Artistic Alchemy Retreat: The Fairytale Edition
October 17-20, 2024
Re-enchant your imagination and Dare to Create!
Join Sheila Ewers and Denise Taillefer for an intimate weekend of self-discovery and creativity.
Using personal ephemera, an image we love and resonate with, the archetypal landscape of fairy-tale, somatic movement, visualization, the inspiration of the unconscious mind, and YOUR innate creative potential, we’ll dive deeply into an infinte pool of imagination.
Activate Your Intuitive Artistic Potential
This retreat is designed for you to discover the sacred potential of your inner essence as you learn to bring vision to life. We will use the archetypal story patterns of fairy tale with particular emphasis on the tale of seal-woman, or selke, who bridges the domain between earth and sea to discover how to dance through our own inner landscapes and bring to life what seems to exist only in the imagination. The experience is limited to eight participants and will include conscious movement and yoga each morning, art lessons and inspiration in the afternoons, journaling, visualization, meditation, breath work, dance, and ceremony to help you realize the fullness of your potential. Activities will complement your inner work and artistic skills as we visit the beach, dolphin watch on a boat, gather at the shore, eat delicious foods and savor the opportunity to embrace both stillness and connection.
What is Included:
3 nights accommodations in Sheila’s Home in Pensacola or an Airbnb 2 blocks away
Daily Yoga, Meditation, and Journaling
Daily Art Lessons and Art Supplies
All Meals
Dolphin Watching Cruise (Weather Permitting)
Beach Yoga (Weather Permitting)
Accommodations
Deposit
A Non-refundable $350 deposit will secure your spot with the remaining balance due September 1, 2024
About Your Hosts
Sheila Ewers
Sheila is an ERYT 500 and YACEP teacher certified through Yoga Alliance. She trained at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and has been practicing and teaching for more than 20 years. In 2011, she created Blue Lotus Yoga, LLC which operated in two physical location in Johns Creek and Duluth, GA, Under Blue Lotus, she also launched a comprehensive online studio platform and developed Sweet Tea Yoga Festival in Alpharetta, GA. She is certified Jungian Life Coach and Dream Analyst and a published author who served as Yoga Editor for Natural Awakenings Atlanta Magazine from 2019 through 2021.
Today, Sheila owns and operates SEEK Yoga and Travel, a full service yoga platform designed to help students and seekers of all sorts develop tools for deepening consciousness, developing connection and living lives of joyful embodiment. Sheila holds additional certifications in Meditation, Yin Yoga, Thai Yoga, Bodywork, and Yoga Nidra and has trained with dozens of internationally known yoga and meditation teachers. She leads Yoga Teacher Training at both the 200 and 300-hour levels, hosts retreats and workshops both domestically and internationally and provides spiritual and professional coaching. As a former Professor of American literature, Sheila loves to explore the intersection between philosophy, poetry, religion, nature, and yoga and often brings that synthesis into her work. She continues to take advantage of every opportunity to train and learn and will forever consider herself a student of this ancient and beautiful practice.
Denise Taillefer
Denise, nicknamed Doodle-D for her lifelong love of doodling, is a multi-media artist who draws inspiration from nature, fairytales, and her travels. After graduating with a degree in psychology, Denise explored the healing arts before experiencing a creative awakening in the vibrant rainforests of Brazil. Returning to Atlanta in 2010 with paintbrush and baby in hand, she embraced her artistic calling.
Denise works from her home studio, creating joyful and colorful artwork in a variety of mediums, including acrylic paintings, mixed media pieces, mosaics and ceramics. Her art is full of vibrant colors and playful energy. Her canvases come alive with acrylics, and her mixed media pieces overflow with textures and ephemera. Denise creates intricate mosaics, a practice reminiscent of her childhood collages, breathing new life into broken china and tiles.
Recently, she has embarked on a new chapter, sharing her passion by teaching mixed media techniques and empowering others to unlock their creativity.
You can learn more at www.DoodleDeeArt or contact Denise at dheartbeat@gmail.com
