Flora Bowley believes creative expression, intuitive wisdom, and personal freedom are intricately connected, and she’s passionate about rekindling the flames of inspiration that reunite us with a deep sense of human aliveness.

Through a unique blend of simple, hands-on, intuitive art practices, authentic movement, free form writing, and visualizations, The Art of Aliveness offers a dynamic and playful space to nurture and re-discover the parts of ourselves that truly make us feel most alive.

Known worldwide for her unique ability to instill creative courage, self-acceptance and wild freedom, Flora’s gentle and encouraging approach to the creative process is perfect for anyone willing to show up with an open and curious heart. 

Please bring a journal and a pen or marker. Your other favorite art supplies are welcome, but not required. 

No art, movement, or writing experience is necessary. .

For over ten years, Paul Boynton, has been sharing the Begin with Yes principles based on his bestselling book with an audience that has grown to over 2 million. During this conversational workshop, he will lead you through a set of simple practices and questions designed to help you cut through stuckness, depression, and overwhelm – and take the first small steps forward that can change your life.

In this engaging conversation, counselor and guide, Paul Boynton will help you map out a surprisingly easy, logical, and liberating route to a better life. 

* BONUS: Because of your complimentary 90-Day membership access, take $44 off of the Begin With Yes Course

Come into an intensive, guided encounter with your own creativity—including your private villains, champions, wishes, fears, dreams, hopes, and triumphs.

The Artist's Way has changed millions of lives around the world with its simple approach to creative recovery.

Join Julia Cameron for a live talk on the core teachings from her groundbreaking creativity course, The Artist’s Way.

During this hands-on workshop you will learn...

• Morning Pages, a tool that will give us a truer connection to ourselves and our deepest thoughts
• Artist Dates, the tool that will teach us how to heal our creative soul and find ways to nurture the soul’s needs on a regular basis
• Act of Walking, a very powerful tool used to help us resolve problems that come up during the creative process.

Whether you're a veteran of "morning pages" and The Artist's Way, or you've never started a creative practice and know that it's time to learn, this live online workshop with Julia Cameron can give you the gentle nudge you need.

Learn to develop a healing creative practice that can restore your peace, confidence, and joy–for the rest of your life!

Materials needed: journal or notebook, and your favorite pen or pencil.

Do you struggle with drawing and maintaining boundaries when dealing with the people in your life? Are you highly sensitive and attuned to others’ feelings and energy, to the point where you can’t tell where their energy ends and yours begins?

If so, you’re probably an empath—and in need of some guidance. Fortunately, there are practical ways to stay balanced and keep your energy safe and secure.

If you’re empathic or highly sensitive, it’s almost second nature to put others' needs before yourself or take on the problems of the world. But what about your needs and happiness?

Bestselling author and teacher, Lisa Campion will focus on basic energy management skills to keep your energy strong and robust during this eye-opening and highly practical session!

Burnout, toxic levels of stress and anxiety, and what is sometimes called “adrenal fatigue” have left many people feeling depleted and afraid that they can never get their energy back.

Integral Asian medicine practitioner, April Crowell, will help you understand the symptoms of what is known in the Chinese medicine tradition as “yang collapse” – and instruct you with simple principles and practices to bring your system back into balance.

Prepare to learn about your essential energy stores, how they are depleted, and how you can restore yourself to better health.

After a brief introduction to Chinese medicine terms, we will cover:

• The symptomatology of Qi and Yang deficiency
• The causes of Qi and Yang deficiency and which organ patterns are most vulnerable
• How you can identify your patterns of depletion
• Steps that you can take to rebuild and stabilize your Qi and Yang including – foods, safe herbs, lifestyle habits, a bit of Qigong, and acupressure points.

Your inner self holds the keys to healing, creativity, and power for the life you deserve. So many people struggle to develop a meditation practice and make it much harder than it should be.

World-renowned meditation instructor and founder of Meditation School, David Gandelman will lead experiences that will guide you into the ground of your being—where all of the answers, energy, and guidance you need already exist and are waiting for you now.

Highly recommended before this class: download the free Insight Timer app and follow David Gandelman -- https://insighttimer.com/groundedmind

Join us this Valentine’s Day for a heartful of poetry. Ignite your love and passion by creating a poem map that guides you home to your heart. Let’s fall in love with our ourselves, together. Join a community of new and seasoned writers who encourage each other to dig deep and shine. Share a poem at the hearth of our circle where we understand that poetry is soul food. No experience needed, just a willingness to dig in and discover your treasure. Bring your journal & pen. Come dressed for a Valentine’s date with yourself and us! Perhaps a purple velvet suit, lingerie, your favorite pjs, or a sequin hat. Be comfy. We’ll laugh and cry together as we write ourselves back into love.

