Soil and Skills:
Make Earth Paints and Skillful Relationships
20 May - 12 August / 9 Live Sessions
Your life is a work of art—every conversation, every relationship, every project. This summer, use your creativity to deepen intimacy with yourself, the ones you love, your art practice, and the Earth.
Learn to make earth pigment watercolor and gouache paint alongside gathering relational & leadership skills.
Color teaches us how to relate to and remain with ourselves when facing difference. Conscious foraging reveals shadows like grief and guilt hiding inside. Making paint shines a light on the power of transforming things that seem immovable. Working with the Earth reminds us of our place in time, space, & lineage.
Refine your relational skills with joy & creativity.
Program Overview
This program meets live on select Mondays from 3pm PT / 6pm ET. - 6 pm PT / 9pm ET. Recordings will be available.
You’ll also receive lifetime access to the class space in Kajabi, and any updates that happen in the future.
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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.
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It's in our nature as Huemans 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 the study how you feel transforming something that seems immovable.
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Saturate yourself in your learnings as you saturate your pigments in medium. Learn to integrate your self discoveries as you see the paint making process through to completion.
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Learn safe studio practices as you weave the understanding you've cultivated all program long into a forward focused vision to guide your next steps.
May
Monday 20 May 3-6pm PT /
6-9pm ET // Opening Session
27 May No Class // Forage & Collect Supplies
June
3 June No Class // Forage & Collect Supplies
10 June No Class // Forage & Collect Supplies
17 June No Class // Forage & Collect Supplies
Monday 24 June 3-6pm PT /
6-9pm ET
July
Every Monday
1 July 2024 3-6pm PT / 6-9pm ET
8 July 2024 3-6pm PT / 6-9pm ET
15 July 2024 3-6pm PT / 6-9pm ET
22 July 2024 3-6pm PT / 6-9pm ET
29 July 2024 3-6pm PT / 6-9pm ET
August
Monday 5 August 2024 3-6pm PT / 6-9pm ET
Monday 12 August 2024 3-6pm PT / 6-9pm ET // Closing Session
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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. This summer I’m experimenting with one way I can weave that into my business with the Soil & Skills program. If it goes well, I’ll create more opportunities like this.
Full price for this program is $2,000, however sliding scale within this system starts at $85. This is possible because reciprocity is woven into the system. Community Care means all of us work together so all of us can win.
The reciprocity for offering this low rate is to gather a group of your friends/community and have them all register as well, then host a paint making party (well, the party is optional—but fun!) This allows you all access the content at a price you can afford while ensuring I too am cared for in the process. Matriarchal business isn’t martyrdom!
Here’s How It Works:
ONE | Register for the program paying what you can.
TWO | Invite your friends (or your wider community) to take the class with you. This isn’t about posting once on social media and calling it quits. Community Care requires care from both of us. The goal should be to create reciprocal energy. Encourage your friends to register and take the program with you so your community meet up can financially fulfill what would have been a full priced ticket.
BONUS You can host a paint making club! You can find a downloadable, printable flyer and Instagram stories content below. Consider asking your local library or community center to host, or gather at a local park.
THREE | Enjoy your summer with your friends learning new skills, connecting with the Land, and exploring your creativity. Let’s work together to test and build new systems of support within the societal structures that generally harm us.
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
Pay in Full $85+
Full Price: $2,000
2 Payments $455+
Full Price: $1,020 / payment
3 Payments $366+
Full Price: $686 / payment
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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.
In this program, you will:
• clarify your ethics, values, commitments, and vision
• learn relational skills to support your relationship to yourself, to others, and your self expression
• learn relation forward pigment foraging
• learn to process foraged pigment
• receive recipes for watercolor medium
• learn to make watercolors and gouache paint
• discuss safe studio practices and systems
• explore ways to sustain your creativity—especially if you’re a professional creative.
• learn somatic practices to bring greater awareness to your body as a relational skill
• develop practices for reprogramming your subconscious mind
• explore the relational struggles you cyclically face
• discuss safe studio practices and systems
• explore ways to stabilize during seasons of change and grief
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
• Those who identify as a “self-starter.”
• Creatives who are seeking ways to consistently support and sustain their inspiration—especially those who rely on their creativity professionally.
• Entrepreneurs looking to create greater stability and skill in their relationships at work
• Parents who desire digging deeper into their relational patterning
• Anyone who wants to share earth based creativity practices with children.
• Any person interested in learning to make paint. We’re all artists!
• People that want to learn about foraging & paint making from a relational perspective.
• 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 into their emotions.
WHO IS THIS COURSE NOT FOR?
• Those seeking 1-1 support/coaching.
• Anybody that is seeking a scientific approach to foraging & paint making. This program focuses on a relational lens.
• People who don’t want to take responsibility for their own learning.
• Anybody that requires individualized feedback before taking action.
• 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 teacher to tell them exactly what to do and who to be.
Your life is a work of art.
Create the life you crave.
