CREATive
support
for artists
As an artist’s assistant, my goal is to collaborate with you to explore the creativity that lives in your body. This work is talk-based, sensory, intuitive, and based on acupuncture theory, somatic work, and energetics. Together we discover customized visualizations informed by your intuitive insight. It’s like acupuncture-without-needles for your creative process. You decide if we focus on a particular project or investigate more generally the body of your art as you are living it.
This is a valuable efficient resource if you are on a retreat or residency where you have goals and a time constraint, are feeling stuck or unmotivated, or lost and in need of a fresh perspective. I will guide you toward the mystical discovery of new ideas from the abundant resource that is you.
One-on-one sessions work best over the phone — I can assist you from anywhere in the US or the world.
I also teach workshops centered on creative embodiment experiences and offer classes to groups of thinkers and makers. I love to guest teach and have done so at a variety of institutions, organizations, and graduate programs, in the literary arts and in health care. Please contact me to talk about that option.
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Liz Asch Greenhill has a BA in English from Vassar, an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Eastern Oregon University, and a Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She works as an artist, writer, acupuncturist, and artist’s assistant. She teaches classes on accessing creativity through embodiment.
"Liz is a rad practitioner and basically my artistic life guidance counselor." - JH, musician
“Wonderfully inspiring!” - workshop participant
"Liz is the best, working with her is revelatory." - B.C., entrepreneur + artist
"I loved my session with Liz. I came in with major writer's block, and she guided me through the releasing of various chi blockages with compassion, creativity, and intuition. I left feeling lighter, renewed, and ready to dive back into my writing projects. She's a Portland gem. I am so grateful I found this kind healer via the trail of glowing recommendations from other local writers." - C.C., writer
"I felt centered and found wisdom regarding my project within my body.” - workshop participant
“Liz is that warm light that gently teases out your humanity and grace.” - workshop participant
"Liz is not only an artist in her own rite, but has that rare gift of being able to intuit how to help an artist who is struggling. Using her background in Chinese Medicine, and her experience in many forms of art-making, Liz charms obstacles out of the way, and gives artists tools to unblock their own roads to fulfillment." - S.V., writer
"I cannot express the joy of having worked with Liz. She is seriously talented, kind, professional and creative with her work." - K, filmmaker
"Liz is unusually good at helping tease through things, find the way when the way is fuzzy or obstructed, and enlarge the view to allow for creative visioning." - L.S.
"Liz has a gift for showing clients ways to stay present with their minds and bodies and emotions."- workshop participant