• Ignite Your Passion
• Free Your Creativity
• Express Your Truth
• Tap Your Wild Wisdom
• Fall In Love with Yourself & Life

“Part prayer, part community, part self-discovery. Meredith’s prompts are rich, her capacity to hold space and honor each unique soul and journey is extraordinary. She sheds light, humor, fierceness, and wisdom through a computer screen (which is no small feat). I recommend this deep dive into self.” –Ellis McNichol, poet & nature conservationist

Please bring a couple pages of text from a book, magazine, catalogue, or any printed material, and a pencil or pen, and a dark marker or crayon. Let's have fun!

Use the power of your voice to create a silly cypher of voicestra magic! Learn vocal warm-ups and fun ways to expand your voice with confidence and ease. Learn to beatbox, create sounds and unleash your inner vocal freak. All in a supportive and deeply encouraging container. This workshop is ALL about loosening up and letting your wild, wacky, and weird flag fly high!

Expect to …

• move your body
• explore your breath and voice
• connect with yourself and others through song
• guided musical visualization that will help you sink into the "theta brainwaves" and experience deep relaxation, anxiety relief, and increased creativity

All levels! Guaranteed to expand your confidence and your consciousness!

During this session based on his breakthrough book, Eric Maisel, PhD, will guide you through techniques that can change not only what you think―but how you think.

That room that is your mind is a space that you can decorate, air out, furnish, and turn into a truly congenial place. By practicing easy-to-understand visualization exercises, you can redesign your mind and change not only what you think but how you think. Each of these techniques addresses major challenges like depression, anxiety, addiction, procrastination, and loneliness and promote cognitive growth, trauma healing, and fundamental change.

• Increase your creativity
• Reduce your anxiety
• Rid yourself of chronic depression
• Recover from addiction
• Heal from past trauma
• Achieve emotional wellbeing
• Live your life purposes

Do you ever struggle to connect deeply with and maintain the vital energy of joy in your life? In this vibration-elevating workshop, you’ll go on a soul-spelunking expedition and come out with an arsenal of personalized, effective tools for recalibrating your “Joy Setpoint” and upgrading every aspect of your life.

Joy is your inherent nature – the most real and eternal part of you – yet most of us have significant barriers to that being our day-to-day experience of ourselves. Through journaling exercises, “feelingizations,” and interactive activities, you’ll identify and dismantle these barriers. The surprising contents of your “Filter” – the unique lens through which you experience the world – will be revealed to you, and you’ll be given the tools to begin working with your Filter to redesign it, thereby upgrading your ability to create and navigate your life from a place of peace, self-compassion, and sustainable joy.

Lisa will guide you in creating a physical memento of your workshop experience – a visual aid to keep you on track with your new commitment to yourself.

If you’d like to create this memento, please come prepared with a piece of cardstock, markers or other writing/drawing utensils in your favorite colors, and a small frame if you’d like to make it extra special.

In any case, please bring a journal and something to write with.

Creativity cannot flourish when the alarm bells of fear and anxiety ring loudly. Being in a constant anxious state leaves little room for creativity to flow or for inspiration to strike. In this presentation, Barry McDonagh will be sharing how overcoming anxiety using his proprietary process called DARE can be of immense benefit for any creative person. Once the fog of anxiety lifts your natural creativity is free to flow spontaneously again.

Barry has developed the DARE toolkit based on hard science and years of experience to help you finally break from anxiety. You will learn how to practice his simple, proven methods to experience life and yourself with much more peace and confidence.

Highly recommended before this class: download the free DARE app and order your copy of the DARE book. Information here -- https://www.dareresponse.com/

Many people struggle to make journaling a part of their lives because they feel that what they write often comes out as boring, whiny, or negative.

While there’s so much healing value in writing out the hard things in life, did you know that your journal can become a powerful ally in creating the life you desire (and deserve)?

Perhaps you are feeling called to new possibilities in your life? Or maybe you long to make some life changes but you are not sure what you want them to be? Discover how journaling can be a powerful tool for exploring your desires, hopes and dreams. Take some time and space to listen to your own inner wisdom.

