Connie Hozvicka :: {Artist, Yogini, Writer} LEADER
Dirty Footprints Studio's mission is to:
✭ Awaken FEARLESS® creativity in others. ✭
✭ Inspire each soul to radiate their heart's unique expression. ✭
✭ Guide individuals to ruthlessly trust their innate wisdom. ✭
Be love, spread light, paint FEARLESS®.
What I Do Best.
❉ I WRITE ABOUT THE JOYS AND CHALLENGES of my life dedicated to truth, staying in alignment with Creative Source, and living in the flow while being a fully self sustainable Artist Yogini Writer LEADER.
❉ I LEAD FEARLESS™ PAINTING ADVENTURES online that empower women to create a deeper connection to Creative Source, help them strengthen and become more aware of their innate wisdom, and pursue their creativity with greater confidence and self reliance.
❉ I FACILITATE TOTAL ALIGNMENT RETREATS annually in Sedona, Arizona. Designed to align women's heart-body-mind with their Creative Source through the fusion of FEARLESS™ Painting, Yoga, and deep, trusted sharing with kindred souls in a magical landscape.
❉ I AM THE FOUNDER AND TEACHER OF IGNITE: a ten month, highly intensive FEARLESS® Painting Teacher Training Program designed to empower, transform, and IGNITE creative souls into being the best teachers they can be--both in-person and online. IGNITE begins October 1, 2012.
❉ I AM THE FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF 21 SECRETS an annual online Art Journaling playground composed of 21 talented, inspirational Artists from across the globe. Filled with hours and hours of instructional videos, supportive texts, and access to a supportive online community.
❉ I AM A SUCCESSFUL CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR. Dirty Footprints Studio is my full time business and I am proud to say that I am NOT a starving Artist but rather a thriving Artist! My deepest intention is to inspire other Artists to believe in their dreams and be FEARLESS® in making them happen. Heck--in October 2010 I was invited to speak to fellow entrepreneurs at the Joyfully Jobless Convention in Austin, Texas and this January 2012 I was interviewed by Marianne Cantwell for a sole chapter in her upcoming book on "Free Range Humans".
❉ I AM THE FOUNDER AND TEACHER OF IGNITE: a ten month, highly intensive FEARLESS® Painting Teacher Training Program designed to empower, transform, and IGNITE creative souls into being the best teachers they can be--both in-person and online. IGNITE begins October 1, 2012.
❉ I AM THE FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF 21 SECRETS an annual online Art Journaling playground composed of 21 talented, inspirational Artists from across the globe. Filled with hours and hours of instructional videos, supportive texts, and access to a supportive online community.
❉ I AM A SUCCESSFUL CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR. Dirty Footprints Studio is my full time business and I am proud to say that I am NOT a starving Artist but rather a thriving Artist! My deepest intention is to inspire other Artists to believe in their dreams and be FEARLESS® in making them happen. Heck--in October 2010 I was invited to speak to fellow entrepreneurs at the Joyfully Jobless Convention in Austin, Texas and this January 2012 I was interviewed by Marianne Cantwell for a sole chapter in her upcoming book on "Free Range Humans".
❉ I CREATE ART AS PURELY A PART OF MY SPIRITUAL PATH Even though I have sold my work world wide and have been in numerous gallery shows, I choose now to create Art that is purely for my own spiritual development and not simply for commerce.
❉ I PRACTICE YOGA AS A WAY OF LIFE and am a certified Yoga Teacher (500 hour). This is what guides everything I do.
❉ I PRACTICE YOGA AS A WAY OF LIFE and am a certified Yoga Teacher (500 hour). This is what guides everything I do.
The Pulp.
I truly believe Art can change your life. I know this as fact, because it changed my own.
Sure, ever since I was a kiddo, I’ve considered myself an artist. In grade school I entered all the Art and coloring contests one little chica could handle and won myself quite a few ribbons, gift certificates, and free milk shakes at Burger King! In high school I was blessed with a school that considered Art a vocation and my adolescence was drenched in painting and overflowing with sketchbooks and angst. Then, like a good little artist, off to Art school I went--studying at both the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cleveland State University--where after years of this-&-that-&-everything else I graduated with a double major in Art and Art History and a fancy wancy license to teach Art.
So, you see what I mean...I have all the training and credentials to slap that artist label on my forehead and walk around like a hot shot...but it wasn’t until recently that I finally woke up.
That’s right. Woke up.
So now, as you read this...I can exclaim that the Connie Hozvicka you are curious about is done with all that yada yada yada that I buried myself in college with. I used to think that being an Artist meant ABC. But since ABC bored the heck out of me---I never quite fully felt out-of-this-world alive by being an Artist. I was just an artist.
{Seriously, life’s too short.}
But let me tell you---I’m not sleeping anymore and I’m all about being an Artist with a capital A. Granting myself full permission to embrace, LOVE, nurture, and honor exactly what Art means to ME in my own life.
Truth is I woke up the moment I completely surrendered to the Creative Juicy goodness inside me. I finally--after decades of training, searching, struggling, and traveling this gloriously beautiful journey of mine--gave myself FULL permission to create Art that makes ME happy--that speaks to ME--that comes directly from MY HEART--and doesn’t rely on fitting into any genre or even prompting any praise. That’s it. I finally decided to be FEARLESS® and to FEARLESS® Paint as well.
Why Teaching.
