Through art projects—including visual arts, dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing With the Arts gives you the tools to heal what you need to heal in your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Creating Sacred Space
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Healing with the Arts
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Course Introduction
This week will give you an overview of the course, an introduction to your guides, a get-started kit, and space to do art.
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Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAANAssociate Professor
College of Nursing
Michael Samuels, MD
All right,
what I'd like to do is share with you a simple way that I create sacred space.
And I've been doing this for many years.
And this is from the Native American tradition,
where it's from the tradition of medicine wheels.
And medicine wheels can be anything.
Basically in this form,
it's creating a sacred circle in which I'm establishing the directions.
And everywhere you live in the world, in the East, in the West,
in the North, in the South, you find reference to your landscape.
So in my medicine wheel, I have these little fetishes that I place.
That actually, I symbolically create sacred space,
connecting myself to the elements of the four directions and above and below.
So I want to share with you, this is my sacred medicine wheel, and
in this wheel, you can use just simple rocks, feathers, pieces of jewelry,
anything in your life that you create that you identify that might be sacred to you.
So I want you to create, you can make a little altar in your house,
you can do a lot of variety of ways in which you want to create sacred space.
For me, this one is very easy.
And I want to share with you that I have these little fetishes, and
these are little Zuni fetishes that I collected.
And in my creating the medicine wheel, I put the owl in the east because,
and then I call forth the direction of the east, and
where I live in Florida, the ocean, the Atlantic ocean is in the east.
And then, I have the lioness, the Florida panther in the south,
which represents the Everglades in Florida.
So, I'm looking at calling forth the energy of the sun and
the power of the lion.
Then, in the west, I have the bear, in many traditions, this is the healer.
This is the ancient bear, and I put him in the west.
And then I put the corner stone, the crystals, and here, I've got the coyote,
I've got the horse, this is a symbol of my manifestation, which is
a woman holding her child, which is like giving birth to her own creativity.
So when I create sacred space, what I'm hoping to do
is create something in my life that holds my intention.
My intention for this day is that we manifest this course and
that you as a student, wherever you are in the world, embarks on a journey
that is fulfilling and that leads you to your own personal transformation.
And that you're able to heal yourself, others, and your community.
That's my intention for you.
Creating sacred space though is something that I have all over my house.
And I will share you places where I make an altar.
And in my life, sacred space and
the sacred objects are things that I've collected from all over the world.
I have an altar that has a Buddha on it.
And this was a way in which I held space in my life to where I could bring
my prayers.
So I put special things on that altar.
I would burn incense and burn candles and
put sacred objects on there, things that I collected all over the world.
Then another place that I had a sacred object is a prayer wheel.
And this is a prayer wheel that I found in Bhutan.
And some days, I would just turn the prayer wheel and
in the Buddhist tradition, where my prayers would go up to heaven.
I was raised Catholic, so I've also collected blessed mothers,
to where I have a collection of these beautiful blessed mothers.
And I make a little collection of these things.
And any way in your life that you want to create a little sacred space, it could be
in a garden, like putting rocks together in a garden, doing an herb garden.
Places where you've sort of put your energy, and it just holds space for you.
I have a little place in my bathroom,
where I have these objects that I collected from Malta and Cyprus.
Where I have these little, it's like a goddess, a little goddess,
where the goddess in her many manifestations I collect.
And one of the things I do collect that I really love is that I collect rocks from
all over the world.
I've collected rocks from Jordan, I've collected rocks from Cyprus,
I've collected rocks from Bhutan, I've collected rocks from Costa Rica.
And I cluster these rocks, I collected rocks from Hawaii, and so I've collected
all these rocks and I put them together in little bowls and little pockets and
little baskets all over my house, where I just treasure these little rocks.
So what you need to do is just go around your home, go around your environment, and
see where you can create a little altar.
And it may be an altar with photographs of your family.
You have a few of your own sacred special objects.
And these objects can be anything that you feel are special to you.
They can be simple, they could be pieces of jewelry.
They could be rocks, they can be pieces of wood.
They could be things that you've collected anywhere you want.
You can just collect it on a walk that you take today.
And then I want to take you to a place, a special place,
it's outside my home and it's a tree.
And this place, I feel this tree is very special,
because it's one of the oldest trees on my land.
It's about 500 years old, and I call her the Grandmother Tree.
And this tree, I've made a little altar under the tree.
And I collect pieces of wood, and I collect pieces of things and
I sort of make an altar to her.
And sometimes, I just go out and sit under this tree.
So I want to invite you to look around where you live.
I want you to look to the east, what is in the east?
Look to the south, what is in the south?
Look to the west, look to the north.
And create a sacred circle around you, so
you know where you are and connect to where you are.
And this sacred space will protect you.
because one of the things about inviting yourself to be in this transformative
place of creativity is that you have the freedom and
the safety to be able to heal and
bring up many times ancient old wounds or
old memories or things in your life that you haven't really dealt with before.
Where I really believe when we create these sacred little intentional altars,
we actually create protection, and we're calling in the guardians of our life.
Be it angels, ancient masters, whoever it is that are your guardians.
Bring them to you, and they may be grandmothers or grandfathers, or
special friends, or special people in your life, or
special spiritual leaders, whoever they are.
Invite them to be part of this journey that we're on.
