Paint Your Soul Fire!
A Woman’s Retreat
With Rita Rivera Fox & Emily Grieves
October 20 – 23, 2021
Villa de Campanas, Teotihuacan, Mexico
Ready to spend 4 unforgettable days exploring the power of creativity to reinvigorate and recharge your life, come back to your heart center, play with color, and the mystery of the Muse as she reminds you of the power to cultivate beauty, ease and grace in your life?
Step away from your screens! Play from your child–like nature that emerges when she makes art. Feel what is feels like to be more free in your mind and heart. Allow the inner artist/visionary to emerge and thrill you!
Retreat is the gift that we give ourselves when we are exhausted and disconnected from over doing and over giving, when we notice our concentration and work is suffering because we’re pulled in too many directions. Often our most supportive and beloved relationships don’t get the attention and love we know we are capable of. Do you feel the need to refuel, recharge and reconnect with yourself? Are you longing for some space and time just to let your imagine run and your dream unfold? Now the time to say “YES” to experiencing more ease and grace
On this one-of-a kind, unforgettable retreat, you will be guided in creativity generating experiences, painting, drawing, yoga, meditation, ceremony, and free time to enjoy reconnecting with your vitality, and own source of inspiration, while being inspired and moved by the colors, tastes, and sensual feast that is Mexico! All of this designed to refuel and refill the tank!
“Every bone in your body is a creative bone! When you create, you activate your life force. When your life force is activated, you are connected with Source, and you often find renewed energy.
Creating with intention, with focused mindfulness through inquiry is profoundly healing and illuminating and grants access to curating consciousness in ways beyond our imagination! And, it is profoundly joyful!”
~ Shiloh Sophia – the creator of the Creative Intent process
YOU ARE … an artist of life, a follower of your heart, a creative explorer, open to new ways to deepen into your self discovery & self awareness, while moving closer to your unique expression of Spirit and life force as it moves through you. AND YOU ARE READY…. to unplug from a too busy life, taking care of others and find the calm place at your center, relax into an having more space and time to listen to your Silent Knowledge- the silent voice from within that guides you to make more conscious choices and live from your soul guidance, and discover the thrill of allowing your inner artist/visionary self to emerge.
There is a cost we pay as women when we are cut off from our creative center….lack of inspiration for living our lives, not really connecting from the heart with our loved ones. At work or in our professional lives, we don’t’ bring our full brilliance to the table, we’re just coasting…we’re lacking the fire we need to be in the world in an intentional and powerful way.
Reconnect with your fire, your passion and gain access to deep soul guidance and connection that will feed all the aspects of your busy life as you Paint Your Soul Fire!
No previous art experience is necessary to embark on this juicy guided creative process! Discover your creative power even though you might not think of yourself as a creative!
Many of us have forgotten we’re innately creative because we’ve been trained over our lifetimes to listen to the critical voice in our minds, the voice that judges us and makes us believe that we can’t paint, we can’t sing, we can’t dance, or we can’t be successful at the dream of our heart.
The Intentional Creativity Process
We’ll journey into an encounter with the part of ourselves that is and has always been connected to the Source of Inspiration. We call this aspect of ourselves The Muse.
In this dynamic Paint Your Soul Fire process you learn how to shift your attention to your inner Muse and claim inspiration for yourself. Through a deep process of personal inquiry called Intentional Creativity. You will be gently guided, step by step through creating your own expression of your Muse, integrating your discoveries about what lights you up into visual form while stoking the creative fire in your soul and discovering deeper aspects of self. All art materials are provided so come play and pray with paintbrushes. Even if you’ve never painted before, in this gentle, guided process, you will find a part of you that loves playing with paint and image!
You come away from Paint Your Soul Fire having embodied your Muse and your authentic self in deeper places, more connected to the fire of your soul and creative spirit, enabling you to connect fully to the others in your life, as well as, your projects and dreams at home. Reignite the dormant part of your creative brain and spirit that makes life more joyful and fun. Reignite your child like nature of play and freedom to express
There is something about working with visual art, color, line, mark-making that when you do it with intention, it actually translates for the mind in a distinct way that allows us to shift limiting beliefs or past identities and experiences of our creative self.
The Intentional Creativity process is definitely not about becoming or being a painter! The painting process is about having a way to access deeper parts of ourselves that we might not ordinarily be able to access, pull those discoveries out into the light and be able to give them form in such a way that the new insights actually become palpable and even permanent in our awareness and choices.
Discover the Ancient Toltec Practice of Dreaming Awake
We will also deepen into the process of Dreaming Awake. You will be guided, through your breath to a deeper, space within where all creativity and guidance come from, to connect to your authentic voice and your own archetypal images and stories- the source material for our art making.
Dreaming Awake was inspired by the legacy of the ancient Toltec’s that built this powerful pyramid city that is adjacent to the Villas. This Dreaming Mastery was the process they were initiated into to help them discover that we are all dreaming and that life is a dream. They discovered that we are all Artists of the Spirit!
The Artist of the Spirit is one who sees the unity in all living things, finds great inspiration in nature and seeks to deepen our connection to all of Life. Artistry is a way of life, painting or image making not required…. but sure can make life more fun and playful. Getting to the know our artist within helps us find the courage to break from old agreements of who we are, how we express, roles that confine and are outdated.
