THE ORIGIN STORY

I am Kirstin Mitchell - a multidisciplinary artist with thirty years of embodiment practice, currently based in Tulum, Mexico.

I have been doing bodywork since childhood — in the bathtub, in the hammock, in bodies of water, in movement, in stillness. For thirty years I made performance art, holding female shadow archetypes as a medium, using an audience, using silence, using aloneness to work through it. Performances supported by the Franklin Furnace Fund in Manhattan. Features in Art in America, Art Papers, and Flash Art. Solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. 

Alongside this I have maintained deep Buddhist and yoga practices — dancing, moving, listening to the body — my entire life. All of it was deepening the same thing.

I have entered the shadow in front of 200 people and I have entered it alone at 3am. 

Shadow Mapping™ is the current iteration of my lifetime practice. It is where the art and the body practice meet - an easy point of entry for anyone — whether you are an artist or not. This is not about making something pretty. This is about listening to your body.

I am not just teaching. I am living it.