Podcasts are about art and healing. Cross-cultural spiritual traditions and transformative arts & consciousness. And how we can use creative arts as a path of knowing.
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS! What is the gift of Sacred Clowns, Holy Fools, Jesters and comedians from a cross-cultural viewpoint? What is the Medicine Gift for these amazing Archetypes? How do they serve the world? Yes, Humor but there's more to it, enjoy! www.KristenaWestArt.com
A Prophet is Not recognized in their own hometown- or welcome to a Saint's Life. Podcast discusses the nature of a "realized" being. What is the biographical sketch that links these extraordinary beings? www.KristenaWestArt.com
Kristena regals with her stories of rehabilitation at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Rehab and the fabulously trained staff. Kristena uses her training in humor and clowning as s resiliency practice. Merry Christmas Eve! #kwest4ahome
#kwest4ahome Kristena discusses how she handled her stroke as a challenge , and how she uses humor to alliviate, re-frame her illness, in ICU. We can work our life challenges with anger, resentment, denial, pouting, etc. but what is we faced it and how would that be? What does it mean to ReFrame an obstacle to Opportunity? How can using humor bring lightness to a situation of illness, can it support healing? Listen...
Kristena begins the story of her Covid Christmas in Cottage Hospial Oakland - a story of humor, good will, rehab skills, being alone close to death, and the stories of others in the same situation. Short Holiday episodes every night - stay tuned. #KWest4aHome
Happy Winter Solstice the darkest land ongest night of the year....time for change & renewal. Kristena tells the story of her relationship with a horse she shared with her sister, and what revelation happened years later in a clacking train in Egypt one night. Revelations and Reveals - the love of our animals and poetry too!
Kristena West teaches dreamwork, creative visualization, meditation, guided imagery and the shamanic journey as tools for self development. 1. Ask a question to Guardian Angel. Sit or Lay down, go the upper world - use a rain spout, tree, rope, bird, lightening, and allow the drumbeat to be the "driver" of your journey. Ten minutes for the journey and when you hear the 4 beats and fast beats- that is the Call Back, come on back the way you came and come safely in your body with the aid of your Guardian Angel. Write in your journal, make some art and give thanks for your life. Kristena West book, Alchemy shamanic workbook for men and women's groups at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Magical-Arts-Union-Soul/dp/B08LNLCHVJ
Kristena is a teacher of dreamwork - she studied with shamans and immersed herself into the academic field of dreaming. She discusses tips and techniques to connect to your beloved family members or
Learn there is a new way to practice creativity, shamanic, psychological, inner-work and mindfullness practices lead you to create art with deep meaning and personal transformation and healing. Go to www.KristenaWestArt.com and get Free eBook How to Start You Sacred Art Practice
Why is Art Making Important, Loss of Women's Rights, War in Europe, Why is Making Art Relevant at All? Can We Learn To Make Art With A Healing Potential for the Viewer? Shamanism, Western Mystery Traditions, Buddha's Eight Fold Path, Mindfulness, Character Developme
We have four earth art festivals that lay over equinox and solstices; Many modern artists work along these Festival themes in their contemporary art practice. St. John tide as an archeypal pattern outlines how artists can work; Letting Go in order to birth our Beloved. What can we do to to create from Mindfullness point of view as our spiritual practice? Kristena gives techniques to support working along spiritual lines of inquiry. Get Free EBook 7 Days to Start a Sacred Art Practice at www.KristenaWestArt.com
This podcast explains what "inner-work" is and its relation to healing our emotional feeling life, and addresses our "thinking" i.e. family patterns/habits/thoughts we adopt and what benefits or obstacles this brings to us. Soul Retrieval Healing. ©KristenaWestARt "It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves, that we miss the depths of the loviliness, beauty, brillance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core." - Thomas Moore
Most of us have dreams that come true, these are called precognitive seeing visions of the future before it manifests in "real life." Kristena shares a story of a precognitive dream that happened yesterday.
Saving Santa & the Creative Imagination. Podcast discusses the benefits of cultivating creativity, awe and wonder for health and strength. Children's Hospital, Oakland the Dolls For Peace Community Arts Project.
This podcast introduces how to listen to a poem or story and make art and start a dream practice contemplative arts. The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson a Nordic Initiation story: 12 day Painting & Dream workshop through the 12 Holy Nights
What is the nature of pure creativity? How do we cultivate this mindfulness practice? How does our emotions shift our creative practice? How can we welcome our true inner artist?
We create every day, but what about deeds of creativity, goodness, right-livelihood, that are blocked from manifesting for the world? Podcast discusses the questions of karma of unmanifested good deeds.
