The Artists Play: Embodied Creativity for Earthlings in Modern Flux / The Chrysalis Collective

How long have you felt on the cusp of creative transformation? What if the path to your artistry was paved with pleasure and connection, rather than pressure?

Through movement, ritual, morning pages, group explorations, excursions, and long blocks of parallel play for working in a chosen art form, we offer a container for beings who work best plugged into others and crave to be cocooned in their process. A primary feature of this retreat is the invitation to work intensively in one medium where you want to deepen your practice, be it writing, music, painting, sculpture, or any other creative outlet personal to you.

There will be multi-hour blocks each afternoon for participants to sink into their individual process while sharing the same physical space, body mirroring in a way that allows many an artist to ground down and find flow through the group frequency of creative openness. You do NOT have to be experienced in any technique, make money off art, or even call yourself an artist – only be willing to meet the part of you that already knows how to create and the child within who knows the ecstasy of exploration.

This retreat is a formal invitation to cultivate devotion over discipline and revel in play as prayer! Read more at our web link below.

The Chrysalis Collective grew from a reverence for protected spaces in which to grow and reconfigure, finding novel, new ways of being on our glorious, gritty Earth.

Meet your teachers:

Geneva Intikhana is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher and sacred plant medicine facilitator devoted to the alchemy of embodiment, consciousness, and creativity.

Emmy Kay is a Waldorf teacher turned retreat leader with an in-depth background in somatic work and a passion for the creative process.

Kyle Kramek is a trauma-informed educator and 200-hour certified yoga teacher with a military background, bringing over twenty years experience in high school education and mindful movement.

As a collective, they draw together participants from all over the globe, using the retreat environment as a laboratory for creativity and personal renewal.