FREE ONLINE PROGRAM: Cultivating Creative Aliveness

March 2nd | 6:00 - 7:30 pm Mountain Time

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Program Time: Tuesday, March 2nd | 6:00 – 7:30 pm Mountain Time

Tuition: The Drala Online Practice Series is offered free of charge in the spirit of generosity. In the Buddhist tradition, dāna is a heartfelt act to express appreciation, support the teachings, and give from the heart. An opportunity to make a tax-deductible donation of any amount is provided at registration. Thank you for supporting this time-honored tradition of generosity.

Program Time: Tuesday, March 2nd | 6:00 – 7:30 pm Mountain Time

Tuition: The Drala Online Practice Series is offered free of charge in the spirit of generosity. In the Buddhist tradition, dāna is a heartfelt act to express appreciation, support the teachings, and give from the heart. An opportunity to make a tax-deductible donation of any amount is provided at registration. Thank you for supporting this time-honored tradition of generosity.

About the Program

Facilitated by Lauren Beale & Brooke McNamara, this workshop will offer a multi-disciplinary taste of the intersection between creative practice, somatic exploration, and Zen meditation, for all levels of experience.

During our time together, we will center the generative force of creativity. This force pulses through every living being, and when we work with it intentionally, can grow us into more full, true, dynamic, and complex expressions of ourselves. Through contemplative inquiry, writing, visual art, movement and conversation, we will explore gentle and catalyzing self-reflection and expression. We will touch into the aliveness of our intentions, instincts, habits, desires and creative impulses.

Our time together will emphasize listening, feeling, and forging an intimacy with being alive that allows us to respond to the immediacy of our world with freshness and care. We’ll weave connections around attuned risk-taking as we nudge living ideas into form. Artists in any field, as well as those not yet identifying as artists but longing to feel more creative, alive and free, are welcome to join.

What Will Participants Get Out of This Retreat?

  • Explore your humanity through the intersection of creativity, embodiment, and meditation
  • Grow your capacity and skillfulness inside the unknown
  • Touch into your inherent artistic pulse within supportive community
  • Root into a creative way of being
  • Gain courage and tools to manifest your creative aliveness with purpose
  • Connect to a community of curious humans exploring creative practice

Retreat Faculty

Lauren Beale

Lauren is a performing and visual artist, choreographer, improviser, contemplative teacher and yoga instructor. She holds an MFA in Dance from The University of Colorado Boulder with an emphasis in collaborative, interdisciplinary performance and creative practice. Lauren has performed nationally and internationally with Colorado based companies Michelle Ellsworth Artland, Gesel Mason Performance Projects, 3rd Law [...]

Brooke McNamara, MFA

Brooke McNamara, MFA is an award-winning poet, meditation guide, and Zen teacher. Trained in the tradition of Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi, she is president and a founding Sensei of Dragon Lake Zen. The author of two poetry collections, Bury the Seed and Feed Your Vow, she received the Charles B. Palmer Prize from the Academy [...]

This program is part of the Drala Mountain Online Practice Series, a collection of tuition-free online offerings. The series takes place on select Tuesdays from 6:00 – 7:30 pm Mountain Time.

To see more offerings in this series, check out the Drala Mountain Online Practice Series here. 

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