creativity ceremony for times of upheaval
The times are getting weirder. Surely you feel it too. The atmosphere is thick with anticipation, and some folks have been living in a daily sense of panic and overwhelm.
In conditions of scarcity and change, it becomes even more crucial to slow down, get quiet, and tune back in with our innate senses of creativity, flow, and play.
We are offering a ceremonial space to re-affirm our natural connection with the earth, with our bodies, and with our creative spirit. A space where we can reimagine what it feels like to coexist, collaborate, and co-create as our whole selves.
🌱 In this ritual-meets-workshop, we will:
connect to ourselves, one other, and our collective creative field
nurture the embers of our creativity such that the fire that grows provides warmth for us
explore how uncertainty and upheaval is, in fact, material for our creative process
share a meal and some snacks (we got you covered!)
To bring forth the magic of ceremony, we must be rigorously open to what is naturally revealed moment by moment in our collective space. We ask for your presence and attention, and in return we offer an experience of aliveness, community, and liberated play.
Here, you might find yourself walking and pausing, running and resting, listening and speaking, pushing and yielding, expanding and contracting, leaping, stumbling, stretching, laughing, crying, howling, humming, grounding, dancing, painting, singing, praying, holding, playing, touching, arriving, breathing, eating, and simply being.
🌻 This is for you if you:
Have been longing for a safe oasis to rehydrate the creative seed deep within you
Have been reading or thinking about The Artist’s Way and want a space to practice and integrate Your Own Way™
Find yourself comparing your creativity or progress to others and feeling stuck in the process
Are looking for spaces that invite you to honor yourself first while taking relational risks to deepen intimacy
Feel the invitations of your body and the earth calling you into deeper connection with yourself and others on the same path
If you are reading this and feel a tug inside about it, we'd be grateful to connect. Send an email to [email protected] & [email protected]!
🤑 Let's talk about money
We're intentionally offering flexible pricing, though we think the $499 price is fair: it honors our training & experience, the quality of impact we are preparing to deliver, and the costs we're incurring to provide a space, materials, lunch and other preparation. That being said, we are open to any contribution in the spirit of gift economics to provide access to this ceremony.
If you're really feeling drawn to this but are finding the cost prohibitive, email us! We are open to trades, community support, receiving your art, or your own price. Let's practice gifting!
🌳 Who is hosting this?
Rishi has been performing on stages since he was twelve years old. He's a musician, poet, performance artist, and immersive theater maker. What he really loves, though, is bringing groups together to connect and heal around our creative wounds, and to build collective capacity for ecological & systems change.
Check out this song I wrote in high school :)
Andrew grew up with music but didn't pick up a paintbrush till he was thirty. He now works with ink, abstraction, and people to give form to what is usually felt but unseen: the mystical, the ancestral, the inner landscape. His work is all about restoring relationship—with self, with lineage, with land—and remembering our deepest desires and dreams as living seeds for building new worlds together.
Check out this one time I painted a door 8)
When we met, it was chemistry at first sight, and soon after that it was an explosion of connection, play, and depth. Even though we live on opposite coasts (Rishi spends most of the year in Berkeley) our relationship has been one of commitment, realness, and shared purpose. We're excited to share our dance with you.