• 2026
  • JUN
  • 26
  • 6:30-8PM
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Chakra Flow Drawing and Painting

Mia de Bethune

Have you ever wondered what your creativity looks like on the inside? This two-part workshop invites you to slow down, turn inward, and let your body become your muse. Through gentle guided meditation, you’ll explore the chakras — the body’s energy centers — and then bring what you discover to life on paper. The art that emerges is your own unique Chakra Flow Drawing: an abstract, deeply personal map of sensation, emotion, and energy that’s less about how your body looks and more about how it feels. It’s a beautiful way to release stress, reconnect with yourself, and experience your creative practice in a whole new way.

 

You’ll begin with a warm-up journey through all seven chakras — a meditation that moves through the full energy landscape of the body — and then let that experience pour out onto paper in a circular, mandala-inspired form using oil pastels. There’s no right or wrong result here, only your own.
 
 
The second exercise goes deeper. A guided meditation focusing on the throat chakra is paired with gentle touch drawn from Polarity Therapy — the practice of holding two points in the body (say, the heart and the head, or across the joints) to encourage the flow of energy between them. Straight from that meditative state, you’ll move to large paper — on a table — working directly with your hands using pastels, sidewalk chalk, and tempera paint. The invitation is simply to stay connected to what you felt and let your body lead.
  • LOCATION: Portsmouth Arts Guild
  • TUITON: $65
  • MEMBER DISCOUNT: Use code PAGMEM for $10 OFF
Mia de Bethune, Portsmouth Arts Guild

Mia de Bethune

Mia spent summers on the Point in Newport at her grandmother’s home on Washington Street overlooking Narragansett Bay. She also attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied film and then worked in New York City on in the film/TV business for ten years. Now, she is an artist, writer, and art therapy educator at New York University and The School of Visual Arts in New York where she continues to commute to see students and clients.

Her professional focus has been trauma treatment with families and children in foster care as well as grieving families in hospice. Recent doctoral research at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA focused on body-based methods in art therapy, and her first book The Embodied Art Therapist will be published this summer from Routledge.

She was a member of the Upstream Gallery in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY since 2016, but has taken a hiatus due to her move to Portsmouth, RI in 2021. Her work is multi-modal with elements of realism and abstraction as well combining textiles, paint, and collage.  She works in both 2-D and 3-D to create woven objects, many of which are designed for the outdoors. She has a keen interest in upcycling and renewable materials.

As a result of her doctoral research Mia developed workshops to teach mental health professionals and students embodied art therapy methods. She also developed her own full-body art process called Polarity Drawing or Chakra Flow Drawing/Painting.

Registration

This workshop runs on Friday, June 26, from 6:30am to 8:00pm.

PAG Members use discount code PAGMEM to receive the member discount. Enter the code on the 2nd screen. Remember to click the APPLY button on the right.

Please note: we don’t accept checks as payment for workshops and classes.
Questions? Contact workshops@portsmoutharts.org.