Tea with the Muse

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Good morning everyone! I am dropping in here with a regular tea with the muse episode with a teaching you will find in all of our work. I’ve reframed the language a little bit with hopes that concept is graspable and actionable. This is part of a series of talks and teachings designed to increase consciousness by one percent through the awareness of the field.The photo was taken seconds ago, as I was out for a super early morning walk and discovered the a lucky snapshot of the invisible self and her wolf companion out howling in the dark with me…(in water on the sidewalk)Curate Shiloh Sophia For those who wish to explore this in more detail, you can join us for Legend in November www.musea.org (not a hot link) Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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good morning! Today I’m sharing* What’s happening at my place this morning including why it smells so good * Following the urge of the muse* The actual history of the practice of red thread café ☕️ * What’s on the table to talk about and what’s not* A dare to have cafe! And share! #redthreadcafe #intentionalcreativity Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

These are rough and curious times. Today I have been particularly challenged and I just wanted to let you know that you are not alone. I know sometimes my life can seem shiny and amazing, and it is. But I also go through all the really hard things just like so many of you. I have lots of tools and so my resilience may be different in my capacity to respond, but I too am being challenged. This is a time for ecstatic discipline. I could not be more grateful for intentional creativity, and for this community. this is not about misery loves company, but it is about not feeling singled out in anything hard that you’re experiencing. ❤️ Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Hello everyone! Get a cuppa tea or coffee, a journal and let’s dive in! There are lots of juicy nuggets in here to explore and begin to practice on your own! “who lives in here?” Sue Hoya Sellers.This episode explores the neuroscience of your inner voice and then illuminates what I think is the missing piece to understanding the greatest influence on your inner dialogue…* How the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system form a matrix for right decision-making* The essential stress response that you get to choose “find”* How self-expression is the key to work with the Neuroplasticity of the brain, because you’re using your body and not just your thoughts* Reframing the critic as fierce wisdom so that discernment is alive, but self criticism diminishes* Your internal dialogue influences every single area of your life, even though it’s happening within you, therefore it’s impacting everyone and everything * How flow state can get interrupted and how to work with new patterns* How we work with the concept of the muse to regulate the critic* Invitations to join us for our upcoming two week class and certification training with group coachingThis is the detail of the painting for our year long course Abracadabrawww.musea.orgBlessings on your day!Curate Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Today’s episode invites you to* Identify the places where you can lean in when you’re having hard times* My story of my password meltdown yesterday and what I did #Intentionalcreativity* The places I choose to lean in* Why I don’t give myself a choice, and how that only works if I’m prepared…* Offering certainty in times of uncertainty* Places that you can lean in in our community* Coherence meditation ideasand a brief prayer including thoughts for Florida community membersThis photo was taken last night while I was painting. Because usually at night and in the wee hours I paint in the dark.🌺❤️🙏Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good evening from California, I found this poem of mine from 2019 and it made me think about how much we focus on being open…Versus how little time we spend refining, emptying and being quiet. This is a call to strip the altar of the old energy and invite some emptiness and recentering.~ Shiloh SophiaWe are just a few days into our year long course, abracadabra and you’re still welcome to join us Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

You do not want to miss this. I am offering something today that you can put into practice immediately. I’m going to identify the three false teachings of manifestation and then invite you to the truest one I’ve ever discovered.And we also start our yearlong class today if you want to join us!!! Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Painting in Process - Animystica - Cura Archetype Good Morning Muses!I woke up smelling the change in the air and the seeing the light shifting towards this coming Equinox, officially on the 22nd at 5:43 am pst. For those in the Northern Hemisphere we turn towards Autumn. For those in the Southern Hemisphere we turn towards Spring. On September 18 we have a partial Lunar Eclipse visible from Mexico, Canada and the United States. The moon is 97percent full as of this moment and will be full in one day and 11 hours and 38 minutes. There are things we can count on, at least for now. We can count on the moons relationship to the sun….let us honor that relationship.I would love to be someone in your life you can count on to bring you insight and inspiration…I would love for our community at MUSEA and the Cura Council (our ceremonial branch) to provide a place of continuity and compassion. I would love for Intentional Creativity to provide a consistent go-to practice for you to be nourished by. Our community is going to be here for you, this is our sacred assignment. I would be ever so grateful to invite you to join us for a ceremony we have coming up is September 21 at 10am pst. Yes it’s another Substack and yes there are scholarship free levels available. Here are the details. The Substacks (Tea with the Muse, The Cura Council, and Gold Mind) we offer provide more immediate messaging in real time. Like today’s poem just landed this morning so it is freshy-fresh.I also have a complimentary class coming up on Friday, Attunement Manifestation. Thresholdsfor Equinox There are these strange quiet cycleswhere one life is completingand the new one is just beginningThere, in the in-betweenThen it is time to nap underthe giant oak with the first yellow leavesof this seasonand listen from insideThere are theseloud chaotic patternswhere who you wereisn't matching who you are becomingand there is just so much noiseto stay the same But you can'tThere in the spaces between spacesThen it is time for you to sit in ceremonylistening to the wild geese movingand the last of the pink cosmosblooming and blowingin a fresh wind from the SouthThere are these dances that can only take placeat a crossroadsDances for change that are rhythmic and restless Moving at the center ofthe many directions and decisionsSome that you think you want and some you do notYou, you have outgrown your old lifeYet the path has yet to appearclearly Then it is time to slow way down, to lay down right therein the discomfort of the crossroadsWhere you have always justdanced for your life, for survivalto keep going no matter whatJust Slow DownThe changing of the lightwill point you in the right directionwhen the time is readyIt is not your concernhow long this cycle will lastMany moons and eclipseshave already come and goneAfter a time you will pick upnot where you left off but somewhere newWill you trust this?Just as you trust the greenhills to turn gold andthen to green again? This is what we do,we Earth, we changeand we keep changingcrossing the thresholdsat each point of thissacred wheel turningTurning turning turningtowards centerturning towards you--Thinking of you as I am about to have morning cafe with kitties,Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good morning ☀️I know how hard it is to make change. We all do. Make a change today ~ yes today! This will be worth it!The goal is to arrive at action steps that are served from your subconscious.Overview* Choose one thing to change* Activate imagination and create sacred space* Connect with stars and sun and the mountains where you live* Create a field condition for change* Make a cognitive leap from the imaginal to the real honoring Neuroplasticity* Illustrate the change/s* Receive insight about your very next steps to take in this 24 hoursPlus ranch updates! A new feature I’m trying out to let you know what’s happening here. The photo is the sunrise at the Ranch @ Musea.Intentional Creativity Process for making a change today through receiving heightened insights that result in action.* Change: The first piece of paper is for the thing you want to change that you were shown or created - just a few strokes to indicate and honor.* Changed: The second piece of paper is the change already happening and how that would look and feel* Action: The third pierce of paper is for the prayer and action steps that are revealed to take. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Greetings everyone! In order to achieve attunement when you are creating your world with your word to yourself, there needs to be reciprocity. There is an often missed piece about the energy exchange of gathering and giving. For manifestation to be attuned and good for you and for all - the energy of giving and receiving in a sacred exchange is actually essential or there is mis-alignment. How do we condition our bodies to create in the fullness of our being-ness?To get into the optimal condition, we need to work with a collaborative idea - Nervous System Reciprocity* In today’s episode, I’m going to relate giving and receiving to the nervous system function* The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system aren’t a division but a collaboration * You can consciously choose a different trauma response if you knew there was one available, there is * Invitation to understand how these systems are influencing your capacity to create what you wantI hope you find it useful, I am no expert but am stretching to understand how to make things come to life in my life and support you in yours.Warmly,Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

