3 Advantages to Online Drawing Meditations

3 Advantages to Online Drawing Meditations

I’m going to be very honest here, I miss teaching workshops in person. There is a natural flow of connection, trust, and camaraderie when we are all together drawing in the same room. But gatherings simply aren’t an option right now. Even here in Japan,...
Creating Art Increases Emotional Resilience

Creating Art Increases Emotional Resilience

Over on Instagram and Facebook, we share a lot of images that relate to Drawing Meditations’ work, but I want to talk about this one in more depth. It’s important to me. Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from a bad day, to accept a...
What’s a Drawing Meditations workshop?

What’s a Drawing Meditations workshop?

View this post on Instagram What do we do in a drawing meditation workshop? 3 parts in every session: art skills, meditation, insight #onlineartclasses #onlinemeditation #zoomclasses #zoomartclass #artmeditation #insighthroughart #drawingmeditations #mirroredtext...
September classes

September classes

September online class schedule We’re offering four workshops via Zoom in September including two brand new themes: Nature Drawing Meditation and Intuitive Art Meditation. All classes are taught online so you can join from anywhere. Times are listed for Japan,...
My own medicine

My own medicine

Some days, I need to take my own medicine. These weeks and months of ongoing coronavirus uncertainty have me feeling unsettled – sick at heart, rattled, unsure of where to focus. So I decided to sit and trace kanji for a while. And of course, the answer to my...
New ideas

New ideas

Stepping a bit away from meditation and a little closer to theater, today we launched a test session that combined art and performance via Zoom. We drew, then talked about, our versions of Amabie Together with six kids, we performed a short play involving a Japanese...