Living Legacy

Living Your Legacy:

A Creative Voyage into the Second Half of Life

Friday, June 19, 2026 and Saturday June 20, 2026 |  11am - 5:30pm ET

Live, Online on Zoom  

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The second half of life is a potent threshold into the wilderness of our unscripted story. Crossing the threshold with excitement, awareness and curiosity can offer us an opportunity to reinvent ourselves, express our true desires, and create the legacy we want to leave behind.


The current and mainstream models of aging are limiting; and often miss the potential to keep the creative juices alive. Many of us desperately seek retirement to do what we always wanted to do, feel a sense of loss when we become empty nesters, or being childless experience deep regret, often entering into a crisis where we think ‘it is too late’. This somatic and expressive arts retreat supports participants to challenge limitations and kindle the creative spark to utilize our life’s story to create a meaningful and long lasting legacy.

 

While there is no turning back the time, this expressive arts workshop will use the mediums of visual art, creative writing, and movement/dance for participants to reframe their second half of life as an opportunity to realize their purpose in a meaningful way.


  • Listen to your body with acceptance and curiosity in this current stage of your life.
  • Embrace the changes that are part of aging with creativity, grace, and confidence.
  • Honor grief and loss to move to a place of possibility vs. regret.
  • Break free from the isolation of midlife by connecting and sharing with others.
  • Reorient your life and reclaim your purpose.
  • Move from the mindset ‘it is too late’ to ‘now is the time’.
  • Tap in and give shape to your legacy and unique contribution to this world.

INVESTMENT: $375 Earlybird Discount through Monday, May 19, 2026 | $450 Regular Pricing

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Adriana Marchione MA, REAT, RSMT has been involved in the arts for over thirty years as an award-winning filmmaker, dancer, photographer and is internationally recognized in her work as a movement-based expressive arts therapist and educator. Since 2002, Adriana has mentored thousands of students as faculty member of the renowned Tamalpa Institute, WHEAT Institute in Canada, and through her thriving business ‘Art Cures’ where she works with clients and teaches courses. She has presented her creative healing approach with a focus on addiction and grief recovery at conferences, festivals, and treatment centers including South by Southwest, Reimagine, and the Light House Studio. Adriana’s films include When the Fall Comes  and the award-winning documentary The Creative High.

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Marialuisa Diaz de Leon Zuloaga, MA, REAT, MSME, MSMT.
Mexican-American somatic movement therapist and educator (ISMETA), expressive arts therapist (IEATA), independent researcher, and performer. Marialuisa’s professional experience in psychology, somatics, and the arts spans twenty-five years and includes work in education, private practice, and community intervention. Through Mythic Life, Marialuisa leads meaningful and transformational initiatory experiences to women from all over the globe through a forward thinking integration of myth, arts, somatic movement and archetypal psychology (mythiclife.net). She is adjunct faculty at Southwestern College & Tamalpa Institute and held the office of President for the ISMETA Board of Directors (2020-2023).
Marialuisa Diaz de Leon

“Marialuisa is a gifted and generous facilitator, who guides with a combination of gentleness and passion. She has a special talent for leading people into very personal and sacred places in a way that feels safe and transformative." - Elaine Rose, Expressive Arts Educator

 

“Adriana coached me to use movement and imagination to drop down into my body. With these embodied states, I transitioned from loud inner critics to creative freedom and plans of action.” - Kenny Yun, Solo Theatre Director, Writer, & Performer

 

“Marialuisa's gentle focused presence, attentive listening and heartfelt aesthetic responses created a safe and trusting space despite the limitations of an online connection." - Katy Menell, Counselor and Somatic Movement Educator

 

“Adriana brings compassionate attention, focused witnessing, and a warm presence to her work. This personal grace coupled with many resources and years of experience is a powerful combination.” – Jamie McHugh, Somatic Movement Therapist, Creator of Somatic Expression®

 

 

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Image credit: Marialuisa Diaz de Leon