CREATIVITY
NATURE
ART and NATURE
a series of retreats where color, form and sound inform our relationship to the natural world and our nature-based mindfulness practices
This Summer-
I am thrilled to once again integrate the arts with mindful practices. For many years through a grant from the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, I along with Mary Harvey and L’Merchie Frazier, offered workshops integrating creative expression and mindful practices to vulnerable communities exposed to violence. This pairing of artistic expression and mindfulness practices is powerful and life affirming. In this series, which is open to all, we are enhancing the power of art by bringing it into the natural world and more deeply connecting to nature through mindful practices.
image: Amy Wynne landscape
Take refuge in your senses,
Open up to all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of the rain when it falls slow and free.
Taking time to open the well of color that fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone until its calmness can claim you.
To Bless the Space between Us- John O'Donohue
Take refuge in your senses, Open up to all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of the rain when it falls slow and free. Taking time to open the well of color that fostered the brightness of day. Draw alongside the silence of stone until its calmness can claim you. To Bless the Space between Us- John O'Donohue
Our Artists
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Sound Healing
YingJun Wei, trained as a classical cellist and has performed internationally for many years. Her interest now is on using her cello and other instuments to bring forth sound that elevates, allowing for healing and balance to occur.
Yingjun will join us on Saturday June 27, 2026 at the Hale Education Center in Westwood, MA. We will have a cabin and pavillion overlooking a small pond as our base from which we will attune ourselves to both our inner world and the natural world around us through her musical guidance.
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Landscapes: Inner & Outer
Amy Wynne holds an MFA in Classical Painting from The New York Academy of Art in New York City and a dual BA in Art History & Cultural Anthropology from Smith College.
Amy exhibits in galleries nationally & internationally. Her work is strongly influenced by her deep connection to the natural world. She is a long-time yoga practitioner, student of Tibetan Buddhism and certified meditation instructor.
She has been teaching painting and drawing for 25 years integrating mindfulness and creative practice.
Join Amy this July on Cape Cod, where she will introduce us to a landscape that has great meaning to her. We will walk the land, gathering images that will inform art-making throughout the day.
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Revealing the Truth Inside and Out
Daniel Callahan is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and designer. Merging a legion of disciplines including painting, digital photography, film, music, writing and performance, Daniel works to craft immersive experiences incorporating story, ritual, and the human form to explore aspects of resilience and mysticism.
Join Daniel on Saturday, August 1, 2026 at the Massachusetts Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary, Habitat, in Belmont, MA.
Through guided mindfulness practices held in the sanctuary, we will open our senses to the natural world around us. Daniel will introduce us to his art form, MASSQ, an embodied expression of transformation.