Enjoy a private immersive exploration into your creativity.
Step into a personal, hands-on journey where creativity, relational skills, and trauma integration tools merge with Earth based practices to bring you greater joy in daily life.
Find the right experience for you below.
Bond with Your Family • Build with Your Team • Celebrate with the People You Love •
Bond with Your Family • Build with Your Team • Celebrate with the People You Love •
Earth Pigment Foraging
& Paint Making
Widen your gaze to see the art materials all around you, and learn how to transform what you walk over everyday into cherished works of art.
Local experiences available in Ojai, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and surrounding areas.
Learn to turn soil into paint while expanding your relational skills.
Ages 6+
What Does a Foraging & Paint Making Day Include?
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• Congruence & Conscious Foraging •
See what happens when you compassionately and respectfully learn to harvest pigment from the land around you while standing deeply in your present moment experience. Learn the skill of congruence (your present actions aligned with how you perceive yourself) while relating to the Earth in a way that supports you in turning towards shadow emotions like greed, guilt, shame, and grief.This part of the process can be done in nature for a more hands-on experience, or entirely indoors with a lecture, workbook, and pigment samples.
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• Processing Pigment & Passion
It's in our nature as humans to curiously explore and experiment. What happens when that instinct turns towards deconstructing your patterns and parts of your life? Use the process of refining pigment to delve into how you feel transforming something that seems immovable.
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• Saturate the State-Change•
Saturate yourself in your learnings as you saturate your pigments in medium. Learn tools to self-regulate and integrate your self discoveries as you see the paint making process through to completion. -
• Expand & Express •
Synthesize your learnings & exploration into a visual artwork. In this section of the day, you’ll learn ways to develop your unique visual voice and strengthen your relationship with your sense of self-worth & trust.
Where are experiences hosted?
There are a few options for location hosting:
Hosting on Your Property
This is a way to deepen your relationship with the land you live on. You don’t require a huge property to find pigment. You’d be surprised what you can find on a small bit of land.Hosting at The River
If you have no space to forage on your property, we can gather at the river in Ojai, California. After foraging, we can either return to your space for the remainder of the activity, stay at the river, or work from a rented space.Hosting Inside—home or business
It’s possible to move the foraging aspect of these experiences entirely indoors. Participants will receive a workbook on foraging, a talk on how-to, and pigment samples to test & play with. Then we’ll create paint from pigment samples I’ve previously collected for the group.
If minors are attending, at least one accompanying adult must be present at all times.
Gift an Experience
Paint Making Immersions make a great gift for all types of occasions.
You’ll receive a luxurious gift certificate printed on handmade paper from my studio.
Give your gifts for:
• The Holidays
• Birthdays
• Bachelorette/Bachelor Celebrations
• Mother’s or Father’s Day
• Valentine’s Day–with friends or lovers
• Engagement Parties
• Retirement Celebration
• Anniversaries
• Graduations
• Date Nights
• and more
Group Sizes
These immersive experiences are designed to be high-touch. My recommendation is a group size around 6 people, however if you have a larger family or gathering you’d like to host, we can discuss how to best accommodate your group size to create the day you envision.
Lunch by
Pixie Kitchen
Local, organic lunch is provided by Pixie Kitchen Ojai. Choose from packed lunches or sit down meals*. Dietary restrictions can be accommodated.
*location dependent
Guest Teaching
at Retreats
Hosting an event that you’d like to bring one of these experiences to? Reach out and let’s discuss! Add emotional depth, relational skill, and creative expression to any gathering with an Artistic Alchemy experience.
Business & School Gatherings
You can also book an experience for larger groups including.
• Corporate or Small Business Team Building
• School Education Experiences
• Homeschool Co-Ops
• Creative Leadership Training
• Client Appreciation
• Employee Recognition
• and more
Bespoke Gatherings
Bespoke Immersions are entirely crafted around your unique desires for growth and transformation. With practices ranging from creative expression to energy work, each experience is designed to offer you a tailored journey of healing, creativity, and self-discovery.
Whether you’re drawn to bringing more play & joy to your days, ancestral connection, energetic grounding, or personal storytelling, this immersion becomes a customized sanctuary for exploring what feels most resonant and meaningful to you
What Can This Day Include?
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Fiber Art including weaving, natural dye, eco printing, leather painting, and clothing fabrication.
Painting focusing on watercolor and ink.
Basketry & Plant Cordage using any viable plant material we can gather
Sculpture & Bas Relief
Block Printing
Paper Making
Ritual Adornments including handsewn clothing and embroidery
Writing
Design & Illustration
Color Theory for any creative purpose, or as a relational skill to relate to difference.
and of course,pigment foraging and processing
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I’ve studied
a trauma integration model with Dr. James Gordon at The Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Transformative Justice
5 year PCA (Person Centered Approach) relational & leadership skills.
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With 20 years of meditation and yoga, 10 years of teaching energy medicine, years of private practice as a massage therapist, and decades long dedication to Ancestral healing, your opportunity to add spiritual ritual to your day is deep and vast.