The Shape of Om (Starla’s Ellipse) (c) Lorraine Moretti
A powerful 6 week group shamanic healing process through the arts
6 Wednesdays
November 4, 11, 18, December 2, 9 & 16, 2026
6:30 – 9 PM CT
Attend in person or via zoom
$360/$290 early registration by October 14
When was the last time you truly marveled at the world around you?
Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, many of us stop noticing the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary. We overlook the light dancing in drops of dew on a leaf, hurry past squirrels chasing each other around a tree, forget to look up at the clouds or gaze at the endless stars, and lose touch with the sense of awe that once came so naturally.
Little by little, the world can become background. But the beauty is still there, even when it escapes our attention.
What if we could see it again with fresh eyes?
This 6-week group process of shamanic meditation and spirit-connected visual, literary and performing art will help you
- notice the sparkle
- discover the magic in the mundane
- allow everyday moments to surprise and delight you
Inspired by Lorraine Moretti’s Spirit Guide Starla and captured in Lorraine’s series of paintings and writings about Starla, this Healing Arts Intensive (HAI) invites us to become more fully present to the experience of being alive.
Starla is an interstellar plasma being who arrives on Earth from a place where there were no living things and no awareness of Nature. She has never walked through a forest, watched a butterfly, or experienced the changing seasons.
Moving through unfamiliar Earth landscapes in her neon-colored vibrational form and taking it all in through her unusual radio eyes, she encounters an abundance of life she has never known: the sun rising and setting, flowers blooming, birds singing and flying across a brilliant blue sky.
Everything captures Starla’s attention. She marvels at all she encounters, and she participate fully in this strange and beautiful experience of being alive on Earth.
Come join us with imagination and curiosity, using meditation, visual art, writing, music, movement, and creative expression to explore questions such as:
- What magic in life has escaped my attention?
- Where do I still experience awe and wonder?
- What helps me feel fully present and engaged with life?
- What beauty has been quietly waiting for my attention?
- How does deep listening help me discover my authentic voice?
Join us for six weeks of creativity, connection, and discovery that restores the vividness to life again.
If this sounds like what you need in your life right now, come for a breakthrough experience!
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.”
Schedule for Healing Arts Intensive “Remembering Wonder” led by Joan Forest Mage, Lisa Nomikos & Lorraine Moretti
All dates are Wednesdays from 6:30 – 9 PM CT. Attend in person or via Zoom
- November 4 – 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.
- November 11 – Issues & Goals – Deepen your understanding of your Transformational Goal by exploring the Issues that are holding you back from manifesting your goals. Through discussion, writing and drawing, we will see how the Life Force Wisdom Wheel offers a framework that can help us breakthrough through obstacles. Shamanic journeying to our spirit guides to ask for help removing obstacles to our Transformational Goals. Discussing the dramaturgy and participants’ creative writing for the LFAE Shamanic Healing Performance to be held on August 18.
- November 18 – Lolo’s at Starla’s Space – Lolo, Priestess of Poetry,and her spirit guide Starla invite you to Starla’s Space for a very special Lolo’s Mystic Visions Poetry Salon. Through creative writing we will open our hearts to the magic of the universe and see our world as an earthly paradise.
- December 2 – 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.
- December 9 – LFAE Shamanic Healing 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 instrumental and vocal Sound Healing music from the spirit realm heal you.
- December 16 – Closure – Creating your own visual art and dance 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 or most of the six sessions. You can attend the Intensive in-person or via zoom. The zoom recording of each session is sent to all participants.
Register for Event
Healing Arts Intensive “Remembering Wonder” $290
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.