Episode 58Born to Create
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Thank you for choosing yourself today.
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While you wait, I wanted to share a little more of what lives here. The Awakened Artist Academy is one part of a wider practice. If anything below speaks to you, you're warmly welcome to explore.
A quiet companion piece
If today felt like a doorway, there is a small next room.
The Deeper Reactivation is a short, optional PDF that picks up where the free guide ends. Five dollars. No pressure, no subscription. Only here if it is the right day for it.
While you read the guide
Something to put in your ears.
The latest from Born to Create, my podcast for artists and aspiring creatives. A small companion for the same journey you're on.
Three pathways
Ways we can work together.
The Academy is the gentle doorway. These are the deeper rooms. Each one stands alone, and they often work beautifully together.
- 01Coaching
The Becoming
A 3-month container for the work that single sessions can’t hold. Coaching, sound, and art therapy woven together. Voice notes between sessions when you need them. A clear before and after. For those ready to take real accountability for the transformation they want. I hold the space; you do the becoming.
- Free 15-min Begin Again call
- Single 1:1 sessions · €120
- The Becoming · 3 months · from €1800
- 02Art Therapy
When words aren't enough
Person-Oriented and Solution-Oriented art therapy for emotional overload, burnout, grief, life transitions, addictive patterns, and the things the rational mind hasn’t yet found language for. For when you know you need more time and a gentler structure to walk through what has been difficult. You don't need to be an artist. You only need to show up.
- Jávea, online, or home visits
- Single sessions · €70
- Starter pack · 3 sessions for €200
- 03Sound Healing
SoulSound Alchemy
Sound is not something you hear, it’s something you feel. Through crystal and Himalayan bowls, chimes and voice, the nervous system softens and the body remembers its natural balance. Weekly group journeys, private 1:1 sessions, home and group experiences, the signature Return Journey, and a few unusual gems like DRIFT (floating sound healing) and INTERSPACE (live sonic journeys).
- Weekly group sessions · from €20
- Private 1:1 · from €120
- Spain & internationally, online too
The Becoming
Signature ProgrammeNot a stack of sessions. A held thread.
The Becoming is three months of someone holding the thread of your transformation with you. Between our calls, voice notes when you need them. Across the weeks, the woven work of coaching, sound, and art therapy. At the end, a different self.
- 01Why it matters
You hold the work between sessions.
Single sessions end at the door. Container clients have someone thinking about them across the weeks, noticing the patterns, holding the thread. They feel it, even when they can’t name it.
- 02Why it matters
Voice notes when you need them.
Not endless support, just the right kind. Between sessions, you can reach for me when something stirs. Knowing the line is open changes how you show up to your own life.
- 03Why it matters
Three modalities, not one.
Coaching, sound healing, and art therapy, woven into a single container. We use what serves the moment. A coaching question one week, a sound session the next, an art therapy exercise when words aren’t enough.
- 04Why it matters
Accountability across time.
One session creates insight. Twelve weeks create a new self. Real change asks for steady showing up, and the container is the only way to hold that with you.
- 05Why it matters
A clear before and after.
We rarely change in the middle of nothing. The Becoming gives you a definite starting line, a steady middle, and a closing ritual. A graduation that matters more than people expect.
- 06Why it matters
You’re saying yes to commitment.
When you commit three months, something shifts inside you the moment you book. The container is the choice. The work that follows is the unfolding of that choice.
Investment
Three months, three ways.
Paying upfront is the simplest. Instalments are there if you need them, with a small uplift to keep the longer commitment fair on both sides.
- Upfront€1800
Paid at the start of the container
- In two2 × €975
Half at start, half at midpoint
- Monthly3 × €700
Across the three months
Book a free 15-min Begin Again call
No pressure. We’ll see if this is the right fit, together.
Daily companions
Ways to stay close to the practice.
Free, ambient, in-the-pocket support for the days between sessions. Or simply to keep the work quietly alive.
AppComing soon
Self-coaching, art therapy, and quiet support in your pocket
WYNN
A pocket companion for self-coaching, instant pain release, and understanding your feelings more clearly. Inside, nervous system regulation through art and meditation, a journal, a quiet community, and one AI tool in my voice for the moments you want to reflect on your own. The name comes from Wunjo (ᚹ), the ancient rune of joy. The joy that arises when challenges resolve and we find ourselves in the right place, with the right people, in the right work.
- Instant pain release tools
- Art therapy videos for everyday feelings
- Meditations for nervous system regulation
- Journal and quiet community space
- One AI tool for self-coaching, in my voice
Free forever tier · Premium €12.99/month after a 30-day trial
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Conversations with creatives who chose their art
Born to Create
A podcast for artists and aspiring creatives who want to unleash their full potential and dare to build a life around their work. Honest conversations with musicians, painters, photographers, and makers about creativity, freedom, and following the call. Hosted by me.
- 58 episodes and counting
- Artist interviews on creativity, freedom, and following the call
- Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Amazon Music
Free, always
Listen nowAbout the letters
You will hear from me roughly twice a month. Quiet letters from the studio. Honest, slow, never noisy. You can reply to any one.
Maria-Katharina Richters · Coach, Sound Healer, Art Therapist
A little more about me
What helps us reconnect with ourselves?
That single question has guided my work for years. My own journey took me through art therapy, coaching, creativity, consciousness studies, sound healing and personal transformation.
Along the way I discovered that so many of the struggles we experience, the stress, burnout, self-doubt, creative blocks, emotional pain and quiet sense of disconnection, often arise when we lose touch with who we truly are.
The work I offer today brings everything I have learned through these disciplines into one practice. Not to fix people. Not to tell them who they should become. But to create spaces where they can reconnect with who they already are. Spaces where healing, insight, creativity and transformation can emerge naturally.
Because beneath all the noise, your authentic self is already there. Waiting to be remembered.
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When you're ready
The next step is the smallest one.
A free 15-minute exploratory call, no pressure either way. We check in with each other about where you are and what you're looking for. If it feels right, we go deeper from there. A 45-minute consultation, a single session, or a longer container. Whatever serves the moment you're in.