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Here is my most successful course on personal development from the women & men's groups-since the 1990's! The info will give you the foundation for going forward, expanding & activating your authentic personal power. 

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This inner-work course is the foundational work that I personally researched and did on my own- one step at a time. This is my own personal work, as I grew from a scared checked out young girl, to a authentically empowered woman- these tools worked for me, and for the countless men and women who sat in circles and read my books.

 

And just sayin...it's NOT AI!! It's real human sitting in the alchemical cauldron and dissolving our old selves and rebuilding a new powerful healthy self and actualizing the life of our dreams! And this work - works! It will engage you, excite your imagination, you will dream new dreams and write in your journal. 

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Here's a description of our expressive art lessons

INTRO TO INNERWORK

Now we have a beautiful image a full frontal portrait of Frida I have taken into Photoshop and brightened and sharpened the contrast to get an almost Posterized Frida. 

Now we take that and print and have some fun moving into oil pastels. 

Now we are feeling the Fire of Frida relaxing and moving deeper into her story and iconic image. 

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Kristena West received her Masters in Transformational Arts & Consciousness, a program that focused on how artists can change the world. Her thesis is on cross-cultural sacred iconography. BA is in academic and professional writing and psychology. Undergraduate is in Fine & Commercial Arts and Fashion Design.  

Meet Kristena West M.A. 

I have been an artist my entire life. I have been engaged in community arts, curated exhibitions and worked in fine art galleries since I was eighteen years old. I have love working with groups.

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I have 30 years training with shamans and have trained groups and clients in these ways of knowing. My question has always been with indigenous shamans, "What makes Art Sacred?" And these gifts of what I learned I bring to my work and to students who take my classes. 

friends who cannot find transformative arts classes can now do so.  This is the beauty and delight of Transformative Sacred Arts. 

I invite you to join me to draw, sketch and paint with Frida! 

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Fun Fabric Spirt-DOLL

GIFTS OF POWER

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ANCESTOR MEDICINE

RECALL MY ESSENCE

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INNER GODDESS

MEDICINE TOTEM

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SUPER POWER PORTRAIT

I RECLAIM MYSELF ICON

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Kristena West

Making Dolls is Women's Magic

I've worked with indigenous shamans, been a student of the western mystery traditions, and received my M.A. in Transformative Arts & Consciousness. I've been an art consultant on the Rue Royal in New Orleans to Rodeo Drive in high-end Art Galleries.

My lifelong question  is

What Makes Art Sacred? 

WE DO!

I invite you to create big Magic with me!​

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3 ARTISTIC  PRACTICES TO BEGIN  HEALING CORE WOUNDS
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SEX CREATIVITY 1
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Kristena West - Tea Towel Tribe Opens
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What is Real? From the Velveteen Rabbit to Wind in the Willows: the Nature of Consciousness
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Finding Frida Kahlo Painting Class
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Happy Saturn-Day
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Artists Learn the Intuitive Path of Creating in the Not-Knowing and Tracking our Listening Will
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AFTER 40 YEARS OF TEACHING AND MAKING THIS IS WHAT I KNOW #artashealing
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