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Margaret Lindsey offers in-person and zoom events—finely-honed transformative technology that keeps us in shape—creatively and consciously. Whether it’s one-on-one, in a group engaging in creative conscious practices online, or sitting together in person…in a group, or one-on-one. more info in events
Join a study or meditation group with Margaret Lindsey
Expressive painting: this on-going zoom group is all about inquiry and exploration. The focus of this way of painting is to reveal information to the painter, through playful inquiry. Paint is the magic that brings it all into form, painting from the inside out. more info in events
Each of us is a DOORWAY for direct sensing, deep inquiry, and self-reflection.
NEW! Contemplative art practices
General idea: Contemplation with art and nature expands non-linear sensing, restores emotional and physical well-being, and shifts human consciousness, allowing for deep inquiry, interconnection with others, personal healing and connection with the numinous.
The altered state of mind and body that arises from engaging in contemplative practices allows the contemplator to utilize non-linear creative pathways, in response to or inspired by the individual’s meditation experience. Many creative processes can be combined with contemplation, or used in response to contemplation experiences. For example: 2D visual art, sculpture, installation, performance, writing, dance, music. more info in events
Workshops and year-long sessions are in the dreaming stage now. Visit the events page and stay up-to-date on current offerings.
Meditating with heart spiral painting. Join Margaret and friends on Zoom or YouTube.
Upcoming Offerings
Art As Spiritual Practice
Our first group practiced and studied together for 10 months in 2024, on zoom. The gatherings were diverse and interesting in terms of content: we meditated and experimented with various contemplative interactive experiences, did creative practice together following the meditation, and shared afterwards.
Art & Symbolic Process
This is a powerful participatory template for intensive creative personal investigation with a single, personally selected symbol. Guided artmaking and other creative practices make this a rich investigation, and worth repeating. 9 sessions. Inquire about custom symbolic process small groups.
The Incubator: Creative Project Metamorphosis…
A transformative art intensive focusing on the creation and development of personal creative projects. Incubation period: 9 months. With group support and witness, you will edit, grow, distill, problem-solve, test, enhance, produce, and maybe even complete your project. The group meets on Zoom monthly, Sunday afternoons. Introductory info session and new groups forming.
Artransforms Studio
On-going creative projects include: text, meditations with the Heart Spiral, deep study of sacred geometry, and study and inquiry into Art as Spiritual Practice.
PAINTINGS explore stories of the cosmos
These acrylic paintings are explorations and conversations with the world. Lindsey experiences: a single blossom, an alternate dimension, a prayer for the earth, or a way to heal… Acrylic paint on unprimed canvas, applied with unconventional tools: this is her magic.
Margaret asks, “Why do this work?” And the answer is: “To shift consciousness and awareness, to live a more fully informed life, to heal, to pray, to inquire, to know.” She believes art is an action, rather than an object. Art is ancient technology for communing with the cosmos.
“Prayers for the Earth” © 2025 Margaret Lindsey. “This is how I pray for anything: I paint it. so this is my prayer for our world to be surrounded by light and clarity”
Want to know more about conscious art practice? Read about it here
This type of artmaking is a hands-on approach to direct sensing, internal observation, deep inquiry, and self-reflection. It’s a non-linear, non-verbal process, and you can’t do it wrong.
“Conscious art practice? It’s wellness work.”
This site features conscious creative practices, events, and images created by Margaret Lindsey, mfa
Margaret has mentored and taught transformative art processes for decades, and is passionate about that work. She guides expressive art and healing experiences in various settings, including zoom. Many of her classes and meditation practices are adapted or inspired by the graduate seminars she taught in the Arts & Consciousness program at J.F.K. University, in Berkeley, CA.
Her approach to creativity and consciousness begins with this belief: engaging with multiple aspects of the self while learning and healing allows transfor-mation of consciousness to occur. When people actively create, sourcing themselves holistically, they are essentially engaging in creative cross-training. Quantum change occurs when the entire being is involved: when the somatic, emotional, cognitive and meditative aspects of self are all engaged.
Margaret lives and paints in the mountains outside of Nevada City, CA, and shows her acrylic paintings in galleries, community spaces and online.
Surrounding the earth with light… © 2025 Margaret Lindsey
“For people like me who don’t look at themselves as “arty,” who have their career in the corporate world, Margaret helps you develop the sides that you need to develop. She engages both the intellectual and the emotional sides of you.”
Art & Symbolic Process art student
“Margaret Lindsey is the Mama Bear of the art world: she helps artists to experience fully the sensual riches of the aesthetic journey while fiercely shielding them from its darker frustrations.”
Art & Symbolic Process art student
