BeLONGING TO THE MUSE: Allowing and embodying your artful life
a 3-month container fOR WOMEN + NON-BINARY Changemakers
FEBRUARY TO APRIL 2025
this 3-month program offers a community-centered approach to decolonizing our minds, activating more spirit-driven flow and abundantly creative collaboration
you will expand and explore your capacity to be in your bodies' innate creativity, and move through personal and collective colonial blocks with trust, collective support and awe-inspiring enchantment
THIS container is FOR YOU IF
You’re here reading this and you feel like this is something you need, want, long for, desire, even are scared of!
You’re longing to transcend society’s oppressive definitions of “creative” or “artistic”
You’re desiring to feel more embodied and in touch with the creative magic in your heart
You feel creatively “blocked”, uninspired or uncertain
You’re yearning to deepen into spontaneity, trust and embodied expression
You’re seeking confidence in your ability to vision, create and share with community
Your inner critic is oppressive and you’re ready to be driven by something more loving and liberating
You identify as a women or non-binary changemaker, which to us means those who are 18+ years old and identify themselves as women, femme, or non-binary, and who are interested in changing their world personally, interpersonally and systemically
SOME OF WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE
Three 45-minute sessions 1:1 with Chetna for your personal support and process
Three Q&A and cohort mastermind sessions for 75 minutes for group learning and co-support
Three months of membership in The River with a rich resource library and community of creators, activists, educators, visionaries, mothers, artists, entrepreneurs around the world
An inviting space to play, learn, reflect and express yourself
Belonging in an intentional, creative and global community
Personal and communal support for graceful accountability and care
Insightful learnings in decolonizing and inclusive approaches to creative practice
Multi-media resources and learning materials
Self-trust in being an empowered changemaker in the world
Self-compassion with your inner critic and inner nurturer
Greater confidence to pursue creative projects and goals
Activities to add to your facilitation and/or education toy-boxes
NZILANI
“This program with Chetna was expanding and enriching.
One of the best things was the sharing and connecting with others, realising we are together in so many of our fears and hopes. And it was beautiful to do this in a space that encouraged courageous movement towards more non-capitalist, decolonised thought.
It was really lovely to stretch together towards more creative freedom.”
thematic contemplations across 3 months
month 1:
winks and synchronicities
feeling the flow
What is your Ishtadeva (your chosen Muse)?
How is your Muse communicating with you?
Where is there flow (waiting for your recognition)?
month 2:
Decolonizing Creativity
ego and the muse
Where is there stagnancy or tension?
How is your ego forcing or pushing?
What needs to be given up at the altar?
month 3:
Embodied trust
Possibilities beyond logic
How are you being trusting and distrusting?
Where are you being led by ego?
Where are you being led by your Muse?
What possibilities are opening up?
SOME OF our tools
Decolonization & resurgence wisdom
Meditation & visualization
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Improvisational technique
Games & play
Expressive arts (expressive drawing, writing and embodiment)
Somatics
Trauma-sensitive mindfulness
Bhakti Yoga philosophy
Inspirational literature study
Ceremony and ritual
👂 ➡️ Listen to the Creation for Liberation Podcast
to hear more of chetna and her guests’ relevant perspectives on The Role of the Artist, Magic Beyond Logic, and Channeling Ancestral Creativity +
LILY
“The series was such a vital anchor in the midst of the omni-crises we are facing and I will continue to return again and again to the learnings and practices that Chetna shared.
I am deeply grateful for the space to explore, grow, and learn from the incredible group of womxn in the cohort.”
GATHERING PLACE & SCHEDULE
We’ll connect online via Zoom; a strong internet connection and a private place for sessions are ideal
your one to one session for 45 minutes each month will be scheduled per your availability
the Q&A and cohort mastermind session for 75 minutes each month will be scheduled per the cohort’s availability
you are welcome to attend any number of optional pre-scheduled events in The River, which will build on the theme of each month
INVESTMENT
tuition is offered on a sliding scale: $775 - $975
This fee structure is set up to create a sustainable work model based in principles of resource redistribution and financial accessibility; covering the curriculum development,
class preparation, communication/administration, and facilitation of sessions.
If you have access to wealth, please consider paying at the top of the scale.
ALREADY IN THE RIVER?
Current members receive a $100 discount off tuition
HAVE ACCESS TO ORGANIZATIONAL OR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUNDS?
We accept it and receipts can be provided
WANT A PAYMENT PLAN?
A non-refundable deposit of $275 would be due to confirm your place upon admission.
Thereafter, you can pay in full or across 2 remaining installments
more ALUMNI PERSPECTIVES from prior engagements
LOREN
“This is a deeply transformative experience. The program leads showed dynamic facilitation skills, humility through moving through their own creative processes, and embodied self-reflection that is so deeply palpable. The intention is abundant with every purposeful choice they collectively made. Any and all feedback is received and processed with the utmost care.
I am leaving the program more courageously walking my path as a scholar creative and more attuned to hear the wisdom of my body, ancestors, and future ancestors. I give the Creative Somatic Alchemy program my highest recommendation, especially for folks who identify as highly sensitive beings and reluctantly name themselves as artists. Your community awaits here.”
“I can not recommend working with Chetna highly enough. I had important revelations that strengthened both my art practice and my journey of personal growth. honestly, I am not sure that I could have reached these revelations on my own or even with a therapist. there is something unique about this program that requires you to reach deep down and reflect on yourself, your needs, and your wants through a creative lens.
So whether you are on a journey of self-evolution, want to get reconnected to your inner creative goddess, or desire to use the program for professional development (like I did), you will benefit from this experience. you will grow through accountability and strategic support. And you will flourish creatively and existentially because of the resources, wisdom, and safe space provided.”
RÉ
ASIA
“This program was so impactful in my life. I felt very drawn to taking this class and I wasn’t quite sure why. I followed my intuition and applied as soon as i saw it. I went in thinking i wanted to get some tips about how to incorporate creativity more into my daily life. I thought i’d learn how to make more time to paint and write.
With the support of the course, Chetna and my fellow cohort members I was moved to launch a whole business. This had been an idea of mine for a while but the tools the course provided really allowed me to see myself as capable and worthy of doing it.
If you’re even the slightest bit curious i highly recommend.”
“I have come to engage with every day processes like dreaming, offering, playing, in a more meaningful way. as a fourth-gen South African, the decolonial lens has brought comfort and empowerment when self defining these processes.
I am grateful for learning to take time to slow down and spend time imagining my dreams. and if this dream was to only exist in the creative juices of my being, the tools of this program supported me to be ok with this and trust in what is.
I love how Chetna draws from varied resources to inspire a fruitful relationship with abundance; how she “holds” the innate evolution of participants towards more aligned relationship with our creative flow.
Because of the offerings shared in community; I am filled with curiosity about humanity and where our worlds can meet to make common meaning for compassionate moments.”
MANISHA
CLARISSA
“This has been life changing.
It’s given me permission to express myself authentically, free from judgement and/or expectation. the other day a friend told me she really loved how creative one of my platforms was and I smiled. This investment is already paying off!
I feel in tune with my creative self and it’s starting to show. I am so grateful for this program and recommend it to any womxn looking to invest in herself. chetna has a gift for cultivating spaces for creative healing and i am honored to have been part of this experience.”