Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Explore Christ as a Healing Icon with Kristena West M.A. OPEN AS A SELF-STUDY 2 Portraits: Panocrater & Rudolf Steiner's Representative of Humanity

Explore Christ as a Healing Icon

online Art Class 
with Kristena West M.A.

Registration is Open!




"Those who want to paint Christ have to live with Him." 
Fra Angelico (1387-1455)

Work from Home at you own pace. 


What will you learn in this class?

Two videos of portrait in pastel, charcoal, oil pastels, watercolor or acrylics - the art supplies you have around the house. 

Two downloadable images to work from; 1Pantocrator
 Christ and 2. Rudolf Steiner's Representative of Humanity face.

 

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

FIONA CAMPBELL ONLINE TRAINING IN ART AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

AN ONLINE TRAINING IN ART AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE FOR THE ORDERING AND STRENGTHENING OF THE SOUL

Starting in 2024, this  2-year part-time course offers a unique approach to learning painting and drawing, where artistic practice becomes a schooling process for the soul using colour, form and space. For artists, art students, teachers and students of Anthroposophy. See flyer for more details or visit


 

Thursday, December 14, 2023


 

ART & DREAM HOLY NIGHTS ONLINE CLASS

The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson is an ancient Norwegian folk song. The poem-song tells us about Olaf falling asleep on Christmas eve and “sleeps” through the holy nights and awakening on epiphany January 6th. Rudolf Steiner tells us that while “sleeping,” Olaf experiences secrets of the human being and the cosmos. The dream-song gives us the “spiritual” pictures in poetic form of his initiation journey. As Joseph Campbell reminds us, the Hero’s Journey is found in myths, legends, and poem-songs. The 12 holy nights have been called “time outside of time” or “sacred time.” It’s a wonderful way to end the year and begin the new.

How does it work? This is a self-study so you can log into the class any time during the day or night if you are traveling or snug cozy at home. The Dream Poem is long and divided into 12 sections/nights. Every day the poem, art, Zodiac Sign, and Virtue is posted, and we have original music to listen to, with art videos, prompts, and tips for recalling dreams and sacred sleep practices, and enchanting narratives to amplify your journey.

This is your invitation to have a dream-art-writing retreat over the Holy Nights; to rejuvenate, review the past year, and rekindle your deeper self for 2024. Each night, we can recall our dreams, create a small painting-drawing-mandala, and write from our hearts what this mythic dream poem brings to us.

• Learn Sacred Sleep practices
• Keep a Dream Journal for creative writing
• 12 days of meditative art
• Learn how to live into an archetypal story Poem
• Experience the Holy Nights as a an art & dream retreat
• Use the journey of Olaf as a way to imaginatively work with the Dead

What did you harvest this year, and what seeds are you going to plant these two weeks of sacred time?

Registration is open now at www.KristenaWestArt.com where a beautiful landing page is designed to explain and show past participants images and Kristena’s personal invitation vlog. Everyone is welcome; you don’t have to be an artist or recall your dreams; this is designed as a personal mindfulness retreat. And Olaf beckons: will you join?

Online Art & Dream-Poem Class opens on December 24.
REGISTRATION OPEN NOW FOR ENROLLING & CLOSING 12/24.

When you register for Olaf, you will receive a login password and link for private classroom page. Participants from Norway to Australia, so it’s an easy access. All you need is paper and art supplies you have around the house. Optional art supply list at www.KristenaWestArt.com.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

VAN JAMES ANTHROPOSOPHICAL ART TRAININGTO START IN TAIWAN STARTS NOVEMBER

Coming up next month...the start of a visual arts training in painting based on Rudolf Steiner's original indications. In English and Chinese, in-person and online. For artists and beginners. Contact the address on the flyer attached for more information.



 


Saturday, October 14, 2023

Michaelmas Deeds of Courage Podcast Kristena West M.A.


