About Kaylina
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It is my greatest pleasure to inspire and hold safe space for others to explore and express with liquid color. I found intuitive painting when I was in a very dark night of the soul with a debilitating health crisis and I did not know if I would make it through. Even though I had not painted much in my life the only thing that made me feel better at all was imagining painting. I found my way to an intuitive painting workshop at the Center for Creative Exploration where I found a process that changed my life (https://www.ccesf.org/).The paintings met me in my deep sorrow like nothing else had. I felt so relieved to find a way to move through what was going on inside of me. Once this deep grief could move I was able to experience joy and hope again.
This was the beginning of my love affair with painting. The process unleashed in me such a creative force and gave me a place to express and meet all parts of myself even the ones that seemed unbearable. I started to integrate the polarities in myself and have deep acceptance for all that was going on in my life. And most importantly, I started to delight in creative exploration. I was no longer jammed up by critical thought forms. I learned to surrender to a bigger creative flow through the process and felt connected to the greater whole of life.
How we do anything is how we do everything. I have seen from my own process that when I get "free" in a painting I get free in my life. Getting free for me means that I start to be more curious than certain. That I don't see my thoughts as the absolute truth. That I fully allow the felt-sense present moment instead of trying to control it by grasping or avoiding. That I move beyond my conditioned mind's habitual responses of what is right or wrong, good or bad. That I learn to notice and "just be with" sensation in the body. That I start to see with the eyes of the heart.
This is what this painting process is about - Meeting the present moment so fully that we brim with delight and experience the truth of who we really are. Which to me in not something that can be named. It is a felt -sense of the Great Mystery itself. We get to reclaim the wonder and awe that is our birthright.
Education
I have a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Lenoir-Rhyne University. I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina. I am also Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP).
Art degree from the University of Louisville in Louisville,Ky
Emphasis mainly in Photography because I was too creatively blocked to pursue my real love of painting.
Early Childhood Training Certificate From the Rudolf Steiner College in
Sacremento, CA.
I was a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher and assistant for many years in Ky and Ca.
Certified Food Addiction Professional from the Food Addiction Institute in Sarasota, Fl.
I enjoy educating people about the science behind certain foods being addictive and the difference between having an eating disorder vs. having a food addiction and being eating disordered. To learn more on food addiction click here: https://foodaddictioninstitute.org.
I have been process painting for over 11 years. I have trained extensively in California and New Mexico with Michele Cassou who founded the Painting Experience and the Zero Point Painting Method. I have completed her Master Teacher Training.
I have been mentored by my dear and amazing teacher Barbara Kaufman for over 7 years. She founded the Center for Creative Exploration http://ccesf.org in San Francisco 18 years ago. She was Michele Cassou's assistant from close to the beginning of the birth of this work. Barbara went back to spirit a few years ago and now her dedicated and soulful assistant of many years Claudia Ezhinger is my current painting teacher in this method.
It is my greatest pleasure to inspire and hold safe space for others to explore and express with liquid color. I found intuitive painting when I was in a very dark night of the soul with a debilitating health crisis and I did not know if I would make it through. Even though I had not painted much in my life the only thing that made me feel better at all was imagining painting. I found my way to an intuitive painting workshop at the Center for Creative Exploration where I found a process that changed my life (https://www.ccesf.org/).The paintings met me in my deep sorrow like nothing else had. I felt so relieved to find a way to move through what was going on inside of me. Once this deep grief could move I was able to experience joy and hope again.
This was the beginning of my love affair with painting. The process unleashed in me such a creative force and gave me a place to express and meet all parts of myself even the ones that seemed unbearable. I started to integrate the polarities in myself and have deep acceptance for all that was going on in my life. And most importantly, I started to delight in creative exploration. I was no longer jammed up by critical thought forms. I learned to surrender to a bigger creative flow through the process and felt connected to the greater whole of life.
How we do anything is how we do everything. I have seen from my own process that when I get "free" in a painting I get free in my life. Getting free for me means that I start to be more curious than certain. That I don't see my thoughts as the absolute truth. That I fully allow the felt-sense present moment instead of trying to control it by grasping or avoiding. That I move beyond my conditioned mind's habitual responses of what is right or wrong, good or bad. That I learn to notice and "just be with" sensation in the body. That I start to see with the eyes of the heart.
This is what this painting process is about - Meeting the present moment so fully that we brim with delight and experience the truth of who we really are. Which to me in not something that can be named. It is a felt -sense of the Great Mystery itself. We get to reclaim the wonder and awe that is our birthright.
Education
I have a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Lenoir-Rhyne University. I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina. I am also Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP).
Art degree from the University of Louisville in Louisville,Ky
Emphasis mainly in Photography because I was too creatively blocked to pursue my real love of painting.
Early Childhood Training Certificate From the Rudolf Steiner College in
Sacremento, CA.
I was a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher and assistant for many years in Ky and Ca.
Certified Food Addiction Professional from the Food Addiction Institute in Sarasota, Fl.
I enjoy educating people about the science behind certain foods being addictive and the difference between having an eating disorder vs. having a food addiction and being eating disordered. To learn more on food addiction click here: https://foodaddictioninstitute.org.
I have been process painting for over 11 years. I have trained extensively in California and New Mexico with Michele Cassou who founded the Painting Experience and the Zero Point Painting Method. I have completed her Master Teacher Training.
I have been mentored by my dear and amazing teacher Barbara Kaufman for over 7 years. She founded the Center for Creative Exploration http://ccesf.org in San Francisco 18 years ago. She was Michele Cassou's assistant from close to the beginning of the birth of this work. Barbara went back to spirit a few years ago and now her dedicated and soulful assistant of many years Claudia Ezhinger is my current painting teacher in this method.