Classes & Workshops
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH ART

Learn to listen to your inner guidance, release preconceived notions and judgments.  Accept that there are no mistakes, just perfection yet to be realized. Discover your untapped potential and expand your vision of yourself.  Lessons in creative expression are really lessons about how to live, from the heart, in the moment, in the flow.  They are about claiming your magnificence.
 
Whether you are facing a physical illness, in emotional turmoil, or just want some clarity for your future, the expressive painting style I teach helps to awaken your inner guidance.   Creating multiple paintings, even as often as twice a week, can accelerate this process significantly. I offer you the opportunity to come and explore the art of creating your best life!

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No Mistakes Art Class
This three hour class introduces you to creating from your heart and intuition. You will learn to connect with your inner wisdom (also known as your intuition!) and to create from that place.  You cannot make a mistake when you paint this way!  It is fun and enlightening way to explore your creativity!   Click here for more information.

Art for Self Healing
My most popular class!  A series of 4 two-hour painting sessions to help you discover your inner wisdom and creativity.  Something magical happens when you simply allow yourself to create.  Life somehow opens up and moves forward more easily.  In this class there are no judgment, no contests.  You cannot make a mistake… each painting is exactly what it is, perfect.  Just like you.  Enjoy your journey back to wholeness and joy with this fun and enlightening workshop series.  All materials provided.

NEW!   Painting with Nature
A fun twist on my other intuitive painting classes.  We connect energetically with one aspect of nature in each class, and invite it to paint with us.  Week 1 we meet the faeries, week 2 we will call in the dolphins, week 3 will be with trees and week 4 will be with the Earth herself.  This is an incredible experience that deepens your relationship with Nature in a profound way.

NEW!   Technique Class

At the request of my students, I am offering a new ‘technique’ class.   This is for people who want to learn more about how I create my paintings. I will demonstrate various meditative as well as painting techniques (the two go hand in hand).  I will also be sharing some of my thoughts and discoveries about the creative process as an incredible healing force in our lives.   The group will hold a common intention for healing some aspect of their lives and the planet as I paint.  It is quite a powerful experience for everyone! Participants then practice the technique(s) demonstrated.

The Art of Creating Your Best Life
A 7-part Workshop Series
This workshop series is blowing the doors off anything I've taught before.  A unique blend of art, lecture and discussion in a cozy, safe setting. Click here for more information.

Sacred Wheel Workshop
An all day class to create your Sacred Wheel.  This is a fascinating process of discovering information and receiving guidance on 13 aspects of your life at this time.   Powerful work!  Click here for more information on the Sacred Wheel Workshop.

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ENERGY HEALING CLASSES

Healing with the Earth
Deepen your healing work by partnering with the Earth
Planetary healing is based on a profound partnership with the energies of the planet.  Learn how our own well-being is intimately connected with the well-being of the planet, and that by working together all can come back into a state of balance and harmony.  Opening to this partnership will deepen and enhance any healing modality you currently use.
NEW !     Heart of the Healer
In this 3 hour presentation, learn what energy healing is, how it works and what it can do.  Find out what it means to be an energy healer and consider if it is for you.  In this program we will explore the following questions:  What is healing?  What is energy?  What is energy healing?  What does it take to be an energy healer? Why do you want to be an energy healer?

NEW!  Energy Healing Basics Workshop
In this four week course, you will learn what energy healing is, how it works, experience hands-on healing, and complete the first level of reiki training.  Each week we will explore different aspects of energy healing, including philosophy and ethics, the structure of our energetic bodies, touch as a tool in energy healing and understanding the information presented to us from the client's body, languaging, emotional state and also from our own intuition.  The class includes lecture, demonstration and practice sessions.  Students will also learn the basics of reiki healing and receive level one attunement.

  NEW!  Energy Healing for Families
In this evening workshop, learn basic energy healing techniques to use in everyday situations for yourself, your partner, your children and your parents.  From easing a headache to stopping bleeding from a scratch, energy healing is a practical, useful skill to have in our everyday lives.  Find out how to use energy healing for these and other minor ailments as well as learning and practicing techniques to promote overall well-being in your family.

