{"id":6983,"date":"2018-03-07T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:10:39","slug":"ikebana-workshop-at-kyoto-fleurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/ikebana-workshop-at-kyoto-fleurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikebana Workshop at Kyoto Fleurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending an ikebana workshop at Kyoto Fleurs<\/a>, a charming local florist here in Montreal. I know that when I started this journey<\/a> I said I would focus on self-driven learning and more casual forms because I didn’t have the resources to commit to proper lessons, but the great thing about these workshops is that they’re held once a month and you don’t need to attend regularly, you can just come to one whenever you’re free and have some money to spare. This setup is much more accessible to me than a more rigid once-a-week type schedule.<\/p>\n

The workshop was taught by Satoko Ueno, who has twenty years of experience and teaches the Shogetsu school style. I’ve typically been learning free-form and Ikenobo-style through books and videos, and it was great to get help with a more strict and traditional form from another school. The workshop was broken up into two parts, the first part was a very rigid traditional arrangement using tulips, and the second part was a free-form arrangement of willow branches, pittosporum, and vibrant anemones.<\/p>\n\n\t\t