you don't need to be an artist. you just need to show up. the art of leaning in ~now open ~Come home to yourself
You already know something needs to change.
This is where you learn to trust it.
A guided journey back into your body, your creativity, and your own quiet knowing — for women at a crossroads, ready to stop waiting for clarity and start moving toward it.
Starts September 23, 2026 · Early bird ends August 1 · Small group, virtual · Limited seats
Reserve Your Spot — Early Bird Ends 8/1
Pay in full or split it into two payments. No pressure, just a held space.
Is This You?
You're not lost. You're at a threshold.
You feel it before you can name it
A restlessness, a tightness, a quiet "this isn't it anymore" that shows up in your body before it shows up in words. You're tired of thinking your way to an answer that was never going to come from your head.
You're craving real, not rehearsed
You don't want another self-help framework. You want a room — even a virtual one — where it's safe to be honest, messy, creative, and unfinished. Where growth doesn't have to look polished to count.
What Is Somatic Experiencing & Creative Arts Coaching?
Art of Leaning In is a somatic experiencing and creative arts–based group coaching program — which is a fancy way of saying we work with the body, not just the mind, to help you find your way back to yourself.
Most of us have spent years living from the neck up. We think our way through decisions, analyze our way through feelings, and wonder why clarity never quite arrives. Somatic experiencing works differently. It starts with the body — the tightness in your chest, the restlessness in your legs, the exhale you didn't know you were holding — because the body often knows what the mind is still circling. Creative expression becomes the doorway into that knowing. Through simple, guided art-making (no skill or experience required), you access a felt sense of your own truth that talking alone rarely reaches.
This isn't traditional talk therapy, and it isn't a typical art class. It's a hybrid: part group coaching, part somatic practice, part creative permission slip. Each week builds on the last, moving you from arrival into embodiment, and from embodiment into real, felt change.
The Journey
Eight weeks. One body. A whole lot of leaning in.
1
Land
We begin by arriving — fully, in the body, in this moment. Before we can move toward anything new, we have to know where we're actually standing.
2
Listen
Underneath the noise of what you "should" want is a felt sense that's been trying to speak. This week, we slow down enough to hear it.
3
Learn
What your patterns have been trying to teach you all along — and how to read them with curiosity instead of judgment.
4
Lighten
Where we begin setting down what's been heavy to carry — old roles, old stories, the weight of holding it all together.
5
Laugh
Healing doesn't have to be heavy. We make room for play, silliness, and the relief of not taking your own unraveling so seriously.
6
Leap
The heart of the work: leaning into discomfort instead of away from it, and discovering it doesn't break you.
7
Love
For yourself, first — and for what's possible now that you're not bracing against your own life anymore.
8
Laud
Integration and celebration. Honoring how far you've come, and carrying what you've found here back into your actual life.
What Holds This Container
Safety. Surrender. Love.
Safety
A small group, held with care, where nothing about you needs to be fixed before you're welcome here.
Surrender
Permission to stop controlling the outcome and let the process — and your own body — lead for a while.
Love
For yourself, first. Everything else — the clarity, the courage, the next step — tends to follow from there.
This work is held by Christina King, licensed creative arts therapist with over 25 years of experience in clinical, residential, and private practice settings. Christina has spent her career helping people — from teens to women navigating major life transitions — reconnect with their bodies, their creativity, and their own quiet knowing.
Her approach blends somatic experiencing, art therapy, and yoga-informed mindfulness into something that feels less like a technique and more like coming home. She founded CK Creative Wellness to bring this work outside traditional clinical walls, into a space that's relational, honest, and unafraid of a little mess.
Reserve Your Spot
Early bird pricing, while there's still time.
Cohort begins September 23, 2026 — seats are limited to keep this small and safe.
Pay in Full ~or ~2-Payment Plan
Early Bird Now – Aug 1 $670 ~$335 + $335
Late Bird Aug 2 – Sept 10 $730 ~$365 + $365
Standard Sept 11 – Sept 18 $789 ~$395 + $394
Save $119 when you enroll by August 1. A small number of sliding-scale spots are available for financial hardship — reach out directly.
Before You Decide
A few honest answers.
I'm not an "artist." Will I be able to do this?
Yes. This isn't an art class — it's a felt-sense and self-awareness practice that uses creative expression as the doorway in. No skill, talent, or experience required. Just willingness.
What if I have to miss a session?
Life happens. You'll receive a recap and between-session materials for any week you miss, and you're welcome to bring questions to the next live session.
Is this therapy?
No — this is coaching and creative facilitation, not clinical treatment. It's relational and somatic, but it's not a substitute for therapy if you're navigating acute mental health needs.
Where and how does this happen?
Christina will host this cohort at reflective harmony in Albany, NY All supplies are provided all you need is the willingness to show up as you are.
What if the cost is a hardship right now?
Reach out directly. A small number of sliding-scale spots are available for those navigating genuine financial hardship.
You don't need to have it figured out.
You just need to lean in.
Eight weeks from now, you won't be the same person reading this page. This is somatic coaching, creative arts therapy, and group support woven into one guided container — built for women at a crossroads who are done waiting for permission. Let's begin.
© 2026 CK Creative Wellness. Albany, NY. All rights reserved.
christina@ckcreativewellness.com · 518.290.0097
What people are saying.....
"It is refreshing to be in a setting where folks felt comfortable being vulnerable"
"You opened my eyes and spirit to the power of art as surrender and a tool of transformation"