Eight Weeks. One Unfolding.

Some things can't be rushed.

The inner listening muscle doesn't develop in a single session. It develops the way any real thing develops, through return. Through showing up again and again to the same quiet practice and noticing, slowly, what begins to change.

The 8-week series is a container. It has a beginning, a middle, and a completion that means something. Each session builds on the last. What felt unfamiliar in the first week becomes a thread you can find again by the third. By the end, something has shifted that you can feel but may not yet be able to name.

That is exactly right.

You arrive at the pond. You settle in. Kick your shoes off. Feel the earth beneath you.

You listen for the quiet nudges that guide you toward a color, toward a tool. And then you begin to move.

Sometimes with pressure. Sometimes with the lightest touch. Sometimes a drip finds its way down the canvas. Sometimes the paint builds thick and stays.

Sometimes your hand moves in wide sweeping circles. Sometimes in figure eights. Sometimes straight up and down, again and again, until something shifts.

Sometimes the marks are large and fill the space. Sometimes they are small and precise and land exactly where they need to.

Sometimes color is added. Sometimes it is scraped away.

You don't decide any of this. You follow it.

And then you return the following week. And follow it again.

This work doesn't move through the mind. It moves through the body, through the hands, through the quiet accumulation of presence over time. The commitment itself is part of the practice. Returning each week, even when life is full, even when you aren't sure what you're returning for, is its own form of inner listening.

Many women find that what opens in the series makes everything else more accessible. Decisions that once felt murky begin to carry a different quality. The voice beneath the noise becomes easier to recognize. The gap between what you sense and what you trust begins to close.

You don't need to be ready for a retreat to begin here. And if a retreat is already calling you, this series will make you more ready than you know.

What to Expect

Eight consecutive weekly sessions, each running 1.5 hours, held outdoors beside the pond at the retreat space in Culpeper, Virginia. All materials are provided. You bring yourself and whatever you need to feel comfortable outdoors.

Each station has its own umbrella for light rain. Sessions are held in most weather conditions. If winds make the umbrellas unsafe to open, the session will be rescheduled. You'll be notified as early as possible if that becomes necessary.

Sessions build progressively. Attending each week allows the practice to deepen in the way it's designed to. If life interrupts and you miss a session, you are still welcome to return the following week.

No art experience is needed. No preparation is required.

Tuition

$375 for the full 8-week series

One scholarship seat is reserved in each series. If finances are in the way, please reach out. This space was made for you too.

Available Times

Wednesday evenings, 6:30 to 8:00

Sunday afternoons, 3:30 to 5:00

Daytime sessions forming now

Let Me Know When a Series Is Gathering

Series form around the women who are ready. When you share your name and timing below, I'll be in touch as soon as a series is forming that fits.