UPDATE: Postponed until September 26 due to wildfires in Oregon.
In this 6 week online workshop series, you’ll learn to unlock the healing power of your creativity.
Learn a sacred creative practice that can help you to lower stress, increase positive emotions, open your intuitive channels, and nourish your soul.
The WISE Body Art Journal
is a method I have developed and used over the past 20 years to help me to deal with life challenges including stress, anxiety, depression, illness, grief, and trauma.
This method is a blend of visual art expression, creative visualization, journal writing, gentle movement, energy healing, guided meditations and breath work.
It’s a method that you can adapt to your own individual needs, and use for many years to come.
This method may be used by anyone, regardless of artistic skill level.
Now, the time is right to share my creative healing method with you.
I give you tons of tools from my experience as an artist, creativity coach, therapeutic art teacher, mindfulness meditation teacher, reiki healer, and facilitator of sacred circles.
Amazing things are possible, when you bypass the rational left brain and tap into the wise, wild, unlimited self that lives within your creative potential. You can:
Access your inner wisdom, and receive and interpret your own divine insights and guidance.
Effortlessly enter a meditative flow state that relieves stress and improves mood and outlook.
Learn to use the power of visualization to awaken to your own healing and manifesting ability.
Become more creative, inspired and confident.
Love and accept yourself more whole-heartedly.
What’s needed now more than ever, is that we express our whole selves with love and authenticity, and allow our creative gifts to flourish.
This divine energy will ripple out and bring love and peace to the world.
I’m excited to be part of your creative healing journey!
The WISE Body Art Journal, our road map (course syllabus)
Week 1: Explore the language of color and mark-making. What is the WISE Body Art Journal method?
Learn to express your inner feelings non-verbally, and begin creating your own artistic language.
Blessing hands guided meditation. Body scan guided meditation.
Week 2: Feeling and releasing.
Feeling is healing. Explore uncomfortable or difficult feelings in the safety of your art journal. Feel so that you can release. When you let go, fresh energy can flow through you.
Body scan guided meditation. Grounding and letting go meditation.
Week 3: Symbolic shape-shifting.
Extrapolate and explore an element of your journal. Our unconscious may speak to us in shapes, symbols and metaphors. How can we play with, and relate with, the shape-shifters that emerge?
Create your own movement meditation with your shapes and symbols.
Week 4: Inner child healing.
Create, image and dialogue with your inner child self, your most pure and creative self. Re-member, re-connect, re-integrate the precious parts of yourself that may have been lost.
Loving and accepting the inner child guided meditation.
Week 5: Imagining your future self.
Visualize your desired state of well-being with the help of your wiser, elder self. Allow this wise future self to guide you.
Future self guided meditation. Grounding and golden suns guided meditation.
Week 6: Embody your desired state of being.
Create an affirmative self portrait artwork, and an embodiment practice.
Create your own heart meditation with affirmations.
In this class, you will receive:
individualized feedback of your coursework
pdf worksheets of the course material
class recordings
2 guided meditation audio recordings
You will also receive these bonuses:
30-minute 1-1 call with me to help integrate the insights you receive from the class
discount on future creativity coaching with me
Here’s what past participants have said:
“Thank you for the Emotional Healing through Art Journaling class.
It was amazing and very healing.
I got tears.
I can see everything that (my body) is doing for me to heal.
I have a way of communicating and expressing that.
I really love what I created and I really enjoyed it.
I look forward to using this while I’m healing.”
- Darlene
“These are really good exercises to do.
I’ve tried to do art and it’s always so clinical,
like ‘Am I really expressing anything?’
This is a way that I could express things.”
- Stephanie
This class is limited to 8 participants to ensure a safe, intimate group setting with individual attention.
You may use your own art supplies that you like (a list of suggested supplies will be sent out after you sign up).
This class is for adults.
This class will be held on Zoom.
Time is Pacific time.
Tuition $240.