How it started

Entering the Cave first began — like so many of the projects that change our lives do — as a glimmer. A glimpse. A download.

It was the summer of 2022, and I was sitting in meditation late one night when the phrase came to me suddenly: look for the next confusion, the cave you fear to enter. I jotted it into my notes app, recognizing it as a Joseph Campbell reference.

The series launched soon thereafter. Eight artists joined me for that first beta launch, and we dove deep together, into an investigation of the light within, what blocks it, and how we move through fear.

I can’t express in words how much I needed this, someone said.

Nothing short of awe, another shared.

I knew I had to keep going.

My background

I’m a lifelong writer who’s struggled with writer’s block my whole life—precisely because I’d had the experience of channeling work that felt like it happened through me—and I could feel the difference between that, and the work that was ego-driven, forced.

So I dove into a lifelong pursuit of understanding where inspiration comes from, and what blocks it. I took Lynda Barry’s amazing “Writing the Unthinkable” workshop, created a workshop during my MFA called “Keeping the Channel Open”, trained as a yoga teacher, found Buddhist meditation and took a year-long training in Buddhist philosophy, studied somatics and trauma healing. In 2020, I sustained two concussions, which cracked open a new channel as a visual artist in the intense healing process that ensued as I restructured my brain.

Entering the Cave became the next synthesis, a way of bringing together tools I’d been gathering over a lifetime of seeking the stream: inspiration, flow state, samadhi — however we describe it.

I’ve been offering Entering the Cave, and learning from it, over these past four years, often as single workshops or 3-week mini-series, with a cohort of devoted artists who’ve often experienced synchronicities, shifts, and rapid expansion through their participation.

Meanwhile, I’ve been growing my own toolbox. In 2026, I completed a facilitator training program in the Work That Reconnects, a body of ritual practices created by Buddhist scholar and environmental activist Joanna Macy, which help us meet the collective pain of this moment on Earth and know ourselves more deeply as part of a web of healing. I’ve also recently competed a course in Depth Psychology and shadow work for creative breakthroughs, deepening my understanding of this work I’ve been offering for years.

Deeper Ground is a new chapter — and I’m so excited to go on this journey together. I believe that artists play a unique role in changing culture and shifting consciousness — which we need more than ever in these times of oppression and polycrisis.

My hope is that the work we do together in Entering the Cave will change not just our creative practice, but in a very real way expand our capacity to meet this moment.