YOGA & PAINTING RETREATS
Awakening through Yoga & Art Long Weekend
September 18-21, 2008
$1,995 per person based on double occupancy; we will place you with a roommate if you do not have a travel companion. Single accomodations are very limited and are an additional cost, please inquire. A non-refundable deposit of $500 is due to hold your reservation. Reserve online
Yoga & Oil-Painting
Our normal yoga and outdoor fitness combo now becomes yoga and outdoor creativity. Let your creativity blossom with this special "pose and paint" retreat. We'll practice yoga to tap into your artistic potential and then explore it further through landscape and expressive painting lessons. Best of all, you'll have an amazing souvenir of your time in Montana - your paintings!
Even if you've never considered yourself a creative person, the combination of yoga and painting will tap into a dimension of your being that perhaps you had thought was lost. Like a child with fingerpaints, you'll find the freedom to express yourself. Amidst the spectacular scenery of Big Sky Country, inspiration is everywhere. Enjoy the splendors of the outdoors while learning the joy of painting and exploring the artist and yogi inside you.
Jackie Rainford of Rainford Art will be our painting instructor.
Our time together will include daily yoga, journaling, meditation, painting lessons and painting time, and an "Art Party". Painting lessons will include Plein Air Landscape Oil Painting, and Expressive Oil Painting which will find inspiration in our yoga.
Retreat-goers will be provided with all necessary painting supplies including journals, smocks and fingernail scrubbers. We'll hold onto your paintings for 10-14 days until they dry; they will then be shipped home to you.
About Jackie Rainford Corcoran:
Jackie literally denied herself the opportunity to study studio arts while attending Columbia University in NYC. She believed her focus had to be on more practical studies that would lead to stable career. She appreciated the need for a proper income if one was to live a life in NYC (which she believed at the time was where she would stay forever.) After virtually accidentally finding herself in Big Sky, Montana shortly after graduation, she took a figure drawing class at Beall Park. It was then that she allowed herself to exhale as she finally proclaimed, "I am an artist."
She sought after and found the ultimate teacher, Charles (Skip) Cantwell in Palo Alto, California. She took every drawing and painting class of his that she could. She listened to his instruction intently as he guided her and her fellow students. Eventually she returned to Big Sky and began teaching oil painting lessons herself.
For seven years she has been teaching plein air and studio painting to guests of ranches and resorts, children of Big Sky's public school and friends and family. Her own education continues to advance as she engages her students and creates her own work. She is an avid reader of art books, has taken independent study courses at Montana State University, and studied sculpting and figure drawing in Florence, Italy.
She is a bit of a furtive artist in that you won't find her name in any art competitions or art galleries. She places her work here and there, donates art to certain non-profits and maintains a current website.
"In the world of art, the tangible piece is what we judge the work (and often ourselves) on. From the literal physical realm, what else is there? But it is the creative process that keeps me coming back to the easel. Art leaves room simultaneously for trial, error, communication and growth like nothing else I have experienced. I am in love when I am teaching, discussing, observing, studying and creating art."
Recommended reading:
by Peter London
Meditation in Action
by Frederick Franck.