Integration Painting Process

Let’s make art together!

Join me for this magical and inspiring painting class starting Friday, February 14, 2025.  The Benedicaria Integration Painting Process is specifically designed for past and current students of Benedicaria as well as those who have read the Benedicaria book and wish to deepen their grasp of the material and further incorporate the practices into their daily lives.

Why engage an Integration Painting Process: Intentional Creativity creates an active bridge, an avenue of communication, between spirit and soma – body and spirit. The canvas becomes a two-way portal, a magical doorway that opens to the deep ancestral wisdom that is deeply encoded within our cells. The creative process itself accelerates the shaking loose of these ancestral memories so that your entirely unique, embedded knowings appear on the canvas in the form of image, symbol, lines, shape and color where you can see them, and discover their meaning. Painting becomes a direct and immediate pathway into connection to the Motherline. It is a profound way to curate consciousness.

The Painting Integration class takes place alongside the Benedicaria Training. It is an additional option/extension to the Benedicaria Training and designed to enhance your learning. The painting class begins February 14 and meets weekly on Friday mornings at 11am via zoom.

-Who is invited to participate: You are a current, or former, Benedicaria student or reader in search of reclaiming Old European traditional healing wisdom. You may be a health care professional and/or practitioner and have a spiritual approach to life. You are open to exploration and learning and doing things you haven’t done before.

Your participation in this 20-week Benedicaria Integration Painting Process will result in a deeply satisfying visual representation of the transformative ancestral work we are doing, or have done, together. It will also greatly enhance your ability to process and integrate the material explored throughout the training. The creative process is guaranteed to facilitate an exceptionally deep and transformative dive into awakening deeply encoded ancestral information/memory.

By the end of our class you will have created a unique and precious icon, a visual talisman that slowly and naturally evolved alongside your ancestral awakening – a painting that is a full integration and representation of all you have learned and discovered of yourself and your ancestors during our time together.

As it is now, each Wednesday’s Benedicaria class lasts for approximately one hour. In a separate class the following Friday morning, we will briefly review the material covered in that lesson, touching on the highlights (this will be a wonderful refresher for former students and readers) and then engage a painting process directly related to the topics/themes we’ve discussed. The painting segment of our class will last for approximately an hour, will be recorded and the recording sent to you via email. You can choose to show up live and paint along with me or watch the recording later and paint at your convenience. You can even do both! There is no limit to how long you can access the recordings. They will be yours to keep. And, you can keep painting as much and as long as you like - your canvas will be the repository for all of your musings.

We will be working on one canvas, approximately 30x40 in size, for the entire course. Each student will choose their own palette and supply their own painting surface and paints. I will provide you with a general supply list to help you get started.

The profound beauty of Intentional Creativity is that it requires no prior painting, drawing or art experience to derive full benefit from the process.  It’s all about employing art and creativity to integrate mind, heart and spirit. To bring what is subconscious into consciousness where you can clearly see it, work with it and give it meaning. All levels of experience are welcome. We are all born artists.

I will be leading the painting process as a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher.

Two weeks after our last painting class we will meet on zoom to share and witness each other’s paintings and to share a bit about the symbols we chose and their meanings as well as how we experienced the entire process. 

Constellation of Being Coordinates* we will primarily be working with in this Integration Painting Process:

DREAMING reveals REMEMBERING opening REVELATION

Our innate Spiritual Faculty for DREAMING reveals the Somatic Capacity for experiencing REMEMBERING, opening access to the Soul Powers of REVELATION.
(How we access information in the subconscious and collective)

COHERENCE reveals HEALING opening SYNTHESIS

Our innate Spiritual Faculty for COHERENCE reveals the Somatic Capacity for experiencing HEALING opening access to the Soul Powers of SYNTHESIS.
(How you work with the original imprint of wholeness and integration, context)

MYSTICISM reveals ANIMISM opening REVERENCE

Our innate Spiritual Faculty for MYSTICISM reveals the Somatic Capacity for experiencing ANIMISM opening the Soul Powers of Reverence.
(How you experience the world)

*From Intentional Creativity

Our Benedicaria Integration Painting Process begins on Friday, February 14 and continues for approximately 20 weeks.

The fee for participation is $550.

Here is an abbreviated sample outline from the first two lessons:

LESSON 1 – ORIGINS - Introduction/The Flower of Josephine - Naples and the Sirens: Ancient Myths and
Stories - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Regno della due Sicilie) -The Diaspora, The New World, and the Loss of Culture, Language, and Tradition - The Importance of Reintegration & Reclamation

Painting Process - Paint a large map of Italy or the Regno della due Sicilie, place a mark on the map where your ancestral village is located - if there are more than one, mark them all. (If your ancestry is somewhere else, you will paint a map of that place.) Add whatever elements you are called to add to this map to represent your origins. Leave plenty of room because we will be adding to this throughout the class.

LESSON 2 – ANCIENT CULTURE – Goddess culture – Tribal culture – Crossroads - Etruscan, Greek influences – Introduction of Dreaming Temples – Asclepius, God of Healing and Dreaming – The Crescent Moon Bear

Painting Process - Paint an image on the canvas that you resonate with deeply, inspired by the material we discussed in this lesson, something you would like to learn more about perhaps, something you want to explore…tribal associations? an ancestral Goddess? An animal totem associated with your original tribe? Or something else entirely…it’s up to you.

Please Note: The Integration Painting Process is not in any way required. It is not necessary for full participation in the Benedicaria Training. The Training is a whole process, an incredible awakening, all on its own. The additional offering of the painting class is simply an option – designed to further enhance your learning and integration of the material covered in the training. If it appeals to you, I welcome you to join me.

As soon as I receive your registration you will receive the supply list so you can prepare. Again, this process begins Friday, February 14 at 11am.

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