Yoga + Art

Because you deserve a day nurturing your mind, body, and spirit!

This Saturday, come join me and River Flow Yoga instructor, Heather Van Dalfsen, for a day of Yoga + Art. This will be our second "retreat" combining a gentle restorative yoga practice, a healthy nourishing lunch from Downtown Grocery of Wausau, and a fun and creative painting and journaling session where you splash paint, write what spills out, and just enjoy yourself in the process. No judging. No perfection. Just you being you and loving every minute of it. We've kept the cost super low to give everyone an opportunity to experience this amazing day. 

Email me [lalibertefineart (at) gmail.com] or Heather [vandalfsens.heather(at)mac.com] if you have additional questions, and to register.  

Yoga + Art

Saturday, August 3rd

9 am - 3:30 pm

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Sixth and Edgewood St, Wausau, WI

$50 

Includes two yoga practices, lunch by Downtown Grocery, painting and journaling session including instruction, canvas, and art supplies to use during retreat. (Feel free to bring pictures or found objects that are meaningful to you.)

www.riverflowyoga.net

Remember, the only rule: no rules! Except the ability to laugh, move, breathe, explore, create, and have some fun. 

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Fun Friday! "Journal Zen" by artist Nancy Laliberte

"Journal Zen"

© Nancy Laliberte

mixed media

Welcome to "Fun Friday!" My new weekly feature loosely based on my kids talking about "Fun Friday" at school--where they are rewarded with something fun and different on Friday afternoon for a job well done during that week. While my two older kids are in college, I still have one in elementary school and he looks forward to it every week. Today they erupted home-made volcanoes with vinegar and baking soda. Ahhhh, to be a third-grader again.

This week is about creative journaling. I can't sing its praises enough. I have soooo much fun with it. I set the timer for 15 minutes (because otherwise I would do it all day if I wasn't mindful of the time) and work on a page or two. If I have leftover acrylic paint on my palette, I will smear it around on a page; sometimes I collage on a piece of junk mail or other ephemera I find interesting, and sometimes I just write. Time stands still for those 15 minutes. I call it "Journal Zen." This weekend, I encourage you to set the timer for 15 minutes, grab a sketchbook, notebook or scrap paper and just play. Don't think about it. Just let whatever marks you make, whatever colors you choose, whatever you write or scribble be whatever it happens to be. And enjoy the Journal Zen.

Art & Soul Creative Journaling classes

Speaking of creative journaling, this Tuesday evening is another session of my "Art & Soul Creative Journaling" class located at Wausau's Hobby Lobby classroom. This session will focus on watercolor techniques in journaling, and keeping a travel journal. All you need to bring is a journal or notebook, and I provide everything else--including "bling" watercolors and chocolate. Sweet! I always have a door prize drawing, too. It is great fun, and the time flies! Details and registration are on my website. You don't want to miss it!

Carrie Waller Fine Art Friday Feature

A HUGE thank you to artist Carrie Waller for featuring me in her weekly Friday Feature artist interview on her blog, Carrie's Creations. Carrie and I met through blogging and facebook. We share a love of motherhood and art, and the creativity neccessary to balance it all. Carrie's watercolor paintings are EXQUISITE! She paints glass and reflections like nobody's business. I love getting lost in the abstract shapes found in her work. Hop on over to her blog and website and see for yourself what I am talking about.  

Yoga + Art Workshop

Last Saturday I teamed up with my yoga teacher, Heather Van Dalfsen of  River Flow Yoga, for a Yoga + Art Workshop at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Wausau, WI. It was AMAZING. I was on a Yoga+Art high for two days. We are already planning another one for this summer. Let me know if you would like to get on our list. Below are a couple of images from the day, and more are posted on my studio facebook page. (While you are there, I would love it if you would hit that Like button and follow along, too.)

Every one of these paintings has a powerful story to it. 

Have a great weekend! And be sure you play in your journal or sketchbook!
Blessings, 
Nancy