Meditation and Creativity
Alicia Allen
June 15–21, 2026
(6 nights / 7 days)
We invite you to join Alicia’s annual Meditation and Creativity Retreat as we explore how contemplative practice and the creative process are intimately related.
In this 7-day Meditation and Creativity Retreat we explore how contemplative practice and the creative process are intimately related. We’ll enter the richness of silence for a nourishing time of meditation and inner reflection, and of creative exploration and expression. We’ll nurture our bodies with plenty of rest, delicious healthy food, and time spent sitting by a clear mountain stream, or walking in the wild beauty of the natural environment. When we enter retreat, and surrender our habitual ways of presenting ourselves in the world, and begin releasing layer after layer of our emotional reactions to the experiences that arise in our lives, we have the opportunity to drop into the vast openness and stillness within. This profound resting in the natural ease of being restores us on every level. As we relax more and more deeply, we reawaken our fundamental curiosity and awareness, until we are free to meet ourselves directly, see things more clearly as they are, and respond in a most authentic and wise and caring way to everything that arises in our experience. As we reconnect with our innate vitality and aliveness, we access our spontaneous freedom of expression, the exquisite brilliance and exuberance of our essential nature. This is the wellspring of our unique creative energy. We will explore this boundless source of creativity in a variety of ways, both individually and as a group. No previous meditation or artistic experience is necessary. All levels of experience are welcome, as we each engage our meditation and creativity processes at our own growing edges.
BIO
Alicia Allen has been meditating for 45 years, and teaching for 20, both online and in person. She has a 30 year private practice as a Spiritual Counselor and Creativity Consultant. She also taught for 25 years in the Grief, Loss and Death and Dying program at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM. A former editor of Shaman’s Drum Magazine, Alicia is trained in both traditional and contemporary healing methods. She began her creative studies early, and continues to teach and perform the improvisational arts of movement, physical theater, and vocal music. She paints and writes, and is currently writing a book on Meditation and Creativity.
For more information and registration:
visit www.meditationandcreativity.com
or email Alicia at alicia@meditationandcreativity.com
