“Adriana’s Art Incubation Course helped hold a container for me to channel my grief into painting, writing, and new meaning-making. In this container, I found soul companions traveling the path of creativity in all its forms: dance, painting, writing, theater. We found a common ground through the spiritual practices and offerings from Adriana. Many different threads emerged from each of us to make a beautiful tapestry both as a group and as individuals. And I emerged from the course with the art outline of my now about-to-be-published book! Adriana holds such sacred space for each of us, in the human process of art-as-life. I can’t recommend her, and this course, highly enough!” 

– Linda Shanti McCabe, Recovery/Grief Coach, Licensed Clinical Psychologist

“This course has helped me understand how sacred and powerful expression can be and how important it is for all of us to be fully expressed. It feels like magic, the kind of space that Adriana held for me and my classmates. There are things that talk therapy is necessary for – yet there are things that only art-making can unlock. That’s why people engage with art as audience members. But after this class, I want the audiences to know that they can use art to unlock themselves too. The trick is to do so responsibly and Adriana was respectful of my process, pace and desires. I was actually doing the leading. There has been tangible movement in my life because of my learning and healing in this class. I didn’t do this on my own and yet when I try to look back and see Adriana’s hand in my healing it feels like a gentle mirror instead of direction or instruction. “

– Erika Rose, Theater Artist

“When I signed up for this course I was feeling creatively blocked and struggling with burn-out. Though the Art Cures Course I committed to my creative expression and found a resource in playing piano and singing that I had forgotten about. I did not enter this course with a plan, other than I wanted to feel better. I’m now writing music, singing and moving my body to provide myself with the care I need to feel happy, alive and create.” 

– Sarah Boehmke, Artist, Educator and Program Director

“The course provided a gentle and nourishing container, which was exactly what I needed during a period of ill health and recovery. Adriana’s holding helped me to creatively express extremely difficult emotions and painful physical sensations, and to feel embodied, grateful and whole. It was a wonderful, supportive experience and I have incorporated the practices Adriana introduced us to into my daily life”.

– Dr. Dvora Liberman, Research Fellow, University of Oxford

“In Adriana’s classes, I have generated personal resources during the fatal illness of a lifelong partner and the grief that followed. I have used them to access memories and to liberate body memories from muscles and bones. I have celebrated personal growth. Creating with others similarly engaged gives the sessions extra meaning. They are open to all; no experience necessary. Just come ready to trust her kind, clear and well-planned facilitating. Adriana inspires me.”

– Daniel Raskin, Retired Preschool Teacher

“Adriana’s expertise in navigating the terrain of both the creative and healing processes has been a life raft for me more than once. This online experience was no exception. Adriana inspires courage to dig deep and offers an abundance of resources, as she moves students individually and collectively, through the inner demons of creative blocks, resistances and the inner critic. Her ability to lead each person through difficult obstacles when they arise and be as a midwife, restoring the creative flow, is what makes all the difference in creative endeavors. The witnessing, giving and receiving support and feedback was a critical component for those of us who can be on the shy side and need a little nudge.”

– Maureen Davison, Qigong & Massage Therapist, Artist

“This course was something out of my comfort zone and I was nervous to start but Adriana created such an inspiring and safe space that I always felt supported along the way. I truly loved the experience. It has helped me on my own healing journey and reignited in my need and desire for personal creative expression and play which something I'd been wanting to get back in touch with for years. It also gave me the courage to start a personal project I had been thinking about for years. I very highly recommend this course!”

- Claudia, Documentary Filmmaker

“Making art is one of the most ancient human needs. Courting your freedom to express artfully in whatever form it appears and sharing it in a circle with others on the same path of inquiry—much like our ancestors telling stories around the fire. Adriana masterfully holds the circle for these needs to be tended to, knowing there is deep medicine there—and by the end of the course, which is long enough to make a journey, you too, recognize the healing magic of these elements.”

- Lorena Wolfman, Poet, Dancer, Healer