Iona Drozda

Set the Tone, Set the Stage, Set the Scene

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  Welcome to 2024!   Click here or on the photo to watch the introduction to the Creative Energy Levels vlog: Let’s set the tone for this year from a Creative Energy standpoint. If we consider the options available everything comes down to how we talk to ourselves and the feelings that result. I’m well […]

The Opening of the North Gate

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Our keyword for December is Strength May resilience be radiant within all living beings. That even in the darkest of times, a light shines forth from the heart.” Winter Again, Drozda, Acrylic/pastel/Arches paper, 5×7″ As the North Gate opens at Winter Solstice, on December 21, we enter the twelve weeks of our deepest yearly journey […]

The FREE 8-Day Emotional Maturity Challenge … begins October 16

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I invite us to consider the tools we have in place when the unexpected happens. We know that out of nowhere, in the twinkling of an eye, everything can change. Let’s consider creative ways to address inevitable change with Emotional Maturity. Honing this quality of an expansive approach can feel alchemical. It’s possible to transmute […]

When an Idea Rises Up to Meet the Light

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Fawn at the Tree Farm, wildlife camera capture There are four more weeks of summer. There is a ripe opportunity to be fully engaged! What are you choosing as your most joyful growth for this season? Oftentimes what brings us joy and uplift gets lost in the shuffle of the day-to-day. We all arrive into […]

Time to Grow UP^ Looking Fear Demons in the Eye

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We need to grow. Stretching and being curious allow life to expand rather than contract. If we become formulaic, or worse if we become stuck and stagnant, where are we? The choice is present in every situation. In the Dream, Drozda, Acrylic/board, 18×24″ Each year in July the moon/month is dedicated to sensing new ways […]

Grow Your Capacity to Share

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In this post, I emphasize one of our favorite tenets for the art/life which is that we grow together. Summer is the season to truly expand on this concept in your experience.                                          click here: watch […]

Summer Solstice and the Opening of the South Gate

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Circadian Circle Floor Cloth, Drozda, mixed media, 6×6′, in use since 1990 It’s exciting and energizing to recognize the shift in focus that takes place as each of the four gates of the natural year opens. Here, at Summer Solstice, we enter the most active quarter. Observe nature to witness the burgeoning activity, growth, and […]

Soul Soaring Heartistry Calls

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This is the Brilliance Moon month of June. I hope that you will invest a bit of time each day in acknowledging and celebrating your creative brilliance in all the ways it comes through you. You may grow a garden, or cook a meal for yourself and those you love, you may be a volunteer […]

Be a True Fool

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stock photo While walking the dogs last week I looked up to see a pair of Bald Eagles circle high overhead and then, flying toward one another, they join, clasping talons! From that amazement, they begin a free fall including a triple somersault! It happens fast yet it feels like slow motion … they release […]