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Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation
Contributor(s): Shannon, Maggie Oman (Author), Radmacher, Mary Anne (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1936740400     ISBN-13: 9781936740406
Publisher: Viva Editions
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2013
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
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BISAC Categories:
- Self-help | Creativity
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Inspiration & Personal Growth
- Self-help | Spiritual
Dewey: 745.5
LCCN: 2012046465
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7.2" W x 7.2" (0.83 lbs) 288 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
In this wired, wild world, it is harder than ever to shut out noise and busyness in order to truly calm yourself, but in Crafting Calm, a D.I.Y. guide to peace of mind, you'll find inspiring ideas for how to do exactly that through a wide range of creative exercises. In this book, author Maggie Oman Shannon explores crafts and creativity as a practice with enormous physical, mental, and spiritual benefits. By immersing ourselves in a craft with intention and mindfulness, we can quiet those voices around us and in us--we can enter sacred stillness. Through revealing interviews, personal stories, and forty suggested activities, the author shows how creative processes can become spiritual practices. Whether you're an aspiring artist, longtime craftsperson, or someone who has never set foot in a craft-store (yet ), you'll find something in Crafting Calm to inspire you.

Crafts and how-to ideas include contemplation candles, visual journals, prayer shawls, collage mandalas, intention beads, finger labyrinths, personal prayer flags, spiritual toolkits, and tabletop altars.

Features inspired craft ideas from luminaries such as Angeles Arrien, Mary Ann Radmcher, Shiloh Sophia McCloud, Sister Marianne Heib, May Ann Brussat, and many more.


Contributor Bio(s): Radmacher, Mary Anne: - Mary Anne Radmacher is a writer and an artist. She conducts workshops on living a full, creative, balanced life, teaches Internet writing seminars, and works with individual clients. She has been writing since she was a child, and she uses her writing to explore symbols and find meaning. Among her special honors she counts the respect of her peers and the friendship of children. She is the author of Lean Forward into Your Life (Conari Press, 2007), and Live Boldly (Conari Press, 2008). She lives with her husband near Seattle, Washington. Visit her online at www.maryanneradmacher.com or www.maryanneradmacher.net.Shannon, Maggie Oman: -

Maggie Oman Shannon is a spiritual director and writer. She is the author of One God, Shared Hope and The Way We Pray, editor of Prayers for Healing and coauthor of A String and a Prayer. She lives in San Francisco.