{"id":13701,"date":"2017-04-01T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T06:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2017-03-31T23:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T04:20:17","slug":"sacred-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/04\/01\/sacred-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14374\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wind-1024x797.jpg\" alt=\"wind\" width=\"658\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>APPRENTICE OF THE WIND<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">I made this painting in the year 2012 after being told by my helping spirits that I am an Apprentice of the Wind.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Crow is one of my power animals. When I undertake shamanic journeys (soul flight) I often fly with crows. For that reason I have painted a segment of this vision on my shamanic drum.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">I find it very interesting that the Hebrew word <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>ruach<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> means wind but also breath and spirit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">As a teacher of Norse Shamanism and Seidr I have a particular affinity with the North Wind.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Being an Apprentice of the Wind is a journey, always bringing me new leads and new discoveries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">It was hard to say goodby to this painting when it sold. It lives in Vienna today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14375\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wind2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"wind2\" width=\"747\" height=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Imelda Almqvist<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">http:\/\/www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Imelda Almqvist teaches shamanism, sacred art and internationally.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Imelda\u2019s book \u201cNatural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life\u201d,<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i><b>Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>was published by Moon Books in August 2016.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; APPRENTICE OF THE WIND I made this painting in the year 2012 after being told by my helping spirits that I am an Apprentice of the Wind. Crow is one of my power animals. When I undertake shamanic journeys (soul flight) I often fly with crows. For that reason I have painted a segment of this vision on my shamanic drum. I find it very interesting that the Hebrew word ruach means wind but also breath and spirit. As a teacher of Norse Shamanism and Seidr I have a particular affinity with the North Wind. Being an Apprentice of the Wind is a journey, always bringing me new leads and new discoveries. It was hard to say goodby to this painting when it sold. It lives in Vienna today. &nbsp; &nbsp; Imelda Almqvist http:\/\/www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\/ Imelda Almqvist teaches shamanism, sacred art and internationally.\u00a0 \u00a0 Imelda\u2019s book \u201cNatural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life\u201d,\u00a0Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages\u00a0was published by Moon Books in August 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}