Mother Nature Unzipped – Empowered (detail) (c) Lisa Nomikos
6 week group shamanic healing process through the arts
6 Tuesdays
March 10 – April 14, 2026
7:30 – 9:30 PM CT
Attend in person or via zoom
$240/$180 early registration by February 24
Where has your voice been softened, swallowed, or zipped shut — in relationships, in your work, in your creativity, or within yourself? Who, or what, has kept you from fully expressing who you are?
There is a place within you that knows you were never meant to be silenced. A place that longs to sing your truth out into the world.
If you feel that quiet ache — the sense that something true in you has been held back — you’re not alone.
Unzip your voice with Mother Nature.
Let her share her wisdom about empowerment and about becoming more fully the “you” you long to be. Guided by her presence, this six-week group process of shamanic meditation and spirit-connected art offers a sacred space to explore your questions and find your answers. This Intensive is inspired by the artwork Mother Nature Unzipped – Empowered by Lisa Nomikos.
Through shamanic meditation and creative expression, we gently explore the places where you have held yourself back, allowing long-standing patterns of quieting yourself to soften and shift over time. Together, we open the zipper that has kept you contained, releasing old silence so you can grow, heal, and expand into a deeper sense of worth, truth, and self-trust.
Healing Arts Intensive is
- A 6 week group shamanic healing process through observing and creating visual art, writing, music and dance
- A life-changing experience of transformation and healing in small group, like-minded community
- Learning and/or practicing Shamanic Journey meditation
- Find the spirit guides who can help you achieve your personal intentions
“This Healing Arts Intensive awakened me into clarity. I could not have imagined the shift I underwent from the first session until the end. I shed the old identity to see what was below the surface. My focus shifted, my understanding of my gifts was clarified.”
“The Healing Arts Intensive provides many opportunities for healing, growth, introspection and self-expression.”
Schedule for Healing Arts Intensive “Unzip Your Voice” led by Joan Forest Mage & Lisa Nomikos
All dates are Tuesdays from 7:30 – 9:30 PM. Attend in person or via Zoom
- March 10 – Orientation – Introduction to the ways we will be working with observing and creating visual art, writing, music, dance and theater to catalyze our personal transformation. Creation of each participant’s Intention (Transformational Goal). Shamanic journey to meet the spirit guides of this Intensive.
- March 17 – Voice & Energy – Find your full voice & presence! Discover the connection of your voice and your energy field for a more empowered & expressive you. We will learn simple yet powerful vocal exercises in a friendly and accepting atmosphere. Each participant goes at their own pace in the exercises: this is about discovering the possibilities in YOUR voice.
- March 24 – Shamanic Artmaking, Writing & Meditation with Lisa Nomikos – Lisa will lead you on a shamanic healing journey using guided meditation based on artwork in the exhibit. You will explore your own writing and artmaking as tools for self-discovery and healing.
- March 31 – Preparation for next week’s Shamanic Healing Performance. Deepening understanding of the performance’s dramaturgy. Collaborating on Art Meditation text; shamanic journey to receive healing for your Transformational Goal.
- April 7 – LFAE Shamanic Theater Performance – Life Force Arts Ensemble (LFAE) the professional performing company of Life Force, presents a Shamanic Healing Performance specially created for this Intensive in collaboration with the HAI participants. Let this channeled dance, poetry and vocal and instrumental Sound Healing music from the spirit realm heal you.
- April 14 – Closure – Creating your own visual art and divination techniques help you complete your Transformational Goal and bring Closure to the Group. Reflect on and share the outcome of your experience and Transformation.
Intensive participants DO NOT perform in the LFAE performance, but they DO
- find helping spirit guides who the LFAE performers invoke to guide the performance
- create writing and poetry based on their Transformational Goals, which the LFAE performers may recite or sing during the performance
- suggest songs to to be sung during the Shamanic Healing Performance
- receive spiritual messages from the Featured Artwork from the Life Force art exhibit
NOTE: This is a 6 session process, so please check your calendar to make sure you can come to all six sessions. You can attend the Intensive in-person or via zoom.
Register for Event
Healing Arts Intensive Unzip Your Voice. $240
Pay by credit card:
To pay by Zelle – our Zelle address is 773-327-7224
Please contact Joan to specify if you are coming in person or via zoom
Questions? contact Joan at joan@lifeforcearts.org or 773-327-7224
We have FREE PARKING in Central Savings parking lot. Click here for directions.
Life Force Arts Center, 1609 W. Belmont, Chicago, IL 60657.
Tuition Credit Policy for Healing Arts Intensives
There are no refunds for Healing Arts Intensives, but tuition credit for future Intensives may be issued as follows:
If you have paid for a Healing Arts Intensive, but you do not attend ANY of the sessions, you are given a tuition credit for the full amount of the Intensive which can be applied to a future Intensive. This tuition credit must be used within one year from the date of the initial Intensive Orientation.
If you attend ONLY THE ORIENTATION session of the Intensive but none of the other sessions, you are given a tuition credit of half of the admission price you paid for the Intensive. This tuition credit can be applied to a future Intensive. This tuition credit must be used within one year from the date of the initial Intensive Orientation.
If you attend two or more sessions of the Intensive, you do not receive a tuition credit, but the classes are recorded on zoom, and you receive access to the recordings.