Your life is a garden of creation
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Creative Practice Explorations & Holistic Creative Coaching
Making is holistic.
The longing to engage with creativity and make is a call not everyone slows down enough to hear - or respond to.
Exploring your creative curiosities and energy - whether through art or any other form of making, tending or expressing - offers a dynamic Way of engaging with the seen and unseen nuances, possibilities, and joy+depth of being Alive.
What is calling your soul to attention?
What changes are guiding this season of your life?
What do your hands & heart long to explore, to express, to be-with, to (co)-CREATE?
How will you respond?
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Art is an invitation to explore, express, honor the holistic call to create.
In the making, we discover so much more than what is made.
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With art, we SEE and feel connections.
We Come Alive… to our joy, to our inseparable connection with nature (creation), and to the experience within and beyond our own.
We see the preciousness of our embodied and spiritual lives taking form, holding space, and transforming via creative energy.
We feel into the perspective and expression that is uniquely ours to honor, dance with and share.
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In the making of art, we fall into a rhythm with Presence, weaving material with spirit, intuition with instinct, skill with beginner’s mind, and the past with what is and what will be.
It is both simple and not easy, a challenge and fun. Deceptively arbitrary to those who do not get it, and deeply meaningful to those who DO.
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It can seem unexpected, as we are making art - or standing before art that moves us - to find our soul feels a little more seen, connected or set free somehow.
A color, a line, a pattern… a subtle detail, or bold layers… a reference we recognize, or one that’s from pure imagination. Something RESONATES.
We encounter a creational intimacy in art, and remember who we are, in our joy, our depth and our truth.
Maybe we even discover that “Art transcends the practical and resonates within the structure of our consciousness that was designed to apprehend or recognize the Sacred.”
Welcome! I’m Hali Karla
I’m a multi-passionate artist, teacher, and holistic-creativity coach working out of my home studio and garden in Asheville.
My paintings and art journals draw inspiration from the enchanting & sensual realms of nature all around us, combined with an exploratory expression of my inner landscape of feeling, memory, association and imagination.
The courses and guidance I offer are driven by a desire to encourage others to trust, explore and cultivate their own way with creative intuition, art-making and holistic living.
I’m so glad you’re here!