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Tea with the MusePainting isn’t about “good art”“My first day with the Muse was in 2018 and it changed my life, awakened something in me that has brought so much color, solace, movement and pleasure to my soul, and it continues. “ R.A.Dear Ones,I would love to have you join us on Friday for Muse of Magics.This is my only day long class until the late Fall. It will be broadcast live from MUSEA Center in Sonoma with people painting in person. The images above share the evolution of the process we call Intentional Creativity.Painting isn...2025-07-1502 min
Tea with the Musegreatest human powerHello Everyone,The greatest human power begins here, with step one. Step one is a choice for consciousness and for navigating your own narrative. Around here we often call it,Tea with the Muse. A time to listen for your own voice above all the others. Join us for On Uncommon Grounds this weekend, it’s a gift hereJoin us to paint the Muse of MagicsShiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2025-07-0903 min
Tea with the MusePrima Materia of the Muse ☀️🩷☀️Dear Ones, I just spent three days with 125 women virtually and 25 women in Sonoma. Sharing my heart, the teachings of the muse, and the integration of the critic. This is where my painting is at and where the poem emerged this morning. Dedicated to color of women 2025!!! I love co-leading with two of my best friends, Lavender and Amber. Powerful women that light up my heart.🩷🩷🩷Shiloh Sophia P.S. check Musea.org to paint with usThere is a MUSE of Magics class coming up….The Muse of Prima Ma...2025-07-0404 min
Tea with the MuseSo, where are we now?An invitation to tea. You are the universe embodied. A cooling sack of starsHow will you orient yourself within these times?* Is this an enforced crisis? My opinion is in here.* with all that is happening, where are we? Well where are you choosing to be* how taking time for yourself can REALLY serve you in your orientation* our art matriarch’s essential question - who lives in here * what about that identity if yours - what do they have to say...2025-06-3010 min
Tea with the MuseI Pray StandingSunrise in Santa Fe on my recent journeyGood Morning Dear Ones,There certainly is a lot to pray about right now. Today’s offering shares:A bit of my spiritual ancestral rootsAn invitation to pray standing, pray and sway with me, in community My Grandmother’s hands knitting the world as it unravelsThe history of Mother Mary being moved out to th gardenExploring your name for MaThe Cult of DeathA story of when Sue, our lineage ancestor went to see Amma and more…With love,Shiloh Sophia Lots of upcoming events...2025-06-2716 min
Tea with the MuseToday I’m 55Today I turn 55 and the storm is brewing outside. The wild flowers sway in the afternoon wind. Today I'm 55. Today I'm open to life and life is open to me.My body temple serves me well. I experience pleasure by choice in hundreds of tiny and miraculous ways all throughout my days.I grieve the suffering also by choice in solidarity with the world. I weave my colorful threads in the great basket unfolding and reweaving itself. I have lived my purpose. I am self-expressed and I love it. I love it. While there is...2025-06-1906 min
Tea with the MuseWhat is consciousness? Our cosmic address ⭕️☀️⭕️What is consciousness? Does it have anything to do with time? Space and place? what do you think it is? Do you know how to operate it? Do you know how to get a little bit more of it when you want to?Today’s riff invites us into conscious chosen awareness.* Become just a little bit more conscious than you were a few minutes ago* Explore juicy inquiries regarding time and it’s relationship to consciousness* Be in the lived practice of becoming conscious of becoming conscious* Explore how...2025-05-1010 min
Tea with the MuseSacred TensionGood morning, beautiful beings, today’s spontaneous spoken word is here for those of us who want a new beginning yet need to honor the past. There’s an invitation here to slow down instead of rushing forward, to pay attention to the chemistry of transition and the sacred tension between where you were and where you’re headed. So many teachers talk about the significance of being in presence and in the now - because there is something here not to be missed. You get to curate the future. If you do not choose to do that...2025-04-2211 min
Tea with the MuseComplimentary 4 hour painting class + poemHello Beings of the World,I know I know, lots to do and see and be. Lots of chaos and breakdown. But also this: Making time for you - making time for art. Making time to have tea with the MUSE.Come gather with the MUSEA community in this complimentary 4 hour class called INSIGHT. Over 3000 women have taken this class and you are sure to love it. Come see what happens when you hand over the keys and go just off the map - don’t stop at the fairy cottages even if they offer yo...2025-04-1504 min
Tea with the MuseColors pouring from the wound"I was born with an open wound, and colors pouring from it. Don't call me brave or a martyr; I'm just a woman who learned to love even in the midst of pain. I am a brush, I am a scream, I am broken flesh and a burning spirit. I paint myself because I am the only thing I know with fury, with tenderness. And if anyone doesn't like it, don't look at me, because I didn't come to fit in, I came to be."Frida KahloToday I want to share my...2025-04-0810 min
Tea with the MuseThrough the Storm, Something NewDear Community,Today I am sharing my very personal story of change you with you. It is about changes in the structure of our business, and our future, and and…. by sharing it with you I am making a declaration of change. I know so many of us are in deep change. I honor where you are even though I don’t know where that is. Now you know where I am. I am Living My Legend and this is how I create it, through image, language and connection with all of you.LoveShiloh Soph...2025-04-0215 min
Tea with the MuseThe last Certification training and the story that started all of it...Dear Ones,It is with great joy, and also a deep feeling of change, that I tell the story that lead to our first Certification Teacher Training, Color of Woman. I would be honored for you to hear my story and why it matters, and how it may intersect with your story. Get a cuppa tea, and a journal and come listen. Applications open on the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse. Get on the list and watch your inbox, I am offering 20 live interview sessions with me. WarmlyShiloh Sophia Transcipt:The...2025-03-1215 min
