother Nature's Nourishing, Creative, Inclusive Love.. the voice that speaks the language of all creation, that carries a wisdom as old as creation itself, to receive her Grace

What would it mean to be, on a daily basis, in connection, communion, and conversation with the grasses, the trees, the winds, the waters, the squirrels, the birds, the sun, and the moon?

What would it mean to feel intimate connection to and at-homeness with the place and space where you are?

What would it mean to sit outside with a non-human being and listen and sketch with that being, bringing his/her/their presence into your heart, your journal, and your canvas?

What would it mean to uncover, remember, and embody your own natural, wild self as you connect with the natural rhythms and cycles of each day, the phases of the moon, the changing seasons, with the very pulse of life?

What would it mean to open and awaken your senses and sensual self to fully-embodied living and relating with yourself and the world?

What would it mean to honor and express your sacred artist through a 13 Moon painting informed by your relationship with the beauty and wisdom of the natural world and the Sacred Feminine expressed as Mother Earth?

What would it mean to discover and embody the artistry, the music, the dance, and the poetry of a life inspired by Mother Earth?

You don’t need painting experience. Just a willingness.
We’ll guide you every step of the way.

And if you’re already a seasoned artist?
We'll take you to the edge of your next creative expression!

Your painting becomes more than art.
It becomes a living artifact—a reminder of who you are, who you're becoming, and your deep animistic connection to a Living Earth.

Because this isn’t just about painting. Painting is just the access point to your identity, your consciousness, and your way of seeing and being in this world...and how you will choose to participate in the world based on this knowing and relationship.

Now, imagine what’s possible...

You live with a sense of grace for all you receive, for all the blessings of being alive.

You feel deeply at home and connected to your embodied, sensual self.

You have a vibrant, intimate relationship and sense of belonging with all of life.

You sense the presence of Mother Nature with you in each moment.

You live your life as the Wild, Free, Natural being you were always meant to be.

You take your seat at the Council—fully seen, fully celebrated, and home.

Imagine being rooted in a community of loving, welcoming sisters, a place of belonging, friendship, and mutual empowerment and exploration.

“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being in the world and returning to the soul-place. When we are children and young girls, the instinctive nature notices all theses phases and cycles. It hovers quite near us and we are aware and active at various intervals as we see fit.

Once, we lived by these cycles and seasons year after year, and they lived in us. They calmed us, danced us, shook us, reassured us, made us learn creaturally. They were part of our soul-skins, a pelt that enveloped us and the wild and natural world, at least until we were told that there really were only four seasons to a year, and that women themselves really only had three seasons-girlhood, adulthood and old womanhood. And that was supposed to be that.

But we cannot allow ourselves to sleepwalk wrapped in this flimsy and unobservant fabrication, for it causes women to deviate from their natural and soulful cycles and therefore to suffer from dryness, tiredness and homesickness. It is far better for us to return to our own unique and soulful cycles regularly, all of them, any of them.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estes – Women Who Run With the Wolves

Painting 2023 by Shiloh Sophia

Red Madonna's Mother Nature is for you if...

You experience the natural world as your sacred family: alive, conscious, and integral to who you are.
You seek to rewild yourself consciously, and intimately move into coherence with the beauty and cycles of Nature through 13 moons of painting, writing, and ritual.
You would love to consistently engage in practices to deepen your intimacy with Life.
You seek a deep spiritual connection with the Divine Feminine, and are ready to release separation and embrace the wonder and magic of a life informed by Mother Nature.
You value the love, safety, and support of a community of women on a spiritual path that invites all traditions.

The Red Madonna Sanctuary is a MUSEA Intentional Creativity® Community working through a Sacred Feminine Archetype we call "The Red Madonna."

The Red Madonna is She who appears in your heart and on your path. The Divine Mother, in her many forms, has appeared worldwide for tens of thousands of years.

We like to imagine that her next appearance is in your own heart. We explore Her and our relationship with Creation through devoted common practices, including presence, painting, and prayer, and tracking the moon's phases through our delivery of teachings. We have gathered every moon since December 2011 and focused on different themes and frameworks.

