Keeping your art a priority is a life-long daily practice. Our creativity expands and contracts as our multi-faceted lives ebb and flow around family, employment, and health. Making art central takes tremendous courage and persistence.
During this retreat from the clamoring world, we will learn to listen carefully to ourselves and begin replacing our frustration and self-limiting beliefs with our vision and inner wisdom. We will renew our commitment to creativity, re-examine our priorities, and restructure our lifestyles so that our art and goals are more integrated. We will also restore our vitality, flexibility, wisdom, and strength through daily yoga practice.
This workshop is for you if you are wondering why everything else seems to take priority over your art; if you haven't achieved your artistic potential and professional goals; if you struggle with identifying as an artist; if you are tired of living and working in isolation; if you are ready to take yourself and your ideas seriously; and if you are willing to face your fears and make the changes necessary so your life will be governed by the conviction that your art matters.
As poets, performers, visual artists, designers, writers, and musicians, we will gather to remind ourselves how essential art-making is for our sanity and for revitalizing our culture. We will inspire each other with our brilliance and creativity. Our self-examination will be vigorous and our yoga gentle. All levels of art and yoga experience are welcome.
Deborah Kruger is a mixed media fiber artist who has exhibited and presented workshops throughout the country. She has received numerous grants and has worked as a curator and consultant for many arts organizations She is also a successful entrepreneur and the mother of two teens. She is an outstanding artist, a gifted teacher and a fabulous, fun-loving person who wants to encourage you to bring your art back to the center where it belongs. Nina Weyl, who will be leading the yoga sessions, is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor. She has been teaching yoga in Amherst, Mass at both The Yoga Studio, which she founded seven years ago and at The Center for Yoga and Healing Arts. Her passion for dance and undying dream to make it more central in her life led her to Authentic Movement and eventually to yoga. Her enthusiasm successfully draws people into the empowering and transforming practice of yoga.