Tea with the Muse❤️ Woman. Sister. Friend. You really have been through so much…Rancho La Puerta in MexicoDear Ones,This is a spontaneous blessings for the women after a week at Rancho LaPuerta.Shiloh Sophia Woman, sister, friend, you really have been through so much. You complete a cycle of initiation and a new one begins. I am walking in a storm in the dark.A crossroads appears out of nowhere for me, and for you.When you thought you were nearing your destinationa new journey...2025-03-0809 min
Tea with the MuseThe dominatrix of the prefrontal cortexJoin me this week for a daylong experience of FLOW - let’s gather together in sacred space and nourish our nervous systems, shall we? scholarship code on check out: flow30 thinking of you and hoping you will consider joining me to flow! ❤️⭕️Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2025-02-2506 min
Tea with the MuseThis Wild BecomingInner Fire 2010 Arcylic on Paper by Shiloh SophiaToday’s podcast is an exploration of becoming conscious about the illusions.* Exploring George Orwell’s famous 4 fingers* Gaslighting ourselves and not trusting ourselvesAccusation of the other ‘side’ * Exhausting rabbit-holing to find Truth* Do not drink the divide and conquer koolade* Hearts and braings changing right now* A Centers of Knowing Coherence practice for discernmentThis podcast is complimentary - yet if you choose to contribute, be welcome. In Orwell's novel-made movie, 1984, there is a fam...2025-02-1414 min
Tea with the MuseMarked By ViolenceHi everyone! I would like to offer a little bit of a heads up that some of my posts here are about to get a bit more intense. It’s my nature to explore justice. It’s in my blood.Did you know I wanted to be a judge when I grew up? I didn’t do it because I already thought the government was corrupt when I was 6.ultimately, I am not trying to caretake. I’m trying to find my own voice and at the same time offer encouragement to those who aren...2025-02-1320 min
Tea with the MuseCosmic Pilgrims PoemWe are cosmic pilgrimsYou are an ancient identityI see you, do you see me,seeing you? You are inhabiting a luminous garment of stardust framed upon crystal bones traveling on a forested spaceship at over 100,000 Kilometers per hourspiraling through our Milky Way galaxy on a mysterious voyage without a map or destination woven within a pattern of starskeeping time with the moonDarling, ...2025-02-1203 min
Tea with the MuseWhat is the truth?Beautiful beings! I hope you will take the time to listen to this brief message I exploring:* A choice in becoming conscious* Chemistry and mood shifts * Who is really in charge?* What’s the first step you can take?* A simple process you can do right now* Exercising your choice to become conscious and become a curator of your consciousnessthinking of youShiloh SophiaThe painting above is called an ancient future soul from 2023. ...2025-02-0605 min
Tea with the MuseBecoming Conscious of Becoming ConsciousToday’s episode offers a teaching on * Access to your consciousness, do you have it?* Accessing who you are ‘in here’, aka your Self* Discovering a new awareness about what ‘getting out there’ means* Defining ‘out there’ for yourself and activating the Observer * Exploring the ‘missing there’ called “around here” that takes place in the field* Invitation to become as conscious as you can become…nowDear Ones,There is a lot of influence happening ‘out there’ on who you experience yourself as ‘in here’. Let’s have a breakthrough TODAY...2025-01-3011 min
Tea with the MuseChildren of the Flower ChildrenChildren of the Flower ChildrenWe are the childrenof the flower childrencoming into full bloomThe seeds of their hoperise up in our colorful bonesWe cut our teeth on their resistanceWe were then a people unwillingto accept an invented narrativewith fighting cloaked in peaceWe dread times like theseWe spend our livestrying to prevent the need for revoltWe would much rather grow foodand call the circle to gatherRather play with children out in the parksOur energies are miss-spenton trying to protect the precious liveswhen there has been so much intentional lossEven as we plant our seeds,they are tearing up the groundand...2025-01-2303 min
Tea with the MuseA Good Time to Have DreamToday is a big day! I have two ideas for us. I’m sending blessings to everyone.Shiloh Sophia Our event today is at Musea.org Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2025-01-2009 min
Tea with the MuseRescue your life forceThe idea presented here about choosing to respond instead of react, is something I learned when I was 23 years old from Sue Hoya Sellars, my art Matriarch. I will never forget the day She proposed the idea to me that my activism could be a response instead of a reaction.This very brief podcast is an invitation to* Choose to respond instead of react* Rescue your energy and life force from distraction and reaction* Consciously choose your relationship to what’s happening around you* Engage with responsibilitylo...2025-01-1803 min
Tea with the Musethe inconceivable nowOh my goodness you all. I’m not sure exactly what to say right now that matters, other than that this is the time to express ourselves. I was moved tonight to let you know that I am here and paying attention and going through some of the same things you are. And I’m also as ready as I can be to support us during this time. I’m pacing the floor tonight. These are my thoughts. I want to recommend that you record your own thoughts, even if you don’t share them. Or write them out. Or dance...2025-01-1609 min
Tea with the MuseThe Alchemy of CoherenceHappy new year beautiful beings,I’m so grateful to be sharing tea with the muse with you in 2025. For every single project that I work on, I’ve asked myself, do I still want to do this and am I called to this? Is this still benefiting people? What do I really have to say that really matters right now? I’m happy to say that tea with the muse is going to continue. I love connecting with you. I have another episode of my memoir coming, but I’m going move it to a...2025-01-0707 min
