Inner Vision, Sanctuaries and Poetry
We're into our fifth week of the winter class series at River and it is going very well. We are focusing on methods for quieting the mind for this Inner Discovery class, but as always, there are lots of fun creative projects as well. We started off by learning to think of ourselves as explorers of undiscovered territory, only instead of journeying on foot or by ship or spacecraft, we are using our inner vision. The students made their own inner vision telescopes and followed a meditation into new and amazing places. For our second class we talked about needing a quiet space to begin exploring and the guided meditation led them to a sanctuary of their own imagining. We used clay, sticks, fabric, feathers and leaves to recreate the sanctuaries we envisioned during the meditation. Our third class was all about words, phrases and poetry that brings us back to good feelings of connectedness. Each student made their own accordion book and filled it with images, phrases and words that are meaningful to them. Wonderful creativity in this class!
