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All bodies and minds are invited into these workshops, offering embodied creative journeys designed to open up greater access to your own wisdom, repair and restoration, and finish with a painting that is an artifact and road map for your work in this lifetime. We use paintbrushes & color, trans-personal, archetypal & somatic practices, and personalized movement to access your wisdom. We work with a canvas as a safe harbor and portal into your journey.
No prior knowledge or practice of painting or drawing is required or even necessary - we provide in-time skills & ancient technologies for you to work with. And be prepared - while the magic lies in the process, most participants are stunned by the outcome - a powerful painting that becomes an artifact and memory-in-form for you to carry your journey and learnings forward.
We paint with acrylics and a variety of brushes, painting into a canvas - the container for your journey. You are welcome to bring your own tools with you AND for in person workshops all materials will be provided.
Why SENSE8?
Here at SENSE8 we weave knowledge and skills from a wide variety of sources. What we have in common is that we all share our own embodied creative practices, insights, and wisdom. What each of us offers are our own unique skills and practices as healers, love-coaches, indigenous and ancestral roots, sociological/neurological/psychological/physiological knowledge and skills, writing as a sacred practice, and ethical design informed by Trauma-informed care, social ecology, and social justice. We weave psycho-education into workshops as needed - and emphasize growing an increasing awareness of your own body wisdom, autonomy and sovereignty.
The idea for our biz - SENSE8 - was born out of our shared realization that body wisdom is necessary for real agency, autonomy & sovereignty, and fundamental to liberation from social morays and structures that bind. Body Wisdom requires that we become fluent in the languages of our own body - whether and the extent to which we can track, detect, and understand our outer senses and inner sense of safety/security, desire/pleasure, self/confidence, fed/hunger, thirst/sated, emotional state, and physiological state. These are learned skills - and ones that can only be acquired through practice. We believe these skills and knowledge are best acquired through practices that are supported by:
All Workshops @
SENSE8
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tending, monitoring & settling the Nervous System while supporting the container and person if trauma is triggered - we use Resilience Toolkit® (a liberatory somatic method) and Guided Drawing (Art Therapy methods) to develop practices for you.
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inquiry-guided processes and practices to unlock access to our unconscious body, ancestral, and divine spirit wisdom - we use Guided Drawing, Intentional Creativity, Shamanic Journeying, Evolutionary Astrology, and Meta-cognitive drawing methods.
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inviting our inherent creativity to flourish - for this we use Earth-based Practices (shamanic, ceremonial, and observational practices) in combination with the Intentional Creativity process.
Inviting wisdom through creativity is holistic practice that invites our whole body-mind-spirit to remember and locate, repair and restore, integrate and re-imagine what's possible. Finding it's own rhythmic motions, it's own archetypal shapes and codes, its own ancestral knowledge, it's own way of relating to the world and divine.
To do so through an intentional process and careful structure, and guided by a skilled healer who is responsible to your safety, agency and sovereignty, is:
- a process WE CALL EMBODIED Creativity -
Introductory Workshops
Working with Emma J. - An Introduction to a deeper dive course
1.5 hours
pay what you can
You are invited to trial working with Emma in 1:1 setting - this session will be co-created with you so that you can experience and try-on what it might be like to work with Emma in a 1:1 setting, or come to one of her/our workshops.
You might be invited to try a meta-cognitive drawing approach to locating an answer to your question. You might be invited to try a method called Emotions-In-Motion - a colorful and meditative practice that develops your capacity to notice, identify, and understand the complexity (or simplicity) of emotions that bubble up within you. You might be invited to continue the dance with the light and shadow through the cultural and social lenses Emma offers. In this dance, the invitation is to track and connect our personal stories of ancestors, earth/papatuanuku, the divine, your known gifts and celebrations, AND connect to the woundings and social structures informing your body-mind and our world. And in so doing, to orient directed claiming of experiences and old stories, and re-storying so that you and all may be liberated.
SIMPLY STATED: You will have total agency and choice as to whether you engage in any or all of it. Together, we will figure out what you are hoping to experience, and Emma will always offer choice and options to shift direction. If we are working on zoom, the session can be recorded so that you can watch again later.
We suggest that you come with: your journal, pens, something to color activate your journey (watercolor paints, pencils, marker pens). And if you have large paper - bring a sheet of that along. I will be asking you to work with an old story of your own - one that you have worked well and long with using other practices. And, if this does not make sense right now - that's ok too. Come and see where we go.
This is by request
Day-long Workshops
Meet Your Inner Love Goddess
5 hours
$250 / $150
An Intentional Creativity Workshop has emerged through the Sisters Project. Dee and Emma offer these workshops regularly - sometimes online, sometimes in person. Come join us for an alchemical and creative painting journey. A day of creativity, easy companionship, laughs and celebration.
