My beadwork flows by way of my fingers with the best of ease. Every bead is sewn down utilizing bead embroidery methods, realizing precisely the place to relaxation. I permit spirit or maybe the universe to precise itself by way of me. I can’t take credit score for the outcomes, as it’s deeper than myself.
I began working with beads in 1975 and keep in mind making jewellery whilst a younger youngster. Like my Chippewa Nice Grandmother, I hearken to their hearts and the beadwork simply appears to circulate. My Nice Grandmother Nora did bead work for vaudeville, I didn’t know this until after I had been beading for a few years.
My beaded works have been displayed all throughout the globe. My items have been finalists or award winners within the prestigious Bead Goals competitors, by Bead & Button journal, yearly since 2002. In 2003 I gained first place for Beadwork within the Saul Bell Awards Competitors, placed on by the Rio Grande Gems and Discovering Catalog. I’ve additionally had my beadwork on the quilt of the Hearth Mountain Gems catalog.
I educate non-public workshops and likewise non secular bead lessons at my mountain residence within the summers. I’ve been a instructor, together with my good pal Sherry Serafini, on the Colorado Bead Retreat because it began in 2013.
I dwell on 16 acres within the Indian Peaks Wilderness in Colorado at 9000 ft. elevation, with my husband Gregg, and two canine. Our house is constructed off the grid, which means we use the solar and a again up generator for our energy. I’ve spent most of my life in quietude and solitude studying from that place deep inside. Dwelling among the many forests and mountain spirits, whom have given many classes all through my life.
I’ve been a non secular particular person most of my life, and in 2011 I got here throughout an internet course known as Shamanism 101, the place I now educate the identical course. Shamanism is a non secular follow which brings therapeutic into the world. It’s about being related to the Earth and all the range round us. Listening to the omens in our on a regular basis lives. After we encompass ourselves with this lovely non secular connection, honoring it by way of ceremony, ritual, and follow, we ourselves can grow to be entire and thus replicate it again into the world.
I really feel that very same approach about my beadwork, I hope that every piece I make brings a way of therapeutic and peace into the world. My work has all the time been a mirrored image of my environment. By utilizing animals and pure stones in my work I really feel indirectly I’m passing alongside that connection that sadly so many people have forgotten.
To study extra about Heidi’s work and lessons go to:
www.etsy.com/shop/HeidiKummliDesigns
www.etsy.com/shop/WhiteWolfTradingCo
www.facebook.com/Heidi-Kummli-Designs
www.shamancollege.com/blog/creativity-and-sacred-imagination
