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The Sacred Lotus Journey: A Recovery Journey Through Creative Arts, Contemplative Practice & Sacred Healing

Coming Fall 2026

Expressive Practices For Recovery and Soul Restoration

Art, music, writing, and movement have the innate power to rejuvenate and heal the mind, body, and spirit—no experience or skill required.

These forms of expression tap into something deep and universal within us, offering a way to release tension, process emotions, and reconnect with joy. When approached with openness rather than perfection, they become accessible doorways to self-discovery, play, and renewal. Whether you’re picking up a paintbrush, journaling your thoughts, swaying to gentle music, singing or simply allowing your body to move, each creative act becomes a healing invitation to return to yourself with compassion and ease.

For the recovery community, this presents a different option that can be used adjacent to or as a sole methodology for addiction recovery, addressing grief and trauma that walk hand in hand in addiction.

This process is not solely for the recovery community, however, the stories and process is designed for that space. All individuals can benefit from the process.

What do you mean by addiction? As human's our minds, bodies and spirits become compulsive and patterned through the use of different substances, experiences, foods, processes that initiate strong dopamine hits and a reward cycle that powerfully keeps us locked into destructive actions, behaviors, thoughts and processes. When these processes become so compulsive and embedded that they are hurting you, causing legal, relational, emotional or health issues, we consider that something to be addressed professionally.

Is this AA or something like that? No. This is not a 12 step program, but you could use it as a companion to a 12 step program that goes deeper into the consciousness.

Is this for individuals wanting to better themselves or for clinicians? It's for both actually. As we move to the official roll out this fall, you will see the complete suite of opportunities, resources and options.

Not just another art class.

Healing is the Discovery of the Divine Within - Ernest Holmes

Nature is expression of Divine Imagination. - John o’Donahue, Anam Cara

All the workshops are grounded in presence inviting you in Sacred Connection with spirit, however you define that, as you move intuitively with materials. We define it as loving energy. Images, messages, profound thoughts, silent peace, unraveled emotions, catharsis, can all be a part of the experience. It is a process that involves mindfulness, meditation, guided imagery and openness. It also involves courage, to lay down defenses and hear the deepest parts of you.

Jes is a former K-12 art teacher with decades of experience teaching art and exploring materials with people. When she transitioned careers to mental health and addiction counseling, she began to incorporate her studio work with treatment modalities like expressive arts therapy and art therapy concepts. Her focus in these classes is to provide experiences that help you discover more about yourself, encourage creative expression and catharsis and allow space where you are seen, heard and connected. With her background in depth psychology, mysticism, and ancestral lineage, she leads you through spaces virtually or in person that meet you where you are and invite you to go deeper into yourself and explore-- creatively, emotionally, philosophically and see what is revealed in the end. She includes her original sound medicine helps you learn to listen and trust yourself, your intuitive wisdom, not the chaotic mind--and know the difference between which is which.

What faith practice is this? We remain interfaith, inter spiritual and earth based (pantheist).

Jes Wen'de Waters

Hi, I’m Jes Wen’de Waters, pronounced (Jes When-Day Wah-ters). My pronouns are she/her. I reside on the land once home to the Osage, Hopewell, Wyandotte, Shawnee, Odawa, Pawnee, where the path of the Underground Railroad led to freedom.

My lineage, 1,500 years. One living line, from the Picts in Scotland. Another, founding Quakers in the U.S. who knew, you needed to only sit in the stillness of earth and communion and be present, to know God, to channel spirit.

My ancestors built their entire spiritual lives around a single radical conviction — that every human being has direct, unmediated access to divine truth. No priest. No creed. No intermediary. The sacred is available to anyone willing to become still enough to receive it.‍ ‍

My indigenous line knew that too. No Gatekeepers. No doctrines. Just the land, it’s music, and you.

I create these offerings as devotional prayers for the individual, group worship and prayers. The intention is always to bring you closer to union with God, Spirit.

Everything is original and available for licensing. All music is registered with BMI.

