The Somatic Painting Residency
Grounding, Mapping, & Integrating the Shadow
An 8 Session Somatic Painting Practice
This is a transformative painting practice refined for dropping into the body, creating a deeper intuitive relationship with your art practice, and learning techniques for healing the nervous system. Through our time together, we are excavating a deeper channel through the body as we go from dark to light, bottom to top, exercising wholeness across three distinct phases of your creative journey.
Phase I: The Shadow
We look at the heavy energy stored in the body that arises as shame, fear, or the persistent inner critic. We bring that to the surface, express, and ground it using the color black as a primary tool for Shadow Mapping, all while building a visual diary of work on paper to deepen our technical painting practice. I will teach you a daily technique for holding space for these difficult emotions, helping you somatically heal and soothe your nervous system without continuing to reject the shadow self. We ground, become friends with it, and learn to integrate it back into the whole through Somatic Mark-Making.
Phase II: The Golden Shadow
We invite the Inner Child into the process to look at the brilliant parts of ourselves that were hidden—the too much, the most powerful, and the most talented parts. We use Transformative Painting to explore these vulnerable and playful parts of our inner child, turning them into a tangible practice. I will teach you a portrait formula so that any person can paint successfully, regardless of experience. We use brushstroke, color, joy, humor, and play to repaint the narrative, rewiring the nervous system and integrating this expanding self back into the body.
Phase III: Creative Integration
We close by looking at the artwork that we’ve made and the space between where you started and where you landed. We identify what remains, what was reclaimed, and look towards continuing wholeness in your art practice.
Tuition: $440
The Residency Experience
This is a shared journey of intentional art practice. Across our 8 sessions we go deep — through private one-on-one video meetings, I guide you into your creative process at whatever pace your body needs.
You will build a physical archive of your transformation — daily mapping pages and a finished portrait of your Inner Child as your most celebrated self. And you will leave with a repeatable framework of Somatic Mark-Making to carry into your practice long after we’re done.
Scholarships available — reach out directly.
