Ann-Marie Cheung ARTIST

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Return to the Goddess

This is the year that I return to the Goddess and making Goddess art. I recently purchased a beautiful deck of Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards by Doreen Virtue to help guide me in my quest and for inspiration.

Today I drew the Yemanya card, Golden Opportunity: “Important doors are opening for you right now. Walk through”.  How very fitting.

Yemanya
Yemanya

Yemanya the beautiful Brazilian Wishing Goddess. Like the ocean, life is rich with variety and beauty.

Pronounced “YEH-MAHN-JAH”; She is the Brazilian goddess who was created with the sea. Every December 31, people in Brazil celebrate Yemanya by casting white flowers and miniature boats upon the sea. You can work with Yemanya by putting a tiny boat into the sea and asking for a wish. If Yemanya grants your wish , her waves will swallow the miniature boat, and if she denies the wish the boat will wash ashore. Since the sea is the root of the Earths life, Yemanya’s connection to it makes her a very powerful and nurturing mother goddess. She’s a protector, supplier and one who grants wishes.

A Message from Yemanya “Golden Opportunity”

Important doors are opening for you right now, walk through them. Like the oceans waves, timing is everything, so when the opportunity presents itself dive in at that moment and allow your doubts to be washed away!

Goddess Doodle
Goddess Doodle 2013

Creative Goddess e-Course

It’s so exciting when you meet someone who really resonates with you on so many levels. When you say yes, yes and have an “aha” moment. Let me introduce Leonie Dawson, an amazing Goddess, Author and Mentor.

Leonie Dawson’s Creative Goddess e-Course is a powerful, spirited way for you to experience creativity in a whole new way. The e-course is six weeks to discover the Creative Goddess in you.

  • Every week you will be assigned Creative Goddess projects to do for the week in a range of creative mediums ~ you will be exploring new ways of creating and connecting with the gorgeous soul, wisdom & beauty inside you.
  • Six hand-drawn, illustrated and painted ebooks and three sets of worksheets guiding you on creating art as a sacred practice, how to find healing on your journey, walking through your stucknesses, how to create sacred space and discovering the Goddess in you.
  • Six videos each week from me and Charlie the Happy Healer Dog guiding you on the next part of your Creative Goddess journey.
  • Six guided30 minute MP3 goddess meditations by me to work with for each part of the course. These are incredibly powerful resources, and are worth the price of the course alone.

Click here to discover your Creative Goddess.

Creative Goddess e-course
Creative Goddess e-course

Click here to discover your Creative Goddess.

Imagine a Woman

Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is a woman.
A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.
Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life.Imagine a woman who trusts and respects herself.
A woman who listens to her needs and desires.
Who meets them with tenderness and grace.Imagine a woman who acknowledges the past’s influence on the present.
A woman who has walked through her past.
Who has healed into the present.

Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own behalf.
Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and wisest voice.

Imagine a woman who names her own gods.
A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness.
Who designs a personal spirituality to inform her daily life.

Imagine a woman in love with her own body.
A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.

Imagine a woman who honors the body of the Goddess in her changing body.
A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.
Who refuses to use her life-energy disguising the changes in her body and life.

Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
A woman who sits in circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.

Imagine yourself as this woman.

© Patricia Lynn Reilly, 1995

Art by Elizabeth Gibbons
Art by Elizabeth Gibbons
Goddess Circle
Goddess Circle

 

A Story…

A woman was walking down a road, and she came upon a badly injured snake, a variety she knew was poisonous; but she knew if she left it it would likely die.  So she took it home, made it a nest, cleaned its wounds, fed it and gave it water.  The snake slowly began to recover and she actually started to really care for the snake.  Every day he got stronger and they developed a friendship (this is a story, so snakes can talk!).  He was almost fully recovered when the woman came to check on him, and he lunged at her and bit her in her arm injecting his poisonous venom.  She was stunned.  “How could you do that?, she asked.  I took you in, I took care of you, I cleaned your wounds, I saved your life”.  “What did you expect?, he replied.  “I’m a snake”.

RCM Artist-Educator Foundations Course

I’m thrilled to be taking the RCM Artist-Educator Foundations Course for artists who are already engaged in arts education, and for those who would like to learn more about arts education. This 30-hour course offers artists a window into working in schools and/or in community settings through hands-on, activity-based exploration.

Instructors for this session are Laurie Pye and Sara Dickinson-Chilvers .

Foundations certification prepares you for:

• Work in elementary, intermediate and secondary schools as well as in community settings
• Developing meaningful and relevant lesson plans
• Effective communication with students, teachers and staff
• Development of solid partnerships with educational or community partners
• Making appropriate programming choices for a variety of ages, stages and abilities

Course Modules for Foundations:

• Merging Artist and Teacher/Social Worker Culture
• Engaging Effective Partnering
• Engaging Effective Session Management – Teaching Tactics and Strategies
• Exploring Multiple Intelligences Theory
• Understanding the Arts Curriculum
• Preparing Lesson Plans (Foundations Level)
• Understanding Ages and Stages of Development (Foundations Level)
• Articulating Your Creative Process

Thanks to funding from The Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council for making this possible.