Flora Bowley
Explore a lively intuitive painting process that uses painting, play, and embodied movement to help you trust your instincts, access a deep well of wisdom, and feel the exhilarating freedom of exceeding your expectations.
Awaken curiosity, free authentic self-expression, and experience the thrill of uncovering new possibilities through embracing a creative approach to life’s challenges.
Some of life’s biggest transitions can’t be solved through thinking alone…
Whether you’re navigating a major life change, feeling disconnected from the flow of life, or simply sensing that there’s more of you waiting to be expressed…
… creativity is the spark that can bring you home to yourself, says celebrated artist Flora Bowley.
Join Flora in this 6-week live adventure in intuitive painting — what she calls the Art of Aliveness …
… and discover for yourself that when you engage in the creative process with curiosity instead of judgment, you access a deeper source of wisdom, resilience, and self-trust.
Through movement, breathwork, reflection, and playful experimentation, you can learn to respond to life the same way you respond to a painting — one step at a time, without needing to know exactly how it will all turn out.
And, because you’ve embraced a creative approach instead of a stultifying commitment to rigid planning, you’ll find that the solution you’re seeking lives in the space between intention and surprise.
Under Flora’s watchful eye, you won’t be focusing solely on technique or creating a perfect finished product. You’ll be using color, mark-making, visual language, layering, movement, breath, vocalization, and reflection to explore how creativity mirrors life itself.
Drawing on more than three decades as a painter and decades of study in yoga, somatic practices, mindfulness, movement, and personal growth…
… Flora developed a uniquely holistic approach that helps people reconnect with their creativity while discovering new ways to navigate change, uncertainty, and self-expression.
What makes Flora’s approach different is that painting becomes both the practice and the teacher.
Over seven weeks, as you learn to trust your instincts on the page, you’ll begin strengthening your ability to trust yourself beyond it.
Throughout the journey, you’ll create a series of studies and intuitive paintings while exploring themes such as permission to play, creative courage, authentic expression, trusting the unknown, embracing change, and letting go of perfectionism.
You’ll discover how to work with what’s emerging in the present moment, how to stay open when plans change, and how to find freedom in not having all the answers.
By the end of this experience, you’ll have developed a more confident relationship with your creativity, a collection of meaningful artwork, practical practices for staying connected to inspiration, and a personalized Art of Aliveness Deck filled with reminders, prompts, and insights to support you long after the final session.
You don’t need artistic experience — only curiosity. Whether you’ve never picked up a paintbrush or you’ve been painting for years, Flora’s intuitive approach will help you trust what emerges and fine-tune your unique creative voice.
If you’ve been longing to feel more creative, more expressive, more intuitive, or simply more alive, perhaps the next step isn’t figuring everything out…
Perhaps it’s reconnecting with the creator within you to begin shaping what comes next.
During this inspiring course, you’ll:
- Discover how to quiet self-judgment, trust your instincts, and approach creativity with greater freedom, confidence, and curiosity
- Learn Flora’s signature practices for using movement, breath, sound, and embodiment to access a more intuitive and authentic creative process
- Develop confidence mixing colors, building palettes, and choosing combinations that feel vibrant, meaningful, and uniquely your own
- Expand your creative vocabulary through expressive mark-making techniques that bring greater energy, texture, movement, and depth to your paintings
- Create a personal visual language using imagery, symbols, shapes, and visual metaphors that help you tell stories and express ideas beyond words
- Explore layering as a powerful practice for embracing change, releasing perfectionism, and responding creatively to what’s emerging in the present moment
- Practice making bold creative commitments while staying open to change, strengthening your ability to take risks and respond intuitively
- Complete a series of intuitive paintings while building practical skills that help you create with greater spontaneity, courage, and self-trust
- Create a personalized Art of Aliveness Deck filled with visual inspiration, creative prompts, and personal wisdom to support your creativity long after the course ends
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 6-week transformational course, Flora will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to learn to trust your creative instincts and create intuitive, expressive paintings without relying on perfectionism, rigid rules, or self-doubt.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Flora and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Flora’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions 2026-08-11 9:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Flora. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to reconnect with a deeper sense of creativity, possibility, and authentic self-expression that extends far beyond the canvas and into everyday life.
