Reclaiming the
CREATIVE~BODY
Ways to Work Together:
Do you long for a life that is more creative, more embodied?
Here is a dedicated space to pause from the everyday. A sanctuary to connect with yourself and others, to find your expressive voice, fulfill your creative path, and to create in community.
Here is a dedicated space to pause from the everyday. A sanctuary to connect with yourself and others, to find your expressive voice, fulfill your creative path, and to create in community.
For the Community Seeker:
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For The Dedicated Practitioner:
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For the Archetypal Explorer:
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Incubator Lab For Creative Seekers
SHAPESHIFTING: Transforming Through Performance Art
In-Person Group Series, Vancouver BC | January 19 – February 16, 2027
Join this 5-week structured, intimate incubator designed for performance artists, dancers, actors, writers, healers, and visionary creatives who wish to expand their performance art practice while engaging in deep embodied, personal, and spiritual inquiry.
Whether you crave to generate a brand-new performance work, refine an existing project seed, or simply learn how to think and express through the raw, unfiltered medium of performance art, this container offers the structure, safety, conceptual and creative rigour to meet your edge and create through your full potential.
Join this 5-week structured, intimate incubator designed for performance artists, dancers, actors, writers, healers, and visionary creatives who wish to expand their performance art practice while engaging in deep embodied, personal, and spiritual inquiry.
Whether you crave to generate a brand-new performance work, refine an existing project seed, or simply learn how to think and express through the raw, unfiltered medium of performance art, this container offers the structure, safety, conceptual and creative rigour to meet your edge and create through your full potential.
Meet Guadalupe Martinez, MFA
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For over two decades, I have navigated the intersection of performance art, pedagogy, and healing. My work at the university level and in international galleries has taught me that there's deep creation alive in our body.
I believe that the creative process is not just about producing objects, but about a radical return to the self. My approach draws from contemporary performance, expressive arts, ritual, somatic movement, and Jungian depth, what I call the Creative Body. This is the lived experience where sensation, imagination, and the Self converge. Having mentored hundreds of students and artists, I’ve seen that the most profound breakthroughs happen when we stop trying to "think" our way into the creative process and instead begin to listen to the wisdom of our sensorial experience. Whether in the studio, the classroom, or 1:1 sessions, I am dedicated to helping you move with clarity, trust, and the bravery required to give shape to what wants to come to life. |
My Philosophy:
Prior to thought, before we name any experience, the Creative-Body holds profound wisdom and vitality.
We've forgotten how to access it, and how to trust it. With practice, we reclaim its physical and symbolic potential to express freely, create truthfully, and discover the fulfilling, expansive life we long for.
We've forgotten how to access it, and how to trust it. With practice, we reclaim its physical and symbolic potential to express freely, create truthfully, and discover the fulfilling, expansive life we long for.
The three C's of the creative path: Connection, Compassion, Creation
When we connect with our bodies and our selves from a compassionate place, we can look more clearly and truthfully to what it is that we really desire.
We can meet our challenges and limitations more openly and from there move into creative action with clarity and trust.
Through connection and compassion we realize that the creative act involves meeting what is, just as it is and from there we bravely give voice and shape to what wants to come to life.
When we connect with our bodies and our selves from a compassionate place, we can look more clearly and truthfully to what it is that we really desire.
We can meet our challenges and limitations more openly and from there move into creative action with clarity and trust.
Through connection and compassion we realize that the creative act involves meeting what is, just as it is and from there we bravely give voice and shape to what wants to come to life.
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In their own words
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Guadalupe Martinez © Sensorial Aesthetics
Documentation Photos are by Luciana Freire D'Anunciação & Rachel Tophan