Alongside our teachings, we extend the sanctuary of a Sisterhood Membership. This is a space where we gather in our Red Tent, a safe haven for all to be and explore their unique spiritual paths. Here, we offer loving support, prayer, inspiration, and deep presence, all informed by intentionally creative practices, fostering a sense of nurturing and care.

Your Red Madonna experience includes Cura Council, where we practice ceremonies that can begin, further, and sustain the sacred relationship of life.

To know how to mend, we must first awaken individually and within the context of the "village." The idea of the Cura is about people who care for the soul of the village and provide an innate healing presence to tend the wounds and invoke the wonders.

The Cura Council is a call to honor all life as sacred and to see humans as nature and in collaboration with all of life. This inter-generational project is held within the context of the Wheel of the Year and the Intentional Creativity® Communities.

Guided by Curate Shiloh Sophia and The Cura Council with honor to our Ancestors and the Stewards of Every Land We Come from and into.

Comments on Red Madonna Student Experiences:

First, thank you for all the love that you put into this journey. I have loved our time together in the Red Tent Sanctuary. I have been inspired by you and all of the members. I have learned so much. I have painted and written through new eyes and surprised myself at the depth and healing in my work.

I looked forward each week to roots and branches. I would sometimes immerse myself for the entire week in the prompts and inquiries. I also look forward to the waxing and waning moon posts. They were wonderful!

I'm so looking forward to our next Red Madonna together. The team is so warm and kind and welcoming and makes you feel a part instantly! It is a wonderful sacred space. ~ Debbie Jackson

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The Red Madonna experience has been transformative for me. What a journey it has been. One of truth, letting go, deep connection to my Guardian Angel and Celebratrix, and with all the women on the red thread. And… to myself. I’m full of Gratitude and Joy and Hope for the future. A really big deal in our current world. ~ Stacey McGlame

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Red Madonna has been one of the few places I've found where I could just be myself and feel not only accepted but welcomed and nourished. I love having a place to share my art and experience others' processes and creativity. Whether it's a drawing, painting, music, prose, poetry, or inspiring readings, the heart-warming and spiritual focus of the lessons and sharing continues to be a wonderful source of inspiration and food for my soul. ~ Deborah Pierce

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The journey with Red Madonna during the past year has been deep and enriching. For me it was a heart-filled sanctuary of witnessing, holding, sharing, and painting.

It was a sacred place to meet, to come as you are, to partake as you like, to experience and to enjoy the richness of sisterhood, creative expression in image, word, and even song. During this painting journey of discovery where we worked on two paintings, The Celebratrix and the Guardian Angel, our beloved Havi Mandell so devotedly and beautifully led and inspired us. It was also during this time that we were able to celebrate the flow of natural rhythms and celestial cycles together in ceremony. All of this has been such an epic experience and that ongoing for a whole year.

It was so impressive to witness how each of us shifted with life's challenges as well as with our painting's advancement and we grew, each in her own way. I can only highly recommend this course and I have personally already journeyed with Red Madonna at least 6 times! You will definitely come out changed but in a very positive way. My gratitude is great and I bow to Havi and her beautiful team and how they have enriched the space regardless of what showed up. May this Red Thread continue to vibrate ever so strongly as it supports this collective field of goodness. ~ Easula Sedlmaier

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In some ways, I'm kind of a "new kid" in the land of Red Madonna. I began this adventure in about 2019 and was immediately struck by the strong sense of community and readiness to engage new traditions and wisdom. In many ways it reminded me of meeting Sally, Dick, and Jane in the first grade and discovering a whole world of possibilities I never dreamed existed!

