The Yoga of Art-Making
In April, I began my journey toward becoming a certified Intuition Painting® Facilitator. To my delight, the training began with another retreat in Joshua Tree, a place that has come to feel deeply meaningful to me. I arrived a few days early to savor some quiet time alone.
On my first morning, I sat on the patio of my Airbnb, coffee in hand, gazing out at the seemingly endless desert with mountains rising in the distance. Tears quietly streamed down my face. What I felt was relief—a deep release—as though a heaviness I’d been carrying was finally lifting. More than that, I felt a profound sense of coming home.
I’m still trying to understand why the desert speaks to me in such a powerful way. By description alone, it is shades of brown—hard, dry, and prickly. Yet what I experience there is groundedness, spaciousness, stillness, and quiet. My breath slows. My body softens. In that vast silence, I feel whole.
After a few days of solitude, I joined Montine Blank, the founder of Intuition Painting®, along with four other women from across the country—and across the world—as we stepped into a sacred container for our journey together. Over five days of learning, painting, and deep inner work, we bonded in sisterhood. We laughed, cried, and even screamed—making space for truth, vulnerability, and transformation.
Intuition Painting® is a six-phase process designed to awaken the innate creativity that lives within each of us. In a safe, judgment-free space, self-expression becomes a pathway to revelation and healing. As the inner critic softens and intuition takes the lead, unexpected images begin to emerge. The canvas becomes a mirror—reflecting not only color and form, but deeper truths waiting to be seen. What unfolds can bring remarkable clarity, healing, and transformation.
Having moved through the six phases before, I found it easier this time to trust my intuition and surrender to the process. The images and colors that appeared on the paper were spontaneous, surprising, and deeply symbolic. What first looked like mistakes slowly began to reveal meaning. The painting seemed to take on a life of its own as hidden parts of myself surfaced onto the canvas.
In the end, the process invited me to access and express long-buried parts of myself—including rage, sadness, shame sadness—finally giving them breath, color, and space to be seen.
As part of my Intuition Painting® Facilitator Certification, I am required to guide participants through the full process. Because I am still completing my certification, I’m offering a 2-day immersive workshop at a deeply discounted rate. Find details under Events tab.