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I’ve created a sanctuary for these dogs, for my art, and now for the community.
The Big Deep Circle
A weekly devotion for curious artists
A dinner party that meets an art school that meets Sunday worship.
This playground moves from High Art to the Mayan Underground and back again.
We come as we are and leave enriched beyond what we could have imagined — because that’s the magic of these gatherings. Art is our fire. It is where we meet — in that sacred space — to thrash about and find our flow.
The Weekly Cycle
Each week a prompt drops and we enter the sanctuary together with something designed to arise in you — a question, a poem, an artist, an idea, a piece of music. We sit with it. You bring it into your daily life and practice. When you’re ready, you drop it into the gallery.
On Sunday we meet online — joyful, curious, eager, tired, electric — wherever you are, settling into a short mindful presence together.
The show and tell.
You share your work and what it meant to you — what the prompt woke up and what moved through the week.
The sermon.
I share on the theme of what was gathered from our answers, our work, the gallery drops, and the messaging.
The release.
We’ve moved through the arc and now we drop back into the body — quietly if the session asks for stillness, or freely if a dance party is beckoned.
The seed.
From this invocation we see what the next week is asking to be toyed with. And the cycle begins again.
Think of it as a dinner party — we move through courses together and leave satiated.
Sessions: 75 minutes (recorded for members)
The gallery and conversation stays open.
Who We Are
We are the singer, the musician, the performance artist, and the painter. We are the poet, the writer, the content creator, the dancer, the teacher, and the healer. We are the activist, the entrepreneur, the mother, the slut, the prostitute, and the visionary. We are the DJ, the lyricist, the farmer, the romanticist, the dreamer, the hobo, and the conjurer. We are the lost child, the stranger, and the heretic. You enter as you are with your bag of tricks.
The Sanctuary
If you come with your vulnerability and your trust, I will hold a big enough container for you to do the work. Through the support, the conversation, and the courage of the group, we leave more enriched — channeling from a deeper place, with more creativity and more power.
You are witnessed by me and the four Dogs of Bacab — in Mayan cosmology the guardians of the underworld — where things are made whole.
They are why this circle exists. They are the reason I am here.
The Commitment
Circle opens May 1st
Founding Member — 160~ for 3 months
Monthly — 80~/month
The Big Deep Circle is a sanctuary for women and those who identify with that restorative, deep energy.
A fiesta in the underworld.
The Path: 30 Years of Embodiment
For thirty years, my body has been the archive of my work. I have used my acute awareness of the subtle energy body as the primary material in my performance art, large-scale installation art, and meditative painting over the years.
Parallel to this, my Buddhist practice—also spanning close to thirty years—has been the essential teaching of how to hold space in the body. It taught me how to sit with the nature of suffering and how to remain present within that internal landscape.
In my early performance art years in Atlanta, New York City, and residencies in Italy, I embodied female and shadow archetypes using an audience-forward-facing process of vulnerability and confrontation as a vehicle for embodied self-awareness.
I brought my body with me into installation art by embodying the materiality to be the object of focus in the room, allowing me to participate as an audience member—observing, having conversations, and seeing it from all sides.
As I continued to explore mediums, I found a pull to float in the middle of the ocean, buoying in that place between that deep, dark unknown below the surface that we cannot see and that beautiful sunrise or sunset. Buoying there, feeling the weight of the void, along with the glorious bright light of life itself—this led me to painting the gradients, which became a somatic healing process of merging these two worlds.
Tulum has been a way of bridging that distance even more; it is a somatic environment where the power of the land—the cenotes, the jungle, the deep water—is an inherent support for this work.
I have spent my life learning how to hold space for the shadow and the light, and I have learned that the most important work is the work we do to reclaim our own territory. This residency is the current iteration of that thirty-year practice. I’m not just teaching; I’m bringing everything I’ve learned about how to inhabit a space, how to confront the shadow, and how to use the body to find stillness.
I am Kirstin Mitchell. You can see more of my work here: