Paint your heart out at this gorgeous private retreat near Otaki and experience yourself as a connected creator. This weekend retreat will give you a method for creating landscape from life as well as an invaluable mind management technique to accompany you on your entire creative journey.
This workshop is a unique, first time offering that rests on the connection between meditation and painting by observation, exemplified by landscape painting practice. Students will be invited to explore landscape painting techniques rooted in observation as well as building up a skill set for staying present. So much of art is created ‘in a panic’ or oriented to the end result. This workshop emphasises ‘process’ as a way to understand art making. It will also give you all you need to begin your own daily meditation practice and to be able to get more present, release stress, and discover more peace.
Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to join a small group of people combining art and meditation in the serene surrounds at Samadhi.
The cost of $899 covers all teaching in art and meditation, two nights’ shared accommodation and all meals.
There may be an option for a massage, so let us know if you are keen. Or, if you wish to stay for an extra night before or after the retreat, please enquire here.
Your hosts and teachers
Tatyana Kulida is a contemporary realist painter who studied classical painting in Florence, Italy. She runs Anthesis Atelier, a drawing and painting school in Wellington, New Zealand and paints personal work as well as portraits by commission. Her award-winning work can be found in private colletions around the world as well as in several museums of art.
Rebekah Palmer is a trained and qualified meditation and mindfulness teacher with 10 years’ experience in teaching in schools, prisons and the community. She is the owner of Samadhi Retreat Centre.
The class will cover:
The programme covers landscape basics such as sky, trees, composition and set up, particularly addressing transcendent moments of sunset/sunrise and water. You will receive instruction and guidance in four powerful meditation techniques during the weekend which are all you need to establish your own daily practice to live a fully present life.
What to bring:
Bring your landscape set up, paint and brushes, five canvas boards or a pad of canvas. A complete material list for Gordon Harris is available if you are a beginner. Sun hat and sunscreen, bug spray, comfy clothes, an outdoor jacket, gumboots, a water bottle and a notebook may be useful.
If you have any questions please get in touch here.
