Who am I?

What is my purpose?

What will make me happy?

Ever since I can remember, I’ve asked myself these three questions, and my life journey reflects the persistent search for answers.

This search has led me on various paths; it led me to meet my first husband, a move to England, divorce, meeting the love of my life, the birth of my four children, studying theater design, art therapy, and finally to developing the amazing tool for healing and growth through creating – the visual journal.

In my first book Layers of Meaning – Elements of Visual Journaling, I described the seven elements of visual journaling. I showed how to connect the seven elements to various spiritual methods, such as shamanic journeys, Voice Dialogue, and others, and working with intention – through the seven elements, to create “soul pages” that enable healing and transformation.

But my search for meaning never stopped… it only became more interesting.

In the last two years, I started to create meditation art using the elements of intention and color.

I felt that color has a special force that is mysterious and uplifting.

Slowly I started to combine shamanic ideas and the theory of color to create a frame for self-exploration through colors.

I taught the Color Archetypes course for two years in Israel and I felt that this is its time to go out there to the world.

I’m really happy to invite you to watch the first lesson ( a replay of an amazing live zoom event)

Creating our childhood color energy map

We learned about the Color Archetype method and created our Childhood color maps. This is a great tool to start and understand your art and get insight from the a

If you want to watch the replay you can do it on my blog here

Color Archetypes- Creating our childhood color maps

Each and every one of us is born with the built-in ability to change our lives and

 connect to the energies of health, love, the joy of life, and creativity.

All that is required of us is to believe that we can do this in a simple and creative way.

In this course, we will learn the tool of a color capsule that will connect us to the power of fulfillment of the primary colors and their ability to change our lives.

A color mantra is one of the processes of the Color Archetypes method.

This is a tool that connects color, image, and the creation of a healing mantra.

You can repeat this process and create as many color mantras as you want.

In this course, you will also create a beautiful art therapy journal, designed especially for this process.

What is a mantra?

A mantra is actually a type of prayer, a precise sentence that describes the situation we want to reach – as if it has already happened and is being fulfilled in the present.

Our unconscious does not know how to distinguish between imagination and reality so when we create a mantra and reinforce it by visual expression and continue to reinforce it through daily practice, reality begins to align accordingly.

In this course, we will connect to the power of our personal color palette in the context of healing a certain aspect of our life.

We will create a color mantra that will express our healing.

?What will you get

3 Full Lessons  (Each containing 2-5 videos)

A guided visualization that you could go back to again and again.

Online help to create your mantra (In a closed Facebook group)

A powerful process that you could do every time you want to create a change in your life.

Create a color journal where you could create your mantras.

Great mix media techniques

Inner healing

This is the link to the course

https://soul-pages.com/courses/the-power-of-mantra-transforming-our-life-with-color-and-images/

Spring is coming and it’s time for traveling with my visual art diary

I love traveling, this is the best time for me to work on my Visual journal.

Next week I’m flying with my Husband to Italy and I would love it if you joined me on my visual explorations of Florence and Sienna.

When I travel I feel so free to just create.

I take a very small bag of supplies and my small sketchbook and I try to create every day something small that will summarize my day.

I use brochures I find, ephemera I collect, and usually, I just allow myself to sketch the energy that I feel in any particular place I visit.

Every day I let myself enough time to sit in a nice coffee place and work on a visual summary of the day before. Sometimes I even do it twice a day when I’m super excited.

This way I let myself absorb all the beauty that I saw and “make” it my own..

I noticed that when I’m reflecting in my visual art diary I enjoy it more and my memories of the vacation are clearer and happier.https://soul-pages.com/blog/ 

So what do you actually need when you travel? 

I take with me: 

My travel visual journal

An extra small size watercolor block

Tombow markers

Permanent black Liners

Posca markers

Jel pens

Metallic pen

washi tape

Daniel smith small box of favorite watercolors

Scissors

Small glue

I pick up brochures and journals images as I go.

You can read about my travels and see a video of my materials bag in my blog

https://soul-pages.com/blog/

Try one of these transformational courses

Color archetypes is a spiritual-artistic method to identify and understand the source of energies available to us from the day we were born – core energy, connection energy, and spiritual energy.