Tea with the MuseDoes the swan dream of being a bear?Good morning dear ones! You haven’t heard from me for a bit because I didn’t have any Internet in Mexico. I kept recording things for you but couldn’t get them posted ~ so for today I’m posting a poem that I wrote on the plane, but in the moment, I embellished it as I spoke it. Perhaps it will stir something in you ~ maybe pick up your own pen or magic keyboard, and see what shows up! Shiloh Photo of self portrait on Christmas while I dream of wings Dedicated to Julie...2024-12-2808 min
Tea with the MuseWhat if you are asking the wrong question?Dear Ones, I’m in Mexico for the holidays teaching art and I was thinking of you and our struggles to become. Here’s an approach I learned from my 2 mamas.* Why asking if you are good enough won’t work out* How our environment keeps us grasping for belonging * Considering your ideal question for you as authentic to you * My proposal of a better question And yes…there are wrong questions and mistakes. Loving you Blessings Shiloh Sophia Ps: pausing on my memoir f...2024-12-2313 min
Tea with the MusePower of Rebellion and the drag of ResistanceDear Ones, These are my thoughts this morning on how much energy it takes to resist the power that be within and withoutthe power of rebellion but not just against outer structures but inner ones the shaping of idenity and how art works with thatandhere’s an invitation to The Quickening - our upcoming training for those who also want to work with artist archetypeLoveShiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.co...2024-12-1519 min
Tea with the MuseMy primary IDEAL just changedGood Morning Community,Wow did I have a big change, it is still taking time to arrive within me…but I wanted to share it with you and perhaps ask you…what is the IDEAL you have been living by and is there unconscious resistance that keeps you from receiving it?* My ideal has changed….here is the new one* Invitation to interview with me for The Quickening* What is your ideal? Has it changed over the years?* Do you have an unconscious resistances that is informing your conscious ideal2024-11-2514 min
Tea with the MuseWhat feels alive? And what hurts?Hello everyone! Please forgive me for a little foray into political discourse this past week. I am doing my best to show up for my community instead of going quiet. Because it directly relates to women and people of color and safety, and even the way that we self express, it actually comes into my lane. I will likely be complete with my commentary soon. But for now this is how I’m showing up. Take it or leave it. In a way I am modeling, intentional creativity through sharing my process in community. This is the painting I’ve b...2024-11-1312 min
Tea with the MuseDivide and conquer is a spell + the challenge with weaving a common fabricHi community! I know there’s so much going on, but please take a listen on a walk or while you’re painting if you are interested at all in why I am taking a stand in the middle, which is not a neutral stand. This arises out of my concerns for the golden age rhetoric that I’m seeing and also how we are being so divided and just saying, actually that doesn’t need to happen.Onward with love 💗 Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththem...2024-11-1023 min
Tea with the MuseThe Power of LegendHello everyone! I’m so excited that we’re starting legend today! A seven day immersive experience. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Ali Stoddard about why legend works and why we do it. Here’s that conversation.We start today with circle ⭕️ and livestream on November 2.Honoring this day as a day between worlds and giving things to all of the ancestors who make our work come to life! Shiloh Sophia Www.musea.org (not live-linked) Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscr2024-11-0122 min
Tea with the MuseJung & the Field & the Invisible YouGood morning everyone! I am dropping in here with a regular tea with the muse episode with a teaching you will find in all of our work. I’ve reframed the language a little bit with hopes that concept is graspable and actionable. This is part of a series of talks and teachings designed to increase consciousness by one percent through the awareness of the field.The photo was taken seconds ago, as I was out for a super early morning walk and discovered the a lucky snapshot of the invisible self and her wolf companion out ho...2024-10-2317 min
The Connected Way™ PodcastEpisode 17: Reconnecting to the Divine Feminine - Shifting from Domination to Collaboration with Shiloh Sophia McCloudIn this episode, I’m joined by artist, teacher, and spiritual seeker Shiloh Sophia McCloud, who shares her insights on the rise of (reconnection to) the Divine Feminine and how we can collectively transition from an Era of Domination to an Era of Collaboration.TUNE IN TO EPISODE 17 TO HEAR:The Divine Feminine has been ever present in every culture and spiritual tradition.How we are transitioning from a culture of domination and conquest to an era of collaboration, with a focus on mutual respect for all and the elements.How intentional creativity serves as...2024-10-091h 00
Tea with the MuseYou are not alone in this…These are rough and curious times. Today I have been particularly challenged and I just wanted to let you know that you are not alone. I know sometimes my life can seem shiny and amazing, and it is. But I also go through all the really hard things just like so many of you. I have lots of tools and so my resilience may be different in my capacity to respond, but I too am being challenged. This is a time for ecstatic discipline. I could not be more grateful for intentional creativity, and for this community. this is...2024-10-0211 min
Tea with the MuseRe-Training your internal dialogue 💜 🧠 🙌Hello everyone! Get a cuppa tea or coffee, a journal and let’s dive in! There are lots of juicy nuggets in here to explore and begin to practice on your own! “who lives in here?” Sue Hoya Sellers.This episode explores the neuroscience of your inner voice and then illuminates what I think is the missing piece to understanding the greatest influence on your inner dialogue…* How the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system form a matrix for right decision-making* The essential stress response that you get to choose “find”* How self...2024-10-0117 min