We use a guided and intentional processes for you to bring forth your wisdom and imbue your painting with your own personal story. This painting workshop goes beyond a paint-nite party. You will return to the world with a stunning painting of your Inner Love Goddess (even if you think you don't have a creative bone in your body). It is a special invitation to practices, rituals, and an embodied experience - living into a journey that accesses what is already within you to create. Learn ways that soothe, reframe, and heal your love-wounds. And realize the badass, fabulous, un, generative, sensual & abundant love goddess who is within YOU.
Your Inner Love Goddess Painting will be a reminder of this powerful journey and experience of the unconditional love and radical self-acceptance that you can have for yourself -- empowering you to be a more loving, joyful and free-spirited woman in your world.
Next Offering: TBD
Your Divine Body
5 hours
$250 / $150
Living with awareness and appreciation for all the information that comes
through our bodies is a practice that enables us to live with integrity & alignment - inviting repair of past woundings and Nourishing space for pleasure, creativity & joy.
An Intentional Creativity Workshop - centered on our bodies divine. We offer a creative way to grow your awareness, fluency of communication and relationship with your own body. You are invited to witness your experiences (conscious and unconscious) through color and rhythmic full body motion - offering a portal into a transformation. In this way pain becomes our prophet, and our re-connected inner priestess emerges. The Purpose of this workshop is to re-mind how you reconnect with your inner wisdom through the portal of your own body, community, and being a witness as a teacher.
HOW: Use a modest canvas and abstract color as a portal to witness all that is active in our external and internal fields these days - this is our teacher, our prophet. We will then integrate and transform these to a coherent portrait of our Inner wisdom - represented as Priestess. In so doing we will journey to ask her who (guides and ancestors), tools and symbols we might attune to.
WHY: Like the swell waves of the ocean that come to us from half a globe away - the beaches of our bodies are antennae to this world. We humans have multiple physiologies that mean that even if the happenings are not directly on or to us - they are registered by our body and impact our behaviors and world. Just as a smile witnessed can wash our bodies in feelings of safety and even joy. Heavy emotions will do the same only bringing in information about the need to locate safety or nourishment. These emotions, when left un-noticed remain unconscious and will infuse and filter our reception and responses to the world and relationships around us. Light emotions like joy and calm lift us up, connect us in relationship, and enable us to share our gifts. Heavy emotions necessarily contracting us and focusing us towards safety.
OUTCOME: You will leave with your painting - which is an artifact of your journey. It can function as your own personal map for this journey of witnessing, learning, and growing into our most wise self, the Priestess we are becoming and some say we already are.
EXPECT: some neuroscience and physiology of stress & love, polyvagal theory and somatics, and as much guidance as you would like for our intentional and intuitive painting method
Next Offerings TBD by request
Your Cosmic Navigator : Looking to Your Skies for Embodied Wisdom
5 hour
$250 / $150
An Intentional Creativity Workshop where we incorporate the wisdom of the skies - those we live within and the natal charts we were born under - into the fabric of who we are. You will be invited to an exploration of your own natal chart, and bring your findings to the workshop - where we invite you to paint the wisdom of your skies, particular constellations, moon and planetary placements into a self-portrait of you. In the process of painting your personal, archetypal & cultural cosmos, new awareness can arise, providing a richer and more nuanced understanding of the cosmic forces at play in your life.
Next Offerings TBD by request
Sacred Rage
5 hours
$250 / $150
Expressing the emotions that emerge from Betrayal by intimates and institutions is a sacred act.
Betrayal by intimates and institutions is experienced in our body-mind as a trauma, and when untended and incomplete, leaves a mark in our psyche and body - co-opting our body-minds to attend only to protection and survival. This state necessitates a number of metabolically demanding functions to be on high to sustain hyper-vigilance and readiness for fight or flight. To do so, our physiology is ramped up to support the heightened state of our nervous system, greatly narrowing the focus of our sensory receptors and possible behavior options. Collectively, keeping us stuck in fight/flight, often working against our own intentions, and morphing the possibility of current and future relationships.
Connecting into our body and expressing the experiences becomes necessary when seeking to regulate your nervous system and rewire your body-mind. We call this locating your personal medicine and remedy. And - when this journey is accompanied by pure hot rage of protest at how we have been treated, it can feel dangerous no matter how true or appropriate. After all, there are few examples of righteous rage that do not harm oneself or others.
If you seek a way to safely express heavy and dangerous-feeling emotions, then this workshop is for you.
This workshop is an intentional space of safety and security - inside of which whatever needs to be expressed can be offered in color and form within a safe container (your canvas). Allowing you to locate your own experiences, emotions, and pain. And then, if you are ready, for you to locate your own remedy and medicine.
OUTCOME: You will leave with your painting - which is a witness and an artifact of your journey. It can function as your own personal map for this journey of witnessing, repair, and remedy.
EXPECT: some neuroscience and physiology of stress & love, polyvagal theory and somatics, and as much guidance as you would like for our intentional and intuitive painting method
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if you wish to participate as one of seven in this small group workshop.