Exploring the personal, cultural, & archetypal cords to the sacred feminine

Overview

The Journey of Individuation and the Sacred Feminine

Our personal journey of individuation serves as a bridge to the sacred feminine. By first exploring the life and work of Helen Hardin, a bi-cultural artist from the American Southwest, participants will connect with their own Motherline – the unconscious feminine legacy inherited through family, culture, creativity, and spirit.

Hardin developed a personal mythology through her art, a feminine trinity she called Changing Woman, Medicine Woman, and Listening Woman. These figures, rich with universal themes and rooted in Tewa spiritual traditions, reflect her deep exploration of the Motherline and its transformative power.

Stories from the Motherline play a pivotal role in the individuation process. Through the lens of Hardin’s symbolic and transcendent imagery, participants will engage in expressive arts therapy to explore their own complex and layered maternal lineage

Motherline is open to all adults who are interested in exploring connections to the sacred feminine using practices of Expressive Arts Therapies.

Expressive Arts Therapies is a therapeutic approach that uses creative arts – such as painting, drawing, music, dance, and writing – as a means of self-expression and emotional healing. It encourages individuals to explore their thoughts and feelings through artistic processes, often revealing insights that may be difficult to express with words alone.

Using poetry, visual art, and movement, the Motherline workshop offers an opportunity to examine bi-cultural identity, family dualities and wounds, shadow aspects of the feminine line, spiritual injuries, and the artist’s relationship to the world.

Participants will also explore how these inherited patterns shape their adult lives – both in terms of challenges and unexpressed passions.

The experience concludes with a collaborative process to develop meaningful practices for sustaining a connection to the feminine in daily life and creative work.