Tea with the MuseA time for leaning inToday’s episode invites you to* Identify the places where you can lean in when you’re having hard times* My story of my password meltdown yesterday and what I did #Intentionalcreativity* The places I choose to lean in* Why I don’t give myself a choice, and how that only works if I’m prepared…* Offering certainty in times of uncertainty* Places that you can lean in in our community* Coherence meditation ideasand a brief prayer including thoughts for Florida co...2024-09-2612 min
Tea with the MuseLet’s Strip the AltarGood evening from California, I found this poem of mine from 2019 and it made me think about how much we focus on being open…Versus how little time we spend refining, emptying and being quiet. This is a call to strip the altar of the old energy and invite some emptiness and recentering.~ Shiloh SophiaWe are just a few days into our year long course, abracadabra and you’re still welcome to join us Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-09-2508 min
Tea with the MuseThresholds for EquinoxPainting in Process - Animystica - Cura Archetype Good Morning Muses!I woke up smelling the change in the air and the seeing the light shifting towards this coming Equinox, officially on the 22nd at 5:43 am pst. For those in the Northern Hemisphere we turn towards Autumn. For those in the Southern Hemisphere we turn towards Spring. On September 18 we have a partial Lunar Eclipse visible from Mexico, Canada and the United States. The moon is 97percent full as of this moment and will be full in one day and 11 hours and 38 minutes. There are...2024-09-1603 min
Tea with the MuseNervous System ReciprocityGreetings everyone! In order to achieve attunement when you are creating your world with your word to yourself, there needs to be reciprocity. There is an often missed piece about the energy exchange of gathering and giving. For manifestation to be attuned and good for you and for all - the energy of giving and receiving in a sacred exchange is actually essential or there is mis-alignment. How do we condition our bodies to create in the fullness of our being-ness?To get into the optimal condition, we need to work with a collaborative idea - Nervous System Reciprocity2024-09-0915 min
Tea with the MuseA Message for the Women Gathered“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forthacross the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon't go back to sleep!”―RumiDear Ones,Good Morning on September 1! This is a message for the women who have gathered for Abracadabra, our yearlong course. Yet as I made it for them (you) this morning, I wondered if there was something in here for you too, here at Tea...2024-09-0113 min
Tea with the MuseTop 5 Reasons Women may not Speak their MindsLearn about Abracadabra here - scholarships ending tomorrow night at midnight Dear Community,I am pretty amazed about what is happening with this course and all the women coming in. Clearly there is a call to power at this time.In this episode I cover* The Top 5 Reasons women do not speak their minds* Addressing power* Shame, Fear, Silencing and somatic memory* What stops us from within and around us* What we can do about finding our voice* Identifying the core issue which...2024-08-3110 min
Tea with the MuseA Prayer for ArtistsThis is a poetry reading from my book Tea with the Midnight Muse 💕 it’s for you today. Pull up a chair or take a walk and join me as we pray for the artists everywhere to continue the good work of their hands, hearts and minds. This the multi-faced Sacred Feminine.Are you a creative, a poet, a sculptor, a dancer, a chef? Take a 👂 listen. ~Shiloh Sophia This is a recent painting, called Mystical Mother 💕 Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-08-2711 min
Tea with the MuseYou did not create all the bad things that happened to you ~ here’s whyGood morning everyone! I’m thinking of you today and wanting to pass on one gorgeous nugget today about how manifestation works. AND set you free from thinking you created all of your harm. I have created a lot in my life, and also worked to uncreate things that no longer serve. Sharing this one teaching with you helps engage change. It’s like unlocking a riddle in our awareness. AND setting yourself free from the shame and blame game. I will also share my observations about how the deck is stacked against us. And the power we have to d...2024-08-2518 min
Tea with the MuseDisrupting this one belief impacts everything 😳Confronting unconscious beliefs that cause shame Inquiries into cause and effect Challenging our projections on the DivineEverything CAN become a teaching bit that doesn’t mean God or life created it to teach you a lesson.Invitation to the middle ground of co-creation Seeking collaborative power The field condition Blessings ~ Curate Shiloh Sophia See all upcoming events at Musea.org Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-08-1817 min
Tea with the MuseStress, Art, Brain, Heart, Science & FlowDear Ones,The reason we create our world with our words is because we create our world with our thoughts. By world I don’t mean just the world around you, but how you experience the world around you, inner and outer. By word I don’t just mean the words you speak out loud but the words you speak to yourself in your inner world. Intentional Creativity has a solution and we want to show it to you, share it with you and have you share it with others. If you can’t hear your own voice, the voices...2024-08-1520 min
Tea with the MuseRepair after impossible grief 😳Sharing my heart 💜 and how I work with Intentional Creativity to mend my heart after shock 😳 Sharing how I do it What Intentional Creativity is Embodying impossible grief to release The role of poetry as a spell breaker How it all began at 23 with a key question My story of recovery from my 16 year marriage From numb to aliveness blessings! Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-08-0909 min
Tea with the MuseA Crossroads MomentGood morning most Precious Beings of Earth and StarThis is for you, for me, for us, for anyone who isn’t sure which way to turn and you are seeking true choice. If you treat this as a meditation you will receive increased results.When you are done listening ~ what choices are revealed?Curate Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-08-0711 min
