3497 - Exploring a Mindful Creative Practice (Billie Mears)
Course Description
Instructor: Billie Mears
Come join the fun and explore your creative self with others. Share the opportunity to write, journal, paint, draw, sketch, stretch, and be inspired by beautiful music, poetry, and photographs. This class will inspire students to develop a mindful creative practice, simply for pleasure. Through in-class readings, writing/journaling prompts, simple chair yoga/meditation, and painting/drawing opportunities, we'll mindfully and playfully discover our creative impulses, hidden talents, and desires in a nurturing community. Supplies included.
Bio: Billie Mears is a retired English and writing teacher, world traveler, and yoga practitioner who has continued to explore her creative talents in writing, painting, sketching, and photography during the last six years since she retired from Atlanta Girls School. She has enjoyed this most creative phase of life and hopes to share her experience by leading a community of interested adults in a weekly creative practice. Billie was a flight attendant and corporate meeting planner before teaching English and writing at both public and private schools. She holds both B.A. and M.A.T. degrees in English, minor in writing.