Soulscape: Treewoman with Jassy Watson Earthist

VIRTUAL PAINTING WORKSHOP

Gather for an online experience with the sacred feminine! Create your own ‘tree woman' inspired by your relationship with yourself and your body and your place in creation. The spirit of trees have spoken to women for a long time. We have gathered in the circle of trees to share our stories and medicine. Each woman has her own inner ‘tree’ story, let’s see what emerges!

Guided by the work of Jassy Watson Earthist

With Intentional Creativity Founder, Shiloh Sophia

Upon registration receive Instant Access to class videos that you can download and watch at your leisure. The class is yours to keep!

Soulscape is a process developed by the work of Jassy Watson Earthist who combines her love and connection with the land in painting with Intentional Creativity® Tree Woman is the direct application of her Earthist philosophy.

Join two women friends, lifelong artists who are working across the globe from Australia to the United States to bring their unique message and approach to creating. Jassy and Shiloh have teamed up to teach in both AUS and the US since 2013 and now are bringing together their compatible technologies in Tree Woman. Both women have painted trees since the beginning of their careers as artists. We hope you will join us for this experience in creativity and sacred painting in a circle of women.

Tree Woman is a remembering and honouring of our sacred connection to the earth in paint.

It is also a creative call to action!

I would love to invite you to this weekend to explore the Tree woman. The tree is a powerful symbol and a common motif present in world theologies, mythologies and philosophies since ancient times. It represents the interconnectedness of all life and as a metaphor, Tree can teach us about strength, growth and wholeness and is a potent tool for self- understanding and reflection. But the Tree is so much more than just a symbol or metaphor. It is real. It is a living breathing sentient being that carries its’ own wisdom. Trees are not only vital to the health of the entire ecosystem, but to our very existence here on earth.

Now, more than ever we are being called to stand up and take action for the future health of the planet. The latest IPPC (2018 International Panel on Climate Change) reports that to avoid environmental catastrophe, what is required is “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” That’s big. And it’s only natural to feel a little overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem. But what can we do right now as citizens of the world to make the quickest and most vital difference to the health of the planet?

Plant trees.

Global reforestation projects are happening across many parts of the globe, with countries such as China and India at the forefront, with promising results in as little as 10 years with bio-diversity of life returning to areas that had previously been devastated. What if something as simple as planting a tree or ten could help the future of the planet in more ways than we could imagine?

This painting workshop is a remembrance of the important role of trees in our everyday lives. And an invitation to connect with their messages to us and for us.

“Trees; they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they give us air to breathe.” (From the Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge, 2017)

All the women in my family are artists and every single one of them has a special relationship with trees. As a child growing up we would often sit with trees outside listening and learning from the bark and the foliage and the trunk and the roots. I can remember images from each of my family members, including my grandmother, working with trees. My mom even has the family tapestry that she created; once again, trees.

The theme of the tree of life has been woven throughout my work since my early 20's. I’ve been teaching and drawing and sharing the images of trees and the sacred feminine all of my career. Women and trees and our relationship with the earth seems like almost the starting place for waking up for women on the path, because if we don’t understand our relationship with this earth then how can we truly understand who we are in our relationship with the cosmos? The tree is the being that reaches both.

I could not be more delighted to bring my sister-friend colleague Jassy Watson back to the United States to share her gift of Soulscape with the particular theme of tree woman. Jassy and I have taught together over many years with a strong connection since 2014. We have been dreaming about her sharing the tree woman teachings in addition to her certification program, which will be specifically for Intentional Creativity teachers, for several years. Jassy is somebody who has truly understood the power of Intentional Creativity. Already a painter, she brought our teachings into her work and now has taught hundreds.

She works with all ages and I’m particularly impressed on the work she does with young girls. I love bringing this powerful woman to our Bay Area community.

Jassy has combined Intentional Creativity® and Soulscape™ to bring us this offering. We look forward to being surrounded together by 17 redwood trees in Sonoma for the gathering of Tree Woman. We chose to also film this event online as we know how powerful the process is and wanted those who cannot come in person to join us in the virtual realm. We will be sharing our process in our private online classroom so you can be connected to women painting all over the world.

