A Space for Creativity to Return
The Artful Being School is a place for returning to what is quiet and true. Through meditation and intuitive art practice, we slow down, breathe, and soften the noise that keeps expression tight. Creativity begins to rise from feeling, intuition, and presence.
Over time, students discover something unexpected: a personal visual language that emerges naturally when attention shifts from thinking into sensing. Technique becomes a tool for expression rather than something to perfect.
Current Offerings
Meditative Studio Practice
Open, stand-alone studio sessions
Ongoing Saturdays starting April 4
Each session begins with guided meditation and gently moves into intuitive mark making and color exploration. These simple practices quiet the mind and open the door to creative expression.
In-person studio sessions. Limited to six participants. All materials provided.
$40 per session
The Artful Being Journey
A 5-week guided creative series
Each Friday from May 1 to 29
Across five weeks, meditation, drawing, color, and symbolic imagery unfold as a gradual path toward discovering your own visual language.
In-person guided series. Limited to six participants. All materials provided.
$240 total
Self-Guided Practice
A 4-week guided creative journey
Explore at your own pace
Through guided videos and thoughtfully designed workbooks, you will move through meditation, drawing, color exploration, and symbolic imagery while developing a personal creative practice.
Self-paced digital program.
$80 total
The practices woven through our programs
These practices are explored progressively within our guided journeys and revisited in our open studio sessions.
MEDITATIVE MARK MAKING
Shifting from thinking into sensing through intuitive line and gesture. This is about reconnecting with presence, loosening creative pressure, and discovering how simple marks can open a direct path to inner awareness.
COLOR AS ENERGY
Exploring emotion and inner states through abstract color and chakra-based awareness. Rather than focusing on theory or symbolic correctness, this class invites you to work with color as a form of listening, allowing subtle shifts in feeling and awareness to take shape visually.
SYMBOLS & INNER IMAGERY
Recognizing recurring shapes and symbols that arise naturally through attention. Participants work with mark, shape, and symbol as ways of responding to what arises internally, building a personal visual language over time.
VISUAL NARRATIVE
Allowing personal meaning and story to emerge through layered marks, images, and composition.
GUEST ARTIST COLLABORATIONS
Occasional immersive sessions blend sound, movement, or guest artist practices with Artful Being methods. These experiences expand creative listening into a shared field, where individual process meets collective energy.
The work supports both beginners who feel curious but unsure where to start and experienced artists moving through periods of creative block.
A Different Kind of Art Class
At The Artful Being School, art is not about performance, perfection, or mastery. Through meditation, intuitive drawing, and reflective practices, we quiet the inner critic so creativity can rise naturally as expression. Classes feel welcoming and unpressured, inviting exploration rather than impression.
This work supports both professional artists moving through creative blocks and beginners who feel curious but unsure where to start. This approach shapes both our weekly drop-in studios and our longer guided journeys.
A Place for Community
Church Street Studios was built in the 1950s as St. John’s School and served generations of families for more than seventy years. Today, it has been thoughtfully restored by Harmony Haus as a home for artists, makers, and wellness practitioners.
The school sits in the quiet mountain town of Waynesville, NC, where landscape, light, and a slower pace support reflection and creative renewal.
This building carries a sense of continuity and care, and The Artful Being School will become part of that story. The intention is for this space to grow into a creative anchor for Waynesville, a place where people return to connect with themselves and with one another.
Image by Harmony Haus
How the School Will Grow
We begin with small group journeys, open studio sessions, and workshops.
As the program develops, intimate multi-day retreats will be hosted in nearby mountain retreat environments offering lodging, meals, and wellness amenities for immersive creative exploration.
Image by The Art of Living Retreat Center
The Artful Being School
Church Street Studios | 225 Church St, Ste 103, Waynesville, NC, 28786