Embrace Playful Creativity to Build Trust in Yourself (2026-08-11 9:00:00 am)
Creativity doesn't begin with talent, technique, or getting it right - it begins with giving yourself permission to show up exactly as you are. You'll explore how play, curiosity, and embodiment can help quiet self-judgment and reconnect you with your natural creative instincts.
Flora will guide you through simple practices that reveal creativity as a powerful pathway to self-discovery, healing, and authentic expression. As you reflect on your relationship with creativity, you'll begin cultivating the courage to experiment, take risks, and trust what emerges.
You'll also create clear intentions for your journey while establishing a supportive foundation for intuitive painting and creative exploration.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience Flora's eyes-closed finger-painting practice to bypass perfectionism, awaken your senses, and discover the freedom of creating from intuition rather than judgment
- Explore movement, breath, and embodiment exercises that help quiet your inner critic and reconnect you with the creative energy already living within you
- Reflect on your relationship with creativity through guided journaling that reveals what's been holding you back and what becomes possible when you give yourself permission to play
- Discover why creativity is available to everyone and how the creative process itself can become a source of healing, self-trust, and deeper connection with yourself
- Create meaningful intentions for the journey ahead while learning practical ways to integrate creative exploration into your daily life beyond the canvas
Develop Color Confidence Through Intuitive Exploration (2026-08-18 9:00:00 am)
Color doesn't have to be complicated. You'll discover how a simple palette of primary colors, black, and white can become a gateway to endless creative possibilities.
Rather than memorizing rules or relying on formulas, you'll learn to trust your own responses to color and develop a deeper relationship with what feels alive, expressive, and meaningful to you.
Flora will guide you through playful color-mixing explorations that build confidence while helping you identify the colors, combinations, and contrasts that resonate most deeply.
By the end, you'll have a growing library of color studies and a stronger sense of how to bring energy, emotion, and personal expression into your paintings.
In this session, you'll:
- Explore Flora's "Color Craving" exercise to uncover your natural attraction to certain colors and develop greater trust in your own creative instincts
- Learn how to mix an expansive range of colors using only primary colors, black, and white so you can approach painting with greater confidence and freedom
- Experiment with unexpected color combinations and contrasts that bring movement, energy, and aliveness to your artwork
- Create a personal library of color studies that can serve as inspiration and reference material for future paintings
- Begin applying your discoveries to larger works as you lay down initial layers of color guided by intuition rather than rigid rules
Create Dynamic Paintings Through Expressive Mark-Making (2026-08-25 9:00:00 am)
Every mark carries energy, emotion, and information. You'll discover how mark-making can become a powerful language for expressing what words often cannot.
Through playful experimentation with a variety of tools, movements, rhythms, and gestures, Flora will help you expand your creative vocabulary while developing greater trust in your instincts.
You'll explore how subtle shifts in pressure, speed, scale, and repetition can dramatically change the feeling and impact of a painting.
As you build a personal library of marks, textures, and patterns, you'll begin bringing more movement, depth, contrast, and authentic expression into your larger works.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience a guided embodiment and vocalization practice that uses movement, sound, and intuitive mark-making to help you access greater spontaneity, creative freedom, and authentic expression
- Experiment with a wide range of traditional and unexpected painting tools to discover new ways of creating texture, pattern, rhythm, and visual interest
- Explore how changes in pressure, speed, scale, repetition, and gesture can transform the emotional quality and energy of your marks
- Create a personal library of marks, textures, and patterns that can inspire future paintings and expand your creative possibilities
- Layer intuitive mark-making into your larger paintings to bring greater movement, contrast, depth, and expressive energy to your work
Discover Your Unique Creative Voice Through Visual Language (2026-09-01 9:00:00 am)
Every artist develops a unique way of seeing and communicating through images. You'll explore how shapes, symbols, imagery, and visual metaphors can become a personal language that reflects your inner world and creative perspective.
Through playful drawing and ideation exercises, Flora will help you discover the visual elements that feel most meaningful, compelling, and alive to you.
You'll learn how artists create meaning and tell stories without relying on words, while developing greater confidence in your own creative voice.
As your visual vocabulary expands, you'll begin weaving these discoveries into your paintings to create work that feels more personal, expressive, and uniquely your own.