I hope you will join us for this unique and sacred experience of connection with trees and nature...

Many blessings,

Use a variety of techniques and materials such as loosening up drawing exercises, finger and found object painting, collage, stenciling, positive/negative painting, and glazing using medium.
Translate inner and outer landscapes on canvas with meaningful mark making inspired by nature
Remember and honor your connection to trees in paint, listening for their messages for you
Allow our online circle to support you in accessing your own wisdom and material from your inner soulscape

Tuition includes instruction + video teachings to keep and watch at your leisure.

Jassy is the owner and operator of Earth Circle Studios & Gallery in Queensland, Australia. She is a full-time contemporary Artist and Intentional Creativity Teacher having taught nationally and internationally in Greece, Bali and the Unites States. Her work as an artist spans decades and often explores ancestral and ecological themes has shown in numerous exhibitions and is currently displayed and owned in private and commercial collections. More recently, her paintings have been selected in the finalist categories for various Australian Art awards.

Jassy’s classes are taught out of her home garden studio on the Sunny Queensland coast, which has also been a space to host recognized guests such as Shiloh Sophia McCloud, Kevin James Carroll, Max Dashu & Glenys Livingstone. Her studio is also

a recognised training location for the Color of Woman School and Intentional Creativity Teacher training. A selection of classes and events are also held in the Musea gallery storefront located in the township of Bundaberg. It is here that you can view a selection of her works alongside other contemporary women artists.

As an advocate for the advancement of the role and participation of women in the arts and for the environment, Jassy has been involved in community arts initiatives such as founding Wide Bay Women’s Healing Arts Guild, a not-for –profit organization supporting and providing alternative resources for women artists in her region. She has coordinated nationwide Earth Arts programs for the Australian Earth Laws Alliance and local public art projects, including the annual curation of ‘Voices for the Earth’ art exhibition. Continued connection with the Intentional Creativity Foundation has been fundamental to Jassy’s success as an artist, teacher, curator and creative woman in business. www.earthcirclestudios.com www.jassy.com.au

Shiloh Sophia lives life as a great adventure narrated by the creative fire of her Muse! She has been painting, writing poetry, publishing books, and teaching at universities, the United Nations, and in her own programs around the world for over twenty years. Her soul work is inspired by the idea that self-expression is a basic human ability and that each person has a right to know how they think and feel, and the freedom to express themselves in the world. Her research and development around this idea has focused on serving women and girls through giving them access to methods of transformational art-making through stories, symbols, and inquiry.

She is the co-curator and founder of the Intentional Creativity Foundation (ICF) and Cosmic Cowgirls, a woman and girl owned organization, that serves between 500 and 5000 women a month. ICF and Cosmic Cowgirls provide revolutionary education, made available both online and on-location. The school, inn, and museum are located in Sonoma County, California and is called MUSEA Sophia. Shiloh Sophia also founded a Teacher Training, Color of Woman, which certifies women to teach Intentional Creativity worldwide. Currently there are close to 200 teachers in the lineage who are part of the Intentional Creativity Guild.

Shiloh has taught her work at Universities in global PhD and Masters programs, bringing the technology of Intentional Creativity into academia. She has also presented her work and research at the United Nations four years in a row at UNCSW.

Shiloh has published many books on creativity, including coloring books and journals, and has illustrated books and decks including the Mother Mary Oracle with Alana Fairchild and Hard Times Require Furious Dancing for Alice Walker. Her most recent book, Tea with the Midnight Muse, features twenty years of poetry as invocation, along with inquiries to spark your Muse fuse!

Shiloh lives in the vineyard-lined hills with her husband, Jonathan, who is also a poet and artist. Their Muses can be found most mornings having tea and discussing quantum physics, philosophy, and sacred texts in the Red Thread Cafe. www.shilohsophia.com www.schoolofintentionalcreativity.com

Soulscape ™: Tree Woman

“When we listen to trees, natures great connectors, we learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance and beauty.” (From the Songs of Trees by David George Haskell, 2017)

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