Do you have something inside of you that needs to be expressed?
Are you longing to access your authentic voice and spark your innate creativity?
Do you crave real time creative community?
Do you have a creative vision that you keep putting off, waiting for the “right time?”
You don’t have to do it alone.
Will you join us?
Creative Fire Circle is a live virtual program designed to activate your authentic creative voice & alchemize your experience and emotions into artistic expression.
“I leave each session having grown.
I leave each session with a sense of possibility.
I leave each session more alive, connected and inspired.
I leave each session wanting more.”
Dear Creative Soul,
Yes, you. I see you, struggling to make your creative expression a priority. Taking care of your partner’s needs, your family’s needs… Getting through all of your to do’s and commitments so that you can hopefully “make time” for your creative dreams...only you can’t ever seem to make the time.
I am here to tell you that Creative Expression is not a luxury. In this time of global upheaval and social isolation, we NEED to connect to our creativity as a way to alchemize stuck emotion and anxiety into artistic expression for healing and transformation.
I created this program based on my own experience as a new mom, feeling isolated and struggling to find time to bring my creative visions forward. What I discovered was that I needed support. Sitting alone in my room in front of the computer did not generate creativity. I needed to be in community, with other people who were also hungry to create. I also discovered that the difficult emotions I was experiencing were actually not something to push to the side so I could “create.” Rather, they became the raw material of the poems and songs I needed to write.
Our creative spark is nurtured in community. Creative Fire Circle will introduce you to a dynamic group of diverse and passionate individuals who will be working alongside you, sharing work, and celebrating each other’s successes.
Will you join us?
“I am in AWE of what I experienced in the Creative Fire circle! Some things opened in me that I did not dream possible. I absolutely loved it! ”
Creative Fire Circle is for you if:
You have a sense that creative expression is part of your healing journey
You have something inside that wants to be expressed but are stuck or don’t know where to start
You need guidance and support to move your creative work forward
You are stressed and tired from over-giving at home and/or at work
You stop yourself from creating because your inner judge tells you “you’re not good enough” or not “a real artist”
You desire to delve into your artistic expression in a loving, fun, and non-judgmental space
You want to stop scrolling and staring at a blank screen and create artistic community in real life
You are looking for a tribe to support you in activating your authentic creative voice and bringing it forward
Join Creative Fire Circle.
Embodiment
Creativity as a healing force is a body game. Creative Fire Circle activities incorporate embodiment to interrupt patterns and generate flow, including:
Meditation
Creative play
Breathwork & Movement
Sound
Sound is a keystone Creative Fire modality. Tap into emotional and creative depths by both receiving and creating powerful sonic experiences:
Group sound meditations
Vocal release work
Sounding and toning
Expression
Heal to create, create to heal. This is the essential core of both Elana’s personal creative practice and her teaching. In this course, participants will work with:
Creative prompts
Journaling
Intuitive art making
Authentic movement
Community
The Creative Fire Community is a dynamic, diverse and soul searching community. We witness and celebrate each other as we deepen our relationships to writing, creativity and voice.
Ritual
Group work
Accountability
Encouragement and support
“Being a part of Creative Fire Circle has infused creativity and sparked a massive transformation in every aspect of my life ”
What you’ll receive:
Creative Fire Circle includes:
Eight Group Sessions
Designed to activate your authentic creative voice, connect you with powerful community, and support you in moving toward your creative visions. These sessions will include guided sound meditation to support you in releasing the grip of your inner critic, vocal release work, and custom writing prompts to move you past writer’s block and into inspired creativity. There will be time to write actively on the call, as well as time to share work and receive support, and set creative goals.Session 1: Introduction & Building Our Creative Community
Session 2: Activating Your Creative Fire
Session 3: Diving deep: Memory as Creative Inspiration
Session 4: Sounding Your Truth
Session 5: Alchemizing Experience and Emotion into Creative Expression
Session 6: Working Creatively in Community
Session 7: Feedback and Integration
Session 8: Sharing and CELEBRATION!
