Upcoming In-Person Classes and Retreats for the Soul

  • Explore Your Intuitive Senses Class

    Date: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

    6:30pm-8pm

    Location:

    Deep Rooted Healing

    106A North Main Street

    Oconomowoc, WI 53066

    Cost: $45

    In this class we will explore:

    -What our intuitive senses are and how to decipher information that we perceive through these senses

    -How the intuitive senses are different but connected to our 5 main senses

    -What our intuition is and how we can harness it to support and guide us through our lives

    -How often these abilities are labeled as "crazy" but how they are truly part of our natural human gifts we have all been given to thrive on deeper levels

    -Ways you can continue to explore, deepen, expand and grow our intuitive senses

    -I'll guide you through a meditation as I offer you Reiki to connect to, open and expand your intuitive senses as much as you are ready for

    -Space to share stories about experiences we've had with these intuitive senses in a safe environment where you won't be judged, silenced or called "crazy" but instead will be supported, heard and encouraged to share your authentic experiences.

    -Demystifying and destigmatizing the labels "psychic" and exploring what that word truly means

  • Reiki Level 2 Certification Training Class

    THIS CLASS IS FULL

    January 25th-26, 2025

    10am-3pm both days

    Location:

    Deep Rooted Healing

    106A North Main Street

    Oconomowoc, WI 53066

    Prerequisite: Level 1 Usui Reiki with me or another instructor (You will need to send me a copy of your certificate if you learned Level 1 with another teacher).

    Cost: $350

  • Explore the Healing Power of Crystals Class

    Date: Saturday, February 1st, 2025

    2pm-3:30pm

    Location:

    Deep Rooted Healing, 106A North Main Street, Oconomowoc, WI 53066

    Cost: $45

    This class for those curious to learn more about crystals! Maybe you are totally new to them or have a collection that you love having around your home and using in different ways. Either way, you are welcome to join me as we play and connect with the power and beauty of crystals to deepen and expand our spiritual growth, health and well-being.

    Together in the class, we'll explore:

    -What crystals are scientifically and how they can impact our physical body and aura/biofield to support our healing and well-being.

    -How we can connect and work with crystals in our lives for energy protection, energy clearing, to supporting our dreams, to amplifying love, peace, creativity, empowerment and more!

    -How to work with the power of intention with crystals

    -Share stories about our experiences connecting with crystals

    -How to make simple crystal grids for your home, office and while traveling

    -How to clear and care for crystals

    -We'll do a fun guided meditation to connect with the energy of crystals.

    This will be like a crystal playground. If you have crystals you love, please feel free to bring a few for a show and tell but this isn't necessary.

    I will also have crystals to purchase at the end of the class if you'd like.

  • Reiki Level 3 Master/Practitioner Certification Class

    THIS CLASS IS FULL

    February 22nd-23rd, 2025

    10am-3pm both days

    Location:

    Deep Rooted Healing

    106A North Main Street

    Oconomowoc, WI, 53066

    Prerequisites: You need to have completed Reiki Level 1 & 2 (Usui lineage) with me or another teacher before taking this class.

    Cost: $350

    (THIS CLASS IS FULL)

  • Dive into Chakras Class

    Date:

    Saturday, March 1st, 2025

    2pm-3:30pm

    Location:

    Deep Rooted Healing

    106A North Main Street

    Oconomowoc, WI 53066

    Cost: $45

    This class is for those curious to learn more about our chakras. We'll have a fun afternoon exploring:

    -The history of chakras, what they are and what they do.

    -What the 7 main chakras of the human body are as well as the Soul Star chakra, Earth Star chakra and the ones in our hands and feet.

    -What the different chakras connect to in our physical bodies, emotions, and aspects of being human.

    -How to use a pendulum to see if there are energy blockages within chakras.

    -Guided meditations to connect to different chakras for balance, health and well-being.

    -The colors connected to the chakras and ways we can play with them to enhance healing in our lives including using visualization techniques and using certain crystals.

    -Affirmations, reflection questions and intentions to use for exploring, balancing and amplifying different chakras for overall health and well-being.

    Cost: $45

  • Reiki Level 1 Certification Training Class

    March 8th-9th, 2025

    10am-3pm both days

    Location:

    Deep Rooted Healing, 106A North Main Street, Oconomowoc, WI 53066

    Cost: $350

  • Reiki Level Two Certification Class

    April 12th-13th, 2025

    10am-3pm both days

    Location:

    Deep Rooted Healing

    106A North Main Street

    Oconomowoc, Wisconsin 53066

    Prerequisite: You need to complete Reiki Level 1 (Usui lineage) with me or another teacher before taking this class.