In this session, you'll:
- Practice Flora's Visual Riffing process to generate multiple visual interpretations of a single idea and discover fresh, unexpected ways to communicate meaning through imagery
- Explore how shapes, symbols, and visual metaphors can become powerful tools for personal expression, storytelling, and creative exploration
- Discover new ways to represent universal human experiences such as freedom, joy, wonder, belonging, connection, and transformation through visual language
- Gather inspiration from art, nature, everyday life, and your own intuitive responses to build a growing archive of meaningful visual elements
Special Double Session Part 1 - Reimagine What's Possible For Your Life Through the Art of Layering (2026-09-08 9:00:00 am)
Layering transforms painting from a process of trying to get things right into a practice of curiosity, flexibility, and discovery. You'll experience how depth, richness, and visual intrigue emerge when you allow your work to evolve through multiple layers rather than forcing a predetermined outcome.
In this extra-long session, Flora will guide you in developing a more responsive relationship with the creative process, helping you trust that each layer offers new opportunities to refine, transform, reveal, or completely reimagine what's possible.
You'll discover how working with translucent paints can create luminosity and visual conversation between layers while strengthening your ability to stay present with what's emerging.
Along the way, you'll practice the powerful mindset of making bold commitments while remaining open to change, both on the canvas and in life.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience Flora's transformative 80% Exercise to loosen perfectionism, release attachment to outcomes, and discover the creative possibilities that emerge when you let go boldly
- Explore how translucent paints can create depth, luminosity, and rich visual relationships between layers that bring greater complexity and aliveness to your paintings
- Practice making bold creative commitments while staying open to change, strengthening your ability to take risks and respond intuitively as your work evolves
- Experiment with adding, simplifying, rotating, and transforming layers to build confidence in adapting to what's happening rather than controlling the outcome
- Continue developing your larger paintings by learning to recognize "what's working," trust the next step, and allow your paintings to reveal themselves over time
Special Double Session Part 2 - Reimagine What's Possible For Your Life Through the Art of Layering (2026-09-08 10:30:00 am)
Layering transforms painting from a process of trying to get things right into a practice of curiosity, flexibility, and discovery. You'll experience how depth, richness, and visual intrigue emerge when you allow your work to evolve through multiple layers rather than forcing a predetermined outcome.
In this extra-long session, Flora will guide you in developing a more responsive relationship with the creative process, helping you trust that each layer offers new opportunities to refine, transform, reveal, or completely reimagine what's possible.
You'll discover how working with translucent paints can create luminosity and visual conversation between layers while strengthening your ability to stay present with what's emerging.
Along the way, you'll practice the powerful mindset of making bold commitments while remaining open to change, both on the canvas and in life.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience Flora's transformative 80% Exercise to loosen perfectionism, release attachment to outcomes, and discover the creative possibilities that emerge when you let go boldly
- Explore how translucent paints can create depth, luminosity, and rich visual relationships between layers that bring greater complexity and aliveness to your paintings
- Practice making bold creative commitments while staying open to change, strengthening your ability to take risks and respond intuitively as your work evolves
- Experiment with adding, simplifying, rotating, and transforming layers to build confidence in adapting to what's happening rather than controlling the outcome
- Continue developing your larger paintings by learning to recognize "what's working," trust the next step, and allow your paintings to reveal themselves over time
Create a Personal Art of Aliveness Deck to Sustain Your Creative Practice (2026-09-15 9:00:00 am)
Creativity flourishes when we find meaningful ways to stay connected to what inspires, supports, and encourages us.
You'll gather the insights, discoveries, visual explorations, and personal wisdom you've cultivated throughout the course and transform them into a one-of-a-kind Art of Aliveness Deck.
Using paintings, studies, and painted papers you've created along the way, Flora will guide you through a reflective and playful integration process that helps distill what matters most to you.
You'll create a collection of visual reminders, creative prompts, personal mantras, and encouraging messages that can continue supporting your creative journey long after the course concludes. Together, you'll celebrate how far you've come while recognizing that every ending contains the seeds of a new beginning.