my prayer… “little bit of grief move though me now”* Ideas for navigating grief that may be different than what you’ve tried before* Why I think it’s time for a new metaphor* Alchemy and titration and teaspoons of water * Heading to this canvas for Fire and Water 💦 * My relationship with traffic at the ranch and overcoming the shame“Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go” Jamie Anderson And in our case, that grief goes onto the canvas… Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forthacross the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon't go back to sleep!”―RumiDear Ones,Good Morning on September 1! This is a message for the women who have gathered for Abracadabra, our yearlong course. Yet as I made it for them (you) this morning, I wondered if there was something in here for you too, here at Tea with the Muse. So I am sharing it with you even though that is a bit of a rogue move, I am here to be a disruptor and a weaver, both! If you haven’t join us yet, you are still welcome to join us (with $1000 savings through midnight). Overview* Exchanging peaches for songs and beads* This isn’t a class, it is an exchange of energy* We are not replacing other voices for mine, we are seeking yours* Speaking words of power is what called us together into this portal* Acknowledging that we called each other changes how it feels* I won’t be at your dinner table but I am at the cafe with you, right now* Our amazing guides have gathered* Let us prepare our spaces and our schedules for a yearlong experience in community. Whatever you are navigating, whatever you are feeling blessed by, I send a message of love to you this day. Blessings on your day,Curate Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Learn about Abracadabra here - scholarships ending tomorrow night at midnight Dear Community,I am pretty amazed about what is happening with this course and all the women coming in. Clearly there is a call to power at this time.In this episode I cover* The Top 5 Reasons women do not speak their minds* Addressing power* Shame, Fear, Silencing and somatic memory* What stops us from within and around us* What we can do about finding our voice* Identifying the core issue which is our voice* Acknowledging the impact of a world where women do not feel free to speak* How creation stores are spoken, and yet we do not know what to say* Invitation to Abracadabra + Exciting news about SONG in our course!Can you imagine gathering weekly to focus on what matters to you? I sure can. I just spend from 5am to 1pm finalizing the schedule with our journal jams, our heart storming cafe, our song times and our painting portals. This is a live real time class, not a canned AI replica of a woman or a course. What’s real? Women gathering is real.Listen to this song by Copper WimminI am all lit up with excitement for what is possible when we gather ourselves together. Warmly,Curate Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Hello Beautiful fellow Tea with the Musers!I am in the studio today getting my material ready for today’s complimentary class - and here are some of my thoughts on * The MOST important “law” - what do you think it is? * How we can begin to be in relationship with this law or condition. * The repair we need and why* Reclaiming the Matrix and getting what it is for us * How this connects with manifestation and extraction * Yearlong Course link: Abracadabra!! $1000 savings through 9/1 at midnight* Complimentary class today - instantly recorded so watch this weekend anytime!!Thanks for tuning in - love to hear your thoughts!!Warmly, SS Painting in process for Animystica - my exotic inner wildnerness re-wilding and re-oning with the universe Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

This is a poetry reading from my book Tea with the Midnight Muse 💕 it’s for you today. Pull up a chair or take a walk and join me as we pray for the artists everywhere to continue the good work of their hands, hearts and minds. This the multi-faced Sacred Feminine.Are you a creative, a poet, a sculptor, a dancer, a chef? Take a 👂 listen. ~Shiloh Sophia This is a recent painting, called Mystical Mother 💕 Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good morning everyone! I’m thinking of you today and wanting to pass on one gorgeous nugget today about how manifestation works. AND set you free from thinking you created all of your harm. I have created a lot in my life, and also worked to uncreate things that no longer serve. Sharing this one teaching with you helps engage change. It’s like unlocking a riddle in our awareness. AND setting yourself free from the shame and blame game. I will also share my observations about how the deck is stacked against us. And the power we have to do something about it!Here are a few ways to more fully engage with the teachings. Complimentary class Manifestation Re-Imagined on Friday, August 30 Yearlong Course in the Art of Flow and Attunement Manifestation Overview - In this episode* The power you have to respond to the conditions of your life, it might not be what you think :)* Hear how I believe the decks are stacked against us and so therefore why it can be challenging to create what you envision* Learn one powerful manifestation