Creating Together. Rising Together. Growing Together.
At Creative Harmony Arts, we believe creativity is not a luxury — it is a vital pathway to wellness, belonging, and cultural resilience. Through the heARTful Hands Collective, our mission is to reduce loneliness and isolation by creating safe, welcoming spaces where people can reconnect with themselves and one another through creative flow.
The Roots to Rise Series honors the wisdom of slowing down, listening inward, and growing in rhythm with our bodies, emotions, and cultural roots. Rather than focusing on outcomes or artistic skill, these workshops emphasize process, presence, and compassionate self-expression.
By weaving together creative practices, embodied awareness, and cultural storytelling, we support emotional literacy, nervous system regulation, and a felt sense of belonging beyond borders. This work invites participants to remember that healing and harmony are relational — nurtured through curiosity, gentleness, and shared humanity.
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Roots to Rise -Ignite your Creative spark
A heARTful Hands Collective by Creative Harmony Arts
Roots to Rise is a community-based creative workshop series designed to nurture connection, cultural wellness, and emotional resilience through the expressive arts.
In a world that rushes healing and demands quick results, Roots to Rise invites us to slow down, listen inward, and remember that true growth happens when we are rooted — in our bodies, in our stories, and in one another.
Through gentle, embodied creative practices, participants are guided to explore art as a living process not to make something “perfect,” but to create space for self-trust, emotional expression, and belonging beyond borders.
Each session weaves together:
- Creative Flow Practices — using accessible art-making, movement, and journaling
- Embodied Awareness — tuning into body signals to support nervous system regulation
- Cultural Reflection Circles — honoring ancestral wisdom, storytelling, and shared humanity
- heARTful Hands Method — creating with compassion, curiosity, and care
These workshops are open to all — no prior art experience needed. Just a willingness to be present, curious, and kind with yourself.
Roots to Rise is for anyone longing to feel more connected, more grounded, and more alive — especially those navigating loneliness, grief, transition, or disconnection.
🌱 Come root into yourself.
🌸 Rise in creative expression.
🌿 Grow a community where everyone belongs.
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In a world of constant noise and pressure, Creative LIT (Harmony) invites us to slow down, listen inwardly, and rediscover the rhythms of connection.
By cultivating self compassion through art and shared stories, we create a ripple of love that transcends borders — within us and around us.
Roots to Rise is a creative flow workshop series by Creative Harmony Arts’ heARTful Hands Collective, offering a gentle, inclusive space to explore art as a pathway to wellness, belonging, and emotional resilience.
These embodied creative sessions invite participants to slow down, explore creative expression through accessible art practices, and reconnect with their intuition, culture, and community.
No art experience needed — just an open heart and curious hands.
🌿 Create. Connect. Come home.
Our Vision
To build a world where creativity and compassion are accessible to everyone where art becomes a language of healing, belonging, and harmony.
What We Offer
Creative Wellness Workshops
Move from stress to spaciousness through art, movement, journaling, and gentle embodiment practices.
Express your way to calm, clarity and joy.
Compassionate Flow Circles
Experience the FEEL Method — Focus, Experience, Express, and Listen to Liberate. Cultivate resilience, authenticity, and emotional balance.
Family Art Experiences
Intergenerational creative sessions that nurture connection and joy through play and color.
Our Approach
Each gathering combines:
- Grounding & breathwork
- Creative journaling & mindful artmaking
- Interoceptive awareness (body-based reflection)
- Community sharing & celebration
Who We Serve
Women, youth, and families seeking meaningful connection, emotional regulation, and creative renewal.
No art experience needed — just an open heart and willing hands.
Partners & Support
This initiative is supported by the Arts & Culture Plan of Mecklenburg County, in partnership with
Hindu Center of Charlotte, QC Family Tree, and She Dreams in Color Foundation.
Join the Collective
Be part of a growing movement that heals through creativity and connection.
Follow us for workshops, events, and collaborative art experiences.
📍 Charlotte, North Carolina
🌐 [www.umayal.art]
Artist & Creative Facilitator
I am Umayal, a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller, and facilitator exploring the intersection of creativity, healing, and belonging. My art is a living dialogue between boundaries and bridges where identity, culture, and emotion meet in rhythm and color.
As an artist and relational alchemist exploring how art transforms the way we relate to ourselves, to each other, and to the larger world we are part of. My work challenges inherited conditioning and cultural patterns that disconnect us from our bodies, our intuition, and our truth.
Through movement, mark-making, somatic awareness, and creative play, I guide individuals and communities into deeper self-awareness and collective resonance. Here, art is not a product it is a practice of being . It is how we shape identity, build relational integrity, and create cultures of belonging.
I work at the nexus of Boundaries, Balance, Belonging, and Boundless Love —
restoring the courage to feel, the freedom to express, and the power to be seen.
This is not just art.
This is relational evolution.
This is the artistry of being alive.
