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Taos July 14-18, 2015

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If you start a tiny payment plan now, before you know it, it will all be paid off on the small step plan - in Kaizen style. If you're nervous about plans this far in advance, know that your payments are 100% refundable until March 2015.  Email info@themuseisin.com if you're interested.
 
 I keep coming back every summer because of the energy of Mabel's, the quality of people who show up, TAOS, and I have to admit, I'm addicted to the food they serve - everyone asks for the recipes. When was the last time someone cooked you three gourmet meals a day... that are healthy AND delicious (including gluten-free options)?  Mabel's is a popular desired location. The cost is all inclusive:
  • Three gourmet meals a day that are out of this world (except the last night we will go out).
  • Accomodations in one of Mabel's endearing rooms for four nights and five days (if you stay somewhere local, your price can be reduced)
  • Materials for morning writing and afternoon art and craft workshops: See examples of art we will do below. 
  • Yoga classes daily
  • Live entertainment in a personal concert from local singer/songwriter, Kate Mann and cellist, Mark Dudrow
  • Quality trinkets and surprises to take home: Plus Register by May 15 and you get my creative-alphabet poster FREE!

Ten Reasons Why It's Taos or Bust

 
If you went to summer camp as a kid, you already know that the experience of putting yourself in a new environment with brand-new people can be both empowering and inspiring. You can be whoever you want to be. You get to bond with other campers, expand your world view, learn about yourself and — if you’re lucky — you create lifelong friendships in the process.
 
 In adulthood, however, we often forget to take that time to turn off and explore our creative sides like we did as children. We make professional contacts through networking events and conferences, but we often fail to make deeper connections with our newfound contacts.
 
Guess what? Now you are invited to come to camp again OR for the first time in the enchanted town of Taos, New Mexico.
 
Former camp counselor, artist, author, and creativity coach, Jill Badonsky, M.Ed., will take care of all the details, so just like a kid, all you have to do is show up for activities, eat DELICIOUS gourmet meals THREE times a day (not counting tea-time treats, go on a field trip into town and have fun for four nights and five days at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico.
 
Here are the activities you will experience. Designed both so you have a finished product AND a more liberated approach for both and living life:
 
1. Free Range Art Doodling and Wobbly Watercolor painting
 This painting experience is not only designed to give you a souvenier of Taos but the process will also get you out of your head, your resistance, fears, and your immobilizing perfection and into the child-like freedom of embellishing upon reality without the inner tyrant keeping you caged. We will do a variety of drawing exercises that are both a lot of fun and something you will want to keep.
 
 2. Kamikaze Collages
The process of making these pictures is designed not only to give you a uniquely designed collage but also to challenge your definition of what collage can be, an opportunity use a different perspective, and a way expand your repertoire of creative thinking for both art and the world you live in. Click here for more.
 
 3. The Creative Challenge: Given surprise materials, let your creativity guide you into making a sculpture with a story.
 
 4. Intuitive Writing Under the Influence of Jill and Mabel
 The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder, The Muse is In: An Owner's Manual to Your Creativity and The Nine Modern Day Muses and a Bodyguard: 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration are Jill's prompts that make writing easy.
Mabel is known for her audacious lifestyle and emphasis on art and writing. The Mabel Dodge Luhan house was a creative oasis for D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keefe, Ansel Adams, Dennis Hopper, Natalie Goldberg and countles other artists and poets. Come feel why - write among the nooks and crannies. Write using Jill's multi-media prompts, walks in the labyrinth and at the sculpture pond, we will even write at a local hang-out called Wired! Cafe.
 
5. Daily Yoga Melts
Morning yoga combined with the metaphor of creativity will not only melt tension from life's stresses, but also melt limitations that keep you stuck in one position creatively. Jill has been teaching yoga since 1993 at corporations, hospitals, spas, and most recently for eight years at a military prison.
 
6. Improv Theater Games
Theater games are no brainer-way to get back into your child-like self. We play them in groups so no one is on the spot, unless you want to be.
 
7. Smart Camera Challenges
There will be photo challenges to awaken your attention, so bring your smart phone mainly to capture some fun and quirky art instructions given daily to help you see the creative possibilities everywhere.
 
8. Evening Salons 
Just like Mabel did, we will have salons in the evening. You can bring readings, performances, art you've done, or share some of the art and writing that we do while we are there. On July 10, Kate Mann and Mark Dudrow, local singer/songwriters will join us for an evening of song and stories about creative inspiration.
 
9. Free time to Roam Through Taos
There will be time after lunch to walk just down the street to gift stores, salons, the Pueblo and all the character Taos has to offer. We will have dinner on Friday evening at one of Taos' best restaurants.
 
10. I know I keep mentioning the gourmet meals but they truly ARE a memorable draw and we sit around a table and bond. Wine from neighboring wineries is invited at your desire. 

Details

Price includes room, gourmet meals (three daily), yoga, creative writing and art workshops and materials, and camp souveneirs for FOUR NIGHTS AND FIVE DAYS!!
 
 
If you begin with a low monthly payment now,  you will make it easy for no extra charge.
Email: info@themuseisin.com for more information about that.
 
 
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Historic House:
Single room: July - $1385
Double rooms: July - $1150
 
 
 
 
Juniper House:
Single Room: July - $1240
 
 
Double Room:  / July - $1100
 
 
IF YOU HAVE TO CANCEL  
 
 
If you cancel after and we can fill your place, we will refund everything minus $150. If we cannot fill your spot, we cannot refund any monies due to our contract with the Mable Dodge Luhan House.
 
 
Please note: No deposits will be taken beginning four weeks prior to the the start of the retreat. All registrations four weeks prior to start date of the retreat please pay in full at time of registration.

Testimonials

Click on the image to take a look at Mabel's.
 
Our main goal is to inspire, renew, play and allow you to create with optimal conditions for you to access your creativity. 
 
Testimonials:
  
"I feel so reconnected to my self and re-inspired to get back to my creative passions. Your techniques and your approach are so compassionate and yet totally liberating and helpful. Thanks for giving "me" back to me." ~Margaret
 
"I am so grateful for the tools you've taught this weekend. I finally understand how I can include the creative process in my life and this makes all the difference in the world."  ~Angela
 
"This is one of the most important things I've ever done for myself." ~Lailey
 
"A fabulous, life-shifting experience I will remember the rest of my life." ~Marilyn
 
"This was better for me than years of therapy. Seriously." ~Anne

Camp Creative Thunder Activities

 
One of my favorite parts of this retreat is sitting around the big wooden table in the dining hall  and sharing stories.
 
 
Come play, it's about time you had some FUN and got back to your creativity.
 
Love,
Jill Badonsky

 
The Muse is IN  •  3142 1st Ave  •  San Diego, CA 92103
http://www.themuseisin.com
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