tool that you can begin using immediately, hint, it goes both ways* Become more conscious about the reality sold to us and how it has impacted our inner narrator - such that we are not operating in a clear field of potential* Questioning, if you really really agreed to the things you are experiencing this lifetime, did your Soul REALLY agree? * Invitation to a complimentary class on Friday * A Call to join me for my only yearlong course likely until 2026! There are 1000 scholarships towards tuition, making the price almost 50% savings, and if you need more, more is available when you apply. Heading for a swim, then a daylong painting class! Cherishing the great parts of my life even as I am also challenged by what I am experiencing here on earth. Still I choose power with. AND choose to teach, I love sharing time with you so very much. I think the place I am the richest woman I can be, is in the good company of all of you.Love is flowing. Curate Shiloh Sophia If you are ready to dive in, and you want to commit to a year with me, then let’s do that, come on over. Almost 50% scholarship savings, and you apply if you need more support than that. Payment plans are available. This is the part where I offer some of the most juicy nuggets as gifts, as I can’t NOT share. I have been sharing complimentary education since 2004. I won’t stop, can’t stop. I know many would love to join the longer experience, and I will continue to offer all along the way. For now - join us for Friday, August 30 P.S. I also want to offer a shout out to Anita D. for her support in sharing this post and process. I am grateful for you. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Confronting unconscious beliefs that cause shame Inquiries into cause and effect Challenging our projections on the DivineEverything CAN become a teaching bit that doesn’t mean God or life created it to teach you a lesson.Invitation to the middle ground of co-creation Seeking collaborative power The field condition Blessings ~ Curate Shiloh Sophia See all upcoming events at Musea.org Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Dear Ones,The reason we create our world with our words is because we create our world with our thoughts. By world I don’t mean just the world around you, but how you experience the world around you, inner and outer. By word I don’t just mean the words you speak out loud but the words you speak to yourself in your inner world. Intentional Creativity has a solution and we want to show it to you, share it with you and have you share it with others. If you can’t hear your own voice, the voices of others will control your thoughts, and your actions. Let’s move towards liberation.Shiloh SophiaHere are the options right now for participatingComplimentary 2 Hour Class https://musea.org/creating-your-world/ABRACADABRA Yearlong Course https://musea.org/manifest/ Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good Morning Everyone,I am excited to invite you to join me for my upcoming course, Abracadabra. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Sharing my heart 💜 and how I work with Intentional Creativity to mend my heart after shock 😳 Sharing how I do it What Intentional Creativity is Embodying impossible grief to release The role of poetry as a spell breaker How it all began at 23 with a key question My story of recovery from my 16 year marriage From numb to aliveness blessings! Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good morning most Precious Beings of Earth and StarThis is for you, for me, for us, for anyone who isn’t sure which way to turn and you are seeking true choice. If you treat this as a meditation you will receive increased results.When you are done listening ~ what choices are revealed?Curate Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

This is my story. I needed to write it and record it to complete a cycle of my life. If you want to know what’s been going on for me this lifetime, it’s right here. I published this a few weeks ago on my Facebook friends profile and received hundreds of responses - it’s struck accord and other people started to tell their stories. This is creating art in community. ~ Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

An invitation to shift your context and increase pleasure. Does the term Peak Performance speak to you? Or maybe not! Here’s another way of thinking about it! Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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Do you think everything happens for a reason?What role does self-expression play in your life and then that of creating community? Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good morning dear ones! This message certainly didn’t turn out the way that I thought it was going to. I’m sharing about what it feels like to steward big community, why I can’t seem to stop crying today, how excited I am to teach today, why I think change is so hard to make, and how I love ❤️ you no matter what! Shiloh Sophia If you would like to join us today, it’s not too late. All you need is pen and paper. Add paint if you want to. With love,See you in the next circleShiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Sharing big changes with you ❤️🙏 Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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Tragedies to Remedies You are YouI am IWe are WeYou are not the stories you tellto yourself about yourselfYou are YouI am not the projections about methat in the past have bound meI am IWe are not the accumulation of woundsInflicted on us by others or ourselves We are WeYou are not your woundingseven with a persistence of tragedies You are YouI am not required to walk in apology even with the mistakes I made, healing is hereI am meWe are beings capable of recoveryself-forgiveness just walked into our discovery We are WeYou are YouStardust, Water, Soil, Sunshine and SelfYou get to tell a new story today, ready?I am IGloriously shaped by life’s tapestry I alchemize the rich colors that are ripe in meWe are We Beings capable of ecstasy and creativityWe are the storytellers of our intentional destiny!Little Darlin of your own Destiny You don’t have to fight or flee,You don’t have to fawn or freezeFind you, find Me, find WeYou will bring compost into your apothecaryI will remember that choice is my own alchemy We will weave our tragedies into remedies!You are You and I choose I you as youI am I, and I honor my emergent identityWe are We, and what delicious company!SHILOH SOPHIAPaint with us now! The class is all ready for you!I recorded the Tragedies to Remedies poem this morning and made a special announcement - that Jonathan and both had revelations regarding being complete with teaching this class ourselves, and our own stories that we told feel complete too. Whoa. What a result - really....big. To feel truly complete with a cycle. And to know it is being passed onto you. I have a manual I will share and also how to work with medicine painting regarding any theme. Apothecary is just one of them. Last night he just said - I don't think I need to tell that story again. I know it is on behalf our community, but I think I am done. I will always be a soldier but I am complete with that story. Wow. This morning I felt the same - I don't want to talk about my story of not having home, and my father's addiction and outcome anymore. I am standing on my own now with honor to my ancestors. I am complete. We have been heard, thank you. We feel witnessed. Thank you. Shiloh Sophia Shiloh and Jonathan painting in Apothecary 5.0 Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Enjoy a conversation with Shiloh Sophia and Ali Stoddard about the power of painting! https://musea.org/apothecary-2024-invitation/Open to all! SS Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

The STUDIO (for those who don’t think they have room)Let’s start with what every studio needs. Every studio needs a work table, a place for an altar, a place for supplies, a journal and a teapot at the very least. Usually the Muse also wants a plant. Oh and a hammer and nails. Hand-paint your hammer so everybody knows it is YOURS. My mother Caron was also never without a tape measure. My studio must-have is sandpaper. I also like a painting rug for where I stand. An easel is awesome but a few nails on the walls works just fine and you can have multiple canvases up at once. For all of these solutions, if you use oil or acrylic you will want painter’s drop cloth from the hardware store to protect the innocent surfaces of your home. If you live with others, this will be important for ongoing relationship.Once the artist moves in for good, things can get a little challenging, because your priorities have literally changed. Maybe even your values, and how you like to inhabit spaces changes. In other words, pristine white couches are now an endangered species. YOU DO have options for having a studio and it is needed if one is to choose a creative life, that is oh so romantic. Sue Hoya Sellars used to say, Being an artist is so romantic. So let’s get to it. I want to tell you that the physical-ness of a studio is rad cuz you work there, but it is more than that. Even when you aren’t in your studio physically – YOU KNOW IT IS THERE and IT WORKS YOU. I hang out in my ‘studio in my mind’ all the time. 1. Guest Room: Clear the guest room that is often empty, and make your guests sleep on the couch. They will understand when they see what is happening in there, if they are lucky enough for you to show them. The bed is fine to leave, add lots of pillows and take naps there. Muses love beds. But the dresser is now a surface for painting to perch and journals to be spread out as if it is an altar. The nightstand is an altar. Sorry if you have a white rug. If you plan to live there a long time you might just choose to let the rug be a painting rug. What have you got to lose? (people who don’t paint hate this idea, but painters are so relieved)2. Dining Room: The dining room, how often do you eat there really, put a drop cloth over the table and voila – it’s a work table. All creatives need work tables if they are serious. Move most of the chairs out to the garage or the street. You need room to MOVE all the way around the table and at times you may find yourself needing to lay right on the table. You might need to put up a curtain if you don’t have doors