These three energies, inherent parts of us, navigate and shape our lives. Understanding them will help us live better, happier, and more fulfilling lives.

Art Journaling is an art activity within a personal journal. Another name for this activity can be Visual journaling, art diary etc.

For many years, artists have developed their artistic ideas in a journal and called this a sketchbook. Creating in a format of a journal has begun to develop as another language of art that anyone can do, without learning any complicated techniques, in the last thirty years.

Some artists in the United States and Europe have begun to teach the unique way they create within a diary to allow freedom, creativity and un judgmatical behaviour.

Soul Pages is a special method of visual-art journaling that I developed in the last 8 years and its main idea is the focus of our inner development and the connection to the archetype of the inner artist.

Art Journaling basic concepts

• The use of mix media techniques – any combination of materials and techniques is acceptable
• It’s not about the outcome- the process itself is important.
• It’s a form of self-care art so usually it incorporates writing
• We use meditative techniques such as doodling and collage
• We create in a bound journal
• We use layers of different materials and techniques that expose different meanings
• We can use prompts to create meaning in our spread
• Freedom, joy and play
• There are lots of different approaches of teaching, but usually they either teach art techniques or teach transformation.

About my method- SoulPages journaling

I developed SoulPages journaling method in order to allow for self-care, transformation, joy, playfulness and also cultivating our inner artist.

SoulPages is based on seven elements: Intention, Magical coincidence, background, image, color, line & text. You can learn more about the elements in my book “Elements of visual Journaling”

You can learn more about  SoulPages journaling in my short courses.

Or join my in-depth facilitator training and transform your life.

SoulPages facilitator training is the only mentoring programme in the world that actually teaches how to become a group facilitator with the amazing tool of the visual journal.

In this one year programme you can become an independent artist that creates freely in your bounded journals.

You will learn how to create endless art processes that are healing and also artistic.

art journaling for beginners

There are lots of art journaling for beginners classes and tutorials online but what is most important to understand is that beginners’ minds are an essential part of art journaling.

A beginner’s mind is a state of constant surprise and creativity where you feel that everything is new, fresh, and exciting.

So when you are looking for art journaling for beginners, you need information about the materials and techniques that will help you start an art journaling practice.

In SoulPages Journaling- creating the art journal from scratch is an amazing intention process- You can create a vessel for all your hopes and dreams.

After the art journal is created, you can start exploring materials and techniques that you like.

In my first years, I was so excited to discover that you can use any combination of materials. I felt like an explorer and it was an amazing feeling of being a child in a candy shop.

Try to look for materials that allow for magical coincidence. These are techniques that bring results that we have no control over.

The book “Layers of Meaning” by Rakefet Hadar is the perfect book when you are looking for art journaling for beginners’ ideas.

art journaling for beginners-ideas to get you started

When you want to start creating a visual journal, you can concentrate on the different elements of visual journaling as described in my journaling method SoulPages journaling.

here you can get a few ideas to get you started

• Intention– create your art journal from a cover of an old book or by using a Coptic stitch binding.
• Magical coincidence– start exploring new materials and techniques such as jelly plate, ink, tea bags, marbelling, etc.
• Background– prepare a few simple backgrounds on your journal pages. use watercolor, acrylic, collage simple torn pieces of paper.
• Image– glue some images on your pages.
• color– add color to connect the images
• line– add some lines to give depth to your images and make them yours.
• text– give a name to the art that you created.

Finally, all you need is to embrace your inner child and start creating

The seven elements of visual journaling can help you start journaling on your own. If you want to try a free tutorial you can press here:

The red violin

more art journaling for beginners classes are available in my online courses: The HomeBook.

And also in the Memory Pocket course, that demonstrates how I work with the 7 elements.

Try one of these transformational courses

Color archetypes is a spiritual-artistic method to identify and understand the source of energies available to us from the day we were born – core energy, connection energy, and spiritual energy.

