5 Days to Activate Your Creative Energy
An Online Art Course
22 videos
12 guided Art exercises
3 Coloring-in pages
This art course offers you an opportunity to play and get into a flow of creativity at your own pace. Many people have been able to tune into their own inner joy and creativity through these principles and tools. These simple concepts allow you to dive in quickly to your own essence and bring out the joy that art has to offer!
Course Insights
What you'll discover and learn
Simple art exercises to bring forth a love for painting and art
Tools for developing an inside-out approach to art
Guidelines for making a painting in your own authentic way
How to bring freshness and creativity into every aspect of our life
Thoughts and concepts on raising our consciousness through art
Course includes 22 videos sharing concepts or instruction, 12 guided Art exercises to follow along, 3 Coloring-in pages, a “10 minutes a day challenge” for you to take up once you are done and an opportunity to connect with the instructor anytime.
"If you want to know joy, seek to express joy, if you want to know beauty, seek to express beauty. "Swami Kriyananda
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Course outline
Preparation For Your Course
- Why is it necessary to Relax ourselves before Art? – Understand why a few simple daily rituals can help us in our developing our creativity
- Exercises to Relax the Body & Mind – Do these simple exercises along with me (preferably outdoors in nature, if you can)
- Introspection Exercise to Get to Know Yourself Better – These questions offer you a chance to introspect and work with yourself with greater understanding
Day 1: Art Exercises
- Warm Up Exercises – Art warm-ups to help get your supplies out and start playing
- Make Your Own Color Wheel – Create your color wheel to help you get to know the hues and tones of your paints
- Art Exercise: Blending Colors – Try a simple exercise to practice blending different colors and mediums
- The Many Benefits of Art – Understand many ways in which art, especially this inside-out approach to it can help you!
Day 2: Go Within With Art
- Go Within With Art – Let’s understand how we can start internalizing our art process, and what that means
- Art Exercise: “Blind Inner” Contour Drawing – Try this simple exercise, practiced worldwide by many to help loosen up your hand
- Color with me! – Enjoy a few original coloring-in pages which you can print out and color along with uplifting music to accompany you
Day 3: Soul Expressions
- Soul Expressions – What does it mean, why, and how?
- Art Exercise: Gratitude – An art exercise to tune into the quality of Gratitude and express it in a painting
- Art Exercise: Playing With Contrast – Tune into the concept of contrast and re-visit your color wheel
- Music Exercise: An Experiment – Grab a piece of paper and try this experiment on the impact of different sounds on your consciousness
- Interview: The Impact of Music with Baraquiel Castelli – Watch an interview about the power of music to change our consciousness
Day 4: Make a Painting
- Art Exercise: Expressing a Quality: Inner Peace (Part 1) – Start your own painting by tuning into this quality
- Art Exercise: Make Your Own Painting: Inner Peace (Part 2) – Finish the painting by adding in details and elements on this quality
- Art Exercise: Uplifting the Colors we use – This is an experiment suggested by Swami Kriyananda which involves playing with different shades of colors and observing their impact on our consciousness
- Example of a Live Painting: Start to Finish – Watch this video to glimpse a painting process from beginning to end!
- Interview: Art and Consciousness with Dana Lynne Andersen – An informal chat with a wonderful artist, one of my teachers and founder of the Awakening Arts Academy
Day 5: Creativity in Daily Life
- Creativity in Daily Life – How can we apply our creativity in every aspect of our life?
- Interview: Everyone is an Artist with Narayani Anaya – Read this interview to gain a few insights on how everyone can be and is an artist
- Interview: Applying Creativity in Daily Life with Br. Dr. Aditya Gait – Listen to this interview on tips to apply creativity in our everyday lives
- Create your Vision Board – Here are a few prompts to make your own Creativity Vision Board!
- “10 Minutes a Day” Challenge – Take up this challenge with me to move forward!
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Frequently asked questions
1) Do I need an art background to take this course?
Absolutely no art background is required! This course is for anyone who would like to try their hand at art, and if you already paint, it could add to your current skills and free up your style of expression. Enthusiasm to explore and experiment with art and its impact on our consciousness
2) I am not good at painting, is this for me?
If you are looking at this course you are likely interested in igniting and working with your creativity. And creativity isn’t for some select people who know how to use a paintbrush, dance or use a musical instrument. The moment we start thinking we can’t paint or we have never been “good at art” because someone told us we were bad at art in school, we block an opportunity that an art process has to offer to us. Art isn’t about making a beautiful masterpiece and it isn’t about the outcome but learning to put out creative energy into what we do in life. So essentially, this course will help you if you are interested in getting back to art, or that child-like spirit in you which always knew how to paint and work with color (with no self-judgement) and to bring that sprit into every aspect of life!
3) Can I do this with my kids?
No pre-requisites or previous art knowledge is needed, suitable for any age group and if you have children you can try this with them too!
4) What if I can’t do it in 5 days?
The course is just designed so that people can try each exercise over 5 days and get a feel for it. These exercises and ideas serve as doorways to your own inner exploration with paint, so you are not just copying something but allowing it to emerge from within you. However, there is no pressure and this course can also be done over a long period of time so you can process and experiment with each exercise and take your time. Even as we connect as group, we will not be talking about specifics in the course but general ideas to keep us going forward with developing and applying our own creativity.
5) I am a meditator, will this help me?
We’ve all heard that art is a meditation in itself. But what does this really mean? Well, meditation is working with uplifting the energy in us, and similarly with creative activities, we are withdrawing from what’s going on around us into a beautiful space we have created for ourselves and then working with uplifting our emotions, energy and thought processes. Just like a little practice of meditation helps us in deep ways (like Kriya Yoga helps us raise the energy in the spine which helps us connect to the divine within us), a little bit of creative expression everyday also helps to transform us over time. Especially if we try to express higher qualities, bright colors or focused thoughts through our art, they somehow become a deeper part of who we are. So as a meditator and artist myself, what I have noticed is that this inside-out approach to art (shared in this course) helps activate an inner energy in us which we can use in our meditation. And it also works vice-versa where our meditation practice begins to feed our creativity.
6) Is there also music in this course?
Each of these videos offer practical support with a guided exercise which you can play along as you try this exercise, and accompanying the exercise is music by Swami Kriyananda which helps set the consciousness and uplift the experience for us. There is however a small section which touches on the importance of uplifting music while painting, and in general in life – and a practical music exercise to accompany that.