Join Uma Joy and Niccole Blaze

for SHINE ON

a 4-day creativity retreat - painting infused with the beautiful music of

Niccole Blaze

Gather in the private studio of Uma Joy...experience a guided 13-step painting process of creating your own personal painting while having time to integrate personal connections with your Muse and Inner Light . 

What is this 'Intentional Creativity®' we speak of?

It's simple yet so profound. Intentional Creativity® means we create with Intention. Whether we are making a cup to drink from, planting a garden, making music or painting a painting, - we deliberately put our thoughts, intentions, and love into the creation. 'Creating with intention' is a process that Uma will skillfully bring to the table to support you in bringing this concept into your painting process and into your life. We use it with each step of the process to access internal information and to connect with - and perhaps change - old stories. We will combine the music and the painting to deepen this process.

You don't need to know anything about it, you don't need to be a great painter - all that is requested is that you show up with an open heart and mind to meet yourself and to let your Inner Light Shine On! - your Muse guides you the rest of the way and we will be there supporting you too.

Sunset from Tierra Luminosa

View while working the garden at Tierra Luminosa

Trail Rim of Rio Grande Gorge 20 minutes from Tierra Luminosa

A favorite hike 15 minutes from Tierra Luminosa - the Slide Trail down to a tributary of the Rio Grande

When we practice loving-kindness and compassion, we are the first to profit. RUMI

Uma Joy will share the process of Intentional Creativity® as taught to her through the Color of Woman training offered by Shiloh Sophia.
With the belief that we are all creative beings, she will offer guidance and share tools that will help you access the beauty of your Muse.

Niccole Blaze will play guitar and sing songs that will tie into the process and inquiry that we are working with.

Using the theme of Shining our Light (Shine On), together, we will: 

• Explore self awareness and how we tend to our own mind, body, and souls;
• Explore how old stories may be running in the background of our minds and how we can transform those old stories;
• Examine our connections to the earth and our place in the web of life; 
• Gain awareness and give voice to our own unique Truth and Light;
• Create a unique painting that expresses the beauty of our own hearts. 

July 6-July 9, 2023

(all times are listed as Mountain Daylight Time ) 

Thursday, July 6, 5 pm-9 pm

Friday, July 7, 8 am -9 pm

Saturday, July 8, 8 am - 9 pm

Sunday, July 9, 8 am - 1 pm

There will be plenty of time throughout the day for rest, self-reflection and walks.

Evenings will be flexible with opportunities for a campfire circle with music, stories, reflections, connections and sharing.

There will be options offered for personal massage during the breaks or evenings. Contact Uma for more information or to reserve your spot!

An Invisible thread

Connects those destined to meet,

Regardless of time, place, or circumstance.

The thread may stretch or tangle,

but never break.

-Ancient Chinese Proverb.

Niccole Blaze

“May my songs open your heart, shine a light where it is dark, and sing you back ‘home’ again!”

Niccole's intention in the music she creates and performs is to allow herself and others to ponder places of the heart, mind and spirit.  She states "We are from the light and can elevate our frequency through songs, standing in our unique power of authenticity, and connecting through art and creativity."

Niccole Blaze has been a certified educator for over 30 years earning a BA degree in Physical Education and Health from Eastern Washington University. She has taught in the public sector  (9-12 grade) and worked in the private sector for an emotional growth treatment program and residential school called Rocky Mountain Academy (RMA).  At RMA she facilitated many group sessions, led outdoor hiking, biking, back-packing and cross-country ski trips with troubled teens.  She helped create diet and exercise programs for youngsters struggling with fitness and helped break down the emotional blocks that got in the way of success for these children.  Niccole is a body worker, certified in cranio-sacral, body-talk, Rossiter therapy, DNA Vibrational Energy Patterning and Reiki.  She uses an array of modalities to help her clients find "comfort in their own bodies and minds".   Being involved with music, she is a firm believer in the power of sound therapy and vibrational elevation through music.  She has led and taken part in many creative song workshops and gatherings to help fellow artists and beginner song-writers. 

Niccole is no stranger to emotions through music.  She invites you to fall into your center and something about the way she performs and delivers a song, makes you feel at home.  She has been in the music business for over 25 years, playing solo and with different bands.  Her long-standing career formed playing as a duo with bassist Mo Kelly based in Boise, Idaho.  They formed a local popular band called “Blaze and Kelly” in 2004 and have opened for some great artists; Crosby, Stills and Nash, Olivia Newton John, and Shawn Colvin to name just a few! Niccole has created over 9 albums of original beautiful heart felt tunes and currently continues to play and write.   Her drive comes from a soulful spiritual place echoing artists in lyrical fashion to that of John Prine and Martin Sexton, but her vocal ability is akin to artists like, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt and Melissa Ethridge. 

Acoustic guitar and sometimes electric guitar, harmonica, and loop pedals are all the tools she uses to invoke a musical experience that may be funny, spiritual or just feel good and grooving.  Unafraid to point her guitar and voice into a cupid arrow, her notes will indeed pierce your heart!

For more information, please check out:  niccoleblaze.com   blazeandkelly.com or www.facebook.com/blazeandkelly

MUSIC, ART AND NATURE COMING TOGETHER IN SHINING LOVE

Uma Joy Mulnick

Color of Woman teacher and IC Coach, Chiropractor, Artist, gramma, and homesteader in Taos, New Mexico

“…Living a life that embodies creating, joy, and love…”

Uma Joy is a 2013 Color of Woman Graduate (as offered by Maestra Shiloh Sophia) and has been teaching and sharing Intentional Creativity® since. She has additionally studied with Mandala Master Paul Heussenstamm.

Uma has been a Chiropractor, Acupuncturist, and healing arts practitioner for 40+ years, is a mother to 2 adult children and gramma to 1. She recently moved from the Pacific NW (Portland, Or) to Taos, NM. In addition to teaching workshops and offering retreats, Uma is an Intentional Creativity® Life Coach, works with individuals, groups, and Corporations, and is a member of the Guild of Intentional Creativity®.

She was co-owner of a Yoga Center in Southern California and is still a practitioner of the arts.

“Everything I have done in this life has brought me to this moment. RIGHT NOW! My passion in this life is to share love and increase light in this world. It lights me up to work with people who want to be their full, beautiful SELF. Sometimes, somewhere along the way we can forget who we are, have hidden parts of ourselves, and/or lose our voices. When I see the light return to one’s eyes as they remember their beautiful Truth – my heart and soul have the greatest smile and joy within ME - for them - for us ALL! All beings have the need and right to be seen and heard, to KNOW their value, and to live in their own strength and power. My life’s purpose is to Awaken as fully as I can and to help others to do the same - making our lives the BEST we can make them and leaving this world a better place for all -  in the present and for those that come after us.”

For more information, please check out umajoyhealingart.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/umajoyart

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uma.joy/

A peak into the lives of

Uma Joy and Niccole Blaze

Last call...

Many of us are seeing the time is now to live in a way that is supportive to ourselves and those around us. We are READY TO SHINE ON!! It is time to reconnect, deepen our compassion, gather together bringing love to ourselves and into this world. Let's do it together!

This 4 day Creativity workshop is $1247 which includes all the art materials needed, meals, and a full enriching retreat. (You are welcome to use code ShineON when you register if you need scholarship help. When you are able to pay the full amount it allows for the ability to offer more scholarships, thank you!)

Intentional Creativity® allows us to connect with the Inner Muse and information in ways that everyday life doesn't, then add beautiful, soul filled, intentional music and the experience deepens exponentially. Let's gather in circle - see and be seen, listen and be heard, send love and feel the love being sent.