Right Brain on the Left Bank girl in river

The Right Brain on the Left Bank

Oct 5 - 9

in progress

Instructor(s):

Up to 12 participants

You are invited to be part of an Art Colony for a week. In this case, it’s the Left Bank of the Rio Grande ®©, otherwise known as Taos, New Mexico. Like the famed ‘Left Bank of Paris’, it has provided a creative atmosphere for Painters, Sculptors, Writers, Poets, and Composers from many Cultures

Taos and surrounding locales

You are invited to be part of an Art Colony for a week. In this case, it’s the Left Bank of the Rio Grande ®©, otherwise known as Taos, New Mexico.
Like the famed ‘Left Bank of Paris’, it has provided a creative atmosphere for Painters, Sculptors, Writers, Poets, and Composers from many Cultures


COURSE DESCRIPTION

We will immerse ourselves in a Creative Community for a week as a means of exploring the Right side of our Brain.. This has long been considered ‘The Creative Side” but it is much more than that: It is the part that takes in ‘the big picture’; lives totally in the richness of the present moment; and does not experience separateness. This will be a full yet peaceful time as we share exercises and experiences designed to awaken awareness of your Lovely Right Brain: You will return home bringing a renewed creativity to all aspects of your life, both Business and Personal.


Feel free to Call us for more Information about this wonderful workshop.
We love to chat about our classes.

FLOW – Float the lovely Rio Grande River one day, flowing with the river as it meanders past shady banks and towering cliffs.

WRITING – Lunch and a writing afternoon in the same Café where‘The Artists Way’ and other books were written.

EXERCISE – A morning with a Feldenkrais practitioner
will help to balance both sides of our bodies.

DRAWING – Practice Drawing the Betty Edwards way, with specific exercised designed to enhance relationships.

LABYRINTH – Walk a labyrinth and experience a shift of
consciousness from Linear to non-linear.

ART STUDIOS – Partake of the very real spaces artists create for themselves to create in.

NATURE SPACE – Visit an artists hideaway out on the Mesa under an impossibly vast sky scented with sage.

CAFÉ CONVERSATION – Shared lunches and lazy afternoons spent in Creative coffeehouses.

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES – We have some great ones in Taos, and few hours browsing will precipitate inspiration to share.

Further Reading

The Psychology of Optimal Experience

FLOW

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness, unlock our potential, and greatly improve the quality of our lives.

Making Sense of the Hemispheres

THE RIGHT MIND

Robert Ornstein

A celebrated psychologist and author of The Origins of Consciousness discusses the different capabilities of the right and left sides of the brain, shedding new light on the ways in which the brain constructs a coherent life.

A Brain Scientist’s personal Journey

MY STROKE OF INSIGHT

Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of the brain, her respect for the cells in her body, and an amazing mother, Jill completely recovered. In My Stroke of Insight, she shares her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the two halves of her brain.

DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN

Betty Edwards

Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you.

Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

A WHOLE NEW MIND

Daniel Pink

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.