Tea with the MuseDeath of a Queen Bee 👑 🐝This is my story. I needed to write it and record it to complete a cycle of my life. If you want to know what’s been going on for me this lifetime, it’s right here. I published this a few weeks ago on my Facebook friends profile and received hundreds of responses - it’s struck accord and other people started to tell their stories. This is creating art in community. ~ Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-07-241h 27
Tea with the MuseWhy change is so hardGood morning dear ones! This message certainly didn’t turn out the way that I thought it was going to. I’m sharing about what it feels like to steward big community, why I can’t seem to stop crying today, how excited I am to teach today, why I think change is so hard to make, and how I love ❤️ you no matter what! Shiloh Sophia If you would like to join us today, it’s not too late. All you need is pen and paper. Add paint if you want to. With love,See you...2024-07-1314 min
Tea with the MuseTragedies to Remedies PoemTragedies to Remedies You are YouI am IWe are WeYou are not the stories you tellto yourself about yourselfYou are YouI am not the projections about methat in the past have bound meI am IWe are not the accumulation of woundsInflicted on us by others or ourselves We are WeYou are not your woundingseven with a persistence of...2024-06-0305 min
Tea with the MuseHow painting changes you in big ways!Enjoy a conversation with Shiloh Sophia and Ali Stoddard about the power of painting! https://musea.org/apothecary-2024-invitation/Open to all! SS Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-05-3123 min
Tea with the MuseSeeking Your Hidden Name & Writing Your BookDear Ones! Today’s message is a call to action!! Plus a video I just took of the kind of teaching paintings I have done the past two years. Come see. ~ Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-05-1911 min
Tea with the MuseThe Way of PaintingHello Everyone,It’s Shiloh Sophia on a lovely Saturday morning. This new one minute poem came through and dropped itself like a delicous dispensation of honey.I am working on the draft manual for our only new training this year, Animystica. For healersa nd leaders to learn 4 specific healing arts. When I am designing new curriculum it feels like an extreme sport - my heart races, my body is filled with life and there is this curious precious pressure that moves me forward. It is a calling.If you are called to work with me over th...2024-05-1801 min
Tea with the MuseHoly Fury Turning to Grace (my Divine Feminine Awakening Story)Dear Ones, Thinking of you with an invitation to join us to paint two paintings over 13 moons - come see! This painting is called Dream of You and is painted, and beaded. Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-04-2317 min
Tea with the MuseLet’s spend the weekend together (recontextualizing virtual)Good morning, dear ones! I wanted to create a context for how, even though we are broadcasting across the world, it’s still a very real “place”. I’m inviting you to bring your studio into a context of togetherness with all of us. Here’s how I think about it - with an invitation to connect with your environment.It’s not too late to join us if you want to jump into True Colors www.musea.org (this link isn’t hot just cut and paste)I will see you in class Shiloh Sophi...2024-04-1308 min
Tea with the MuseBlack Sheep or Prismatic Pegasus?Good morning everyone! Yes, an invitation to walk away from the dumpster fire of the projections and rejections you’ve experienced. Let’s get free and more free, shall we?And nothing against black sheep people or black sheep in general, lol just working the metaphor a bit, likely over-working it lol.Shiloh SophiaPaint with me this weekend, 50% off - full money back guarantee - don’t miss this! Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-04-1020 min
Tea with the MuseHow Art making shapes the making of an ArtistGood morning everyone! It is such an honor to invite you to get a cup of tea, pick up a journal, a paintbrush, take a walk, and listen to this reading and conversation. I am joined for this Tea with the Muse Saturday morning café at MUSEA by Ali Stoddard. Ali has been studying Intentional Creativity for the past five months and is a Functional Medicine Coach that works with us at Musette. I have been sharing with her about the way we pass on information in our lineage, the spirit of guardianship and how we create o...2024-04-0652 min
Tea with the MuseSpeakers, healers & astrologers as guestsHello Everyone! I’m excited to share with you that women I work with in Sonoma, who are part of our healing arts collective, will be offering in-person speaking salons at Musette, and appearing here on the Tea with the Muse podcast! Tune in! This is part of our work to call in the village healers. Many in our collective are also offering private sessions! In this podcast, I have a chance to talk with some of the healers and learn about the work they are bringing in! Our first Speaker Salon for those of yo...2024-03-1423 min
Tea with the MuseWhy painting in relationship to trauma?AN INSPIRED HEALING JOURNEY with two women intuitive painting side by side - We begin tomorrow! A Message from MUSEA'S Co-Founder, Curate Shiloh SophiaHello Dear Ones! I am so glad you are here! In our class, INSPIRED we will be guiding you through a step by step healing journey that includes conversation, education, stories, inquiries, meditation, drawing, AND intuitive painting. You can choose to heal your trauma!That said you don't need to be an artist in any way - the painting we are doing is for processing and for the integration of the...2024-02-2908 min
Tea with the MuseA new “F” word in stress response options + live class todayGood morning everyone! Today we are welcome Dr. Jeffrey Rediger to Musea for a livestream on the 4 Pillars present in spontaneous healing. You can always find everything we’re up to at www.Musea.orgToday’s episode introduces a new F word in the stress response lexicon. I recorded this yesterday in preparation for today.Today’s image is the Morning Sunrise from the hot tub. This is one of the places I pray in the morning and watch the morning arrive.❤️ shiloh sophia Get full access to Tea wit...2024-02-0905 min
Tea with the MuseRogue WisdomDear One,Happy Saturday - here is some Rogue Wisdom from my upcoming book - Rodeo of the Soul. Blessings on your day and all you do and who you are. With heart,shiloh sophiaSapienta By Shiloh Sophia 2021 - Available at Musette Atelier and Apothecary Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-02-0303 min