I became an Art Teacher by accident when I was persuaded into taking an Artist-In-Residence position at a local elementary school over fifteen years ago. But it was that first experience that hooked me right away and made me realize the powerful connection between creating my own Art and sharing and guiding others on their Artist path. Ever since, the two go hand-in-hand for me. Many times--my teaching is my Art. I am a better Artist and overall individual because of my conscious decision to share my LOVE for FEARLESS® creativity and Yoga so openly, passionately, and enthusiastically with the world. I’m proud to add that Dirty Footprints Studio has blessed me with the opportunity to wrap my passion across the globe and let my heart shine upon others who I may have not met without the intimacy of the internet.
Plus, I am a certified Yoga teacher through the Yoga Advanced Studies and Teacher Training year long program (500 hours). This not only changed who I am--but what Dirty Footprints Studio is as well. Through my deeper studies in Yoga--I have grown more clear on what FEARLESS® Painting truly is and out of this clarity Total Alignment has been born.
Last, let me state, my life’s purpose is tied to Dirty Footprints Studio and that is to share 100% what I know to be true about Art: it can make you FEARLESS®, it can shatter barriers, encourage growth, and help you discover facets and whole universes about yourself that you had no idea existed. My work as a teacher--a LEADER is to inspire you, awaken your FEARLESS® creativity, and to meet you wherever you are on your own Artist journey and gently guide you into a deeper place of truth.
Come join me in one of my workshops, retreats, or teacher trainings HERE.
Well, you can’t leave here without knowing my big plans that rests at the heart of Dirty Footprints Studio and is on it's way to coming true!
I have been planning to move to Costa Rica ever since I fell in LOVE with my beloved husband Hansel and visited his beautiful country for the first time in 2004. We have property there, family, and a community of kindred souls that believe in our dreams as well and are patiently waiting for us to get our ducks in a row and shimmy our butts down there!
In pursuit of this BIG DREAM, on July 6, 2010 (what would be the Artist Frida Kahlo's 103rd birthday!) I made a risky but freeing decision to rely less on the security of a full time paycheck from my “day job” as an Art Teacher in a K-8 public school, and instead decided there is no better time to be living my dream than right here and right NOW. So I quit. Since that date I live in awe and wonder as each day delivers new gifts and beautiful opportunities.
Finally, we plan to make Dirty Footprints Studio’s permanent home in Costa Rica in the year 2013. My vision is to create an inspiring, creative, sacred space where the union of FEARLESS® Painting, Yoga, and Nature form the nesting ground for kindred souls across the planet to meet, create, grow, dream, and discover their True Self...plus spend some quality time swooning the sunset on a hammock next to the ocean while sipping smoothies of course!
My BIG DREAM involves you. My BIG DREAM is for you as it is for me. My BIG DREAM is about FEARLESS® creativity, Yoga, and discovering who we truly are in this big, beautiful world and being FEARLESS® to express it. Thank you so much for supporting Dirty Footprints Studio and sharing in my BIG DREAM.
There is great, great love here for you.
I ♥ Emails.
And DirtyFootprints@yahoo.com works best. But I'm going to be honest....I read all the emails that I receive but sometimes it takes me awhile to respond. Thank you for your patience--I think you're an absolute gem!
Be Love, Spread Light, Paint FEARLESS™,
♡Connie
Plus, I am a certified Yoga teacher through the Yoga Advanced Studies and Teacher Training year long program (500 hours). This not only changed who I am--but what Dirty Footprints Studio is as well. Through my deeper studies in Yoga--I have grown more clear on what FEARLESS® Painting truly is and out of this clarity Total Alignment has been born.
Last, let me state, my life’s purpose is tied to Dirty Footprints Studio and that is to share 100% what I know to be true about Art: it can make you FEARLESS®, it can shatter barriers, encourage growth, and help you discover facets and whole universes about yourself that you had no idea existed. My work as a teacher--a LEADER is to inspire you, awaken your FEARLESS® creativity, and to meet you wherever you are on your own Artist journey and gently guide you into a deeper place of truth.
Come join me in one of my workshops, retreats, or teacher trainings HERE.
Costa Rica Or Bust.
Well, you can’t leave here without knowing my big plans that rests at the heart of Dirty Footprints Studio and is on it's way to coming true!
I have been planning to move to Costa Rica ever since I fell in LOVE with my beloved husband Hansel and visited his beautiful country for the first time in 2004. We have property there, family, and a community of kindred souls that believe in our dreams as well and are patiently waiting for us to get our ducks in a row and shimmy our butts down there!
In pursuit of this BIG DREAM, on July 6, 2010 (what would be the Artist Frida Kahlo's 103rd birthday!) I made a risky but freeing decision to rely less on the security of a full time paycheck from my “day job” as an Art Teacher in a K-8 public school, and instead decided there is no better time to be living my dream than right here and right NOW. So I quit. Since that date I live in awe and wonder as each day delivers new gifts and beautiful opportunities.
Finally, we plan to make Dirty Footprints Studio’s permanent home in Costa Rica in the year 2013. My vision is to create an inspiring, creative, sacred space where the union of FEARLESS® Painting, Yoga, and Nature form the nesting ground for kindred souls across the planet to meet, create, grow, dream, and discover their True Self...plus spend some quality time swooning the sunset on a hammock next to the ocean while sipping smoothies of course!
My BIG DREAM involves you. My BIG DREAM is for you as it is for me. My BIG DREAM is about FEARLESS® creativity, Yoga, and discovering who we truly are in this big, beautiful world and being FEARLESS® to express it. Thank you so much for supporting Dirty Footprints Studio and sharing in my BIG DREAM.
There is great, great love here for you.
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I ♥ Emails.
And DirtyFootprints@yahoo.com works best. But I'm going to be honest....I read all the emails that I receive but sometimes it takes me awhile to respond. Thank you for your patience--I think you're an absolute gem!
Be Love, Spread Light, Paint FEARLESS™,
♡Connie
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