“Every one of them is powerful and brings me to tears. I noticed everyone said they had fun painting today. Jane thank you for being such a skilled guide and thanks to all of you for the inspiration and support.”
Art Circles with the Daughters of the Waters :
Next Class to be announced. Please reach out if you are interested in personal art for healing or mentoring.
About Daughters of the Waters: Where Art Meets play, transformation, & community
We are an incredible circle of women from all walks of life. We formed virtually during 2020 with a longing to connect and create during shelter in place orders and challenging times. We found unconditional love and sisterhood on the way along with deep healing, hope and restoration.
We use Intentional Creativity, energy healing and group process to uplift ourselves and support one another. Our red thread circle is held in a sacred and intentional way, calling forth and painting stories which shape and inform us. We often paint mythical figures as a way to access archetypal energies moving through our lives as women. In this way, we are always working with ourselves in curiosity about who we really are, what truly matters to us, and who we are becoming.
We mark our canvases ritually in a multitude of ways, honoring all aspects of ourselves and setting clear intentions for our lives and the world. This work is powerful for anyone in the process of healing, returning home to themselves, and in the throes of initiation.
Our group is for everyone and no experience is needed. The women are at varied levels of skill and experience. We learn how to use paint and a canvas to work with intentions in a creative and spiritual way. The ancient magic of Intentional Creativity which is being practiced by thousands of women all over the globe is powerful medicine that moves us along our heroine’s journey guided by love, compassion and belonging.
Our circle is led by Jane Celeste Sanguinetti, a certified Intentional Creativity teacher who has been studying this art form with her teacher, Shiloh Sophia since 2012.
“I feel my own attitude changing and my own self tapping into my strength. I am not operating from a place of fear for the first time in a long time.”
“Seeing her anger and rage every day this week has been cathartic and real for me. Through her I’ve been able to free those feelings and experiences. I feel I’ve heard myself, and honored the pain through the painting.”
“I’m just in awe of this group and the unique interpretations and deep symbolism… and the authenticity and everything that goes into these paintings. I’m so happy to be in this with each one of you. Thank you for everything that you all bring to the group.”
Why Intentional Creativity?
First of all, it's really fun and deeply nourishing! And art often allows our younger parts to play. Reclaiming ourselves as artists is potent work.
Creativity is who we are as human beings. When we express ourselves, we feel good. When we create with healing intention, we free ourselves. When we shift internally, we heal those around us and radiate healing to a world deeply in need of love.
Intentional Creativity is a powerful guided process that illuminates what’s on the inside into an art form, expressing the often hidden voice on the inside – the voice that defines us, the voice that may have been silenced by traumatic events, the voice that was scared, the voice that may have been too shy to speak.
“I feel solidarity! A new feeling for me. I always feel so alone, needing to hold onto the truth of my childhood trauma in the face of collective family denial. So feeling safe enough for this piece to come forward- for healing and sharing is. really big deal for me.”
And so we explore painting in the sacred container of a group to better understand who we are, what’s truly important to us and the common threads that bind us collectively through time and space. We peel back layers of that which binds us, bring forth visions and prayers for healing and place them into a physical art form that emerges as incredible beauty.
This transition from formless to form easily transforms energy and allows us to return home to ourselves. With the IC process, you will be guided through self-inquiry and self-expression, ultimately heralding the joy that comes with authentic creative flow.
Artist Statement, Jane Celeste Sanguinetti
My life is guided by Shamanism — the soul medicine that reunites humanity with what is sacred. I believe as the ancients did, that every creation on the earth is alive and conscious. We have become sick as a species because we have forgotten. Many believe in separation and do not honor our connection and intimacy with life. As a result, we are destroying our Mother Earth. My art serves to help people remember and rekindle healthy relationships with living. I aim to reconnect people with themselves and with the energy of being alive through offering resonant paintings of people in reverence with the elements, the cosmos, the ancient ones, animals, nature, and the world.
Opening up to prayer, ritual and journey, I enter into altered states of consciousness while painting. I listen for messages and glimpse images that wish to come alive into form on my canvas. My paintings are often answers to prayers, visions for a bright future, and guidance for how to live more deeply from the heart.
Working with several layers of thick acrylic paint and often with my hands, allows for a natural, earthy and free process to unfold. By delving into individual and collective psyche/soul, I experience multifaceted human states of being, such as hope and joy, as well as suffering, as a pathway to expression, soul retrieval, integration and rebirth. I love the feeling of wild abandon when I paint. I am drumming, singing, dancing and praying with a paintbrush in one hand, one with creation in those pure moments.
Teaching people how to feel this free is my dream and my honor. I am grateful for my lineages, professors and teachers, especially Shiloh Sophia with whom I’ve studied Intentional Creativity since 2012. A courageous artist and teacher, Shiloh possesses the wisdom and vision to wake up thousands of women through creative acts. Always inspirational, she has allowed me personal inquiry and freedom on my quest as an artist and art teacher.