Tea with the MuseChurning Butter of RemotheringSending Blessing Beauties,I love calling you beauties. Because you are beautiful to me. I have been working on this post for a few hours - and I do it for you, for us, for the Muse, for the Ma!I am inviting you to join us for The Cura Council Ceremony on February 1 that will have a Celtic Poetic flavor with stories of Brigid. We gather virutally at 10am, featuring Lavender Grace with drum and Kathleen Brigidinia, with story. For those of you in Northern California we have circle at the Ranch at 6pm...2024-01-2814 min
Tea with the MuseOur 2024 Trauma-Inspired ApproachHello to you! I am coming by today to share my WHY for a trauma-inspired approach.Join us for INSPIRED - you will be inspired looking at what we have dreamed up!Here at MUSEA we are ready to take trauma-informed to the next level. We all have work to do to heal - let’s try a fresh perspective.BlessingsShiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2024-01-1910 min
Tea with the MuseThe Power of PleasureHello Community,Today’s topic, pleasure, had me crying right away, lol. I want so much for us to have access to pleasure in our Path of Practice, and as a way to navigate pain and increase the quality of life. You might think I work too much - but you will hear the truth in how I navigate my day to day in this episode. AND how I want to share it with you. We have a lot of pain ahead of us - so it seems like a really good idea to choose pleasure along wi...2023-12-2825 min
Tea with the Muse2 Women Carpenters + the Magi of NeuronsDear Ones,I think a lot about what women have experienced in our lives and the evolution of our rights. I am grateful to be raised by women who were laborers, carpenters, seamstresses, potters…even plumbers. My mom Caron used to brag that her mother Eden could plumb a whole house and shoe a horse lol. She could also fix most machines, made our clothing and could feed us from her garden. I think about how the brain development of our ancestors and grandparents would be so different than it is today, simply based on th...2023-12-0207 min
Tea with the MuseWaking Up and Tuning InEvent Horizon By Sue Hoya SellarsDear One,This is one of my favorite Sue paintings. For those of you who don’t know, Sue was my other Mother, I call her my Earth Mother, she was also my mentor and my painting teacher. She is the one I learned about Intentional Creativity from. To really see what is going on this image you need to look really close - see the trees at the top of the Event Horizon, then the one at the edge on the right is starting to bend. According to sources, the ev...2023-10-2104 min
Tea with the MuseCosmic Callings DepartmentCallings come with a thumpThey rattle your dreamsStartle you to attentionCallings don’t creep up all quiet and niceThey don’t ask if you are readyor wait for an invitation to arriveThey aren’t concerned so muchwith the dramas or the traumasthat you use as your reason…why notWhat is the reason why anyway?The reason you hesitate orWill not say yes to t...2023-10-1902 min
Tea with the MuseKronos~Kairos~FlowDear Ones ~ What is your relationship with time, rest and renewal? I am sharing my practice that I have worked with since my early twenties about chosen and bracketed rest. As well as I work with painting in relationship to this choice. I also share the qualities of FLOW that can be chosen. And how I sometimes move between the computer and the easel - there is goodness to share with you here.If you want to join us this weekend to “REST” into creativity and experience flow with Jonathan and myself - either in Sonoma or virtual. This is h...2023-09-2214 min
Tea with the MuseBeing at Cause + Blue Moon MeditationDear Ones,Every day of our relationship since 2013 Jonathan and I have Cafe’. Cafe conversation is what happens at Tea with the Muse and I learned it from Sue Hoya Sellars. In this case, we are are both the Muse sparking the inquiry. The idea is to pause in your life and see where the conversation takes you…to allow the Muses to have their way with you. To see what arises. We were having an early morning cafe (in Napa yesterday) and I was talking about how much cause I have or don’t have in my lif...2023-08-3021 min
Tea with the MuseSharing my health recovery storyDear Ones - Today I am sharing about my health recovery. I am not sharing the photos to be crass like “look at me now” - but rather to just show the changes that happened due to these two simple things. I am so happy I am feeling SO MUCH BETTER!Much love, Shiloh SophiaIf you would like to join us for a celebration of food and wellness - come see Blue Lotus here. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2023-08-2713 min
Tea with the MuseFreedom is not Freedom if...Dear Ones,I know that I am one of the people in your life that ‘rains on your parade’ through asking you to keep questioning the norms. I hope I provide sufficient encouragement and creativity to balance out the times I ask you to pay attention and labour towards justice. I am not apologizing, I am acknowledging. As a community and those of you who are listeners here, I want us to be as awake as we can be about the power structures present in the places we live, especially ones that seem invisible, or that would be u...2023-07-0405 min
Tea with the MuseMy husband just interviewed me about my approach…Hello everyone! A little something uncommon today as Jonathan asked me some questions about my approach to business (we are starting a 6 week course today.) In this convo I share a story about sleeping under the drawing table while my grandmother and mother worked all night. Whether you are in business or not, this should be fun to listen to and tune into cafe with us. This is our daily ritual and it truly is the foundational fabric of our entire life….Have a great day and a good morning, with heart,Shiloh Sophia...2023-04-1714 min
Tea with the MuseOpen Gate - New PoemDear Ones,Today I am sharing my poetry writing practice and the results of it from today - as well as a personal sharing. AND I am inviting you to notice what framework you are looking at your life through - to get it conscious for yourself. Today’s poetry prompt was an open gate, a metaphor that allowed this poem and to come through. It could just as well be an open window overlooking Florence like this photo that Jonathan took in 2019! This was our last trip before ‘shelter-in-place’ was a thing. We haven’t really...2023-04-0406 min
