Maude White

Engage in deep yet playful, imaginative yet practical explorations of what brings you pleasure-in all its forms-with this empowering, stunningly illustrated deck and guidebook set from cut-paper artist and creator of Resilience Alchemy Maude White.Pleasure Alchemy offers the simple yet radical idea that by exploring and expanding the ways we facilitate and participate in pleasurable experiences, we can take charge of our own desires and needs. Pleasure Alchemy provides us with a toolset of ideas for rethinking and rearranging our pre-existing notions around what brings us pleasure-in all facets of our lives. This deluxe deck and guidebook form a practical and grounding toolset that aims to bring us back into our bodies, back into an understanding of what pleasure feels like, and back into a mindset of how we can actively seek out and experience what is pleasurable for us. This inspiring, deeply usable, set is meant to be used for pleasure, enjoyment, self-reflection, self-expression, and fun.- Deluxe set. This set includes 78 beautiful cards (3 X 5 inches) in an interior travel case; a 216-page, full-colour, fully illustrated guidebook (4 ¾ X 6 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box.- Stunning cut paper artwork by celebrated artist Maude White. The entire set is gorgeously illustrated in Maude White's signature cut-paper style against a beautiful spectrum of soothing colours.- Immersive guidebook with spreads, exercises, and cards meanings. Within the guidebook, each element of the 82-card system (divided among the Pleasure Seekers, Remedies, and the Elements of Pleasure) is explored with journaling prompts, thoughtful exercise ideas, card spreads to pull, and advice on how to incorporate the system into the user's life.- Explore pleasure in all its forms. The Pleasure Alchemy system is based on the idea that to truly understand what we find pleasurable-from food to activities to romance-we must be open to curiosity, play, and self-exploration. This set provides a toolkit of ideas to engage in this journey.- Pair with Maude White's Resilience Alchemy deck for even more insight. Built to stand on its own as a system, Pleasure Alchemy can bring even more strength and insight when used in combination with the Resilience Alchemy system.A note on packaging: In order to help honour our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.

Resilience Alchemy operates under a simple principle: In order to feel healthy and fulfilled, we might sometimes wish to rearrange and rethink certain aspects of our lives. Resilience Alchemy provides us with a toolset of ideas to help us do this rearranging and rethinking. Through the arrangement and combination of the cards in this deck, the alchemy of the system occurs. Each card is specially designed and chosen to help us in unique and innovative ways.Whenever you find yourself unsure, expanding, struggling, or needing to ask tough questions, Resilience Alchemy is here to help you generate new answers and find innovative and empowering avenues forward in your life. - DELUXE SET: This set includes 83 beautiful cards (3 X 5 inches); a 224-page, fully illustrated guidebook (4 ¾ X 6 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box.- BREATHTAKING CUT PAPER ARTWORK BY MAUDE WHITE: The entire set is gorgeously illustrated in Maude White's signature cut-paper style against a beautiful spectrum of soothing colors.- IMMERSIVE WORKBOOK TO GUIDE YOUR PRACTICE: Within the workbook, each element of the 83-part system (divided among the Sisterhood, Remedies, and Gifts) is explored with journaling prompts, thoughtful exercise ideas, card spreads to pull, and space to make the workbook useful and relevant in the user's life.- UNIQUE, POWERFUL SYSTEM: The Resilience Alchemy system is based on the idea that in order to be empowered and resilient we must sometimes rearrange and rethink certain aspects of our lives. This set provides us with the toolkit of ideas to help us do this, and through the rearrangement and recombination of the cards in Resilience Alchemy, real change (or an "alchemical" reaction) can occur. A note on packaging: In order to help honor our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.

When the world is burning with anger, divisiveness, and fear, this book of inspiring quotes selected by the editors of Parallax Press is a still, small voice in the storm that will bring peace of mind to the reader. With delicate illustrations by artist Maude White, this book speaks to the vulnerability and courage of holding space for the loving, connected, and more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. This book is gift, solace, and inspiration for idealists, progressives, and anyone fighting the good fight. In the long tradition of spiritual activists from Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and Thich Nhat Hanh to new and less known voices, this book of 60 quotes draws from a range of contemplative traditions and offers wisdom and nourishment for anyone engaged in working for a more compassionate world. Quotes include those by Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Chan Khong, Joanna Macy, Sulak Sivaraksa, and others, on themes of awareness, idealism, kindness, self-compassion, truth-telling, transformation, resilience, and love.

In Brave Birds, cut-paper artist and writer Maude White presents an entirely new collection of sixty-five stunning cut-paper birds. As a source of inspiration, each bird is paired with an original message of kindness and strength associated with its particular traits to encourage bravery and perseverance. Inside, you’ll find birds for experiencing Joy, Creativity, Patience, Kindness, Resilience, Communication, Strength, Awareness, Action, and Transformation, and each composition, beautifully photographed by Laura Glazer, reflects thousands of intricate cuts, lending an astounding level of texture to these delicate and ethereal creatures. Appealing to any bird lover or collector of bird art, Brave Birds is a beautiful resource for those wishing to practice a life of kindness and empathy.

With a simple sheet of white paper and an X-acto knife, artist Maude White carves out impossibly delicate and exquisitely detailed renderings of beautiful birds. This set of boxed notecards includes 20 cards and 20 envelopes, featuring a variety of birds reproduced with bold simplicity on various colored backgrounds. The cards also feature text on the back about each bird, edited from Maude White’s upcoming book Brave Birds (Spring ’18).