Yohana Junker is an artist, educator, and facilitator committed to building spaces that bring together art, creativity, and spirituality for collective grounding and healing. For more than two decades, she has designed experiences across languages, cultures, and contextual divides where communities reclaim a sense of agency and creativity, even in the face of impossibility.

Book Overview

What if I told you that, as a species, we are wired for art, spirituality, and community? In a world obsessed with quick fixes, I invite you to enter a year-long journey through creativity and devotional practices for individual and communal healing.
Using your life experiences, creative exercises, and the wisdom of spiritual traditions, Awaken: Art Practices for Sacred Healing activates your imagination for renewal and growth. Building upon the groundbreaking insights of neuroarts, this book underscores the undeniable impact of art on our emotions, bodies, and spiritual well-being. These offerings have positively impacted many individuals and communities because they bring together connection, integration, and a space to collectively reflect on the compounding effects of oppression, burnout, trauma, othering, loneliness, and grief. By challenging binaries forced upon colonized bodies, Awaken dismantles the divide between art and spirituality, drawing upon themes of wonder, creativity, compassion, justice, wholeness, and healing for collective becoming. Whether you are an experienced artist, a spiritual leader, a community of learners, or a curious beginner, this book helps you awaken spiritual growth and healing through meditative and creative expression.