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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!
Sacred Altars
Another camp activity I always feel privileged to witness is the making of sacred altars. The children choose symbols and shapes that are meaningful to them and create a small altar that they can put in their bedroom or play area as a reminder of their connection to the deeper part of themselves and to the source of life. This year we made them smaller than last year in order to make them more portable in case a child is traveling to a new place where it may be nice to have a touchstone. It's fun to lay out all kinds of natural objects, shapes, talismans, symbols and decorations and see what each child chooses and hear about why it's special to them. They always turn out so beautiful.
