The Art of BeingÂ
Toltec Wisdom to Help You Live a Creative Life
April 25- June 20, 2026
9Â online class meetings,
with optional lab sessions in between
INTRODUCING
A Hands-On Immersion To Help you Nurture Your Art - and Help it Nurture YouÂ
Are you ready to trade "unworthiness" for creative connection?
What is art? The dictionary includes: “skill acquired by experience study, or observation; the conscious use of skill, creative imagination, and feeling.”
What is being? The definition includes: “the quality or state of having existence; conscious existence: LIFE; the qualities that constitute an existent thing: ESSENCE; a living thing.”
Do you have an art, a creative skill that you long to cultivate and express, such as tending a garden, making music, developing a software program, learning a new language, or simply being a better friend—yet you have been holding back?
It can help to look at: What is your intent for this endeavor? Is it to prove your worth? Or is there a more loving intent involved?
My teachers—students of don Juan Matus, a cultural descendant of the Toltec seers of ancient times—suggested that we practice our chosen arts as a way to connect with our dreaming body, ie our essence, or soul, and to bring our creative skills, imagination, and feeling into our daily encounters and experience.
This vital union of self and dreaming body is embodied in the Toltec myth of Quetzalcoatl: the feathered serpent who links earth and sky, matter and spirit, imagination and the daily world.Â
In this series, you will focus on whatever art you feel called to practice, as a means to help you awaken in your daily encounters and experience.
This Series Is For You If you are inspired by:
- Identifying: What’s Alive in You that Wants to Be Explored and Expressed? What is your intent around it?
- Tailored Morning and Evening Practice.
- Magical Passes: Walks, Breath, and Movement
- Appointments with your Artist
- Reviewing - Who Said No, or Yes to your Artist.
- Being Seen - or Not Seen
- Checking in: Are You Having Any Fun Yet?
- Silence: Deep Listening
- Sound: Singing Together
- Dreaming your Artistry Forward.
- Celebration: Sharing Your Art and Journey
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Past participants have said they experienced a harmony and interplay of sharing and listening among participants, as well as a synergy of works shared that helps those works illuminate one another, and which reflects the waves of Infinity.
NICE TO MEET YOU
Nyei Murez, MA
ISTA Certified Therapeutic Sound Practitioner
is a musician, sound dreamer, and awareness coach. She has helped facilitate workshops and trainings on the practical aspects of Carlos Castaneda's teachings for more than thirty years. Her album, Transformations, a collection of awakening soundscapes, is forthcoming in May, 2026