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WANNA MAKE YOUR SPIRIT TOTEM DOLL?

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Create Your Spirit Totem Doll  & Everyone is Welcome!

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create your power portrait

interior self the one who knows

DOLL CLASS
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Kids in Need of a Cuddle:Childrens Hospital Oakland

Community Arts Project curated Kristena West & Friends 

2001-2002

Make Your spirit doll!

DIY Totems for the Wise & Wild

Come and make something Real.
The world can feel wild—but this is a call to remember who you are: a strong, creative, powerful woman. For centuries, women have crafted protection totems for their house, dolls for children as  companions & mirrors of relating.  For all women, Making, Creating and Stitching, is an act of Magic, our Healing, our Power and our Prayers.


Everyone is Welcome! If you can do dishes, you can craft! Beginners to Advanced crafters take it to the next level. Whether you're marking a transition, mending a wound, navigating challenging times,  your hands intuit how to follow the threads to create for yourself a fabric figurine, that will become a healing talisman for your personal soul journey. We will focus our intent to empower ourselves as crafty women and to create a empowered totem for our home, altar or office.

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Why Crafting Awakens our Deep Self?

Working with stitches, fabric, yarn, beads, and color does something powerful:

  • It grounds us. The repetitive, tactile act of stitching is meditative, calming, and rhythmic—like a heartbeat. 

  • It ignites creativity. The moment we touch colorful yarns, fibers and fabrics, the Totem doll starts talking to us! It's a companion to journey into a new creative You! (Trust Me!)

  • It connects us to our women's wisdom lineage. Every stitch echoes the hands of those before us—mothers, grandmothers, healers, herbalists, ancestors who created before us.

  • It gives form to something unseen but deeply recognized; our Interior Soul-the One who Knows. Thoughts, emotions, and dreams take physical shape in color, fabric, and form.

This is why making a Spirit Doll is so much more than just “crafting.” It’s a deeply human act of creating a "being" a power object to reclaim your Powerful (divine!) Feminine.

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Kristena West M.A.

I've been playing with Dolls all my life- started with Barbie's and Chatty Kathy, designing clothing and holding those "human figurines, they spoke to me of fun, play, whimsy as well as enduring companionship.  I always wondered "What lives in these bodies? What gifts, hurts, stories? " I became a nationally recognized dollmaker (briefly) and a teacher and leader of WomanSpirit groups since 1990's. 

My Story

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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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COME ONE COME ALL ARE WELCOME TO CREATE YOUR PERSONAL POWER BUNDLE OR DOLL OR FIGURINE OR TOTEM 

Make a Healing Doll for yourself or a child or a friend in need-- as a trained shaman and with degrees in dreamwork, psychology and mystery traditions you will be given the steps to create the doll (I prefer totem or talisman - or could it be talis-women?) and also ways to empower the object - for your personal altar or home ...it is an heirloom to pass on for your family. But through the process of our creating together a fabric totem doll (a simple easy doll) we will remember somatically Women's ancient Wisdom Ways of Making.

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Class is 3 weeks online

 

1. Gathering Supplies

2. Prompts for Journaling & Sketching

3. Download Doll Pattern

​4. Empowering the Doll & celebration.  

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I look forward to seeing you - when signing up a  Welcome emails will arrive with dates and classroom details. The sessions will be videos- and zoom times.

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