Step One: The Vision
February 21, 2023 | By Blanca Melchor
Walking into Studio Luna’s first event was thrilling.
Following the pandemic shut down, and going from no contact to some contact to semi-back to normal is hard on everyone. But in all honesty, I missed my friends. I wasn’t going to miss an opportunity to 1.) be around them, and 2.) share and set goals with inspiring individuals.
As you walked in you saw the tables lined up in the middle of the studio with magazines baskets on each end. In front of each chair was a cork board with all the fixings for it to be mounted up onto a wall, string, studs with screws, and 3m tape. We each had a small pair of scissors with a glue stick and a flower sticker. There was also a small notebook on top of the cork board, a journal that we would use to unlock our real thoughts and dreams.
The long table was filled with piles of pictures- like these pages from a vision board book that had all sorts of images and words on them, little cups filled with stickers & scrapbooking materials, and these cards that had phrases on one side and images on the other.
With Miss Alex Meda and Christina Igaraividez leading the group, I knew that we were in very good hands. With instructions being so simple like "don’t think about what you didn’t accomplish last year", or "you don’t have to finish just gather the pictures/ materials you feel you need" also "if a picture, phrase, color catches your attention take it to trust that that individual thing is speaking to you."
As this group of women gathered their materials consisting of magazine cut outs, vision board pictures and cards (yes they make those), stickers of all sorts and pretty rose push pins. We all shouted to each other “ anyone looking for a money picture?” Or “I’m looking for a picture of friends' '. All the women would search their piles in front of them eager to help. Everyone is busy working, having treats (like pan dulce from La Monarca and donuts from our friends around the corner at Cake Girl) and furiously cutting gluing, and pinning different moments on their board.
As I walked around to each section of magazines and cards and books, I saw so many different clusters of pictures, goals, and dreams. When we all gathered back together most admitted that their board wasn’t finished, they felt it needed to be reorganized. With Alex and Christina saying that’s fine you might even find something at home to add to it.
One by one we each got up and presented and shared what our hearts really would like this coming year. I won’t share what my fellow sisters said but what I want is to go to ballet class, learn to surf better and eat better (I have a lot of dietary issues). My ultimate goal this year is to have my whole family over for dinner. Not having done an official vision board before I will say looking at it every morning and reminding myself what I know my body and heart yearn for. It makes me rethink. To not only hold myself accountable but also setting a schedule to make the time to work on each goal is very satisfying.
I don’t know how things will work out but I know that just me taking the first steps is way way more than I ever did the last few years. I hear this summer they’ll be holding another vision board workshop- if you couldn’t make it to this one, keep an eye out for the next one!