So let us pick up
the stones over which we stumble,
friends, and build altars.

-from Pádraig Ó Tuama’s poem, Oremus

I’m Emma Freeman, a Heart-Led Contemplative Mixed Media Artist, Teacher, Reiki Practitioner and Massage Therapist. I love exploring slow, soulful, fun and intuitive creativity and connecting with people through my passions! Compassion, kindness, peace, deep feeling and joyful expressing guide me. I also love stories…listening to people talk about their lives, listening to nature, listening with my hands and my eyes to art materials and to the physical body during bodywork sessions, reading books, watching movies…authentic, heartfelt stories are one of my greatest inspirations. Learn more about me here.

Peaceful Online Art Retreat

March 6th-8th, 2026

Live on Zoom with recordings of all workshops included!

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Make Fabric Meditation Books

On-Demand Art Class

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By the Light of a Poem: A 30 Day Soulful Writing Journey

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Zen and the Art of Nature Weaving

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Make Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books

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Make A Slow Stitched Contemplation Cloth

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Fireflies, Roots and Waves: A Nature Writing Retreat

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    Creative Classes & Art Retreats

    I offer both on-demand, self-paced classes and in-person classes. Try something new, slow down and explore peaceful, gentle creative techniques with me.

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    My Artwork

    See the art I make as a spiritual practice that gently combines my own inner emotional work, mindfulness, meditation, textiles, slow stitching, weaving, gathered nature and mixed media practices.

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    Poems

    Read the poems I have written from my journey into my mind and heart.

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    My Podcast

We will cocoon with the season
we will sing without reason
and emerge with widened wings…

-Starling Arrow, from their beautiful song, “Wild Sweet”