Tea with the MuseRiding the horse of Ecstasy and DespairSacred Encounter - Painting by Shiloh Sophia Dearest Hearts,Oh so many things. Drinking tea and watching the sunrise and thinking of you. If you have read Jonathan’s substack, The Intentional Table then you will know what ecstasy and despair I am speaking of. Breathing a sigh of relief, and drinking tea that he has made for me. I am thinking of you and knowing all that you are also going through. “Then a woman said, speak to us of joy and sorrow. And he answered:Your joy is your sorrow, unmasked, and...2023-04-0106 min
Tea with the MuseA deal with the Divine - story behind starting a 500 year circleHello Dear Ones,Yes it’s true, the 500 year Circle, The Cura Council is open today. What is happening on that thread is different than this one. Time will tell if I keep both - for now Tea with the Muse will remain poetry and stories and prayers. The Tea with the Muse podcast today tells the story of WHY I am doing this - and how it all started with hearing the cries of the world and saying yes to my sacred assignment (after I yelled at God)The Cura Council is focused on the longevity an...2023-03-3019 min
Tea with the MuseBeing HereYou made it! You are here on earth,with earth, and with us“Here" is a place we spend our livesdiscovering and coming intoWhen you pauseto comment on the clouds to your loveramazed at the miracle of sky blue andwhite poofs that make you smile When you point at the moonto your child, and make the shape of moon with your lips...drawing out the mooooooon, like this When...2023-03-2404 min
Tea with the MuseA 500 Year Circle ⭕️ Starting - Spring Equinox New Moon EveToday I am holding the first circle of a 500 Year Circle. I’ve been in council circles since I was five years old. We have already been running circles from the past twenty years through Cosmic Cowgirls. This is a story of continuity that weaves the past, and the future and the present. And choice. Always choice. Join us today here: we have a complimentary call today gathering called Re-mothering and we also have our yearlong Sisterhood of the Red Madonna for those who want to paint with me and us starting. With love, let’s begin on S...2023-03-2015 min
Tea with the MuseThe Energy of the Matter ~ ☕️ Cafe with my husband this morning - shared with youDear Ones! I hope you enjoy cafe this morning with Jonthan - let’s ride the equal 🟰 sign together! To explain my point - of noticing how energy works - I’m choosing these three paintings as a framework for looking! The close up is part of the customization. I completed these yesterday and they are going to their new homes soon where they can resonate energy as it is perceived by their new collectors. Join Jonathan and I every month for a live conversation Learn More as part of our Intentional Creativity Museum (501c3) We are a hundr...2023-03-1416 min
Tea with the MuseThe Ever-Emergent MaDear Ones,Today on International Women’s Day I am writing with an inquiry about your relationship to the Divine Feminine…is She included in your life? Your tradition, your practice, your faith walk? There is no tradition on the earth in which She isn’t present, even if She has been hidden in the places you have been practicing, look deeper, She is there. Always here. The Divine Feminine isn’t returning to us, we are returning to Her. She has always been there/here.Here are Musea one of the ways we are WITH Her in our l...2023-03-0905 min
Tea with the MuseAn ancient and futuristic tool for healingHello Everyone - May this podcast about Medicine Painting be illuminating and inviting.We start today if you want to join us to experience healing and intuitive awakening through Intentional Creativity https://musea.org/apothecary-2023/Blessings on your day Shiloh SophiaCosmic Hand - this is my hand painted by Sue Hoya Sellars in 2000 Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2023-03-0310 min
Tea with the MuseTime is on my SideDear Ones! Today I have a potent invitation for you. An invitation to claim your time back from the 7 days a week, 8 housr day, M-F, blah blah time paradigm. Now I know most of us have to work. That said. There is a way for you really be sovereign in how you spend your time and it requires planning. I just spent 3 hours working on my calendar for the next six months, it is a ritual in claiming space for you. Even doing the planning lets your whole self know you are choosing to claim your time.
In 2022 I...2023-02-1506 min
Tea with the MuseWheelhouse of the MotherDear OnesI wrote this today. I have so many things I would love to share with you. Big big stories as big as redwoods and small stories as tiny as a baby ant!But for today, just this poem, and an invitation to join me for a complimentary class on the Wheel of the Year on Sunday with my friends Lavender Grace and trish o’malley,The painting below became a kind of fortelling of something I will share with you on Sunday about Wild Water Creek on Sonoma Mountain. We were adopted by a...2023-01-1403 min
Tea with the MuseImagine a world with no weapons + join me live“We must refocus our collective memory. The necessity for this has never been greater as we discover that the path of 'progress' is extinguishing the very conditions for life on earth.” Marijah Gimbutas Dear Ones, I am inviting you to join me LIVE for a ritual to end the dominance era plus design a personal path of practice. Part history + Part Story + Part ritual + Intentional Creativity process. My friend Anasuya Isaacs will join me for this experience. Recently over two hundred women joined in this ritual live a part of a class - and we want...2023-01-1005 min
Tea with the MuseCreation Creating Us as We CreateHappy New Year to each of you. Today’s riffing with the Muse is an invitation to inhabit your imagination. With love, Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2023-01-0113 min
Tea with the MuseIs patriarchy a trauma response?Good Morning! I had a significant inquiry arise about patriarchy being a trauma response last night after studying all day long. My heart started beating and my mind spinning. There was a softening in me I hadn’t had before. Since I, with many others work to complete the era of domination all the time. A trauma response to a cataclysmic natural event like a flood? I wonder what I would spend my time on if I wasn’t trying to bring right to where there is wrong?Anyway I dove into more and more rese...2022-12-3009 min