I love the way we explore with images and words, each in our own ways. This is a time for gathering in a circle where we are welcome... for adding new tools to our Medicine Baskets, and working together with the amazing power of soul expression! Red Madonna is a place to do just that! ~ Dr. Sue Boardman

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The Red Madonna Sisterhood became one of the treasures in my life. I experience love, beauty, depth, wisdom, knowledge, and sharing with a deep sense of acceptance. For me, it is like a place by the fire, where we gather to share our stories, our worries, and our joy, wrapping it in prayers and psalms of devotion to the divine, to the Mother - whatever this might mean to each woman. I am very grateful for this gift in my life, guided by women of a heart of wisdom and compassionate love. ~ Anna Maria Michalski

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Joining Red Madonna in 2014 was a magical and heartfelt decision that has nourished me through the years as an ever-expanding beautiful journey. Being in a supportive, generous, and caring community of women has been fun, and a cherished and integral part of my life. Curiosity is my spice of life, and Red Madonna is the special ingredient! ~ Cathy Pearl

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I have taken Red Madonna several times, the journey is a deep and fruitful one. The collective Spiritual Wisdom, blended with art instruction and symbolic guidance, is a rare find. ~ Kendall Sarah Scott

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Red Madonna is a dance with the mother: yours, mine, ours; a dance on the canvas floor, back rubbing against the heart walls of our yearning to feel our divine mother's pulsating passion pouring through our hands, feet, and tongues. We reclaim Her, one intentional stroke at a time, and She renames us by her star-lit sighs, an orgasm of delight at our homecoming, our coming home to the truth of who we are: hers.

When we go on this journey called Red Madonna, we are going on a pilgrimage to the holy temples of the Mother in the desert of the faraway places in our soul we were never taught existed, but knew... they had to be. The terrain can be unforgiving ~ we have been prodigal daughters for too long ~ yet the rewards... ah! The rewards for such a pilgrim, for such a daughter, are... to be discovered, for all who make it before the altar of the Most Holy Womb have been sworn to secrecy about such a blessing. All I can say is

"I am not the same. Thank Goddess.

Go ye and be transformed in the crucible of her love."

I gift you Blessings for your journey! ~ Anasuya Isaacs

Mother Earth Painting

Create a powerful painting that holds the energy of your wild self in deep relationship with Mother Nature and all Life, with step-by-step guidance and video instruction guided by Shiloh Sophia and Havi

Journaling. Sketching and "Taking Notes" in Nature

Monthly Painting Videos and Monthly Moon Cycle Posts

Monthly Sisterhood Circles on Zoom

Monthly Red Tent Cafe on Zoom (exploring topics together)

Weekly Monday Medicine Basket and Shabbat Meditation Posts

Invitation to Participate with the 8 Cura Council Ceremonies

Lifetime Access to All Materials

Private Ning Website and Private Community App

Join a circle of creative, conscious women inside our private iMusea app and our Red Tent inside of our Red Madonna website—share your process, be witnessed, and receive encouragement every step of the way.

FAQs

What is the schedule?

Our teachings align with the New and Full Moon, occurring within four days before or after the listed date. This flexible approach, honed over eight years, ensures a stress-free learning experience. Block your creation dates on your calendar, and you'll be right on time. We begin on June 21st. You will receive a detailed schedule when you begin.

On the New, Waxing, and Waning Moon, there will be teaching posts, inquiries, and activities. There will also be weekly Shabbat Meditations with Havi and Monday Medicine Basket Teachings with Sue Boardman.

Painting videos will be released on the full moons.

We will come together for Sisterhood Circle Calls via Zoom the first Wednesday of every month and will have a monthly Red Tent Cafe Call via Zoom to be in deep conversations together.

You are invited to join Shiloh and Kathleen Brigidina for Cura Council Ceremonies eight times per year (solstices, equinoxes, and the in between points)

What materials do we need?

Once you register, a full list will be provided. The basics are canvas, brushes, spray bottle and liquid acrylic paint. You can hang the painting on the wall or on an easel.

How much time should I set aside?

Plan for a minimum of 1.5 hours per event and 2 hours, weekly, to work individually. Or you have a choice of a Painting Spirit Buddy to work with for accountability.

Do I need painting or writing experience?