Podcast about the traumatic incidents women go through in relationships. Kristena discusses a scary story and how to use painting as as a way to transform and heal.
Nothing worse than a painting going wrong, as my Mom used to say. This podcast discusses various reactions to this scenario. Kristena pulls from 40+ years of painting disasters and shamanic techniques to resolve our creative journey.
A friend and I were discussing the good luck and bad luck some people have. She said that if people had "bad karma" she felt it was somehow "their fault" and they had to deal with it. Using new age ideas, this somehow let her off the hook entirely from the situation. Frankly, it sounded heartless.
Art and Healing how do we re-create our art practice after a year of Covid? What mindfullness practices can support our creative life? How to start a nurturing contemplative arts practice for somatic and spiritual health.
I have been teaching Alchemy groups since 1990. I wrote the Alchemy book twenty years ago. The work is as relevant today, and will take you into the future. You are being called to a greater life, if you read and do the exercises given in this book, and are open to adventure; you will become the Heroine or Hero of your journey.
An introduction into working with archetypal pictures Michael and the Dragon artistically in contemplations and meditative way. Aspects of Michael and Dragon nature.
Anger is toxic, dealing with our own and dealing with angry people. Anger turns into rage, and ragers are scary; insights and remedies to handling and overcoming addictions. Vices and virtues.
Facing our fear of death creatively; Life affirming stories of ordinary peoples experiences of connecting with the departed. Covid brings us face to face with our fear of death; cross cultural techniques for your spiritual practice.
Podcast discusses how can we bring personal healing into the betrayals we have experienced? Family of origin core wounds, groups, communities, lovers and friends, transformative arts, metanoia, developing personal rituals of healing. Women's Inner Work.
Staying Home due to our world situation? What better time than now to focus on healing our bodies? Online class uses council circle, journaling, dialogue with self, biography and dreamwork, leading to a Body Collage Arts Project.
Podcasts is about cross-cultural non-denominational Stories of Personal Encounters with Jesus Christ. Transformational Arts and Consciousness art critiques in Berkeley about my grail maiden dolls and the reaction to this and 20 years more study. Arts and Spirituality.
Learn how to work with Archetypal Dreams or Shamanic Dreams. When archetypes enter our life they bring potent creative change and we must pay attention to them and work with them to integrate into our lives. The Hero Twins Creation Stories.
The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson a Nordic Initiation: 12 day Painting & Dream workshop through the 12 Holy Nights The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson is an ancient Norwegian Folk Song. Olaf falls asleep on Christmas eve and "sleeps" through the holy nights waking on January 6th epiphany. Olaf while "sleeping" experiences secrets of the human being and cosmos. The dream-song gives us the "spiritual" pictures in poetic form of his initiation journey. As Joseph Campbell reminds us, the Hero's Journey is found in myths, legends and poem-songs.
One women's journey toward meeting the Divine Feminine through study and artistic practice. Podcast discuss the Divine Feminine through cross-cultural iconography and religious traditions.
This podcast is about Medicine Women Lodge Transformation Arts & Consciousness. What makes art sacred? How do we live a sacred life? What are artists bringing into the world with monster art? What brings healing into an art piece? Cross-cultural spiritual traditions.
Podcast is about Women's Healing Circles, Women's Council Circles, and introducing Medicine Women Lodge an online Lodge for women to learn sacred cross cultural practices, create sacred art and learn dreamwork and art journaling; writing our transformation.
Podcast is about identifying the merit of spiritual teachers or leaders. Spirit Animals, Shamanism, Esoteric development, Illusion and the consequences of false teachers. Thought forms, Lord of the Rings, Portrait of Dorian Gray, Jekyll and Hyde Shadow.
Overcoming Jealousy Creatively 31:42 An Artists Life; podcast is about how creatives block, avoid and allow jealousy to stop creative flow. Understanding that jealousy a destructive emotion that we project as shadow onto others. Inner work and the overcoming of behaviors that limit and bind
This podcast discusses the fairytale as the Heroine's Journey. The process of inner-soul work and personal transformation using creative writing and art making.
An Artist's Life Art & Healing topic is on creative blocks, tips on overcoming them through use of active imagination, dreamwork and shamanic journeywork. There can be deeper reasons why creativity disappears tips for transformation.
Chapter 2 Art & Healing. Author addresses JFK University Transformation Arts and Consciousness program. Introduces different artists that came as speakers to program and how they used art as methods of healing. Dolls for Peace Children's Hospital Oakland,
Chapter One Art and Healing. Years as an art consultant in high-end galleries in New Orleans, Rodeo Drive and Northern California. What does the art market really do behind the scenes. Motif of selling art, product oriented sales, manipulating the client.
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