About the session
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.
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 work
About the speaker
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.
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.
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