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27-05-2008
Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art
by Nancy Azara
Boston, Ma: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2002
160 pp, Paperback
ISBN: 1-59003-016-8
About this Book Anyone can make art. Finding one's spiritual center can come of making art. Making art can come of finding one's spiritual center. The author has been teaching the making of art, art-making as a spiritual practice, and other spiritual practices for thirty-five years. She has developed a system that combines her lifelong spiritual practice with techniques designed to help anyone get and stay in touch with their own inner artistic souls. This book is a practical book. It offers lists of materials to work with and exercises and meditation techniques to help everyone bring out their inner voice. It includes specific meditations for healing the inner critic, cultivating imagination, and finding one's artistic heart. Its meditations and exercises can be done many times, and each time they can bring the reader new and richer experiences and deeper insights.
About the Author Nancy Azara is a working artist who has been teaching for thirty-five years. She came of age as an artist and a woman during the feminist movement of the 1960s. In the process, she began a lifelong spiritual practice that led her to teach and do psychic healing circles.
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