Tea with the MuseHow we became known as 'Cart before horse' peopleMy family has so many stories…here’s one that has informed most of my life. What started as a criticism became a family legend. A fun listen, and hopefully a laugh with a cuppa something good….Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2022-12-2018 min
Tea with the MuseThreshold - about starting a university ♥️Dear ❤️ Hearts ~ sharing how I’m feeling today about Musea University starting… Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2022-12-1810 min
Tea with the MuseListen to Your HeartFreedomby Shiloh SophiaThe unsolved mysteriesof the heart are always presentIt doesn’t matter how many timeswe have been loved or been hurtStill, the heart is a grand mysteryWe cannot control itwe cannot make itdo what we wantWe cannot predict whatit will feel or seeBut there is one thingwe can doWe can listen to our heart...2022-12-0603 min
Tea with the MuseThe Perfect StudioThe Perfect StudioThe Perfect Studiohas a door that closes There’s enough room thereto not have my back to the doorthe kitties are presentThere’s a big tableto spread out and make a messmarked with years of creativityOf course, there’s a comfy chairthat is big enough for meto sit cross-leggedor even better,a chaise loungeA rug that’s...2022-11-2602 min
Tea with the MuseFur teacup and the New York City MuseShiloh Sophia by Jonathan McCloud @the MoMa and Fur Breakfast by Meret Oppenheim Le Déjeuner en fourrure Au the MoMa Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2022-11-2108 min
Tea with the MuseTiny Portal - An Intentional Creativity Practice#letthemusechoose Tiny Portal: Choose one of your more abstract paintings or an under-painting layer. Look at it with a soft gaze. Imagine that one part of it suddenly becomes a portal door and lights up! WOWZA there it is! Honor this arising. Be surprised....(Muses love to surprise you) One word of advice - the Muse does not want to be dominated in any way - but if you are in a particularly tender or tempermental place you can request - 'only loving or kind messages to appear' - no one can guarantee compliance - but it...2022-11-1607 min
Tea with the MuseChoosing to See - inquiry“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.” da Vinci “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” da VinciWe went to see a da Vinci exhibit in the Blue Ridge mountain territory. These quotes really struck me as both true and harsh. Did he really mean “classes”? Perhaps not like today. I know that part of my sacred wo...2022-11-1501 min
Tea with the MuseDeciding to MatterDear Ones, Generations of women have been taught and programmed to believe we don’t matter. The suicide rate for girls is getting younger and younger. No matter how many articles we write about it and how much therapy tries to address the root cause of the issue of irrelevance, it persists and insists. But not just in young girls. In most of the women we actually know, there is a deeply embedded framework of feeling like our voice is silenced, even and especially from ourselves.This message came through early this morning and is fo...2022-11-0624 min
Tea with the MuseMeet me in the ShimmeringPainting by Shiloh Sophia: CeremonyIntentional Creativity is mindulness in motion Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2022-11-0602 min
Tea with the MuseEntering the Portal of CompassionEnter the Portal of CompassionDear OneI often wonderwhy some people care so muchand some people don't care so muchIs it possible to teach compassionor do we have to awaken to itthrough personal experience?Compassion is as mysterious as grace,a gift to the Human Spirit from the Divine SpiritA way to open consciousness rooted in loveCompassion is elusive to teachor to compel, when someone is...2022-10-2704 min
Tea with the MuseIngredients for Waking Up SlowlyDear Hearts,How do you wake up each day? Do you pick up your phone? Listen to the news? Rush to the shower? Grumble about what is before you? The most sacred of all things for humans is the awareness of choice....So today, or tomorrow since you may already awake today lol, may you find a way to wake up slowly and savor.Big Love,Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2022-10-2402 min
Tea with the MuseA Word of EncouragementDear HeartsI just wanted to extend a soft word of encouragement today - an invitiation to choose beauty. Blessings wherever you are and whatever you are dealing withBig Love,Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe2022-10-1901 min
Tea with the MuseToo Much WomanToo Much Woman Watch out!A wide load womancoming through!She laughs too loudTalks too longWears too much redWalks too heavyDances too wildHowls too crazy at the Moon.Hips too bigCleavage way too in your faceToo much glitter flyingGives too muchToo big for her britchesToo smart for her own goodHer hair is definitely too big2022-10-1301 min
Trust Your Sacred Feminine FlowIntentional Creativity with Shiloh Sophia McCloudVisionary artist and poet, Revolutionary Educator and Intentional Creativity co-founder, Shiloh Sophia McCloud joins us to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary.
We dive into conscious creativity, awakening and the Quantum field. Shiloh shares how creativity can be used to reclaim our images as women; awaken our own medicine, and build resiliency in the face of trauma and life challenges in life.
She shares the story of early influences of her mother, Caron, and mentor, Sue Hoya Sellars as well as her powerful awakening to her own medicine in her 20's. This awakening, which brought a...2019-06-0655 min
Trust Your Sacred Feminine FlowIntentional Creativity with Shiloh Sophia McCloudVisionary artist and poet, Revolutionary Educator and Intentional Creativity co-founder, Shiloh Sophia McCloud joins us to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary.
We dive into conscious creativity, awakening and the Quantum field. Shiloh shares how creativity can be used to reclaim our images as women; awaken our own medicine, and build resiliency in the face of trauma and life challenges in life.
She shares the story of early influences of her mother, Caron, and mentor, Sue Hoya Sellars as well as her powerful awakening to her own medicine in her 20's. This awakening, which brought a deep awareness of the suffering...2019-06-0655 min