Saturday, May 31|10-11:15 am Pacific (find your timezone)

Three Keys to Creative Freedom

Free Online Maestra Class for Women & Gender Queer Folx
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Saturday, March 21 at 10 am Pacific | click for Your time zone

75 minutes + Q&A‍

Discover three essential principles that can help loosen your creative blocks, deepen your art as a spiritual practice, and bring back the joy of making.

Suiko McCall, Founder of the Art Monastery, award-winning painter, mindfulness coach, author and your host for this workshop!

Creative making can be so life-giving — and it can also be nearly impossible:

You can’t stop judging yourself,

The piece doesn't turn out the way it was in your head, and

You start to wonder if you’re just wasting time, energy, and materials.

You might even be thinking "I'm not a real artist."

But there is another way to create.
A way that feels open, steady, and genuinely yours.

Our culture doesn’t do a great job supporting that kind of creativity. It rewards polish and productivity, not presence and process.

The good news: this kind of creative flow is natural. You don’t have to force it.

You just need a few solid tools and a structure you can trust.

The three principles to develop sustainable creative practice despite doubt are:

Get out
of Your Head

I'll share exercises to wake up your senses, activate your intuition, and offer relief from the inner critic. You'll leave with a 4-step framework you can return to again and again, so making feels less like forcing and more like listening.

Focus on
Process

I’ll walk you through how to identify your ideal creative process and give you practical ways to protect time for it, even in the middle of a full life.

Lean into Community

Creative depth doesn’t happen in isolation. It grows with support, honest feedback, accountability, encouragement, and yes, real connection. If you find yourself wanting more support than a single class can offer, I’ll tell you about my 4-month program, Awakening Creativity, and how it works.

Join women & gender-queer creatives from around the world who want to reconnect with their art and express what's true.

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What People Are Saying

“Working with Suiko, I have reconnected to the artist in me. It did something special. Being a part of this class was a part of me walking into my new life.”

Asya Azar

Artist, Author, San Francisco, CA  

“Suiko offers substantial value. After the first time being led by her in Artmonk Practice, I felt the power of her gift as an artist and teacher. I cried and processed on a level not always available in my other methods of meditation.”

Jessica Amos

Founder of StayWithYourself.com, meditation teacher & coach with 1.2 million students, Salem, OR

“Before I was much more focused on outcome or product which my inner critic persistently judged harshly. What's different for me now is that I absolutely feel braver about creating and I'm committed to art-making now."

Alysia Thaxton 

“I am now more confident in my making and my identity as an art maker. I've formed amazing friendships. I've deepened my understanding of what it means to make, why it matters, and possibilities of how to create community around it.”

Shenandoah Weiss

Leadership & Career Coach, mindfulness teacher, and corporate learning specialist, San Diego, CA

“This time allowed me to trust my instincts and manifest my ideas into something tangible and not to question the validity of my impulses so much.”

Mary Wang

Architect

Meet Your Host

Hi, I’m Suiko! I'm a painter — but I've gone years without painting. I've been blocked 9 ways to Buddha's birthday — no ideas, no time/space/energy to paint, no confidence in my work — even after getting a degree in fine art with honors from Yale. Even after getting my MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Even after landing solo shows.

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Over the years, I’ve made my way from imposter-riddled stuckness to a steady art practice that feels joyful, connected, and truly mine. It’s such a relief.

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Now there’s nothing I love more than helping others do the same.

Founded the Art Monastery in 2007, an international non-profit arts organization dedicated to liberating creative potential
Published four books on creativity, empowerment, and facilitation, which have been translated into 14 languages
Exhibited paintings from San Francisco and New York to Budapest and Rome
Lived at Green Gulch Farm / Green Dragon Zen Temple for four years
Lay ordained in Soto Zen Buddhism in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Suiko's degrees & certifications

Saturday, May 31|10-11:15 am Pacific (calculate your timezone)

Join artmakers from around the world who want to reconnect with their creativity and trust their voice.

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