Painting from our Juicy Sea Bones
1-4th May 2024
“A whole 3 days of uninterrupted
creative unfolding, inspiration
and juicy breaks to cool off in the sea.”
This Retreat will...
guide you in a freeing step by step way to creating a large intuitively painted soul-portrait
teach you a healing intuitive painting process that you can play with again and again for the rest of your life
show you that you (yes, even you!) are deeply, divinely, creative
teach powerful revelations about creativity which will help you JUST DO IT !
Weave in sacred storytelling as we reclaim our creative soul bones … your own story and beautiful fairy tale myths and magic
This Retreat is for you if...
your creative spark has been squashed and stilted somewhere along the way
you are maybe petrified, wobbly and scared of the idea of this but also you are excited, curious and wondering if it could be for you
you don’t believe you are creative or artistically skilled but something deep within you yearns to create
you are already an artist but would like to free up more, shake things up or get back into new flow
your inner critic and fear of getting it wrong stops you from even starting !
you love art and want to learn a beautiful, intuitive process for painting healing self-portraits
You would like time away from the distractions of your life to paint
you want to be part of a juicy welcoming community. This course actively welcomes and creates safe space for people of all genders and sexualities and the trans community. We also provide a number of personally funded bursaries to the community in Liverpool and people connected to our community programmes.
What you will receive …
A juicy, irreverent, profound, guided painting process from large blank canvas to a powerful, finished sacred soul-portrait which will express your story and offer healing medicine for your life
A therapeutic process that includes poetry, quotes, art, inspiration, meditations, movement, working with story and symbols, freeing up courage to make marks, exploring what feels good to you, releasing old beliefs about what creativity looks like and who gets to call themselves an artist and not
Beautiful Creative Journal that helps you map and reflect on your journey
Meditations to help you sink into the creative process and let go of resistance
Playlists of inspiring music to listen to while painting
Run away to a juicy creative extravaganza
a powerful healing journey on a fantastic light filled island
a visual medicine art map for your life,
a way of reclaiming creativity,
a path for working with the inner critic,
a call to freedom, liberation, wildness,
a path to begin to create powerful personal symbols,
a journey in permission giving,
a juicy new creative language,
a starting place to find your style,
a supportive community to help you complete a process ,
a way of unleashing authentic wild creative expression,
a juicy honeymoon with your muse and your true unedited voice,
a healing process that follows the stories in your soul and seeks to reveal something healing,
a tearing up off old rule books you never really believed in anyway,
a sea of delicious possibilities exploring the medicine of trusting in your own archetypes and symbols,
mark making, intuition, a playful irreverent approach to intentional creativity,
a river of listening, expressing and telling your stories,
awash with stories and poetry,
a creative mojo wake up call ,
a prompt for deep connection with self,
a way to nurture the often neglected inner creative child and let them out to play,
a learning in how to drop expectations and move towards a compassionate curiosity for your own creative expression…
and a lot more!
The retreat is not for you if…
You want to learn technical life drawing skills and traditional art school teaching
You want to teach this method, it is not a training the trainers course. Use of the materials with others is prohibited.
This retreat is not for you if you are racist, homophobic, transphobic, small minded or generally not a person who is compassionate towards people who may be different to you!
Clare Jasmine Beloved is a full time artist and social entrepreneur and your juicy guide and teacher on this course. She has been facilitating this journey and many deep diving gorgeous community magic for over 27 years with over 20 thousand people guiding them through this process and other therapeutic journeys through her work with large scale grassroots projects and social enterprises. Clare is excited to make her work more accessible on line.
People often choose to work with Clare because of her incredible track record, vast experience and a grounded irreverent and deep juicy approach to art and life that is hard to put into words unless you have experienced it. She is dedicated to creating programmes that are diverse, real and down to earth but magical and deeply rooted in community.
Clare was born in Liverpool and that Liverpudlian energy, hope and magic is very much in her bones. Clare’s beloved wife, Sandra died in august 2021 and she is currently on a deep magical journey with her grief. It’s incredibly precious that Sandra is on several of the videos and footage in this course showing her creative life.
Clare has been creating since she was a little girl and sells her own well-loved artwork internationally. She has also translated her work into a soulful and successful fine art clothes and sacred jewellery/ homeware range.
You can direct questions about the process to Clare and your journey and fears and hopes - she knows what it is to wobble, cry, scream and not to take herself too seriously in all this journey.
If you have any questions throughout this process, please email fairytalemedicine@gmail.com
Her groundbreaking creative work has been funded by Arts Council England and her large scale creative projects have been rolled out through Public Health, NHS and Primary Care Teams and schools, prisons and probation services. They have been highlighted as innovative and highly effective programmes for working with depression, anxiety, dementia, cancer support, LGBTQI and the trans community.
