ONLINE CLASS: Mindfulness & Meditation to Spark Creative Joy
Jaime Glasser
March 4 - March 18
$150Simple practices to quiet the mind and awaken inspired living
Il Chiostro’s Mindfulness & Meditation to Spark Creative Joy offers three mini, two-hour retreats on Zoom, each centered on a different theme. Every session illustrates how mindfulness can affirm creativity and provides practical tools to support greater joy and ease in writing, even on difficult days. Creatives of all kinds, working in any medium and at any level of experience, are welcome.
If you write, draw, paint, photograph, or create in any form, you will benefit from the mindfulness exercises and generative writing offered in each session. Optional sharing enhances both the individual experience and empathy for the shared challenges we face as creatives.
If you prefer to bring art materials instead of writing tools, please do. Markers, chalk, pen and ink, crayons, or any medium you enjoy are welcome. Each session will guide you in manifesting your own personal affirmations.
Classes include introductions, short grounding practices, guided meditations, gentle movement for all abilities, lessons on the session’s theme, prompts to explore your personal relationship to the topic, brief generative exercises, group discoveries, new tools to support the week’s writing or creative practice, and a closing guided meditation.
Spoiler alert! Despite popular misconceptions, there will be no requirement for long periods of sitting still or deep emotional excavation. Instead, we take a lighter approach, gently exploring creativity, meeting what holds us back without judgment, learning tools to send those inner “elves” packing, and rediscovering and appreciating our unique gifts. You will leave each session with a new tool to support ongoing creativity, wellbeing, and wonder.
Treat yourself as you would an honored guest: be hospitable, be comfortable, and enjoy.
If you are more comfortable working on the floor than at a table, have a mat available. Bring your favorite writing instruments, paper, notebook, or any art supplies that bring you delight. Have water, tea, or another beverage nearby. You are the honored guest.
Class Topics:
Class 1: Mind-Body-Heart: A general introduction to mindfulness and the mind-body-heart connection as supportive partners in the creative process.
Class 2: Self-Compassion: Understanding the hindering negative voices and self-compassion as the antidote to manifesting our unique expression.
Class 3: Celebrate! The Flow! Using awareness to find flow, tools to keep us there, and celebrating our gifts as artists. Where to go from here to make the most of mindfulness in our creative path.
Class Schedule:
- 0-5 minutes: Introduction
- 5-15 minutes: Artist introductions, one-word arriving, or feedback from previous session
- 15-20 minutes: Goals and focus
- 20-30 minutes: Background lesson on topic
- 30-40 minutes: Guided grounding meditation, movement as desired for all abilities, creative visualization, preparing to create
- 40-45 minutes: Prompt offered
- 45-60 minutes: Generative exercise
- 60-70 minutes: Bio break, walk, drink
- 70-85 minutes: Group exploration
- 85-95 minutes: Feedback, takeaways
- 100-110 minutes: Mindfulness tool for the week
- 110-120 minutes: Closing guided meditation and one-word leaving
A note from our Instructor:
If at any time you feel stressed or uncomfortable, gently look around you and notice this welcoming space. Take a few deep breaths, inhaling calm and comfort, and exhaling any unease.
We offer our warmest wishes that this time allows you to relax and reconnect with the joy of creating.
If you have any questions, I’m happy to connect at jmedvm@mac.com.
For further inspiration, a lovely resource on mindful writing and creating is The Mindful Writer by Dinty W. Moore https://dintywmoore.com/2019/books/the-mindful-writer/.
A free Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course is also available at www.palousemindfulness.com.
Warmly,
Jaime Glasser
Class Date & Time:
- March 4th: Mind-Body-Heart – 6:00 pm EST
- March 11th: Self-Compassion – 6:00 pm EDT
- March 18th: Celebrate The Flow! – 6:00 pm EDT
Note: Beginning with the March 11th class, the class will switch to EDT as daylight saving time begins on March 8th.
Class Length: 2 hours
Price: $150 for all 3 or $50 for a single class
Remember, if you can’t make the scheduled class time, the entire session will be recorded and available to watch or rewatch at your convenience at a later date.
Jaime Glasser is an artist, veterinarian, pet hospice consultant, and certified mindfulness meditation teacher who writes. Mesa, Arizona, is home to her family of cats and dogs. She has been working on a memoir for too long, and it has become too lengthy. It traces her conversion to animal hospice care as an alternative to euthanasia with tales of her patients.
Jaime graduated from the intensive 2-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program under Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. It includes supervised evaluation and individual Practicums for certification. She has taught at Narratively Academy, the Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, community art classes, creative visualization exercises, and for private students.
Jaime is excited to help creatives with mindfulness techniques that you can use in the moment to get back to your creative joy and get back in the flow.
Website: https://jmedvm.substack.com
