Painter Glenda Morgan, writer Jan Cornall and movement artist Suze Smith will add meditation to the creative mix when they lead their weekend retreats for residential or daily participants.
In between delicious food, warm fires, envigorating walks, meditation and movement sessions, there will be a chance to play with colour and line, movement and dance, poetry and sensual story telling.
Evenings will be filled with stimulating discussions, performance soirees, video talks, laughter and hot-water-bottle dreaming. It’s a mid winter opportunity to spend a long weekend with like-minded spirits in a winter green mountain hermitage and to keep the creative conversation going long after you return home.
Three weekends are planned: in May, Sensing Creativity, an art
retreat using meditation to take you into creative drawing, Creative Spirit, in
June, a long weekend exploring writing, painting and meditation and Stillness and
Movement, in July, a weekend exploring the mind body connection through somatic
movement and dance improv.
Your workshop leaders, all members of the Dzogchen Community (following the teachings of Tibetan Master Chogyal Namkai Norbu), have
been practicing meditation for many years and are well established in their own
artistic practice.
Glenda Morgan has been painting and exhibiting for 25 years and
has taught drawing, printmaking and design at Universities and art schools in Sydney.
She is a certified instructor in Qigong and Tai Chi.
Jan Cornall is a published
writer who has written plays, screenplays, musicals, a novel, short stories,
travel articles and songs. She has an MA
in Cultural and Creative Practice, has taught writing at universities in
Australia and Indonesia and leads international writing and creativity
retreats.
Suze Smith is a contemporary
theatre maker and somatic movement teacher. She is a dance artist, writer,
director and lighting designer. Her theatre making
practice is informed by her ongoing study of post modern dance and
improvisation, embodied anatomy and Body-Mind Centering®.
