TREASURE: Where Your Heart Is
A Creative Exploration of Self-Love
Reveal the Richness Your Heart Holds
& Make a Portable Altar Box
An Online Course of Inner Reflection Done at Your Leisure
Immediate Access • NOW OPEN
Amid the many messages
that arrive at our door each day,
may we choose to set off
listening for Love,
mining for the treasure
of passion and soul.
What does the word “treasure” stir for you?
Does it bring to mind exterior gold, jewels and riches? Or,
does it move you toward the interior secret place of knowing?
Do you dance between the two?
This word
— TREASURE —
carries a
soulful gleam
steeped in mystery
possibility for our path
worthy of exploration
to love ourselves
and others
I WONDER:
WHAT IS YOUR INNER SOUL TREASURE
THAT AWAITS DISCOVERY?
•
WHAT PERSONAL RICHES DO YOU OWN
THAT ARE READY TO REVEAL THEIR SHINE?
•
LET’S GO ON A TREASURE HUNT
TO FIND THE LOST GLEAM
“Way more intimate AND powerful than I expected.
It’s as gentle as can be, but also as deep as can be,
some kind of “full makeover” treatment and Healing.”
– Anna Corsini, participant
Where IS the treasure of YOUR heart? How do you find it? And, once found, how does it become woven into the daily choices you make for your life?
Can honoring our personal treasure lead to love of self?
You’re invited to come on an exploration for the treasure your heart holds. The treasure of our heart can be elusive. The riches may peek their eyes out in the middle of the night while we dream. The jewel-toned glow brightens when we least expect it. Our personal treasure often gives us subtle clues we may miss if we aren’t paying attention. This workshop is designed to woo out those clues for you to SEE what your heart holds.
Make Your Personal, Portable Altar Box
Your Creative Exploration of Self-Love Includes:
A Welcome & Story video
An Invitation to the Red Thread video
Weekly “spark” point emails
that provide a process to create a treasure map
with your treasure box
Nine video lessons of contemplative instruction
Time sensitive instruction: Each video is ten minutes or less
Eight sketch and/or journal prompts throughout the experience
A pdf that includes further Spiritual Formation Practices
for use with your Treasure Altar Box
Estimated process to work through treasure box, journal prompts
and treasure map is 4 to 6 hours
JOIN ME
Now is the time, to head out on a treasure hunt and reclaim the sparkle.
To gather the glow and live a passionate story.
THE DOOR WAITS TO BE OPENED…
Let’s travel the discovery trail together to find the sacred treasure of our hearts. We’ll move through a series of layers with paint and collage on a wooden box of your choice. With a spirit of playfulness and surprise, we’ll make a treasure box that can be used as a portable altar to hold items that are meaningful for the sacred walk of life. This course invites contemplation and reflection on the gift of YOU. Each video also comes with a sketchbook/journal prompt for continued written exploration and a spiritual practice to live out your discovery.
If you desire to gather the richness of your heart
and claim YOUR treasure as imperative for your life, COME.
If you are are ready to gather the glimmers of you
that you’ve hidden away, COME.
If you delight in both surface play and deep dives,
swimming between the ebb and flow, COME.
Workshop Information
This is an online workshop via video that is NOW OPEN and will be held in love by Ally with weekly “spark” emails that provide a process to create a treasure map that goes along with your treasure box.
The videos are available to do on your own time, with pauses as you need.
Each video is ten minutes or less and is created with contemplative voice instruction set to a background of silence to invite a spirit of listening for the still, small voice.
There are eight sketchbook prompts that accompany each video for further reflective work. The class is designed to take you 4-6 hours in the rhythm that feels good to you.
WHY DOES OUR TREASURE MATTER?
What I’ve found is that as I’ve had time to BE with what my heart holds, I’ve learned to honor myself and the causes I care about. I’ve been able to release the cloak of shame to take hold of/and guide my personal veil of authenticity. Along the way, I’ve found love for myself and have been able to receive Divine Love with more expansion.
If you and I receive ourselves where we are, finding love and compassion for ourselves,
we spread that love and compassion out to the circles we move through.
If you and I honor the treasure we hold and choose to make choices from this love space,
we live with more authenticity.
Materials Needed:
Sketchbook or Journal to Write in
A wooden box (found at your local craft store)
or a cigar box (fun to work with; often free!)
The size box I worked with in the video is 8” (length) x 6” (wide) x 4” (depth)
Black Sharpie Marker
Acrylic paint in a myriad of colors (allow your Muse to choose)
Paintbrushes
Spray Bottle of Water
Old magazines & Modge Podge
Tape
Glitter (optional)
Spray polyurethane (optional to seal a cardboard box initially
or for sealing upon completion)
Gesso (optional; only needed if you want to prime a cigar
or cardboard box)
What’s Included:
A Welcome & Story video
An Invitation to the Red Thread video
Weekly “spark” point emails to create your own
treasure map to go along with your treasure box
Nine video lessons of contemplative instruction
(with continued access past May)
Time sensitive instruction: Each video is ten minutes or less
Eight sketch and/or journal prompts throughout the experience
A pdf that includes further Spiritual Formation Practices
for use with your Treasure Altar Box
Estimated process to work through treasure box, journal prompts and treasure map is 4 to 6 hours
Have any questions? Reach out to me at ally@soulkindling.com
ALLY’S STORY
I owned a very rich treasure as a young women. This treasure was creative stirrings, ideas and silent time to write and draw. Of course, I didn’t know it was treasure. Oh sure, it made my heart beat faster and I loved time spent dreaming and making – but, along the way, I began to believe that this treasure wasn’t as important as other peoples’ treasures. I began to believe that the treasure I held wasn’t sensible or practical. So, I buried it. I took it and wrapped it in steel wire and placed it deep in the ground to keep it safe. I didn’t want anyone to find the delicate treasure that was mine. Every once in a while, I tapped back into a creative stirring but over time, the light faded. I forgot the deep sacredness of creative communion.
Fifteen years later, I began to feel a nudge deep in my bones. (nudge. nudge. nudge.) I didn’t even know what the nudge was, but it felt deeply important. This prod led me back to a path to discover the golden X in the dirt road. I had a faint memory of the X. It smelled of markers and paint. I put my shovel in the ground and started to dig. Under the dirt and darkness, lie a treasure of words and lines. Words of poetry popped up. Colors dappled. I played with word and image as long lost friends. I danced with them. I delighted with them. I discovered these words, lines and color were my gateway to the Divine.