Body & Soul Art Intensive with Alex Grey & Allyson Grey
Schedule
Fri, 13 Nov, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Sun, 15 Nov, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors | Wappingers Falls, NY
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ABOUT THE PROGRAMBody & Soul Art Intensive is a creative spiritual practice and visionary ritual intended to turn on the Light Body. Multiple systems of subtle healing life energies run through and surround our body. Seven Chakras, witnessed and reported by clairvoyants as "wheels of light,” ascend the spine and color our emotions and aspirations.
This drawing ritual challenges us to depict the model’s nude presence and encourages us to imagine and portray bio-energetic radiant auras that extend beyond the skin.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Drawing begins on the first morning of the workshop. Each of the seven chakra drawings are briefly introduced by a short guided meditation to consider the energetic force-field associated with the chakra we are about to portray.
Each participant will create seven drawings focusing on the character and hue of one chakra. Each drawing period is forty-five minutes long, working with meditative focus. The exercise is accompanied by a thematic musical playlist highlighting the archetypal meaning of each chakra.
To introduce each drawing, a brief blessing describes the meaning, color and vibration of that energy center, identifying specific organs and nerve bundles that correspond within the body. The subject of each drawing is a yogini, a nude model who stands, sits or lies still for class members to draw or paint.
YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Alex Grey & Allyson Grey
Alex Grey, world-renowned artist, poet, and author, is best loved for his paintings which portray multiple dimensions of reality, interweaving biological anatomy with psychic and spiritual energies. His books, Sacred Mirrors, The Mission of Art, Transfigurations, and Art Psalms, trace the development of his work and mystical experiences that shaped his spiritual artistic life. Alex’s most recent monograph, Net of Being, addresses how his art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness. alexgrey.com
Allyson Grey is an artist whose paintings have been exhibited and sold internationally. Co-founder of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Grey is a community leader with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University. She has edited and co-authored over a dozen books and journals, lectured widely, and has been an educator and muse to artists for over 30 years. The symbol system in her paintings represent an essentialized world-view comprised of chaos, order and secret writing. Allyson is the wife and partner of internationally renowned artist, Alex Grey, and the mother of accomplished film actress, Zena Grey. allysongrey.com
Together, the Grey’s co-founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a spiritual creative retreat center in the Hudson Valley of New York. On the forefront of a movement in which painters join musicians on stage, the Grey’s painted together live before tens of thousands of folks at New York Broadway theaters, at sold-out festivals and arenas in dozens of international cities across five continents. As long-time advocates of “cognitive liberty,” a growing international “sacramental culture” has embraced the Grey’s as important mapmakers and spokespersons for the visionary realm. The Grey’s, with a dedicated and evolving team, have created CoSM, an interspiritual Art Church and Entheon, a Visionary Art sanctuary at CoSM. cosm.org
CoSM WORKSHOP SETTING
Class sessions will take place in the newly renovated MAGI Art Lab.
Grey House, CoSM's Visionary Victorian guest house, provides accommodations for all participants.Residing onsite together is a part of this immersively creative week, providing maximum interactivity, immersion & enrichment. Accommodations in Grey House are offered in a variety of economies and are additional to the workshop fee.
ACCOMMODATIONS
The Grey House, CoSM’s Visionary Victorian guest house, offers accommodations for all participants. Works of art by Alex Grey, Allyson Grey and accomplished artists of the international Visionary Art community are featured throughout guest rooms and common spaces of Grey House.
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Where is it happening?
COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, 51 Deer Hill Rd, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590-3934, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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