Artistic Alchemy:
Ceremonial Creativity for Ancestral Connection
Four Week Program Meeting Tuesday October-November
Feed your dead. Be fed by them too.
Use your artistic expression to feed your relationships and daily sense of gratitude, presence, & ritual—even when creating in the most mundane ways. Let your body be a bridge between worlds, weaving the past that made you into the future you’re creating with easeful and gentle practices. Use the most ordinary of tools to design a life of ceremony, protected by and connected to what you hold as sacred and important.
A sacred life is made of simple moments.
A connected life is made of conscious choices.
This four week program utilizes ordinary & mundane resources to weave a life rooted in ritual and creativity with ease, gentleness, and softness at the center. Knowing the origins of your bloodline isn’t required, but a helpful addition.
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What is Artistic Alchemy?
This program is an act of devotion to life and an exploration of what lives at & within our fingertips. Widen your lens on how you relate to your origins & Ancestors (even if you don’t know about your bloodline), while using accessible and mundane parts of life alongside your needs (as in, basic human requirements to be well) to catalyze the life you crave deep within.
There are 8.2 billion people on this planet, but no other person lives life like you. Together with the history that made you, your body, emotions, thoughts, and decisions blend to make a human like no other.
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Use your somatic experience and any information you have about your origins to create a foundation for your daily musings and magic making.
This week will prompt further exploration of your origins, expanding your relationship to that word & idea, while simultaneously gathering your body's intelligence to guide your way forward.
Your body is a creative medium that you always have access to, even with limited capacity, even with limited resources, even with limited time.
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This week will utilize the foundation you developed in week one to create an 'origin color wheel' and explore how to weave this tool into your way of life.
Then we'll look at the ways the world around us can act as a creative medium and a resource to support your desired lifestyle.
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These essential resources required to sustain human life offer complex and playful windows into and through time, both forward and back. This week you'll learn how to use your requirements to be well as creative tools that connect you deeper to the life you most desire.
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How have the people you've come from survived through time? This week will focus on two other needs—breathing and resting—to learn from the wisdom woven in our origins as a way to understand how to care for ourselves through the anthropocene.
Life is relentless.
Use what you already have to accomplish to let the cycles of life delight instead of overwhelm you.
Program Overview
This program meets live and recordings will be available once complete.
The live session is designed for you to be well. There is no wrong way to participate and I expect that you’ll take care of yourself. Stretch, eat, cook, be on camera, be off camera—you decide.
Come with what you have and go after what you want.
In This Program You’ll:
Explore how to bring your creativity into the daily practices you already have on your to-do list.
Delve into your origins and expand how you relate to what that means.
Use your basic human needs as tools of daily creativity and ritual.
Investigate how the past can prepare us to weather the anthroprocene.
Fall Dates:
Monday 15 October
Monday 22 October
Monday 29 October
Monday 5 November
All Sessions Meet from 3 pm - 6pm PT
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Let Simple Moments
Build the Life Your Dream Of
Pay What You Can • Learn more about the ‘community care in capitalism’ model below.
Starting at $98+ • Full Price: $1,222
Community Care within Capitalism
Pay What You Can Pricing Model
Community care is at the center of my work in this world—which means we all win together. My workshops and programs are financially designed to focus on us as a community rather than as siloed individuals. The ‘pay what you can model’ is an invitation to consider how you exist within the whole, and how you can use what you have to seed acts of social equity. Here’s how it works:
Full price for this program is $1,222, however sliding scale starts at just $98.
There are guidelines below for determining what you choose to pay.
This model is built on the balance of time & money. The closer to full price you pay, the less time you spend building reciprocity, and vice versa.
To create equity when paying below full price, spend time to invite your community to the program. Consider how you and the people you know could add up to a full priced ticket across multiple people. This allows you all access the content at a price you all can afford while ensuring I too am cared for in the process.
This isn’t about posting once on social media and calling it quits. Community Care requires care from both of us.When participating in this system, the goal is to create reciprocity.
Some Things to Consider:
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Pay Full Price/Closer To It If You Are:
• white or white passing
• comfortably able to meet all of your basic needs such as food, housing, and transportation
• have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
• own you home or property -or- rent a higher end property
• fully employed or do not need to work to meet you needs
• have access to some financial savings and/or generational wealth
• have expendable income–can afford vacations, and/or to take time off from work with worry -
Calculate your discounts based on your access and social privileges.
• Race
• Gender
• Disability
• Neurodivergence
• Financial Instability
• Language
• No access to familial support
• No access to generational wealth
• You work in a highly stigmatized industry such as SW
• Trauma history
• Housing Access
• Ability to take time off without financial ramifications that would destabilize you or your family. -
You can also consider my access points.
• single mother
• chronic illness
• PTSD, & C-PTSD
• Healing from Intimate Partner Violence
• Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia
• No access to financial support outside of what I make in my business
• No generational wealth
• No family close to me as a childcare resource
• Genderqueer
• Contentious Co-parenting Dynamic
Testimonial from Kate Bowdren
Vyana guides students in a way that makes huge concepts and deep thinking manageable with accessibility for all learners in mind every step of the way.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
• Huemans feeling overwhelmed with daily life.
• Those who are ready & willing to put effort into their wellbeing.
• Creatives who are seeking ways to support & sustain their inspiration.
• Anyone feeling too stretched to add mindfulness and spiritual practices to their days.
• People looking to deepen their connection to their origins.
• Parents & caregivers who desire adding to their own resources, as a way to naturally share with children.
• Anyone craving a little more play in their day.
• Those that are independent learners and are willing to learn in a way that suits them best.
• People who desire taking a program that is both rich with content, and spacious enough to relate in real time together.
• People that are willing to fail.
• Folks that are willing to feel their emotions, to the best of their ability right now.
WHO IS THIS COURSE NOT FOR?
• Those seeking 1-1 support/coaching. For that, see my 1-1 sessions.
• Those that prefer to be ‘right’ and ‘good’ (external judgement) rather than cultivating was feels ‘right’ and ‘good’ to them (internal judgement).
• People who want a facilitator to tell them exactly what to do and who to be.
• Anybody that is currently in crisis, as I am not a therapist or mental health provider.
• People who don’t want to take responsibility for their own learning.
• Anybody that requires individualized feedback before taking action.
• Anyone not feeling ready to engage with their healing right now.
• Learners seeking a traditionally structured educational container (sit still, be quiet, etc.)