Catharsis Art Therapy

CATHARSIS

noun. The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

Creating sanctuary spaces where art becomes medicine, and your personal journey becomes a sacred work of creative transformation.

We are a Cape Town collective, initiating art therapy workshops, involving painting, drawing and poetry as potent mediums for shifting the subconscious state, deepening understanding of self and releasing pain and trauma from the energy field. As well as more social creativity events, for those who want alcohol free spaces to connect with those on the same path. We usually have options of heart opening cacao, sceletium mocktails and blue lotus elixirs.

A Journey from Pain to Power

Catharsis invites you to bring your whole self—your grief, your joy, your doubt, your light—and pour it into creation.

This is not about creating technically perfect artwork. It’s about reclaiming your inner storyteller, honoring your emotional landscape, and allowing your hands, your voice, and your body to speak what your mind has kept quiet for too long.

The Heart of the Movement

What makes Catharsis truly unique is its marriage of the mystical and the tangible. You’re not only engaging in inner work—you’re making something with it. Your pain is painted. Your truth is performed. Your healing becomes visible. And through that visibility, something beautiful happens: you reclaim your voice.

Whether you’re someone who’s been carrying the weight of unspoken trauma, or someone yearning to reconnect with your joy and creative spark, this retreat offers a bridge. A way to move forward with clarity, energy, and purpose.

A Final Word from the Heart

This retreat is a space for the seeker, the healer, the quiet creative, the old, the young, the masculine, the feminine or the curious soul. It is for the one who has held so much inside and is now ready to let it move.

You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to be prepared. You only have to say yes.

Yes to yourself. Yes to your healing. Yes to the art that lives within you, waiting to be born.

Come as you are. Leave as you truly are.

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Big love,

Jaimie & Phillippa