Vital Presence: Embrace Your Muse

<p><strong>Laurie Seymour</strong> is the author of <em>Unconditional Remembrance: Your Connection to Source</em>, a deeply personal account of the transformative journey that led her to found the Baca Institute and devote her work to helping others reconnect with their innate creative intelligence.</p><p>In this conversation, we explore Laurie’s unexpected path—from therapist, to solutions engineer, to student of a mystical teacher—and how each transition shaped her understanding of healing, creativity, and consciousness. Today, Laurie is the creator of the Quantum Connection Process, a system designed to help people express their divine blueprint, and she also works with Turaya Meditation and Turaya Touch to support embodied spiritual awakening.</p><p>Learn more about Laurie and her work at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.BacaInstitute.com"><strong>www.BacaInstitute.com</strong></a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://sallyfox.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">sallyfox.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>Heather William has been teaching drawing for decades, to artists, children, inmates, people suffering from AIDS, and others, and she knows for sure that EVERYONE can draw. Her pioneering book, <em>Drawing as a Sacred Activity, </em>recently republished, offers ideas and exercises to inspire anyone who wishes to open their eyes and open to spirit and their authentic selves by drawing. As a review from Shaun McNiff on the back cover states: “<em>Mystics and artists throughout time have appreciated how practical and spiritual worlds meet and shape one another through the act of drawing.” </em>Join us in a spirited conversation about how we can all grow by drawing and how Heather helped Sally overcome her draw-o-phobia so that she can now delight in drawing.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://sallyfox.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">sallyfox.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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