In this session, you'll:
- Share the most meaningful insights, discoveries, and creative gems from your journey while celebrating the unique path you've traveled throughout the course
- Create a personalized Art of Aliveness Deck using painted papers, studies, and artwork you've made along the way, transforming your creative explorations into an inspiring companion for the future
- Gather personal mantras, creative prompts, words of encouragement, and visual reminders that can help you reconnect with your creativity whenever you need inspiration or support
- Discover simple practices and sustainable rituals for nurturing an ongoing relationship with creativity in everyday life
- Reflect on your growth as an artist and creative human while honoring the courage, curiosity, and self-trust you've cultivated throughout the journey
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-08-01 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Flora’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
A Creative Release: Moving Emotions Through Paint
Video Series From Flora Bowley
In this inspiring 60-minute video, you'll step behind the scenes of a large-scale intuitive painting and witness how the creative process can help emotions move, shift, and transform. As Flora shares candid reflections throughout the journey, you'll discover how painting can become a powerful practice for processing feelings that may be difficult to express with words alone. You'll also pick up practical techniques and insights that can help you feel more confident approaching your own creative process. Watching the painting unfold layer by layer, you'll see how intuition, curiosity, and self-expression can reveal unexpected pathways forward. More than a painting demonstration, this bonus offers a moving invitation to use creativity as a tool for healing, self-discovery, and greater emotional freedom.
The Art of Being Fully Alive
Video From Flora Bowley
Explore how creativity can help you navigate life's complexities with greater honesty, resilience, and self-compassion. Through guided movement, expressive mark-making, vocalization, reflective writing, and meaningful group sharing, you'll discover what becomes possible when you move beyond either/or thinking and embrace the wisdom of both/and. As Flora guides the experience, you'll learn how holding seemingly opposite truths can open the door to deeper authenticity and emotional freedom. You'll gain creative practices for meeting uncertainty, contradiction, and change with greater presence and curiosity. This powerful 62-minute session offers a fresh perspective on how growth, healing, and creative expression often emerge when you allow yourself to hold the fullness of your experience.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Spirit Doodling
Video From Flora Bowley
In this intimate 12-minute video, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at one of Flora’s most cherished creative practices: Spirit Doodling. As she shares pages from her personal sketchbooks, you’ll discover how simple marks, symbols, and patterns can become gateways to insight, self-reflection, and creative discovery. You’ll learn how this accessible practice can help you quiet the mind, connect with your intuition, and uncover themes that may be quietly emerging beneath the surface of your everyday life. Through Flora’s examples and gentle guidance, you’ll see how even the simplest doodles can reveal unexpected wisdom and meaning. This inspiring session invites you to transform an ordinary creative habit into a powerful practice of mindfulness, self-discovery, and inner listening.
30 Days of Creative Play
PDF From Flora Bowley
With this playful collection of 30 creative prompts, you'll discover simple ways to invite more curiosity, inspiration, and aliveness into your everyday life. Through intuitive drawing, creative writing, photography, movement, and unexpected acts of self-expression, you'll be encouraged to step beyond routine and explore new possibilities. You don't need any artistic experience - just a willingness to experiment, follow your curiosity, and see where it leads. Whether you complete one prompt each day or jump into whichever activity calls to you, you'll build a deeper relationship with your own creativity along the way. This month-long adventure is a joyful reminder that creativity isn't something reserved for artists - it's a natural part of who you are.
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The Art of Aliveness - An Intuitive Painting Journey offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Flora Bowley will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Flora Bowley
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from creative catalyst Flora Bowley — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to create expressive artwork while developing greater trust in your instincts and creative process. Course sessions are on 2026-08-11 9:00:00 am.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Art of Aliveness - An Intuitive Painting Journey
We feel honored that Flora Bowley has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a celebrated artist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about developing the confidence to create from curiosity, intuition, and authentic self-expression while discovering your own unique artistic voice, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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If you don’t absolutely LOVE The Art of Aliveness - An Intuitive Painting Journey — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before August 25, 2026 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
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About Flora Bowley
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Flora Bowley is an artist, creative pioneer, gentle guide, and author of five books: The Art of Aliveness, Brave Intuitive Painting, Creative Revolution, Fresh Paint, and Earth is Holding You. Blending over 20 years of professional painting experience with her background as a yoga instructor, healer, and lifelong truth seeker, Flora passionately believes that creative expression is waiting to unfold within every person who is brave enough to trust, let go, play and explore.
Flora’s soulful approach to the creative process has sparked a new holistic movement in the intuitive art world – empowering thousands of people to courageously pick up a paintbrush through her intimate in-person workshops and online courses. Her own vibrant collection of paintings can be found in galleries, shops, and printed on unique products around the world.
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