You can find Clare on Instagram and explore her website for further magic.
Clare developed and curated a large scale project based on her own way of creating with over 1000 women and girls which was exhibited at The Tate in a groundbreaking exhibition. This was then taken into many settings and also developed into Big Love Sista, Big Love My Brother, Big Love Little Sista.
What past participants say…
Further Juicy Information about our Greek Island Retreats
Accommodation
We have exclusive use of beautiful apartments which are close to the turquoise sea.
There is a choice of different apartments - shared or single, all with their own bathrooms and kitchens and balconies .
The cost varies according to room choice.
What is Included ?
Three nights accommodation in beautiful sea view villas
3 breakfasts, lunches and two celebratory evening meals included
A divine exclusive Tote Bag full of delicious exclusive gifts and goodies
Pre event what’s app and Facebook groups
Access to an on line magic island retreat journey which is optional for you to prepare and also continue the journey after you get home
Food will have vegetarian options. Please let us know if you are vegan.
Travel to the retreat and back is not included. We can help connect people who are also travelling from your area.
Some travel is included for our group activities. There will be in a mini bus for our trips and where possible we will collect you from the ferry and on your return to the ferry at the port on the island.
Some basic art materials will be provided but we will send a list of recommended art products that you might like to bring.
Massages and holistic treatments are extra
What will the timetable be like ?
Trips will be dependent on weather and subject to change.
There will be a juicy mix of optional morning meet ups with sunrise dips and wild swimming, trips out to magical places, time for reflection, circle gatherings, poetry, inspiration, creative time,, free time to nap, integrate, process , get a massage or just chill Greek style.
How to get to the magic island ?
Flights to Rhodes then ferry to Halki. Or you may need to fly via Athens depending on timetables of flights. We will send further instructions on booking. As there are no released ferry schedules yet , there may be no ferries to the island on the dates of the retreat therefore you should allow for a few days either side of the retreat to travel and maybe stay in Rhodes on route.
Will I be ok coming on my own ?
Most people come on our workshops alone and we set up a what’s app group before the retreat so I you can connect and ask questions or check in if you are lost on the way ! It is often peoples first time travelling on their own and people find it gives them confidence to travel alone more and a way to gain a whole group of new friendships some that can last a lifetime. We are big hearted nurturing souls and if you feel wobbly you will probably be in good company and you will be looked after in safe hands.
Cost
We are just waiting for some final costings so we can let you know the final price asap. Thanks for your patience.
We try to keep the costs of our retreats as low as possible and offer flexible payment plans which can spread over the year. We offer sliding scale payments where possible. On this retreat there is a range of costings depending on rooms. If you would like to attend but would like to apply for one of our partial bursary please get in touch and if you want to offer a contribution towards a bursary also let us know. Most of our work has taken place in marginalised communities and has been free at point of access for people in financial need - although this is currently not possible on these retreats - we dream of a day when it can be.
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SAFE SPACE FOR DEEP JUICY WORK AND PLAY
to heal you have to get to the
root of the wound and kiss it
all the way up
Rupi Kaur
Booking onto the retreat does mean you agree to hold our circle guidelines over the 5 days and nights of honouring the energy of the group.
There will also be a no alcohol policy during our working together. This is because we will be diving deep into our inner worlds within a community group and safe space and in our long experience mixing any alcohol into group and personal dynamics it is not only disruptive but also creates an unsafe, unethical space.
So please be sure you are more than happy with this before deciding if this is for you.
While the circle spaces will be held and supported we do ask that you have other support if dealing with trauma and difficult
If you are unsure if this retreat is for you please feel free to contact us and we can help talk it through.
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TRAVEL
“A nomad I will remain for life,
in love with distant and uncharted places.”
Isabelle Eberhardt
Halki is a beautiful quiet gem of an island, located just 6km from Rhodes.
You are responsible for booking your own travel and please note that as a small island sometimes ferries don’t run or don’t coincide with airport flight times so we do recommend that you give yourselves time and maybe some overnight stays on the way.
The easiest way we know from the UK to get to Halki is by travelling to Rhodes then taking a short ferry journey. The ferries timetables aren’t released yet and may not fit your journey perfectly so we recommend at least a night on Rhodes to allow for leeway either side of your journey. We can recommend some hotels.
There are many variations on this especially if you want to combine a visit to Athens or other islands.
There may be others on the retreat who want to do similar and share cabins or hotels and we will connect people in the New Year.
You can also fly to Athens and then get an immediate frequent flight to Rhodes from the same terminal.
Clare also discovered the long slow boat from Athens Piraeus Harbour to Halki (return) It is a lovely romantic way to travel.