Heron Dance Books & Art Journals
PDFs of all of the books described below are included in Heron Dance Membership
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The Creativity Journal: Tools & Techniques
An in-depth exploration of journaling tools and techniques useful in the creation of unique art.
To be published in early 2025.
A PDF of this book will be included in Membership for all who support Heron Dance. Print copies, wire-o, lay flat binding will also be available.
There are still a few copies of the first edition of Nurturing the Song Within available. This is a premium art book with a Smyth-sewn lay flat binding printed by on high. quality art paper. It explores the inner work underlying creative work.
Each day two-page spread includes a painting and journal notes on living a creative, meaningful life.
Hardcover first edition with dust jacket. $95 including shipping and taxes. Order here.
PDF $9.99 including tax. Order here.
More information here.
If you support Heron Dance with a recurring monthly contribution of $5 or more, and would like a complimentary copy of this PDF, please write Rod and he’ll send one to you. His email address: rod@herondance.org.
Meditations on Gratitude, Beauty and Mystery ($49)
Gratitude as a philosophy of life and spiritual practice.
Our lives are a brief spark between two eternities. We are surrounded by natural beauty. The nature of the gift we've been given -- life -- is elusive and mysterious. This book celebrates that gift from a wide variety of perspectives. What we express gratitude for gains power in our lives.
The work in this book evolved out of the popular Substack, A Pause for Beauty as well as The Heron Dance Book of Love and Gratitude, the book published twenty years ago that remains the most popular book Heron Dance has ever published.
This new edition is 11 x 8.5 inches, oblong, with a lay flat double wire-o binding.
156 pages.
Softcover (lay flat, wire-o binding) 11 x 8.5 inches horizontal.
Order here. $49.
Order the PDF ($9.99) for immediate download here.
The Pausing For Beauty Poetry Diary
This beautiful undated diary contains dozens of poems selected to inspire thought about the nature and meaning of life and our connection to the natural world. The poems are accompanied by dozens of Roderick MacIver watercolors, some in full color, some watercolor sketches and delicate washes.
The Poetry Diary contains plenty of room for your journal notes and own poetry.
114 pages in total.
$44 print version. Order here.
$9.99 PDF. Order here.
The two book set, Nurturing The Song Within, including both the hardcover Art Journal and the wire-o bound Planner, explore the inner work out of which creative work and a unique human life evolve. Both contain key insights from hundreds of interviews Heron Dance founder Roderick MacIver has conducted over the last thirty years. This two-book set is designed to be use together, to complement each other, but can be used independently.
Both contain the same images, although the images in the Art Journal often stretch across both sides of two-page spreads. The Art Journal contains longer interview excerpts, reflections and book excepts. The Planner condenses the excerpts and reflections into a single thought in order to have room for your journal notes and appointments. To see sample spreads, visit here.
In addition to the two books, the set also contains The Heron Dance 2024 Digital Planner And Journal which you can download and use on your desktop or iPad, or print. More on the Digital Planner here.
To order, visit here. $134
There are also PDF version of both. $9.99 each. Art journal here. Diary Planner here.
There are now a couple of payment options including four equal monthly installments. Select Afterpay on checkout.
More information here.
Day planner (print version): 190 pages, full-color diary and planner: Wire-O lay flat binding
Room for appointments and goals
A key inspirational quote and/or journaling prompt from the full color journal
This Planner is dated April 1 to June 30 but is accompanied by The Heron Dance 2024 Digital Planner and journal covering the entire year 2024. Visit here to learn more about the Digital Planner.
$49 including tax and shipping. Order here.
PDF ($9.99). Order here.
This Planner is dated April 1 to June 30 but if you don’t mind ignoring the date in the top right corner, can be used any time of year. It is accompanied by The Heron Dance 2024 Digital Planner and Journal covering the entire year 2024. Visit here to learn more about the Digital Planner.