Living the Image Studio
Embracing the Image
A Soul Transcendent Art Experience
The Second Ring of the Soul Transcendent Art Spiral
When recognition becomes relationship, and
relationship becomes embodiment.
Living the Image Studio is the second turning of the Soul Transcendent Spiral. If you are new to this work, you may wish to begin with an overview of the Spiral.
Explore the Soul Transcendent Spiral
In the Threshold, you recognized the image that was waiting for you as you stepped into this next stage of your life. In Living the Image Studio, you begin to journey with it, live beside it, and enter into relationship with what it is becoming.
Over five weeks, we remain in conversation with the image that first revealed itself in the Threshold, not because it was unfinished or lacking, but because it is alive. An image that is alive does not remain static. As you journey with her, she begins to deepen, to gather new layers of meaning, to reveal what was not yet visible. What began as a snapshot becomes a relationship, something lived rather than simply observed.
Each gathering includes guided painting, reflective inquiry, and shared presence within a small circle of women who are tending their own living images. Technique is offered in service of expression. Structure is offered in service of freedom.
There will be moments when the image feels clear. And moments when it resists. When it asks for more color. Or less. When it asks you to pause instead of proceed.
Rather than pushing toward completion, we learn to remain in relationship. The canvas becomes less something you complete and more something you inhabit.
This is where recognition becomes relationship. And where relationship begins to reshape the one who is painting.
The Circle
Living the Image Studio unfolds within a small circle of women, intentionally limited in size so each voice can be heard and each image can be tended with care. Though the stories are different, the commitment is shared: to stay in relationship with what is emerging.
This circle is grounded in safety, mutual respect, and what my mentor once called infinite okayness. Each woman arrives with her own story, her own symbols, her own pace of unfolding, and what she brings is received without urgency to change it. We hold space for one another with quiet attention, offering minimal encouragement so a woman can continue speaking what she sees and feels in her image, reflecting back what resonates rather than directing where it should go.
Vulnerability is not pushed for. It is met with steadiness and care. There is gratitude for fellow travelers who are willing to show up honestly. In this smaller field of presence, the image strengthens, and so does the woman who is tending it.
A Different Kind of Studio
Living the Image Studio is not built around mastery or performance. It is not a place to produce a perfect painting for display. Technique is offered and refined, but never as the destination.
This is not art therapy, nor is it a decorative painting class. The focus is not on fixing what is broken, nor on replicating a model, but on deepening your relationship with what is already alive within you.
Here, the measure is not how polished the canvas becomes, but how present you remain in the process. What emerges may be beautiful or powerful, and may even surprise you, yet its value does not lie in its appearance. Its value lies in how it reshapes your way of seeing, and gently reshapes the one who is painting.
What You Will Leave With
By the end of five weeks, the image you began with will no longer feel like a single moment captured on canvas. It will carry layers of meaning gathered through attention, reflection, and presence. What once appeared as a snapshot will have deepened into something lived.
You will leave with a painting that holds more than color and form. It will hold the conversations you have had with it, the pauses you honored, the questions you were willing to ask. You will have practiced listening to what the canvas reveals, noticing where it asks for more color, where it asks for restraint, where it invites you to look again.
In time, something shifts. Painting begins to move from the mind into the body. Decisions arise less from analysis and more from inner knowing. You become aware of that shift as it happens, and with that awareness comes trust. The image is no longer something you manage from the outside, but something you meet from within.
What develops is not just a refined canvas, but a deeper confidence in your own discernment. You learn to recognize the quiet yes in your body. To sense when something is aligned. To trust your own wisdom rather than reaching for approval or correction.
Retreat Format
Each week, we come together in a live online gathering that balances structure with spaciousness. Guided painting, reflective inquiry, journaling, and shared conversation are woven into a rhythm that allows the work to deepen without urgency. Each gathering lasts approximately two to three hours, offering time not only to paint, but to pause, to write, and to listen more closely to what is unfolding.
Between sessions, you continue the conversation with your canvas at your own pace, supported by guiding prompts and reflection practices that help you remain in relationship with what is emerging. All sessions are held live via Zoom and are recorded, so if you are unable to attend a gathering, you will have access to the recording and can remain connected to the unfolding of the work. Though the studio is virtual, the container remains intimate enough for each voice to be heard and steady enough for each image to be tended with care.
Format & Timing
5 weekly live online sessions (3 hours each)
Live via Zoom | Recordings provided
Registration for Living the Image Studio opens following the completion of the Threshold Retreat. Participation in the Threshold is preferred, as the Studio builds upon the image first recognized there. Those who have not attended the Threshold are welcome to reach out to discuss readiness.