Artist and visionary guide Flora Bowley believes creative expression, intuitive wisdom, and personal freedom are intricately connected and offer a soulful way back to our human aliveness.

If you're seeking to reignite your creative spark and nurture the parts of yourself that make you feel the most alive, this retreat offers a safe and encouraging space to connect to a deep well of creative practices, a loving community, and the remembrance that you were born to create.

Through a soulful blend of hands-on intuitive art practices, gentle movement, free-form writing, breathwork, visualization, and community connection, you learn to:

• Find your creative courage
• Let go of perfectionism
• Drop into the present moment
• Nurture self-acceptance

Flora's gentle approach to the creative process is perfect for anyone willing to show up with an open and curious heart. No previous experience necessary.

Enrollment is limited for this program; register early.

Faculty recommends you read the following book in preparation for the course:

• The Art of Aliveness: A Creative Return to What Matters Most by Flora Bowley

Please bring the following:

• A basic set of acrylic paints, including yellow, red, blue, black, titanium white, and a metallic like gold or bronze, plus a few other colors you feel drawn to work with. Ensure each tube of paint contains a minimum of 2 ounces (60 mL). Recommended brands are Golden, Holbein, Nova, and Winsor & Newton, but any brands will work.
• A variety of paintbrushes. Your brushes can be inexpensive. Just make sure you have a variety of shapes and sizes. Minimum of six.
• A pair of scissors
• Ephemera to incorporate into your art as mixed-media paper. Examples include old letters, pages from books, wrapping paper, postcards, calendar pages, maps, sheet music, etc. Make sure your papers are not glossy. Five pages minimum, but more are welcome.
• An unlined journal for writing and drawing
• Any other art materials you wish to work with
• Paint clothes or an apron
• An open heart and mind

Note: Flora will provide large sheets of watercolor paper, oil pastels, pens, pencils, specialty paints and brushes, tape, spray bottles, acrylic gel medium, and paint palettes.