Ignite Your Creative Fire:

Sacred Art & Medicine Mandala Retreat

Practice Sacred Art to Manifest Radical Prosperity & Awaken the Creative Fire Within

Art married to Prayer is the way of the ancient Masters. 

To not just experience the Divine or awaken to the Tao. 

It is to have this experience and channel this awakened state into form. 

And in this way bring Heaven to Earth. 

Sacred Art is a powerful pathway for manifestation, healing, and transformation. It supports you in bringing your soul’s desires into form, manifesting medicine power in your life, transforming your deepest wounds into Soul Power, and rewiring old fear patterns into new neural and somatic pathways. When we create art in a  heart connected circle with guidance and support, we have the power and strength to finally move through the creative blocks that have been holding back our lives and dissolve the power of the inner critic. Diving into the Medicine Mandala process is epically beautiful and wildly powerful.

In this super fun and immersive retreat is a guided creative ceremony designed to support deep healing, self-trust, and reconnection to your inner wisdom through the Medicine Mandala Process. You will be led step-by-step in creating your own sacred mandala as a powerful vehicle for transformation and remembering your wholeness.

There is a place within you that remembers wholeness.
This retreat is an invitation to return there.

The Medicine Mandala Process is not simply an art experience—it is a powerful ceremony. Intentional art is a very powerful modality for transformation, realization, deeper communion with your spirit and it can be so much fun. 

In many healing traditions, transformation happens through a vehicle:
plant medicine, prayer, fire, song, or ritual.
Here, the painting and creating your own Yantra of Power itself becomes the vehicle of transformation.

Through the creation of your own Medicine Mandala, you are guided on a journey to access the deep well of wisdom, truth, power and creativity with you. Intentional transformational art allows you to step into the truth of your inherent wholeness and your power to transform what no longer serves. 

This process weaves together powerful medicines:

• Creativity as a healing force

• Creativity as a personal and community practice

• Creativity as a mean of opening to the beauty and intelligence of sacred geometry

• Creative dreaming of shamanic journey work and access to your internal Guidance System

• And perhaps most importantly, meeting the inner critic with deep kindness supported by authentically loving community

It is a rich, honest, and sometimes vulnerable journey. As you paint, the places within you that hold judgment, doubt, or old wounds may arise—not to overwhelm you, but to be seen, softened, and transformed.

This work is rooted in a rich lineage of art as medicine:

This 9-step Medicine Mandala Process is something Robin created through deep immersion in multiple paths of practice and deeply connecting to creativity as a practice of healing, integration, and spiritual connection. 

It has been shaped through years of showing up to the canvas—painting after painting—listening, learning, and discovering the profound ways creativity can guide transformation. What she will share with you is not just theory, but a lived, embodied practice that has revealed itself over time as a rich and powerful pathway of healing.

This process is informed and inspired by:

• The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and Andean wisdom teachings, including the Despacho ceremony—restoring harmony through sacred mandala offerings

• Mandala creation teachings from Paul Heussenstamm

• Intentional Creativity as shared through Marsha Donner and Shiloh Sophia

• The healing principles found in Healing with the Arts and Transformational Art processes 

You may:

• Have trauma from childhood related to creating art

• Feel freaked out about ever even trying to create a painting

• Have a intention creative practice and be ready to take your art to the next level

You do not need to:

• Be an artist

• Have any painting experience

• Feel confident creating in visual arts

You do need:

• A willingness to explore

• A willingness to show up

• A commitment to completion

Completion is where the magic happens.

You will be fully guided step-by-step, including all materials needed—so you can relax into the process and trust that you are supported.

A Space of Support & Self-Trust

Within this the creation of your Medicine Mandala, you will be held in a field of care, presence, and authenticity.

Our AWESOME deeply experienced art team will walk beside you not as an authority, but as guides and fellow travelers—holding space and helping your get paint on the canvas so that you can:

• Find your inner artist and allow the blocks to your creativity to fall away

• Reconnect with your inner wisdom expressed through vision, colour, shape and symbol

• Open to the profound medicine of your  Inner Healer/Artist

At the heart of this work is one essential truth:

Art married to Prayer will Save the World.

The Medicine Mandala Process is a beautiful journey that allows you to uncover all this treasure within!

