Create Your 2024 Intuitive Vision Board

Happy New Year! May 2024 be your best year yet, for reasons yet to unveil themselves and some you may already have an inkling about.

It’s that time of year again! It’s Vision Board time! Of all the kinds that exist out there, my favourite is the intuitive vision board.

Every year for the past 18 years, I’ve created an intuitive vision board

• to add some sacred playtime to my New Year rituals
• to help me uncover Spirit Calls
• to shed light on potential choices and perspectives
• to help me make decisions year-round based on Guidance
• to give me courage to follow through on that Guidance
• to keep me inspired to live my Best Life
• to act as a daily mirror & reminder of what’s in my Highest Good for this year

I trust intuitive vision boards because they’ve been such an important support on my journey. Plus, they’re a fun & easy way to connect to your intuition. 

So that’s my New Year’s offering to you –  this 33-minute play-along video .

Get your supplies ready because you’ll be following the steps along with me for the first few.

Then, I explain the rest of the process for you to continue at your own pace. During vision board parties, it takes some 1 hour, some 3 and some 5.

So take your time. This is not a task to be accomplished but a process of communication with your Team of Divine Helpers to be relished.

Take advantage of this intuitive hearing aid to dive deep into what your heart & soul are calling for.

And know that the interpretations of your intuitive choices of words & images will evolve as your life does throughout the year.

Looking at your board often will inspire you to take the next best steps. It’ll encourage you to aim in the direction your heart & soul want you to.

Are you ready to play?

Here’s what you’ll need:

• a poster board (available at dollar stores)
• a marker or pen
• a glue stick (easiest to work with but other forms of glue work too_
• scissors
• a pile of magazines (at least 20 of a variety – the more inspirational the better)
• instrumental music playlist for your gluing / Listening time (I recommend gentle music without lyrics for this part)
• a journal & pen
• stickers & paint / markers if you choose to continue decorating it once it’s done

If you want to see more examples, you can also visit my previous Guide to Intuitive Vision Boards – 7 Easy Steps.

My 2024 vision board has already had an impact on my life, and it’s only been in existence a few days.

It’s provided encouragement and guidance on how to prepare for my 2-month karma yoga (volunteering) at the Ananda ashram in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains in California this March & April.

I received an intuitive message on November 12th, my birthday, to spend 2 months there.

I thought I might go some day, but didn’t think it would be so soon after my summer in Europe. It didn’t seem … financially reasonable.

But it’s meant to be. It’s booked!

Instead of going as a guest, however, I’m joining the intentional community of karma yogis – volunteers serving the guests.

The Ananda ashrams were built by Swami Kriyananda, one of Paramhansa Yogananda’s direct disciples. You may have heard of the book “Autobiography of a Yogi” – one of the best selling spiritual books on the planet. I studied it in my Masters of Education program back in 2003. These ashrams are communities living Yogananda’s teachings.

I was at the Ananda ashram near Assisi, Italy for 2 months this summer while studying in the Transformative Art Certification program.

In Italy, I was a guest. I had my own room with a private bathroom. I was thankful for that every day! Apart from my art classes, my schedule was my own – free to come and go in programs, ceremonies, meals, etc.

This coming Spring at the Expanding Light Retreat inside Ananda Village, my situation will be very different and outside my comfort zone for sure!

Here, I’ll be sharing a room-  a bunkbed – with another volunteer. And the bathrooms are 40 feet outside our building. Knowing that last year in March they were buried in snow makes my mid-night pee … daunting.

Sure, I’ll be attending meditation, yoga, and Yogananda philosophy classes. That’s why I wanted to go in the first place- why I think I’m being guided there.

But I’ll also be working … or rather, serving God through serving the guests and the community. I imagine I’ll be doing the kinds of things I don’t think I’m great at – washing toilets, making beds, gardening, cooking & washing dishes, and whatever else I’m asked to do.

This, I believe on a deeper level,  is why I’m really being “sent” there – to open up to an even greater degree to love in action. To community. To a different kind of service than I do from my happy hermit studio and from behind this computer.

Can I handle 2 months of crowds?

The Ananda community is situated on 900 acres of meadows and forests amidst the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California. That sounds idyllic!

But thousands of people come through in April to visit the famous tulip gardens at the Crystal Hermitage, so I’m not sure how much time I’ll get for solitude.

I confess, I also worry I won’t be strong enough or have enough energy to keep up with the group. 

Can I live in constant community, in a shared room, and serve long hours around people on top of the spiritual practices, etc?

If Guidance is sending me, I trust I’m ready. It’s time I let go of  limiting beliefs and get over my fears about …. a lot! Yay!

So how is my Intuitive Vision Board helping me?

• it’s shown me that I need to expand my restorative yoga practice into more strength-building practices in the next 2 months
• it’s highlighted that “energy” is my theme for the year – and that’s a big part of Ananda teachings – so it’s very confirming
• it’s encouraged me to relax my fears and shown me that the result – peace of mind, calm energy, connection, planting seeds in my inner paradise, etc. – are worthwhile goals within my reach.
• it’s assured me that I will come out of this year more inspired and inspirational, of better service to my community
• it’s given me a preview that through light-hearted fun, I will set myself free of some longstanding fears, some yet to be identified.
• It’s pointed out that the learning I’m about to undertake is not only for a healthy body & mind, but for connections rooted in vitality – the right kind of connections on both the horizontal (human community) and vertical (with God & my Team of Divine Helpers) planes.
• it’s explained that now is the time for me to gather in person within a mindful movement.
• it’s promised that it will help me age more actively, and stronger for a better future while tasting the best of Spring on many levels.

And that’s just after a few days.

So you see how it can work.

I’m motivated and inspired looking at it. It will inform my choices every day until I leave and beyond (as I’ll carry a photo of it during my travels).

So if you want to know what your Team of Divine Helpers, your Higher Self, your heart wants you to know and aim for in 2024, have fun creating your intuitive vision board using the video above.

And if you benefitted from this offering, and feel moved to encourage me in my journey,  I welcome donations by clicking here.

I’m currently working on making sure my blog and newsletter continue while I’m traveling.

Love, peace, joy, health, wealth, happiness and freedom in 2024!

Namaste,

Dominique