I am an interdisciplinary media artist , singer songwriter of 30+ years and composer whose work bridges studio practice, digital and time-based media, public art, and therapeutic expressive arts. My practice is grounded in storytelling, cultural memory, and transpersonal inquiry, integrating sound, visual art, motion, and contemplative process. My work has been exhibited throughout North America, with audio and film projects receiving global radio, film licensing globally and is streamed on all major streaming outlets.

Alongside my studio practice, I serve as a teaching artist vocal alchemist leading praise, worship and devotions from the middle of America through online and selected in - person engagements. I lead

Engaged Compassion Practice
HeartMath Breathwork
Women’s Song and Sacred Creative Circles
Stitch Meditation Practice
Musica Divina Practices within a Contemplative Prayer lens
Labyrinth Day Events
Spiritual Direction and Companioning Exploration Through the Arts
Creative Prayer sessions, training and support
Contemplative Creative Arts Practices infused with EcoSprituality
Interfaith Arts and Devotional Ministry sessions and groups
Archetype work
Ceremonial blessings and prayer work

My credentials include:

Phd, Transpersonal Counseling
Ordination, Wisdom of the Heart Interfaith Church, Reverend.
Centers For Spiritual Living, Circle Organizer, Practitioner Path
Certificate in Theology and the Arts, Fuller Seminary
Certificate of Chaplaincy, Life Pacific University (Four Square Gospel)
Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, Evergreen Certifications
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Arizona Trauma Institute
Training in Contemplative Prayer and Christian Mystics, CAC, Santa Fe
Certification in Curanderismo, University of New Mexico with multiyear mentoring
Beloved Compassion Training (Church of Christ/UCC)
HeartMath Certified Clinical Provider Training
Community of Christ Seminary/Temple School for the Priesthood Path
Certificate in Jungian Analysis, Zur Institute
Certificates in various Sound Healing and Expressive Arts Therapies
Certificate in Electronic Music Production and Voice, Berklee School of Music
Graduate study in music technology, Southern Utah State
Graduate study in digital and studio arts, Lindenwood University
Certified Restorative Embodiment and Nature Based Expressive Arts Practitioner, TIExA Institute
M.Div. Metaphysical Sciences, University of Metaphysical Sciences
Master’s in Psychology, Regis University
B.S. ED. Elementary Ed., minor in music, University of St. Mary
A.A. Vocal Performance (included training at the UMKC Conservatory of Music)

My public art practice includes being selected as a Kansas City Parade of Hearts Selected Artist for both the 2024 and 2026 Parade of Hearts Public Sculpture Installation and Exhibit. I also create commissioned, culturally rooted works that engage transpersonal themes and therapeutic expressive arts methodologies, often developed in collaboration with individuals, communities, and organizations.

Contemplation and observation have been fundamental parts of my life. Opening to transcendent spiritual connection in creative union with God, I compose/arrange music and song, author books and create interdisciplinary media works of art that express what I see in the world. It becomes, at a point in process, the deepest and purest connection with spirit, where I am guided by the Creator.

Music was my first love and my compositions that range from nearly two decades in ambient and new age sound and soundtrack, to now, embracing fully my singer songwriter self allow the the unique triune of visual art development, motion graphics turned into film shorts and accompanied by originally composed music.

This has been my trajectory, given a vision that had to wait for right time, right place, right tech, right learning, right action to make it's way into the world. My work traverses faith systems and embraces spiritual expressions of energy, meditation and universal love, and focus on awareness, ancestry, healing and teaching others how to see in spiderwebs-- that all things are connected-- even in the arts.

As a composer, songwriter, vocalist and recording artist, I have released a discography of over 30 albums since 2009. Selected compositions have been licensed for film, including The Cabin, featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, and my work has been released commercially throughout the globe.

Some of my small works can be seen at Creative Spark Gallery at Englewood Row in the Englewood Arts District in Independence, Missouri and have been shown throughout North America including Canyon Road in Santa Fe and the Laguna Arts District in California.

I enjoy living on the Kansas Prairie and communing with nature.

Interviews with Jes

How I Came to Grief - Death Doula Dialogues

Parade of Hearts Interview - 2024

Living in Spirit - Unity Creative Arts Ministry 2018

Meditative Motions Film Shorts with Original Sound