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Which wolf do you feed? 🐺🤍 Not everyone kno

Which wolf do you feed? 🐺🤍

Not everyone knows this about me, but I grew up in a more eastern spiritual tradition. Our teacher (from India) used to share this story about “which wolf do you feed?” I think it may have roots in spiritual Hinduism, but I am not sure. There is obvious dualism in life, lightness & shadow—and last week I spent a very intensive transformative time at @john_wineland fierce love retreat. He also mentioned this parable in terms of relating.

What I receive from it, especially in terms of relationship, is when allowing spaciousness and breath work— or deep nervous system regulation, this makes room for the digestion and liberation of trauma from our system, and this allows us to respond with presence versus react when our “ick” comes up. Our ick always comes up in love, it’s almost designed to bring it up. So to honor each other’s experience and to keep choosing ♥️♥️ Love— to keep expanding my heart— that’s the wolf I’m nourishing these days. This gentle expansion of my heart in slowness and in the delicious nectar of life. Even in the shadows. 🪶

hello July hello radiance, silence, exhaustion h

hello July
hello radiance, silence, exhaustion
hello slowness, nectar, ecstasy
hello uncertainty, vastness, deep lavender mystery
hello surprise, wild love, a devoured heart

hello love 🪽🤍🪽

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I’ve been really into creating talisman or symbo

I’ve been really into creating talisman or symbols lately, little magical worlds. here there’s antelope horns, hummingbirds beija flor, 🌺 white buttercup, lotus 🪷 … our creations live on beyond our lifetime.

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My happiest quiet place. Artists—I want to hear

My happiest quiet place. Artists—I want to hear from you. Are you an introvert? Part of the reason I think I got into painting and making art so young is because of this for quiet for my soul.

So I had to break up these two paintings in half b

So I had to break up these two paintings in half because you just couldn’t see all the little symbols and details. I’ve been kind of obsessed with chartreuse, fluorescent, yellow, and the like. You? What colors are you currently obsessed with? 💛🌻🌼🐝🍋🍯

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New! Paint Your Animal Spirit ~ You came here to

New! Paint Your Animal Spirit ~

You came here to create beauty! All levels welcome and encouraged. Go to my bio or comment a fave animal emoji to receive invitation 🪶🪽🦚

Discover the absolute healing magic of painting animal spirits or totems. Alena Hennessy has taught 1000’s of happy students no matter what their level of experience. Making art in this intuitive and embodying way allows us to easily tap into flow states of our brain to reduce stress and anxiety and create the beauty we desire.

Today this mystical class of eight powerful painting lessons is only $97 (normally $339).

By joining the Paint Your Animal Spirit you will receive:

*Ways to intuit and understand which spirit animals are calling you right now. Alena will lead in a visioning process that will also amplify your own intuition and healing powers in your life.

*Ways to embody the gifts of those animals as they serve as magnetic healing totems in your life.

*Techniques to warm up and play with a variety of examples, to find your creative flow! We will work with both watercolor and acrylic painting: a balanced and enriching offering of media.

*A variety of lessons (a total of 7 plus animals and techniques) to soulfully express and create animal spirit, based on where you are and what you are needing in your life.

*Supportive text and imagery to help further your learning and inspiration.

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Inspiration and new ways of seeing, painting, feeling, and thinking about your creative energy.

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