These three energies, inherent parts of us, navigate and shape our lives. Understanding them will help us live better, happier, and more fulfilling lives.

art journal collage

I love to create a small collage journal that is the background for more layered artwork with color and other materials in my practice.

I love to bind my journals in this unique way because collage is the primary technique in art journaling.

When we create our handmade collage journal from scratch -we create a vessel for our inner dreams, wishes, and hopes.

Collage is an artistic technique that incorporates different papers, fabrics, and all sorts of ephemera to create a new image that combines small glued parts into one surface.

The process of collage creates integration in the soul and this is why it is such an amazing art technique.

When I start working on a new journal, I always glue collage pieces to some of the pages so when I bind them together- I will already have images that inspire me to continue and create more.

In this way, I overcome my fear of the white page.

Some people call these special journals- junk journals because you can combine so many parts of yourself artistically.

Collage journal- what kind of material can you use?

• pictures from old books
• vintage pictures from Pinterest
• journals and newspapers
• your art
• stamps
• gift packaging
• colored papers
• scraps of fabrics
• any ephemera material that you can glue.

Collage ideas for art journaling

In my courses, I teach lots of collage techniques with endless materials.

In my free course- The red violin, you can learn the process of collage with the seven elements.

If you want to join this course log in to the site and try the free course.

In the “memory pockets,” you can learn how to create collage journal pages with family pictures.

you can learn more about this course here:

Memory Pockets

In my “HomeBook” course you could learn a special collage method that is made inside old books. I also use the pictures that are already in the book as part of the overall spread.

This is a truly remarkable course with eight different collage techniques.

And finally, you can learn all my collage secrets and become a master in collage journal if you join my facilitator training and learn how to invent collage techniques and create amazing art journaling processes.

Artistic journal

Artistic journal is one of the many names of the visual or art journal.

It is similar to a written journal, but you can add many elements such as colors, images, patterns, fabrics. You can play in your visual journal and create infinite worlds of wonder.

In your visual journal, you can connect with your inner child and play with different materials and tecniques. There are no rules of right and wrong- everything is possible!

I want to share a short story of how I discovered the visual journal.

Six years ago, in my final year of studies for a graduate degree in art therapy, I met a good friend of mine for lunch. She pulled an old children’s book out of her purse, and when she opened it, I saw that between its covers, instead of regular pages, there were thick sheets that were hand-sewn together. My friend had drawn on the pages in pencil and markers, pasted snippets of newspapers, and wrote down her inner thoughts.

“What is this?” I asked her, feeling its magic start to permeate me.

It’s called art journaling,” she said. “It’s a kind of artistic journal anyone can do it; anything goes, no rules, and it’s a lot of fun.”

I went home, not knowing that this meeting would be life-changing. I felt an overpowering need to create a book of my own, and that same day I sewed myself an artistic journal with the covers of an old book.

And I haven’t stopped since …

Today, six years later, I teach the method I developed for visual journaling, a method designed to empower freedom, meaning, and connection to passion, self-acceptance, and love.

you can read more about it in the book “Layers of meaning” by Rakefet Hadar/

If you want to see some short videos for quick fun 15 minutes visual journaling practices go here

Art bites- your daily art journaling practice

You can also enjoy my book “Layers of meaning” by rakefet hadar that has lots of exiting prompts and tutorials.

Artistic journal – set your inner self free

there are numerous ways to start a visual journaling daily practice.

• In your journal write your thought on the right side of the page and then use felt markers on the other side to react to the written words.
• choose a daily word and glue a few images that are connected to this word.
• paint with colorful colors on black background.
• create a face from 10 pieces of colored paper.
• write dialogue about this face.
• work with family pictures
• Join an art journaling group

Daily visual journaling practice will improve your life

The method I created SoulPages journaling is based on seven elements: Intention, magical coincidence, background, color, line, image & text.

when you are working with the elements-visual journaling can be like meditation because in every layer you concentrate on one element.

with only 15 minutes a day, you can experience connectedness to your inner self, more joy and happiness, and above all self-love.

I invite you to join my free course and get to know the seven elements of visual journaling.