Liberate Your Inner Artist
At the Art Monastery, we guide heart-centered creatives to dissolve blocks, merge art with spiritual practice, and cultivate a joyful, fearless expression that feels authentically yours.


Are you an Artmonk?
Do your fingers itch to create?
Do you suspect your art-making could be a spiritual practice — sacred, even — but you don’t want to get all up on your high horse about it?
Do you dream that your work could be of service in some way? To proliferate joy, connection, and insight?
Welcome.
You’re an Artmonk and you’ve found your people.
Your Path to Creative Awakening
Artist Unleashed Bundle (free)
A bundle of resources designed to help you dissolve creative blocks, deepen your art practice, and connect with your inner muse. Yours for free!
Free Your Inner Artist Summit
Join a global lineup of artists, creators, and visionaries for hands-on workshops, creative inspiration, and liberating conversations to spark your full artistic expression.
Awakening Creativity Program
A transformative program that supports women & non-binary folx to overcome creative blocks, unleash flow, and make the art you were born to make.
Meet Suiko McCall: Artist, Teacher, Visionary
Suiko Betsy McCall is the heart behind the Art Monastery. As an artist, teacher, and former monk, Suiko merges creativity and spiritual practice to help others reconnect with their authentic voice.
Her approach blends the discipline of monastic life with the freedom of artistic exploration, empowering creatives to see their art as sacred and their lives as works of art.



New Moon April 27, 2025
Once the entire world is yourself,
What could a life of solitude add?
—Mahadeviyakka, 12th century (trans. Jane Hirshfield)
You are the wild iris of this moment
This world is all fog, all sun
White flower petals on green stems
An icy brown plain of opened catkin
By the stream you come in my perfect need
Up from hidden clefts in shadowed canyon
Close upon the sensual changing day
I fall to my knees
I cry in your presence
You are my favored intoxicant
All merged, all banished alone, all reunited
You are the world as it is
Breathing viriditas as springtime waltz
Over everything, pollen yields scented frisson
Father of cups, mother of light on water
Look, feel, cloud presence, here! now!
A smiling purple nod from radish in the grass
Nothing happens without you
Stay inspired with our Moonletters
Receive original poems and paintings around each New and Full Moon, designed to inspire your creative journey and deepen your connection to art, intuition, and rhythms of the earth.
Curious to explore past Moonletters? Browse the Archive and soak up the inspiration.

What Artmonks Are Saying
Our programs have transformed the lives of countless creatives. Hear directly from our Artmonks about their journey.