“The artist and healer are one, just as the rhythm of a heartbeat is one with the rhythm of the Earth. Breathe in the universal flow as it opens to the fullness of who we really are as artist-healers.”- Healing with the Arts Program

Across all Visionary Hearts events, our members are invited into a carefully held ceremonial field devoted to embodied healing, relational truth, and spiritual maturity. While each gathering has its own unique focus, rhythm, and medicine, all are held within the same devotional container of care, discernment, and integration. 

Within this field, you can expect to be supported through:

• Earth-honoring ceremony rooted in living lineage traditions
  Grounding your healing in time-tested wisdom that restores a beautiful relationship with the Earth, the ancestors, and the unseen forces that support life.

• Heart-centered practices that bring Love into the body, relationships, and daily life
  Training the capacity to live from the Heart — not only in moments of insight, but in the ongoing realities of work, family, and service.

• Guided shamanic journeywork and inner listening
  Supporting direct access to the soul’s intelligence and the deeper wisdom held within your psyche, body, and ancestral memory.

• Sacred Council and heart-centered community dialogue
  Creating a respectful relational field where truth can be spoken, witnessed, and integrated without judgment, fixing, or performance.

• Restorative movement, breathwork, and somatic practices
  Helping insights land in the nervous system and body, so transformation becomes regulated, sustainable, and embodied.

• Time for rest, reflection, and renewal in beautiful natural settings
  Allowing the pace of Nature to support integration, clarity, and the restoration of inner coherence.

• Ongoing integration support, including monthly community integration circles
  Ensuring that what is awakened in ceremony is carried into daily life through reflection, practice, and relational support over time.

Sacred Reciprocity

Space is limited for this retreat so we can do deep into the creative process

$555 Shared Twin Shared Lodging – Bell Tents & Cabin Rooms

$444 Camping (2 spaces available) 

*Please note for this event we can offer a 3 payment plan

Retreat Schedule

Thursday 

5:30pm- Arrival

6-9:30pm- Opening Circle & Awakening the Canvas

Friday

9-11am Medicine Art Process

11am-12pm Brunch

2-6:00pm Medicine Mandala Creation

6:00pm Dinner

Optional Evening Painting 

Saturday

9-11am Medicine Art Process

11am-12pm Brunch

2-6:00pm Medicine Mandala Creation

6:00pm Dinner

Optional Evening Painting 

Sunday

9-11am Medicine Art Process

11am-12pm Brunch

12-4pm Closing Moongate Mandala Process

This retreat will be held at Star River Sanctuary near Nelson, BC. Please visit our website to learn more: https://www.starriversanctuary.com/

​All Visionary Hearts retreats and offerings are held within our Private Member Association; membership is included and completed as part of the registration process.

We see ourselves as stewards of this sacred land, continually nurturing and enhancing the sanctuary to be a space of humble beauty, spiritual awakening, and deep ecological connection.

We are very excited to share that after 3 seasons of focused work, we are ready to host vision and mission aligned leaders, visionaries, and soul-family @ Star River Sanctuary.

This land is a true sanctuary of natural beauty. Nestled atop Crystal Mountain, our eco-retreat is a haven for the soul, cradled by wild forests and kissed by the purest springs. It is here, amid the magic of hundreds of acres of provincial park land, that we invite aligned facilitators and seekers to bring their good medicine, share their wisdom, and co-create experiences that foster the rise of the New Earth, one heart at a time.

Unique Features of Star River Sanctuary:

• 36 ft Star Temple Structure Dome ideal for larger gatherings

• 26 ft Heart Dome for shared meals, relaxing, and laid back connection.

• Earth Temple is a 9 sided mini temple for small groups gatherings or can be set up for participants to receive body work treatments from our staff of amazing practitioners

• Eco-conscious living with composting toilets, new bath house, and hot showers

• Fully set up cabin and glamping lodging options (plus additional camping options) set in pristine wilderness

• Indoor and outdoor dining areas that blend rustic charm with the bounty of our gardens

• Our amazing Star River Catering can create a menu with you to me all your unique needs while being so delicious

• Experience our “7 Generation Garden Project” which includes epic veggie gardens, orchards, operational greenhouses, and so many flowering plants ensuring all meals created by our team are highlighted by garden-grown produce

• Enjoy the thousands of flowers in bloom here as a haven for pollinators, contributing to the vital web of life

• Be on the edge of hundreds of kilometres of protected forest with so many hiking and biking trails.