The Winter Project -- A Magical Coaching Journey to Help You Fall in Love with Winter
Many of us dread winter, anticipating the endless cold ahead, bracing ourselves against the frozen darkness, and longing for spring before winter has even begun.
And who can blame us? The days are short, the winds are harsh, and everything appears totally dead.
But if you look underneath the surface, winter offers unique and important invitations for us to come alive. Nature shows us the way.
Even the most challenging aspects of winter can become entry points to explore rich themes of growth and becoming.
Creative dormancy actively informs the next iteration of you. There is deep freedom in the formlessness you experience inside a cocoon. Silence invigorates your next story. You can lean into the sacred stillness and heavy sturdiness of frozen waters.
It is easy to take delight in soft snowfall, twinkling lights, and holiday festivities, but on those less than glamorous days of winter, you can use art, story, and nature's processes and metaphors to creatively find your way to magic.
We -- Simone Grace Seol and Rachel Bruns -- are artists, coaches, and magic workers.
We are excited to invite you on a 12-week journey with us, with emails that inspire, encourage, and catalyze to make winter a time of thriving. We will show you how to work with the flow of the season, rather than against it.
Our hope is that you will come away with a renewed relationship with yourself — and with winter.
In twice-weekly emails, you will receive essays, poetry, guided meditations, exercises, and Rachel's original watercolor art (that we will also be sharing as give-aways!) on the following themes:
December
Week 1 - Darkness
Week 2 - Hope
Week 3 - Celebration
Week 4 - Stillness
January
Week 1 - Cold
Week 2 - Death
Week 3 - Frozen
Week 4 - Creative rest
February
Week 1 - Hibernation
Week 2 - Comfort
Week 3 - Deprivation
Week 4 - Bareness
If you’d like to join us in our winter adventure, there are two options:
1) Sign up to receive the email messages only (and the goodies that come with!) This option is $24 -- for a total of 24 messages.
2) Sign up to receive the email messages and be added to our Winter Project facebook group where you’ll be able to engage with others on this journey and receive support from Rachel and Simone. This option is $35.
We will begin December 9th, but you can jump in any time. You will receive the emails on schedule and be able to access all of the previous messages in a treasure chest.
The magical portals below will take you where you need to go : )
Rachel Bruns is a coach and artist who helps folks unleash the power of their aliveness and creativity to support their visions of beauty, justice, and connection for the world. She loves watercolors, Star Wars, and (of course) quiet winter mornings.
Simone Grace Seol is an illustrator, writer, and fortunetelling hypnotherapist. She strategizes with people's unconscious minds to create huge practical breakthroughs. She also frequently anagrams words on napkins.