2026 SACRED MAKERS Theme is Healing the Creative Spirit
I am honored to have been invited to teach at this retreat hosted by Kiala and Damon Givehand.
Choose from 15 different teachers and many different classes.
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I’ll be teaching two classes at Sacred Makers. Information on my classes here.
Please note that Kiala Givehand, host of Sacred Makers Soul Retreat, will be offering Information Sessions in February on the dates listed below:. If you have questions about this retreat. Click here to have the meeting link sent to you.
Class 1
SYMBOLIC CIRCLES: WALKING, CREATING AND BECOMING THROUGH THE LABYRINTH
“The labyrinth is a mirror of the soul, a place to reclaim who you are and gently reweave your inner life.”
Lauren Artress in “The Wisdom of the Labyrinth” card deck
What are you carrying that no longer serves your creative soul? Perhaps it's fear, perfectionism, the voice of an inner critic, unresolved grief, or lingering hurt. In this experiential workshop, the labyrinth becomes our container — a sacred space for release, reflection, and renewal.
We will begin by co-creating a walkable labyrinth in the natural environment using biodegradable materials. Here, through ritual and gentle movement, we’ll ceremonially release what no longer serves us, and listen for what is waiting to come to us. Releasing creates space for receiving. Walking the labyrinth allows the mind to settle and the body to remember. Our walkable labyrinth will remain as a gift to the wider Sacred Makers community — a symbol of healing intention and sacred creativity.
Participants will choose a card from “The Wisdom of the Labyrinth: Guidance for Walking the Path of Life” card deck (created by Lauren Artress and Catherine) to deepen their labyrinth experience. The four suits in the deck - Reflection, Becoming, Embodiment and Alchemy – mirror the stages and mysteries of the journey.
After this embodied experience of the labyrinth we will explore different labyrinth patterns – some ancient and archetypal, some contemporary and unique. We will explore the classical labyrinth pattern using the ancient seed pattern. From this foundation, we’ll engage in intuitive creative play — cutting, painting, marking, and adorning finger labyrinths with symbols and colors that speak to your soul. These mixed media labyrinths are works of art in themselves, and can become part of your daily ritual, be gifted to others, or held in your art journal as visual reminders of the path you are on.
After lunch, we will settle in to explore the labyrinth through hand stitching. Using gold thread from Nepal and yarn, we will stitch the Chakravuyha labyrinth pattern onto a background of your choice – the felt provided in the kits, or perhaps you’d like to add this archetypal pattern to your jacket or bag, so that you have a finger labyrinth with you at all times. Using a finger labyrinth is a gentle way to calm your nervous system and bring you back into the present moment.
Discovering the labyrinth changed my life, and it is my joy to share it with others. I hope you’ll join me.
Class 2
WHAT THE HANDS KNOW, THE IMAGE REVEALS:
A SOULCOLLAGE® AND CONTEMPLATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
Carl Jung
Working with the hands can allow the unconscious to reveal what the rational mind cannot yet grasp. In this reflective and creative workshop, we explore the deep connection between the eye, the heart, and the hands. Learn to trust the quiet conversation between your inner and outer worlds, and discover how your soul speaks in images, symbols and subtle gestures.
We will explore the theme of hands in both the SoulCollage® cards and the photographs we make. Hands are instruments of making, mending, offering, and receiving. Hands carry stories. They reveal tenderness, strength, age, relationship, creativity, and care. They are how we touch the world — and how the world touches us.
Together we will photograph hands in many gestures and contexts: hands at rest, hands in motion, hands holding, releasing, creating, and blessing. Making images in this way becomes a spiritual practice — a way to understand ourselves more deeply, and to notice the quiet threads of meaning shaping our lives.
We also enter the imaginal realm through SoulCollage®, working with images of hands as powerful symbols of giving and receiving, action and surrender, offering and acceptance.
As SoulCollage® and contemplative photography weave together, we step into a living dialogue between the seen and the unseen, the visible world and the imaginal realm that shimmers just beneath it. The photographs we make and the cards we create become thresholds — small doorways through which soul, memory, symbol, and mystery enter our awareness. Moving between lens and image, choice and intuition, we follow a subtle thread of guidance, discovering that what draws our eye is also calling to our becoming. In this sacred exchange, we are both maker and made, both witness and participant, as the deeper currents of meaning quietly shape themselves in our hands.