Healers Potpourri
Learn healing techniques to enhance your healing practice
An evening for energy workers, or for those interested in energy healing, to learn and practice a new energy healing technique.  Each session I’ll introduce a new technique or share information that I’ve found useful in healing that you can practice and put in your Healer’s ‘toolkit’.  Healers of all modalities welcome.  Fun, experiential, practical, practicable.
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CONNECTING WITH THE EARTH WORKSHOPS

NEW !    Connecting with Nature
Learn to talk with Nature
Nature is all around us, and invites us to communicate with it.  Learn how to quiet the mind and sharpen your inner senses.  Find the method of communication that works best for you, and who you communicate best with (trees, faeries, animals, birds, etc…)

NEW !   Gardening with the Faeries
Tips to attract Faeries and Nature Spirits
into your garden, yard and even your home
The faerie realm love to interact with us, and are so happy when we acknowledge them, communicate with them and include them in any garden (or home) project!  Learn some tips to help you attract faeries and nature spirits into your space, what they like and don’t like, and how to partner with them to make your projects go smoothly and harmoniously.

WHAT IT IS NOT…………
This workshop is NOT about putting around cutesie decorations in your garden
This workshop is NOT about being ‘airie-faerie’

WHAT IT IS .………
It IS about learning to become aware of the world around you,  like going from black and white to full color vision….
It IS about learning to listen more deeply and developing your intuitive skills
It IS about understanding the partnership we can have with the planet …a partnership that helps both parties immensely

Gardening in general is recognized as a therapeutic activity that reduces stress and encourages wellness, balance and positive thoughts.   Many of us are facing unusual, and in some cases, extreme circumstances in our lives – either from the current economic transitions, loss of job or loved one, or health challenges.  Finding a sense of peace and wellbeing in our own backyards, literally, can help us cope with the craziness around us.

The Faeries are real, and they love to help in all sorts of ways – not just in our gardens but in all areas of our lives.  They are a bit feisty though (think of Tinkerbell) and expect us to develop and maintain a relationship with them.  They are fun, VERY clear in their instructions and amazing friends.  They are practical and economical, generally preferring to work with what you already have, rather than wanting lots of new things in their space – also good for these economic times!

Gardening with the Faeries is good for you, good for your health, good for the faeries, good for your yard and good for the Earth. 



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"The energy work I’ve received from Kathy is far beyond any energy work I’ve received from anyone else, ever.  And I’m experience with body work.  The work she does soothes my soul and gives me insights into what’s beneath my issue of the day.  It accesses my higher self and gives this part of me what I need.  It teaches me a depth to my Peace. 

Both her Reiki and her Lomi Lomi give my soul a massage.  Afterwards, we talk.  Her insights into what my body is speaking help me understand how to help myself better.  It gives me tools to heal.  I’m not afraid to do the work for my well being, but sometimes you need another’s insights to be able to target the problem.  That’s when I go see Kathy."
Kathy Ford is an amazing, spiritually-guided woman.  Her guides taught me how to hear people’s angels and guides (Kathy’s can really speak up). 
She lives her life in a guided manor, giving great importance to her service to this world, the people, the planet, energies and entities.   She trusts her guidance and lives an exemplary life.

Kathy helped me bring fairies and balance into my spiral garden.  They speak to me.  There were 3 rocks I wanted to place in the garden.  I thought they were just rocks, good rocks, but just rocks.  Now they’re anchors.  Great placement, great feel.  There’s magic in this garden.

More and more professionals in both traditional medicine and alternative healing fields are discovering the power art has to enhance the healing process. 

Stimulating one’s imagination through healing art is a vital link to expanding joy, hope and pleasure.  It is an essential ingredient for confronting, and dealing with, life’s obstacles, to consider new possibilities and solutions.

"As a reiki master and energy healer, I can attest to the healing properties of my art.  I frequently use them in healing sessions with people to amplify and direct the healing energies.  I became a reiki practitioner for the sole purpose of infusing the Universal love energy into my art.  Massage therapists who own my work also find it deepens the healing process for their clients as well."  - AhneeKA
" I have been trying for over a year to 'understand' my plants but until I took your class I couldn't.  And you made it so easy!  It's not rocket science and you don't have to have a degree, just open yourself up to them and they will talk to you.  So simple and yet so amazing."
AhneeKA
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aka Kathy Ford