Lynda Monk will lead you in an inspiring, hands-on session of learning to write out your deepest desires and experiencing the mysterious process of inner guidance that happens when you engage in “journaling the possible.”

Bring your notebook and favorite writing materials.

Lynda will send you home with 44 Journal Prompts to Explore Greater Possibilities in Your Life – you can gain immediate access to this free journaling gift.

In the opening workshop, Jacob Nordby will guide you through a framework of understanding the forces that all humans face in life to some degree – the factors that lead to a loss of our sense of self, personal power to create the lives we long for, and the joy we need to sustain us.

In this interactive session, you will learn how to identify and come into a new relationship with what he calls “the three enemies of creativity”:

• Socialization
• Rejection
• Traumatic experiences

Illustrated with up-to-date research, you will be given a map to your nervous system, limiting core beliefs, and how to access more of your mind to become the creator you are meant to be.

You will use a personal assessment process to identify areas of your life that you want to heal and restore – which will help you get the most out of all the other workshops in this virtual retreat!

Bring your favorite note-taking materials. Assessment will be provided ahead of time.

* BONUS: Because of your complimentary 90-Day membership access, take $44 off of the Creative Cure Course!

Join Lauren Sapala for this 90-minute workshop that combines live teaching with a group silent writing session. We’ll learn how to heal the “not good enough” wound and embrace our own gorgeous (and unpredictable) imaginations to activate a powerful new writing practice filled with joy and wonder.

Lauren will open with a short teaching segment and guided meditation, and then lead you in a prompted “silent writing” session during which you will experience yourself in the actual process of being a writer – no matter what blocks or lack of skill you might have struggled with before.

Bring your notebook or other favorite writing materials (a laptop is permitted)

This hands-on workshop will lead you through the process of creating a physical vision for your future. If you've ever enjoyed making a vision board -- or struggled with the process because it was hard to connect deeply with your desires in a way that felt realistic -- this session will help you do something quite different! Victoria will guide you to tune into your intuition and listen to your deepest desires before crafting a visual board that reflects the life you deserve to create!

You will create your own unique multi-media art board that you will learn how to use in a meditative visualization process that can help you bring your dreams into physical reality. Fun, light-hearted, and revealing -- come prepared to play and connect with your imagination.

Please bring the following materials:
- large poster board
- your favorite magazines, catalogues - scissors
- paste or glue
- colored pencils or markers (glittery markers for added fun)
- (optional) paints, brushes, feathers, colored papers -- use your imagination!

Come experience a session of meditative energy movement, healing, and meditation with Paul David Shea. He will share simple practices of grounding, clearing, and reviving your energy fields and lead a deeply relaxing guided meditation. You will leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more centered in your own creative energy.

There is no relationship more important than the one we have with ourselves. Still, most of us don't give enough energy to self-love. We don't treat ourselves like our own best friends. We don't recognize how vital it is to fill our own cups first, so that we have more to offer others, and to offer our world. Let’s change that. In this workshop, we are going to explore the myriad opportunities we must root ourselves in self-love, as well as look at the habits we’ve developed that take us away from loving ourselves. As we focus on our thoughts, words, and actions, we’ll leave with many ideas and tools to turn us into our own biggest cheerleaders.

Please bring a journal or notebook, and a willingness to be honest (and gentle) with yourself.

This gentle, intentional yoga practice is designed to nourish your mind, body, and nervous system. You will be guided through several restorative postures using props (think pillow yoga) and use gentle breathwork to arrive with presence, in your own inner sanctuary. In this stillness, inner wisdom, inspiration, peace and often bliss naturally bubble up to the surface of your awareness. This is a great practice to get you into the creative flow state!

We will close the class using essential oil to create a restorative take-home practice to use in your daily life.

Things to gather for class:

• Yoga Mat
• Eye Pillow (or small towel)
• Bolsters/Pillows - couch pillows work well
• Several foldable blankets
• Essential Oil (Any type, or other scented item - hand cream/cinnamon/candle)

In this closing keynote workshop, leadership and alignment teacher, Didier Sylvain will guide you in an exploration of your values, desires, and inner direction as a path forward in creating the life you were meant to live.

• Identify the resources you need for renewing yourself
• Clarify hopes and dreams
• Release old beliefs and behaviors
• Chart new strategies for curating your future

Join us to internalize a powerful new tool and framework for refreshing our lives and seeding possibilities for the year to come.

Please bring a notebook, pen – along with your open heart and imagination.