    Cost: $350

  • Reiki Level 3 Master/Practitioner Certification Class

    June 7th-8th, 2025

    10am-3pm both days

    Location:

    Deep Rooted Healing

    106A North Main Street

    Oconomowoc, Wisconsin 53066

    Prerequisite: You need to complete Reiki Level 1 and 2 (Usui lineage) with me or another teacher before taking this class.

    Cost: $350

  • Private Reiki Classes

    I offer private Reiki classes if the dates of my current classes don’t work for you, if you have friends, family members or coworkers you’d like to do a special class with or if you’d like me to come and teach at another location other than my healing space. Please contact me about dates and pricing and we can talk about possibilities.

On-Demand Creative Classes, Retreats and Sanctuaries for the Soul

You receive unlimited access instantly with support from me along the way if you’d like it. I want you to be able to go at a pace that feels right for you.

“I like the simplicity and purity of your courses. They are so calming and relaxing in this very busy world.”

-current student

  • Soul Writing Sanctuary: Feeling Our Way Through Grief and Loss

    A quiet on-demand space to explore and tend to our grief and losses through intuitive writing practices, poetry, guided meditations, passages to spark contemplation and reflection, healing songs and gentle writing prompts.

    When we tend to our grief, we tend to our souls. Finding ways to gently touch what is tender or hidden inside can be healing and restorative. Come exactly as you are and allow your heart to pour on to the page.

    $55.00

  • Fireflies, Roots and Waves: A Nature Writing Retreat

    Slow down and connect with the healing gifts of nature in this on-demand writing retreat. Gathered poems from different poets along with writing prompts that will invite you to pause, listen within and write from an intuitive, open space to discover what wants to emerge on to the page. Guided meditations and creative nature adventures will deepen the retreat experience. You will be able to come and go as you please and use this retreat over a weekend or spread out over a week or many months.

    $55.00

  • Make Fabric Meditation Books

    Learn to create slow, hand stitched books with a process that is calming, meditative, intuitive and healing. I share many techniques you can use to create fabric books and different ways to incorporate nature to create personal meaning. All techniques are simple and require no previous stitching experience.

    Over 35 lessons included to guide you through creating books that resonate with you.

    $55.00

  • Make a Slow Stitched Contemplation Cloth

    We'll work with soft fabrics and thread to gently go inward, process emotions and thoughts and return to stillness and silence for healing and wisdom. This practice is intuitive and very calming.

    $45.00

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

    In this class, I guide you through a simple daily writing practice to discover what wants to move up and out of you on to the page. I share 30 poems on light and darkness along with prompts to spark your writing each day. This is intuitive writing. The focus is on being present, open, receptive and allowing ourselves to feel and express what emerges in the moment.

    $45.00

  • Make Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books

    Play with paper, fabric, ink, stitching, found nature and more while exploring the beautifully rich Japanese philosophy of wabi sabi that is rooted in Zen Buddhism. This class is all about exploring art making as a spiritual practice.

    $55.00

  • Soul Messages: A Found Poetry Workshop

    Explore an intuitive, playful way of creating, discovering & receiving poetic soul messages from gathered words we cut from magazines. Expand and deepen your relationship with language for self-expression, gentle healing and inner guidance. This is a meditation practice that can open us to deeper knowing and a connection to our subtle sensitivities.

    $45.00

  • Zen and the Art of Nature Weaving

    Learn to create beautiful, simple weavings on pieces of nature found on walks. Connect more deeply with the incredible world around you and within you through this slow, meditative process. We’ll explore and weave in Zen Buddhist teachings along the way.

    $45.00

  • Book Making Class Bundle

    In this bundle, you get my two book making classes to go deeper with your creative process at a discounted price.

    This bundle includes these classes:

    -Fabric Meditation Books

    -Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books

    $85.00 ($110.00 value)

  • Poetry Class Bundle

    In this bundle, you get two of my poetry classes for a discounted price.

    This bundle includes these classes:

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

    -Soul Messages: A Found Poetry Workshop

    $70.00 ($90.00 value)

  • Slow Stitching Class Bundle

    This bundle includes these classes that incorporate slow stitching practices:

    -Make Fabric Meditation Books

    -Make a Contemplation Cloth

    $75.00 ($100.00 value)

  • wabi sabi mixed media book by Emma Freeman from Deep Rooted Healing online class

    Wabi Sabi & Contemplation Cloth Class Bundle

    This bundle includes these two classes:

    -Make Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books

    -Make a Slow Stitched Contemplation Cloth

    $85.00 ($110.00 value)

Photos from classes and retreats over the years:

Testimonials from Students

I’ve been an arts educator for over 20 years and have taught classes, workshops and retreats to people from ages 3-85 in many different creative mediums and settings.

Learn more about my teaching experience:

“I learn over and over again that the creative process is an intelligence that knows where it has to go. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where I need to be, and it is always a destination that never could have been known by me in advance.”

-Shaun McNiff, art therapist