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Cultivating Creative Practice & Holistic Living Explorations

 

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?

  • Making art, regardless of experience, is an invitation to explore, express, and honor the holistic call to create.

    In the making, we discover so much more than what is made.

  • In the creative process of making, we begin to SEE differently, deeply, beyond our usual perspectives. And in this active beholding, we feel connection with something bigger than ourselves - something that comes through in what we nurture, form and share.

  • As our making process deepens, we fall into a rhythm with presence, infusing materials with our inspirited curiosity and intuition, exploring the formation of our creative ideas and intentions in time, and weaving our past with what is and what we will be.

    It is both simple and not easy, challenging and fun. Deceptively arbitrary to those who do not get it, and deeply meaningful to those who DO.

  • It can seem unexpected to somehow feel a little more seen, connected or set free somehow, as we are making something, trying and learning a new thing, or slowing down enough to behold something that moves us.

    It is in this creational intimacy, this resonance in-the-making, that helps us remember who we are - in our joy, depth, fullness, interconnected wholeness and truth.

    As my dad once said: Making “art transcends the practical and resonates within the structure of our consciousness that was designed to apprehend or recognize the Sacred.”

 
Hali Karla in front of original painting background

Welcome! I’m Hali Karla

I’m a multi-passionate maker, gardener, artist and holistic-creativity guide, working out of my home now in NE Ohio.

My paintings and art journals draw inspiration from the interconnected, enchanting & sensual realms of nature all around us - and of which we are a part - combined with an exploratory expression of my inner landscape of feeling, memory, association and imagination.

The courses, content and guidance I offer are driven by a desire to encourage others to trust, explore and cultivate their own relationships with creative intuition, making, connecting with nature, and holistic living.

I’m so glad you’re here!

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For Art-Makers &
Curious Holistic Creatives

Your creative practice(s) and explorations are your greatest teacher, and can become an insightful, nourishing part of your life.

While only you can bring your holistic living vision and artful practices to fruition, I can help you cultivate creative habits and rhythms to do so, and recognize what to watch & listen for in the process that is true to your unique approach.

jar of paint brushes and colored pencils

MAKE YOUR ART

My workshops and courses are created to encourage you to embrace+explore your creativity & wholeness, live true to what stirs your soul, and actively make your art.

plant inspired intuitive painting by Hali Karla

VIEW MY ART

Inspired by nature, day-dreams, a love of color, and curious affinities, I paint, collage, and love exploring mixed-media art. I also keep art journals and sketchbooks as part of my evolving process and practice-in-presence.

PLANT SEEDS

Making a Garden that grows food, medicine and beauty has become one of my most beloved hands-in creative projects ever. I’m immersed in learning & experimenting, it is changing my creative process, and I’ve started documenting some of the journey…

BE INSPIRED…

Inspiration and resources for cultivating your creative art practice, with peeks & musings from my creative life over the years and ways we can connect + make together:

“Making (art) transcends the practical and resonates within the structure of our consciousness that was designed to apprehend or recognize the Sacred.”

— Mico Slattery, PhD