 
Kristena discusses how the ancient Earth Festival of Michaelmas is relevant for our contemporary time. Kristena reveals some of the deeper esoteric secrets of what happens to humans who overcome their negative behaviors and thereby tame our Dragon natures. Click Michael or PHOTO above to listen to podcast. 

We want to live creative, free and healthy lives, inner-work is the secret key to resilience and deep inner strength and courage to live to the fullest. www.KristenaWestArt.com 




Saturday, August 26, 2023

That Good May Become Manitoba Conference 2023

THAT GOOD MAY BECOME

A Festival of Initiative in Manitoba’s Interlake Region, Canada.

August 10-16, 2023

It all began in the rain, yet Peter Selg reminded us in his opening lecture, that the day when Rudolf Steiner began the Christmas conference in 1923, it was very cold in the Schreinerei building and that many had to stand outside in the rain to listen as the hall was too small to offerspace for all! There was also a rainstorm during the laying of the Foundation Stone in 1913. 

Did this give us comfort? Were we in good company, was this a good omen? Our guests from the Goetheanum seemed very cheerful.
Spirit Remembering Human Soul you live in the limbs

The visuals you see as part of this written contribution are large cotton banners that were painted during the festival by eight participants. This was prepared for by some of us who set the stage, initially for the Novalis fairytale Hyacinth and Rosebud, a collaboration between the Literary and the Visual Art Sections. 

Because they showed an amazing versatility and through the lighting created different moods, they ended up accompanying all three evening
performances. Every time they seemed to create a new soul space for what was to come. In a way one could say, they reflected an archetypal journey, our human journey through time and space. 

These seven images also contributed to creating a living ‘Goetheanum in the West’ in a hall that had very little aesthetic qualities to offer.

In this way the collaboration between the Literary and Visual Art Sections became a gift for the entire Festival of Initiative where human beings came together in mutual sharing, weaving a tapestry of warm hearts and good will.
Spirit Sensing Human Soul you live in the Heart and Lung

An additional gift, quite by surprise was the offering of coloured light! This created magic and like in a eurythmy performance, the images began to dance and carried us into a soul-spiritexperience of an otherworldly existence.

Spirit Beholding 
Human Soul you live in the resting head

So, as we lived and worked and shared together in rain and wind and sun we turned to Nature
and Culture as our two fields of activity and responsibility. We laid a Foundation Stone in the Canadian mid-west, the place ‘between,’ the place of wide-open spaces, where the east and
west meet to create the middle. That ‘middle,’ as we heard in one of the lectures given, has thetask to balance and thereby bring healing to the danger of two opposites tearing apart the verycontinent! How can this become a creative, artistic path?  Practice, practice, practice!

“If I had to do it again I would do it all though the arts” Rudolf Steiner

BANNERS: Regine Kurek & Friends







1. THE QUEST-ION
Who Am I?
Search of the Self- SATURN


2. WHOLENESS IN THE BEGINNING
I and the World are One - SUN


3. MEETING THE TEACHER
The Stranger - Longing for Wisdom - MOON



4. THE LONG ROAD
The Journey 
Leaving Home - MARS





5. FIRST INKLINGS
Blessings - Who Speaks to Me? - MERCURY




6. IN THE PRESENCE OF SOPHIA
The Meeting I Am You - JUPITER




7. HOME Arriving - ILLUMINATION - Communion VENUS




“If I had to do it again I would do it all though the arts” Rudolf Steiner













Friday, March 31, 2023

FREE Christ as a Healing Icon Representative of Humanity Portrait Drawing Online Self-Study

HELLO!! FRIENDS- FREE ART CLASS
CHRIST AS A HEALING ICON
Sign Up at info@KristenaWestArt.com and put in the Subject: Christ Healing and I will send you the password and link to self-study art class. Drawing the Representative of Humanity as a preparation for Easter! 

Sign Up for Free Class at www.KristenaWestArt.com

We will send Link Log In and Password

did I mention FREE? limited time offer