Liberate Your Creativity: The 30-Day Art & Meditation Challenge, Online 1/25–2/23

The Zoom link to participate in this event will be provided at least 24 hours before it begins. Please call 415-354-0360 if you have any questions.

Four Saturdays and One Sunday, 10 am – 12 noon PT

*See below for class dates

Plumb the depths of your creativity, bridge your creative & spiritual practices, and ignite the joy of your free expression in 12 minutes a day.

Unused creativity isn’t benign. It metastasizes.
—Brene Brown

Do you have trouble sticking with a daily meditation practice? Do you find that creating art brings you joy, but you struggle with motivation?

Do you want to write more poetry or explore watercolor, but at the end of the day, find yourself feeling exhausted, unmotivated, and overwhelmed?

What if you were surrounded by people who “get it?” What if you had the framework, tips, and mindset shifts needed to incorporate art and meditation into your life right now, without having to get up at 5 am?

Let’s come together and create the art you were born to make! Join in building a meaningful community of other art-making meditators.

This course invites you to engage in a daily creative practice for 12 minutes every day for 30 days.

This is not just about making art (though it is that). It is about bridging your creative life and your spiritual life, deepening your creativity, and becoming more of who you truly are.

You can do this. And you can do it in just 12 minutes a day.

You choose your daily creative practice—any activity that resonates!—such as singing in the shower, building snow sculptures, or dancing in the kitchen with your children. Live sessions will introduce a method called Artmonk Practice, a form of improvisational drawing combined with meditation, followed by writing.

Upon registering for this class, you will gain access to a complimentary live bonus workshop designed to help you develop the ideal creative practice for the month.

The course will offer a framework to:

1. Dissolve procrastination
2. Overcome blocks
3. Let go & get into flow

Zoom calls will involve:

1. Practicing guided mark-making and writing
2. Interweaving our spiritual & creative practices
3. Sharing creative work (optional)
4. Building community through mutual support and inspiration

You’ll walk away from this course with:

1. A foundation for an unshakeable, lifelong habit of daily creativity
2. A clear bridge between your creative and meditation practices (even if you don’t already have them)
3. Connections with like-minded friends for mutual encouragement and accountability
4. Increased confidence
5. Enhanced creativity
6. A mind-blowing sense of accomplishment!

What past participants have said:

Me? Maintain a practice of doing anything every day? I can't believe it! And you somehow made it easy. And fun! I think of myself in a whole new way now. —Nathan R.

Suiko’s creativity course and nurturing support enabled me to fit a satisfying creative practice into the challenges of parenthood, setting me up for a lifetime practice. —Kasaia L.

What an amazing experience of Art & Zazen with Suiko — it awakened my creative power. I am now creating from a deep place inside of myself. —Irina W.

Class Dates

We will meet a total of five times: on four Saturdays, with the fifth class meeting on Day 30 of our challenge, falling on a Sunday.

• Saturday, January 25

• Saturday, February 1

• Saturday, February 8

• Saturday, February 15

• Sunday, February 23

By signing up, you’ll also gain access to an optional bonus workshop, Designing Your Ideal Daily Practice, on Tuesday, January 21, from 3:30 to 5:00 PM Pacific. This workshop is exclusively available to participants in this class, and a recording will be provided.

Materials

There are no particular supplies you need for this course. We will be engaging in improvisatory mark making and writing. You’re encouraged to use whatever you already have. That said, it can also be inspiring to acquire new supplies. Here’s what is recommended:

1. a sturdy sketchbook
2. a set of colored pencils (my favorites are Prismacolors), 
3. water soluble brush pens
4. black pens (lately I’ve been enjoying drawing with a fine point Sharpie (for consistent line width), Pentel Pocket Brush Pens (for variable line width) or the truly remarkable Pentel Micro Brush Tip Sign Pen)
5. white pens (I’m a fan of Sakura Gelly Roll white pens and Uniball Signo white gel pens.)

Watercolors (For the most beautiful, lovingly & responsibly made, check out Beam Paints, such as the Spectrum 11 Gouache Set). For intense concentrated color, check out liquid water colors.)

Suiko is offering three free gifts to support you in your creative practice!

• Six Creativity Myths: Learn what's holding back your creative expression and what to do about it.
• Meet Your Muse: Make direct contact with the source of your creativity in this 20-minute guided meditation / audio workshop.
• Artmonk Practice: Experience art as a spiritual practice through Suiko's step-by-step approach in this 30-minute class.
• To download or stream them, please visit https://mailchi.mp/artmonastery/freebies.