Awaken the Artist Within - A workshop

“Awaking the artist within:
Opening to your inner creativity”

A workshop with Lance Brunner

Saturday 9 July, Sunday 10 July, 9.00am - 5.00pm
Auckland Shambhala Meditation Centre, 3B Scarborough Lane, Parnell

Artists have ways of making things special, of creating beauty, and of perceiving the energy and magic in the world.  At the heart of this creative process lie qualities of attention that can be developed and refined through training and practice.  This is true for everyone, not just practicing artists.  A time-honored way to train the mind in attentional skills is through meditation or activities that require attending in specific ways.  Activities that are expressly designed to cultivating perception might be called “contemplative,” because they work directly with mind training.

 This weekend program offers an introduction to basic meditation as it applies to creativity.  In addition to short period of meditation, we will explore simple, hands-on activities that invite and celebrate playful creativity.   We will work with music and active listening, with simple drawing and brush calligraphy, and with mindful movement.  The program is open to everyone, and does not require any particular experience or training in the creative arts.  It will be fun, accessible, and helpful in adding more creative flair to our everyday lives.

• Cost: $175, Student/Unwaged: $85 • 

• To register or for enquiries contact Shelley Cowley 6208275 or 0273636381 or email shambhala@vodafone.co.nz •
Or visit:  www.auckland.shambhala.info

Lance Brunner is an experienced meditation instructor who has taught meditation and contemplative arts in a wide variety of contexts, including programs for health professionals, corporations, leadership organizations, healthcare professionals, and with prison populations. Lance has been a professor of music history at the University of Kentucky since 1976.  As a Kellogg National Fellow (1985-1988), he explored the role of music in  human health.  He combines his interests in the arts, meditation, and action in the world through his consulting practice, MCL (Mindfulness, Creativity, and Leadership).