Drawn to Presence: An Elemental Sound & Zine Journey

🎨 Drawn to Presence: An Elemental Sound & Zine Journey – Monday, May 12, 2025

$20 Energy Exchange | Guided by Monica Mendoza

🌬 Listen to the Landscape, Move with the Moment, Create from Sound

Join Monica Mendoza, a certified Forest Therapy Guide and creative space-holder, for a fully outdoor, presence-centered experience where sound becomes the gateway to creativity. Through Koshi chimes and deep listening in nature, you’ll explore the elements—air, earth, water, and fire—by noticing the world around you and allowing it to move through you and onto the page.

This is a time to slow down. To listen—not only with your ears, but with your body. And to respond in color, line, and movement using crayons, colored pencils, and watercolor (for the water element only).

Together, we’ll co-create a zine—a small, hand-folded booklet capturing what you hear, feel, and sense in this exact moment.

No art experience needed. Just your presence.

🎨 A Journey of Sound, Element, and Embodied Expression

You’ll be guided through a sequence of sound-centered invitations:

• Koshi chime meditations tuned to each of the four elements

• Listening to the ambient soundscape—wind, insects

• Translating sound into mark-making: flowing lines, color, movement, emotion

• A simple zine-making process that lets you hold your experience in your hands

• A final moment of stillness and gratitude as the sun sets

This is not about making “art”—this is about being present with what is, and letting your inner landscape meet the outer world in real time.

🌿 What to Expect

• Sound meditations with Koshi chimes for air, earth, water, and fire

• Deep listening to nature and ambient sound

• Embodied responses through drawing, linework, and color

• A single watercolor experience (for the water element)

• Creation of a simple zine

• Closing sound integration and stillness before sunset

🌻 About Monica Mendoza

Monica is a certified Forest Therapy Guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT), an emotion coach, and creative guide. Her offerings weave together presence, intuitive creativity, and deep connection to land, inviting people into relationship with both the seen and unseen.

🧺 What to Bring

• Water and a light snack

• Layers for evening coolness

• Insect repellant

• A journal (optional)

• Camp chair (optional – mats will be provided)

• Curiosity, presence, and openness to sound and sensation

All art materials and zine supplies are provided.

📍 Location & Registration

🗓️ Date: Monday, May 12, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 8:15 PM
📍 Location: Outdoor natural space near Mather, CA (location shared after registration)
💲 Investment: $25 per person
🔒 Registration closes: Sunday, May 11 at 6:00 PM

🌼 Space is limited to 10 participants.

A small group size ensures a supported, sensory-rich experience. Please register early if you feel drawn to join.

🌼 Why Join This Sound Journey?

• Experience presence through deep listening

• Tune into the landscape’s subtle language

• Let sound move through your body and emerge on the page

• Create a zine as a keepsake of your elemental experience

• Be held by nature, sound, and spaciousness

✅ Ready to Register?

This is a soft space to explore, listen, and respond. If you’re called to slow down and let nature shape your creative flow, we’d love to welcome you.

Let the sounds of the world become your guide—and create from presence.