Free to Feel Artist Lab

6 Week Online Course to Open your body, feel your emotions and be inspired in your creative practice

Free to Feel Artist Lab

Course Description

In our busy and fast-paced lives, emotions often seem like nuisances, popping up when we least expect or want them to, a consequence of an event or situation out of our control.  Because of this we often decide to ignore, hide and store away uncomfortable emotions to avoid being seen as “emotional”, “crazy”, or worse yet, “weak.” But what if we could use our emotions to live a more creative, confident and happy life?  And what if our greatest artistry stems from channeling our emotions - from joy and excitement to fear and frustration - into authentic relationships, experiences and physical ARTifacts?

Free to Feel is an experience of harnessing and honing our creative process as a way to be emotionally well and agile and to use emotions as the drivers of our creativity.  In this six week Free to Feel Artist Lab, Anne Koller, author of Free to Feel and Chief Emotion Officer of TAPIN, will lead you through the Free to Feel process incorporating emotional wellness training, Kundalini yoga and meditation, movement, poetry, and painting, combined with collective sharing and discussion, one-one coaching and an art partner, to give you the tools to access your inner inspiration, instill a process for managing your emotions and incorporate creative flow into everyday.

Whether it is a project you want to pick back up, an art hobby you want to explore further, a desire to complete an article or part of a book, or a longing to find rich inspiration for your personal or professional life, you decide the canvas you will create on. Focus on a project or piece of art you want to bring to life and delve into it through the various angles and expressions of emotions in this course, leaving with your own portfolio of art from the heart.

Testimonials

“The Free to Feel Artist Lab Online Course helped me carve out mental space and accountability to get my art out into the world.”

— E. Keller Fitzsimmons, author and artist

“In the Free to Feel Artist Lab, Anne helped me navigate through the heartache of being a recovering musician. Singing is my first love and I needed to work past some trauma, disappointment and grief after I pursued this passion in my early twenties. Anne’s course provided a safe space to share, create and grow. She helped me step into healing and allow myself to unapologetically be my whole self again.”

— Sarah Fierek, Musician, Songwriter

SCHEDULE

Live Zoom classes Sundays (1.5 hours)
*Themes subject to change based on participant needs

WEEK ONE
Intro to Emotions and Art
Learning about emotions and what they are, where they live and how to track them

WEEK TWO
Fire - Anger, Rage, Ferocity, Passion
Unwrapping and alchemizing anger and rage into passion

WEEK THREE
Water - Grief, Sorrow, Fear, Resilience
Flowing through grief and sadness with grace

WEEK FOUR
Earth - Lonely, Reflective, Confused, Grounded
Finding center and who you are  in the midst of confusion and impatience

WEEK FIVE
Air - Anxious, Impatient, Wistful, Hopeful
Dancing in the unknown with hope

WEEK SIX
Artist Show & Share (2 hours)
Artists will share their art journey and final art piece

MODALITIES

KUNDALINI YOGA & MEDITATION
When we do yoga, we allow ourselves to go within and be with our feelings, sensations and desires.  We feel safe enough to access areas of hardness and tension, pain and pleasure. And often times we receive clear insight and messages from this colorful garden within that leave us once we get off the mat.  We will use Kundalini Yoga to open us physically and emotionally and tap into the creative force laying stagnant in the spine combined with art. This course will utilize the gifts of Kundalini kriya, pranayama and meditation to support the softening of the heart and its expression of your inner color pallet of emotions.

EMOTIONAL AWARENESS TRAINING
We will be exploring the ways in which we can discover, uncover and explore our emotional bodies through sensation, tracking, and experiencing.  This TAPIN Method was developed by Anne Koller in 2013 and has been utilized for trainings and workshops for over 5 years. You will learn ways to understand and identify how you feel, communicate better, improve your relationships and feel confident in who you are.

CREATIVE MODALITIES
The course will encompass a variety of art forms to be inspired by and to try on - from poetry, music, illustration to painting, movement to visuals, we will collectively explore a diverse array of art modalities to expand your artistic expression and land on your unique art modality(ties) and ways  of integrating it into your everyday.

ART PARTNER
Often times creating can seem lonely and isolating.  We need help in our journey with emotions and self-expression and to have people who stand for our truest activation.  We need partners in Art or “pARTners.” This course provides two one-one sessions with Anne, access to a private group of fellow artists and one course pARTner you will check in with once a week.  All to support, celebrate and be inspired by who you are, how you feel and the truth you express.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

  • You have always wanted to go deeper into one of your art hobbies

  • You are a writer, creative, blogger, designer, painter, dancer

  • You have never considered yourself an artist

  • You are amped about a project and can’t wait to have dedicated time to work on it

  • You put down a project long ago and want to pick it back up

  • You want to find ways of being inspired

  • You have strong emotions and want to learn how to manage them and use them to fuel your passion in life

  • You want to be better at expressing yourself at work, in relationships, at home


INCLUDES

  • One live video call once a week (one hour and a half) with the group
    Art and Yoga practice, group sharing

  • Weekly Practice
    Inspiration videos, meditations, exercises and homework

  • Two 45 minute coaching sessions with Anne Koller
    One for intention setting at the beginning of course, one after the course to craft an aligned and attainable art practice

  • Art Partner
    One Art Partner to check in with and support your journey

  • Intimate course of 14 participants maximum


PREVIOUS PARTICIPANT BREAKTHROUGHS

- Return to songwriting
- Spoken word audiobook
- Zero-waste passion project
- Nurturing and navigating a new marriage
- Working through loss of loved one(s)
- Newfound courage to create
- Working through fear of public speaking


MATERIALS YOU WILL NEED

  1. Art book: This could be an 8.5 x 11 art book or journal.  Something without lines or grids. Clean pages. Some examples HERE and HERE.  Buy something you can easily bring with you anywhere, something you love, something you will be excited to use everyday.  

  2. Writing / Drawing Pencils: Order some Oil pastels online HERE or go to Michaels.  See if you can deals on Black sketch Chalk, colored pencils, markers, and watercolor / environmentally safe paint.  See if you can get a few of each. Use old materials if need be. 

  3. Notes: Start a new “Notes” folder on your mobile device.  You will be using this for your “Lucid stream of consciousness and need to have it available near your bedside. 

  4. Yoga mat / comfy place to do yoga and meditate: Get a yoga mat, sheepskin or comfy part of the floor where you can do yoga and meditate.  Preferably somewhere safe and quiet where you can also have your art supplies available.

Reserve your spot by filling out the survey and emailing hello@annekoller.com

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