Step away from your screens! Have fun….play….dance…embrace more freedom & light heartedness!
Soften the voice of the inner critic. Devote time to yourself. Meet and merge with other like minded and like-hearted women who are ready to live with a new more expansive perspective and aliveness!
Emily K. Grieves received a BFA degree in art from the University of Montana in 1993, followed by study of art history in Berlin, Germany, as a Fulbright scholar. She lived in San Francisco, California, for 10 years where she began exploring symbolism, mythology, and ritual in her artwork, drawing inspiration from the celebrations and mysteries of life. She has been a practitioner of shamanic healing and hands-on energy work since 1997.
As of 2004, she makes her home in Teotihuacan, Mexico, where she has painted murals at the Dreaming House spiritual retreat center and has created a body of artwork influenced by the cosmological imagery left in the ancient pyramids and by her relationship with her Muse and the Divine Feminine. In 2014, she opened her studio Taller de Arte El Refugio, in Teotihuacan. She opened her creativity hotel & retreat center, Villa Las Campanas, in 2019.
Emily is a certified Intentional Creativity Teacher in the Color of Woman Method developed by Shiloh Sophia McCloud. She is also a member of the Intentional Creativity Guild, an international organization that promotes intuitive artistic expression as a way to make positive change in the world. Visit her at www.EmilyKGrievesArt.com
Rita Rivera Fox lives from a lifelong calling to end needless suffering and awaken people to a more conscious, joyful way of being. She is committed to being in service to the evolution of human consciousness that is emerging at this time. Her reputation for achieving profound results to that end has made her a well sought-after Spiritual Mentor, Transformational Coach and Counselor… more
Villa Las Campanas
Teotihuacan, Mexico
The newly opened, bright, sunny Villa las Campanas is our home for our retreat. This carefully created small hotel and retreat center is a place to feel at home while exploring the energies of the 2000 year old pyramids of Teotihuacan. All forms of creative expression are welcome in our art studio classroom and meditation salon. The dining room cafe is in one of the oldest houses in the village where you can enjoy its colonial charm while sipping your cappuccino. A rooftop terrace offers spectacular views of the 18th century church right next door and of the Pyramid of the Sun. Wander through our central serpentine pathway between casitas and the gardens of our property aromatic with honeysuckle, lavender and roses, beneath our romantic wrought iron balconies, and remember the peace living in your heart.
Our guest rooms offer a peaceful environment filled with light. Our romantic balconies are perfect for cappuccino or red wine sipping, reading a good book, filling a sketchbook with colorful ideas, watching the birds come home to nest at sunset, and evening being serenaded by a mariachi. We’ve preserved the colonial feel with clay tile floors and Boveda Catalana tile and beam ceiling to accent the charming old thick stone walls. Original artwork by Emily K. Grieves hangs throughout the villa as an invitation to our guests to explore their own creative expression.
What’s Included
Transport to and from the Mexico City airport (based on arrival & departure times within stated parameters. See Below) 4 nights lodging, two + meals per day (breakfast, comida, and evening snack), drinking water and non-alcoholic beverages (specialty coffee drinks are available at additional cost). all teachings, art materials, yoga class, ceremonies and entry to the Pyramid complex.
The supplement for a single room is $200, otherwise it is double occupancy . While we cannot guarantee that we can find you a roommate, we make every effort to do so. In the event we are unable to find a roommate for you, you will be required to pay the single supplement cost.
These art materials are included: A 30 x 40 cm canvas, Paint- watercolors, acrylic, canvas, paint brushes, easels, Paint Your Soul FIre Journal to draw, write and work out your ideas. And when you get home, you’ll have a journal to refer to that will continue to inspire you.
Your Cost: $1,177 (payment options- Check, PayPal, Visa, MC.)
Limited number of payment plans are available.
What’s Not Included
We are not responsible for your round trip flight from your home to Mexico City. Also not included are your taxis if you travel outside of group arrival and departure times – taxi costs $60 USD each direction. Also not included are gratuities, alcoholic beverages, specialty café beverages, items of a personal nature such as laundry, gifts, shopping, beverages, toll calls, excess baggage, medical costs.
Optional Extension- If you are staying on to join Ed and Rita’s Being Free Sacred Journey beginning on Oct 1, we have made special arrangements so you can continue to enjoy the restful setting of the Villas while waiting for the group to arrive.
Your airfare is not covered in the cost of retreat. When you book your travel, plan to arrive in Mexico City DF airport no later than 3pm on Sept 27. Depart after 2:00 pm on Oct 1 ( Unless your staying for the Being Free Teo Journey). Please contact Rita at: ritariverafox@gmail.com before booking any flights. Complete your registration with me first.
AND….after 4 days of Paint Your Soul Fire Retreat we can promise you this:
You will feel more alive, more connected to yourself, more aligned with Spirit in the way it moves in your life, more self accepting and less judgmental of self and others. Your heart will be light. You will reconnect with the source of your creative fire that will just continue to grow and expand into all areas of your life.
Dive into Paint Your Soul Fire. Express. Play. Relax. Recharge. Recreate!