Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, April 2010
Last month I was in Istanbul, now in Taos, NM, in a few days, Houston and Galveston, Texas! Where will the road lead next? Still enjoying the party of life…
Photo by Heidi…but thanks for a great line, Robert Earl Keen!
…never knowing how her life would change within the next 24 hours.
Hi…well, the intro class is over, and now it’s time for the big stuff!
4 Tuesdays in September…nine hours of learning, exploring, and becoming even more adept at listening to your inner voice, matching it with your outer vision, and creating the images and life that bring you joy and satisfaction.
I’m really enjoying sharing my expertise that integrates my background in photography, psychotherapy, and meditative and healing arts; let me share the magic with you.
SEPTEMBER, 2009
“THE INNER PATH OF PHOTOGRAPHY”
Intensive Seminar
September 8, 15, 22, 29, 2009 (4 Tuesdays), 6:15 pm – 8:30 pm
Houston, TX (Montrose area, location upon registration)
Fee: $150.00
“Each artist going in his own direction at some time walks on water.”
– Minor White, Photographer
What is the inner experience of photography? Deep, spiritual, rarely discussed…it is what seduces us and send us out to shoot again and again. We yearn for the taste of the sacred…and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves.
This class is for those who want to explore more deeply the intuitive, mystical part of their photography practice, work with personal blocks to full creative expression, as well as learn more about themselves and life challenges and choices.
Drawing on the tradition of the photographer Minor White, and using techniques and philosophies from Zen, psychology, and other contemplative and healing practices, we’ll come to understand more fully this silent experience, apply it to our art, and enhance the quality of both our photography and life.
Attention, resonance, the “still point”…choices, perfectionism, the “click,”…openness to experience, making art vs. being in the flow, embracing the creative process: these are some of the tools that we’ll explore as you build your inner photography practice and improve your outer resulting images.
As you more deeply understand and work with your inner artistic process, you’ll also see how life parallels art, and through this increased awareness, learn how to more easily dance with your own life challenges and decisions.
Class includes lecture, exposure to diverse photographic expressions & philosophy, meditative and other experiential, outside applications (homework), shooting and sharing of photographs.
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Contact Heidi at heidi@straubephoto.com or 713.521.1676
Hey, thanks to all who participated in the “Introduction to the Inner Path of Photography” workshop yesterday…We really covered a lot, didn’t we? Inside and out, spiritually and tangibly.
Good insights, good photographs too…and some nice perspectives to apply to our lives, whether shooting photographs or not.
I remembered how much I love to teach what I believe in and that inspires me…and also how much I learn from participants at the same time.
Loved affirming that we all share similar challenges as photographers: wanting perfectionism, finding our own muse, avoiding the “shoulds” of others; recognizing the “shoulds” of our own inner slave driver and allowing ourselves to play!
And beginning the discussion of how to work with those challenges, and get back to the joy we felt when we first discovered our new love affair.
“M”: thanks for the “I want to go to bed with my camera again!” sentiment…It captures so beautifully what we’re all yearning for and love to feel when the that photographic/inner spirit passion connects.
Yesterday was inspiring, supportive, and full of camaraderie. That’s what I love about photographers…most are grooving on the joy of life, and enjoy sharing their discoveries and feeling.
Now I’ll get ready for the September intensive….So many ideas, so little time!
(See “Inner Path classes” tab on this blog; also you can find description here on my transformational life counseling site.)
The Inner Path of Photography 