Rooted in Service
At Living Canvas Foundation™, expanding access to Arts & Healing experiences is a core pillar of our work.
We collaborate with experienced facilitators and partner organizations to offer creative, healing-centered workshops for individuals and communities who may face financial, resource, or accessibility barriers. Beginning in Los Angeles and expanding across the U.S., we host FREE workshops that invite creative expression, reflection, and connection.
To stay informed about upcoming workshops and future offerings, we invite you to join our community by signing up below.
Upcoming Events
Sat, Apr 25 | 11am-3pm Silverlake, CA
Be Light Together® invites you to a transformative yoga + writing workshop led by Scarlett Lam—author, performer, and storyteller. Over three immersive hours, you’ll move, breathe, and write your way into the stories your body has been holding.
Sat, Apr 18 | 10am-12pm Santa Monica, CA
Resonance is a two-hour journey where sound amplifies intention. Alexa Fischer guides you to envision your next greatest wish, then Cristi Christensen’s immersive sound bath carries it through the body as a lived, resonant vibration. You’ll leave feeling grounded, clear, and subtly recalibrated—carrying your wish with a deeper sense of trust, alignment, and resonance.
Sat, Mar 22 | 10am-12pm Virtual Workshop via Zoom
Living Canvas Foundation presents: The Art of Unwind, Ceremonial Art Session hosted by Karis Yves Knight. This virtual workshop will soften the body, clear the mind + restore inner balance through nervous system regulation, breath work and creative expression/ meditative art practices.
Sat, Mar 21 | 2:30pm-4:30pm Silverlake, CA
The Lively Bee Moon Shop invites you to peel away the layers of adulthood and reconnect with your most creative self. It's a chance to bring the whole gang—your inner child, pre-teen, and teen—out to play. No fixing, no analyzing, just permission to make a mess, get silly, and hang out with every age that still lives inside you.
Sat, Mar 21 | 1:30pm-4:30pm Santa Monica, CA
A gentle, private gathering for grieving mothers to connect, reflect, and share with compassion. Held by Dr. Laura Berman in a safe, heart-centered space. A healing Sound Bath experience will be led by our guest facilitator, Cristi Christensen
Recent Events
Wish Club Fun Friday hosted by Alexa Fischer. Drop in, wind down, and create for fun. Explore watercolor, weaving, beads, sewing, puzzles, and more. No pressure, no plan—just joyful creative play together.
The Entwine Wellness Retreat is in support of Asian, Asian American, and multicultural communities. This year's theme, "Finding Our Way Forward," illuminates the transformative power of healing through the bonds of community and making sense of our path forward together.
Wildwood School’s Institute of Entrepreneurship hosted Sheila Darcey, Founder of SketchPoetic and the Living Canvas Foundation as part of their Entrepreneurship Speaker Series hosted by senior student, Riya Narayan.
Marguerite Nesteruk, Founder of Resonating Earth and Jeannine Chanin Penn, Living Canvas Foundation Ambassador hosted the first Arts & Healing for Caregivers workshop. Through a guided herbal tea ceremony (three organic, caffeine-free teas), plant-connection meditation, and self-inquiry prompts with music, you’ll be invited to slow down, soften stress, and reconnect with yourself and nature.
Healing Song Circle for Caregivers hosted by Clark Nesselrodt and David Person. Rooted in ancient ceremonial traditions—this experience honors sound, vibration and community as profound tools for healing. Through song, prayer and gentle guidance, the circle invites nervous-system regulation, emotional release, spiritual insight and a deep remembering of one’s own innate wisdom and worth—beyond the roles one carries.
Our Founder, Sheila Darcey, is the 2026 YWCC Speaker at GALA, the only all-girls public STEM school in LAUSD and the state of California. GALA is 6th-12th grades and provides a highly rigorous college preparatory STEM-focused education in an all-girls environment based on voluntary enrollment that fosters academic excellence, ethical leadership, and intellectual curiosity.