No painting or writing experience is necessary! We have taught this painting method to thousands of women. If you are a seasoned artist, get ready to come to the edge of your creative practice!

What payment options are available?

Red Madonna is $990 or monthly payments of $93

What happens after I register?

The countdown begins and you will begin to receive materials to prepare your space. A materials list and a schedule will be provided so you can set up your studio before we begin and set the time aside.

What if I still have questions?

Email support@musea.org

Founder of Intentional Creativity® Movement and Musea Center for Intentional Creativity, for 31 years she has dedicated her soul work to the practice of creativity as a path of transformation and consciousness. As a gallery owner, she has represented her own work, as well as hundreds of women artists.

Her work is taught in university MA and Ph.D. programs, at the United Nations, and by over 300 Intentional Creativity® Teachers and Coaches worldwide. She is the creator of over seven illustrated books and journals and is currently working on a series of mythic novels as well as an inspirational deck.

Havi Mandell, PhD, LCSW is an artist, Intentional Creativity® Coach and Teacher, Cura, and a Yoreshet (legacy keeper) of a Feminine transmission of ancient Canaanite, indigenous mysticism that evolved to include Lurianic and Chassidic Kabbalah, passed down the maternal line. She is a psychotherapist with 40 years of experience, a spiritual and energetic healing facilitator, trained as a reiki master, polarity therapist, neoshamanic and energetic practitioner, and has taught intentionally creative kabbalah for 10 years. She has presented nationwide on mind-body healing and creative process, and, with Shiloh Sophia McCloud, has taught thousands of women kabbalah, intentional creativity, and spiritual expression through the Red Madonna program. Her dissertation was on the experience of coming to feel at home in the world after childhood trauma. www.havimandell.com

Why work with us? We have been doing this a long time...and we are devoted to women's work.

We have served 200,000+ women in over 128 countries
Over 40 years of collective experience doing this work
We serve thousands of women students each month
We are women-owned and operated companies devoted to the transformational path of women
We have provided millions of dollars in jobs for hundreds of women
We are artists, storytellers and speakers who consistently guide women towards their own self-initiation
We have taught this process to over 1,000 women - We have never had a single refund.
And we're really FUN!

A 13 Moon Homecoming ofRhythm, Ritual, and Relationship with Mother Natureand Your Natural BodyThe Benefits and Blessings of Red Madonna

Is Mother Nature is Calling You Home?

Invite Your Wild Natural Body to Come Home to Mother Nature

Enroll in Mother Nature So You Can:

Rewild Yourself & Consciously Walk the Earth with Care

Deepen Your Connection with the Divine Feminine

Become a True Artist of Nature, Co-Creating with Life

Imagine...

Now, imagine what’s possible...

Your Guides Shiloh Sophia and Havi

Red Madonna's Mother Nature is for you if...

Havi's Paintings

Shiloh Sophia's Paintings

Comments on Red Madonna Student Experiences:

Enroll Now in Red Madonna and Receive...

Mother Earth Painting

Journaling. Sketching and "Taking Notes" in Nature

Monthly Painting Videos and Monthly Moon Cycle Posts

Monthly Sisterhood Circles on Zoom

Lifetime Access to All Materials

Private Ning Website and Private Community App

FAQs

What is the schedule?

What materials do we need?

How much time should I set aside?

Do I need painting or writing experience?

What payment options are available?

What happens after I register?

What if I still have questions?

Meet Your Guides

Shiloh Sophia

Havi Mandell, PhD

Why work with us? We have been doing this a long time...and we are devoted to women's work.

our Beloved Red Madonna Team

Sue Boardman

Co-Director of Red Madonna

Hobby Parent

Olivia Marie

Kathleen Brigidina

Katie Leathers

NaaKwarley Amisa

A 13 Moon Homecoming of
Rhythm, Ritual, and Relationship
with Mother Nature
and Your Natural Body

The Benefits and Blessings of Red Madonna

Invite Your Wild Natural Body
to Come Home to Mother Nature

Havi's
Paintings