on it. A shower rod is a quick fix without needing to drill for a rod – honestly you could have this going today if you want!3. Bathroom: The bathroom, especially if you have two, is often so under-used unless there are two people and you both have do go number two at exactly the same moment. Poor lonely bathroom, use the shower stall as a place for a small desk or a stack of paintings. The water is right there and the toilet works just fine for a table. Plug in a teapot instead of hair drier and it is all ready for you.4. Laundry Room: The laundry room is often the last resort because there is too much coming and going. But the tops of the machines make a fine work table. It smells good in there and there is often a window. But clean clothes and paint are magnetized towards one another.5. Bedroom: If you are single, your bedroom can work and that way you are surrounded by your creativity. Do not do this if you are in a committed relationship. Your part-time lover will think it is sexy at first, but then they will want more room for themselves. Be careful here, and don’t compromise your creative space. You can always have sex on the couch or the dining room table.6. Garage: Finally the garage. Now I will be honest about this. Lots of people pick this one and start parking their car outside. Big move. But unless it has access to air, unless you can move smelly things out, unless you can regulate the temperature, unless you can really make it feel good to you – you won’t go in there. You know what I am talking about. If you add a fancy rug you can get paint on, a disco ball and a stereo and a nice big chair it COULD work. But if you try this option and the Muse doesn’t want to go there, then you MUST find another solution.7. Pavilion of Plein Air: If it is warm enough where you are, there is always outside. Sue Hoya Sellars got an Easy-UP and called it a painting pavilion. She added chimes that rang when the wind blew. Begin to think of all of your outside spaces as additional rooms, even if it is just a deck or an entry way. Take over. The Muses have requested it. 8. Imaginal Dream Studio: But the most important studio is the imaginal one, the place you set up in your consciousness for the Muse to play. You can think of this like a chosen department of your inter-consciousness where your Dream Studio is. Build it out, see the windows and the plants and all the space. See th

A poetry reading for you from Tea with the Midnight Muse for you - a prayer 🙏This painting was from a starry starry night paint and sip inspired by VanGogh of course 💫 Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Dear Ones! Today’s message is a call to action!! Plus a video I just took of the kind of teaching paintings I have done the past two years. Come see. ~ Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Hello Everyone,It’s Shiloh Sophia on a lovely Saturday morning. This new one minute poem came through and dropped itself like a delicous dispensation of honey.I am working on the draft manual for our only new training this year, Animystica. For healersa nd leaders to learn 4 specific healing arts. When I am designing new curriculum it feels like an extreme sport - my heart races, my body is filled with life and there is this curious precious pressure that moves me forward. It is a calling.If you are called to work with me over the next year on a training delivered in real time - this is it. Come see, and then choose if you want to apply and then book an appointment with me one-on-one next week. That’s it! So if you are called to the healing arts, to medicine painting, and to the path of a healer through self-expression and leadership - this is the thing. See you in the next circle,Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Dear Ones,I have JUST recorded this. I painted with my eyes closed and hand oustretched while I listened to messages arriving within. A posture of giving and receiving, of opening myself up to listen to the deeper messages that become available through painting. Then I turned on the audio and let the transmission come through without editing. I had my students do the same thing. Paint and listen and establish a strong bond with your between worlds giving and receiving. Brave, and edgy to be sure. Before I did I taught them about discernment and protection and distinctions. We aren’t opening to non-specific of planet beings like a channel - it’s more personl and specific to you and your Soul. We painted for two whole days prior to attempting this level of receiving.I am teaching today for our course, Red Madonna, a 13 moon journey of connection with your Guardian Angel and who you are as a ceremonialist, what we call a Celebratrix. You can still sign up for the next two days.I am also teaching today on ritual painting. All of the access can be found at the button above. Join us to begin receiving your own information through Intentional Creativity as a Path of Practice. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Dear Ones, Thinking of you with an invitation to join us to paint two paintings over 13 moons - come see! This painting is called Dream of You and is painted, and beaded. Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Hello Lovely Ones ~ Today I share with you: A reading from my upcoming book Rodeo of the Soul: Quantum Red Thread CafeThe teachings of the Red Thread we follow - all four of them in a few minutesThe origins of Red Thread Cafe and what’s included - with gratitude to Sue Hoya Sellars on her birthday tomorrow (April 20)An invitation to join us in our imusea app (as we choose to define how engagement happens in community - not on platforms that are always tracking us)You can find the app through just a websearch, imusea and you will find the one that is right for your phone. BUT also please know the app is ALSO able to be accessed via desktop.Quantum Red Thread CafeThere is a quantum café right herebetween tomorrow and todayYou will find us here waiting for you since foreverThis is the Red Thread Cafe located in every place there is,including in the most important place of all,your connection to your imagination and the MuseWhen you arrive, you can’t miss meWatch for the cowgirl hat with a red rose and the kickass red bootsI will be the one with my heart on my sleeveThis is a place to gather yourself up,pull up a chair and have tea with the many MusesYou will see, you will be in good companyWe are the Cosmic Cowgirls gathering in the bounty of Intentional Creativity ~ did you hear our call? There are ancient stories to be told under the smiling moon!There are present day stories rising up with the laughing sun!There are future stories being woven with the fabric of our hopes!We have our heads in the stars and our feets on the good earthWe are both/and womenWomen who straddle the worlds We ride in the rodeo of the soulWe are women from the ancient future!Be welcome here! Whatcha working on? Show us your stuff!We have anticipated your arrival for lifetimesWe are so glad you are here! We remember you! Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

A beam of love 💗 for you flowing from GracePurple Tulip at MUSEA this morning Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good morning, dear ones! I wanted to create a context for how, even though we are broadcasting across the world, it’s still a very real “place”. I’m inviting you to bring your studio into a context of togetherness with all of us. Here’s how I think about it - with an invitation to connect with your environment.It’s not too late to join us if you want to jump into True Colors www.musea.org (this link isn’t hot just cut and paste)I will see you in class Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good morning everyone! Yes, an invitation to walk away from the dumpster fire of the projections and rejections you’ve experienced. Let’s get free and more free, shall we?And nothing against black sheep people or black sheep in general, lol just working the metaphor a bit, likely over-working it lol.Shiloh SophiaPaint with me this weekend, 50% off - full money back guarantee - don’t miss this! Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Good morning everyone! It is such an honor to invite you to get a cup of tea, pick up a journal, a paintbrush, take a walk, and listen to this reading and conversation. I am joined for this Tea with the Muse Saturday morning café at MUSEA by Ali Stoddard. Ali has been studying Intentional Creativity for the past five months and is a Functional Medicine Coach that works with us at Musette. I have been sharing with her about the way we pass on information in our lineage, the spirit of guardianship and how we create our lives. What a better way to share about our lineage than to read from one of our ancestors in the movement, Lenore Thomas Straus. She is the one who trained Sue, who is the one who trained me, and I get the honor of training many of you. In this reading I also discovered some of the ‘romance’ ideas that Sue brought to her work, as well as the animistic nature that Lenore brought to her work.With Great Love in my heart, Shiloh Sophia Lenore is the one in the middle, this is when she came to teach us meditation, Sonoma 1975. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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Join me for an honoring of the body in all its wonder. Let us say thank you. Let us welcome beauty by conscious choice. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Painting in Process for the Intentional Creativity Guardian Training Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Hello Everyone! I’m excited to share with you that women I work with in Sonoma, who are part of our healing arts collective, will be offering in-person speaking salons at Musette, and appearing here on the Tea with the Muse podcast! Tune in! This is part of our work to call in the village healers. Many in our collective are also offering private sessions! In this podcast, I have a chance to talk with some of the healers and learn about the work they are bringing in! Our first Speaker Salon for those of you who are locals is happening tonight, March 14th at 5:30 pm, with Functional Medicine Coach Ali Stoddard. Here is the link to register by donation. We pre-recorded this audio just for you!Blessings to each of you ❤️Shiloh Sophia To view all of the upcoming speaking topics visit http://musette.life/Pictured are the women featured in this podcast Michelle Dench, Ali Stoddard, Vicchi Oleski and me! Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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AN INSPIRED HEALING JOURNEY with two women intuitive painting side by side - We begin tomorrow! A Message from MUSEA'S Co-Founder, Curate Shiloh SophiaHello Dear Ones! I am so glad you are here! In our class, INSPIRED we will be guiding you through a step by step healing journey that includes conversation, education, stories, inquiries, meditation, drawing, AND intuitive painting. You can choose to heal your trauma!That said you don't need to be an artist in any way - the painting we are doing is for processing and for the integration of the material. It isn't about making a cool painting, although you might. It is about bringing you deeper into the story you are working to heal through working with image and language, right and left brain, with a big beautiful heart right in the center.For each of the step with the INSPIRED Curriculum, you will be doing a painting step that pairs with the content offered by Lissa and Jeff from the lifetime of experience with healing and the Guidelines of the CDC. You will also be able to hear from my husband, Jonathan McCloud as he shares with you the way we work with creativity to create a pattern interupt to our default thinking. So you will be experiencing, layer by layer by layer, healing occurs and is realized in ways that it hasn't been able to before, and it is evidenced within the conent of the painting itself. You can enagage while you are creating with flow state, nervous system regulation, healing your stress response and increased insight - and of course, INSPIRATION! This is BECAUSE we are including the somatics of the body AND the intentions of the brain - as well as your eyes, which witness the visible changes in real time as you move through the storyline connected with how you experience your trauma. Obviously we use the term, "trauma-inspired" as a play on trauma-informed. We don't want to be just trauma-informed, we want to be inspired to act, and do something about it.One of the greatest challenges with healing is not being able to bring the mental concepts of healing to the somatic realites that the body experiences. We need a process that brings them together. We often do one and then the other. We go to the therapist and talk and we go to the bodyworker, and work the body and the energy worker to shift the energy - and yet how are they woven together? You are the one responsible for weaving them together but maybe no one ever mentioned to you that you get to do that. The trauma that we experienc is stored in the mind and the body - so don't we need to access both if we are going to heal both? We think so. As well as a shift in the storyline we are carrying? This requires some deep diving into the way that we are thinking and the way that we are carrying the trauma in our body. Once again, brain and body. Our approach is designed to access mind and body at the same time, with the power of the heart at the center beaming like a sun!Through self-expression we engage at a WHOLE new and deeper level of what is possible because we are embodying the change, therefore our brain believes we have made the change. Our body records the change through our senses and movement is made in ways that talking and processing alone do not offer. With Intentional Creativity Intuitive Painting, you create a visual artifact of the work you have just done. The entire journey puts you on a path of believing yourself, and believing healing is possible. Believing healing is possible is one of the that is both on Jeff and Lissa's list for healing. In Inspired Lissa and I paint side by side in the videos and you get to paint along with us, tune into our conversation and be inspired in your own healing journey. All the the backdrop of music by the amazing Karen Drucker. Feeling inspired guides us along on our path, encourages us to keep going. And we sometimes need inspiration to keep going. As you well know, healing can be a long and hard journey - and sometimes very mysterious. All for of us have been on a journey to discovery a pathway to healing that we can repeat again and again. We hope to provide you with tools for inspiration for what you are working to heal now and in the future. Really, you will be able to use these tools again and again. We know that some of you might be afraid of the creative process, you think you don't have skill or you know you won't be able to control what happens. Here's a hint, not being able to control what happens in the painting is part of what brings you to such a richly textured edge within yourself - from here, we dive in. Creativity poses no real threat, but we are often afraid of what might happen! A lot of this stems from childhood trauma related to our creativity, vulnerability, there are people who put the crayon down when one person said one negative thing and never picked it up again. Let's pick up the crayon! Let's be brave, dive in and work with the elements to support us. We will be painting inspired by earth, air, fire, water, su