When I want to learn courage.. June 16, 2013

I look at my daughter (on the right) who with her friend got a buzz-cut today.

Adding another Seth/Orly workshop in San Diego.. June 15, 2013

The REDONDO BEACH workshop with Seth and me is now FULL, with a few on a waiting list. 
Therefore we are adding another one in SAN DIEGO to be hosted by Pnina Gold. 
Please see the image below for the additional dates.
We are super excited to offer you and ourselves (-: this wonderful opportunity to experience such an inspiring collective happening.
Email me at orlyavineri@gmail.com to learn more and to reserve your spot. 

Seth Apter is coming to Southern California… June 14, 2013

…he is coming to teach with me too….I just can’t wait!!! This workshop will surely fill up fast, so mail me at orlyavineri@gmail.com to learn more and to reserve your spot. 

Spread 210 – Walk Away June 5, 2013

Before I walk away from an old story to walk into a new one I should know that story with great clarity. I should know that story so well until I am sick of it. Then and only then I can create a new one. It will still contain components of the old but it will not be controlled by them, nor will it be controlled by me. It should take me to where it wants to go as if it’s an unruly dog on my leash. I should allow this to happen if I want my story to be plentiful, passionate, and to be made of other fascinating and mysterious elements. I believe it to be true about all stories and their owners, especially about the visual ones and their makers.

INSPIRATION May 29, 2013

Always excited about having workshops right here where I live and create. This Summer like in the last one, I am having a two-day workshop in Southern Cal. We’ll spend our first day outside, exploring, gathering impressions, collecting odds and ends wherever we go. Starting by the cliffs by the sea at the Palos Verdes Peninsula, we’ll go farther away along the stretch of the coast leading to Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro. The next day we’ll be back inside to process our inspiration from the previous day.

Please email me for more information and to register: orlyavineri@gmail.com

WORKSHOP FULL!…ANOTHER OPEN for SIGNUP! May 23, 2013

Just a few days have passed since Tracy and I announced our workshop in Australia and it’s already full! I’m so happy! But even happier that Tracy was so kind to add another one on the weekend before. See flyer here reflecting the new dates and for more information visit Tracy

Going Down Under…with Excitement!!! May 16, 2013

I am getting all feverish just thinking about it!!

About my 2-day workshop coming up quite soon, about it being in the brilliant, colorful, and warm home of the brilliant, colorful, and warm Tracy Verdugo, about it taking place in the majestic Jervis Bay in Australia, about it…please go to Tracy’s blog to find out more about it.   

Spread 209 – The Work May 5, 2013

Gotta do the work…sing sing sing sing, until a sweet sound comes out, a voice you recognize as yours, yours only, moving you to the core. Then self-love will promptly follow, fear will melt away, you will feel it in your bones. Until then you gotta sing sing sing sing, never tire, until that sweet voice comes out, until that song is found. But once it is, you gotta continue to sing sing sing sing, to find more songs of course. Songs you learned outside are…well…songs you learned outside.

Join me this summer… May 4, 2013

…for a learning vacation on the beautiful Whidbey Island in Washington State.
A Luxuriant Nature Journaling Adventure—-A 5-day workshop
July 29 – August 2, 2013

Learn more here.

Spread 208 – Dweller Of The Doubt April 29, 2013

Arriving at a new page the visual journaler finds parts of her world she didn’t know existed, foreign, unpossessed places, places of fear and desire. Fear of losing what was once established, desire to find a renewed sense of self-value. Truths concealed, revealed, and then concealed again. The process offers her comfort and cheer. Uncertainty is certain though. She knows this will only last for a while, a short while.