Please note that these session topics are flexible and may be adjusted to meet the needs of the group and/or follow the energy of the Creative Fire
Group celebration
Share work, unite and celebrate all you have experienced and created!Private Facebook group
Community, support, accountability, and encouragementGuest Artists & Presenters
Sessions will be recorded if you cannot attend live
INVESTMENT: $997
Payment plans and sliding scale available. Please contact Elana with any registration questions.
Sessions take place on Sundays from 4–6:30 pm ET. We begin in March 10th, 2024 and meet approximately every other week through June 9th.
Guest Artists
For each round of Creative Fire Circle, I invite a guest artist to bring their magic to the Creative Fire Community. Past guests have included Bernadette Pleasant, founder of the Emotional Institute, Lainie Love D’alby, visionary artist, and Ilov Grate, sensual movement artist.
Creative Fire Circle VIP Program
Do you feel like you need a little extra attention and support? Over years teaching both privately and group workshops, I have come to believe that the combination of the two creates the most potent container for your creativity to thrive. If you are interested in doing a deeper dive, consider the Creative Fire Circle VIP Program, which includes all of the above plus:
Creative Alchemy 1:1 VIP Sessions (Select 1 or 2 sessions)
These totally customized private sessions provide additional sacred space and time to honor and inspire your inner creative. Together we will address the blocks to your creative process, map out your creative vision, and set it in motion. Your session(s) will include guided sound meditation and vocal release work to move through your blocks and access creativity, a custom curriculum designed specially for you including generative exercises, hand selected readings and prompts to work on at home, and feedback on your work.
Our one-on-one work will be an opportunity to go deep and focus on your personal journey. It will include a curriculum designed specifically for you based on your specific needs and creative desires. This is where you will receive feedback and direct guidance to bring your creative work more fully forward.
INVESTMENT
Creative Fire Circle + One VIP Session: $1197
Creative Fire Circle + Two VIP Sessions: $1397
Please note: This is a special opportunity for one-on-one work only available to Creative Fire Circle members.
You’ll walk away from this program with:
A renewed connection to your creative life force energy
Confidence and a desire to dig in to your creative visions
Tools to dissolve creative blocks quiet, the inner critic and open the creative channel
The ability to alchemize raw emotion and experience into creative expression
Forward movement on new creative projects or ones you’ve been stuck around
A supportive creative community
“Elana’s workshop guided me through a profound experience of connection with my body and creative energy, supported both by her beautiful teaching and by an incredible group of inspiring women. Even with just a few hours together, the fruits of this process were beyond my expectation and imagination.”
“I loved the session today. It really made a difference in how I connect with myself and what’s around me. We often forget our creative selves, look for fulfillment elsewhere. In fact, if we look inside she’s been waiting all along to give us the freedom to move, write, sing and voice ourselves. Today’s session enabled me to find my creative self again. Thank you Elana for doing what you do.”
“Elana’s workshop gave me the power to be myself and express myself. Not only is it a platform for creativity & expression but it is also a safe space for us to come together and support one another. It showed me that I can be vulnerable and powerful at the same time. I would tell anyone who is considering working with Elana to dive on in. I guarantee a shift in either awareness, connection or creativity.”
About Elana
Elana Bell is a poet, sound practitioner, and creative guide. She facilitates artistic rituals and processes that support groups and individuals in accessing their authentic voice and alchemizing raw experience and emotion into artistic expression. Whether through her soul-stirring poetry, her sacred sound journeys, or through her inspiring workshops, Elana creates a space where all people’s voices and stories are heard and deeply valued. Elana’s first collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones, received the Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American poets. Her second book of poems, Mother Country (BOA Editions 2020) examines themes of motherhood, fertility and mental illness. Elana is the founder of the Mother-Artist Salon. In addition to leading her own Creative Fire programs, Elana currently teaches poetry to first year acting students at the Juilliard School, and sings with the Resistance Revival Chorus, a group of women and non-binary activists and musicians committed to bringing joy and song to the resistance movement.
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”