Reconnect to your creative capacity.

The pressure to innovate more, faster, and on demand doesn't expand your thinking. It contracts it. What feels like a creativity problem is often something simpler — and deeper: your system doesn't feel safe enough to open.

“The most creative leaders I’ve worked with aren’t more talented. They’ve simply learned to give themselves permission — to not know, to feel, to begin before they’re ready.”
— Mariana Tirsa Kurko

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"What would become possible if your thinking had more room?"

Your organization needs new thinking. Your team looks to you for clarity. Meanwhile, AI is reshaping everything, timelines are compressing, and somewhere underneath all of it — something in you has gone quiet. Not because you've run out of ideas. But because creativity is not a skill you perform under pressure. It's a capacity that emerges when you feel spacious, safe, and whole enough to take a real risk. Loss is part of the creative life — abandoned directions, pivots that cost you, the gap between the vision you hold and the work you've been able to make. When we don't make room for that grief, it quietly becomes the ceiling on our range.

"Creativity doesn't need more urgency or input. It needs permission — to feel, to not-know, to begin before you're certain it will work."

The work moves through four interconnected phases — regulation, repair, activation, and embodiment. Not a framework you add to your life, but a process that changes how you live it.

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Who This Is For

Leaders who feel creatively contracted

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present, capable, and somehow unable to access the expansive thinking that used to come naturally.

Founders navigating loss or pivots

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carrying the weight of abandoned visions, transitions, or the quiet grief of what didn't work.

Professionals under innovation pressure

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asked to generate new thinking in conditions that don't actually support it.

People who know something needs to change

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but can't quite name what's in the way, or why the usual tactics aren't working.

I know what it is to want to create something — and to feel the distance between the vision and the page.

  • Somatic practice, motivational interviewing, mindfulness educationDescription text goes here

  • Private 1:1 engagements, 3–6 months

  • Leaders, founders, and senior professionals

I'm Mariana — and this work found me before I found it. For years, I've sat at the intersection of creativity, the body, and what it takes to keep making things when the world keeps asking for more than you feel you have. I'm a somatic practitioner, mindfulness educator, and creative facilitator. What I bring isn't a collection of techniques — it's a deep conviction that creativity is not a talent. It's a relational capacity. One that needs safety, self-compassion, and room to fail, in order to be fully alive.

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Testimonials

  • “Mariana helped me learn, without judgement or comparison, that I need support as a creator and how to take steps to get it. She helped me break decades of crippling perfectionism and doubt with simple, clear action. Without her, I’d still be struggling to get my first word down on paper instead of getting my first book published.”

    Michael Corvo

    Author

  • "A bonafide life-long scholar of the spiritual, Mari brings the vast wealth of her own spirit to her offerings. Her technical knowledge is far-reaching and ever growing, spanning topics from nervous system theory and somatic regulation to archetype and motivational interviewing. She combines all this with her expertise in sacred practice to produce ritualistic experiences that feel deeply rooted in primordial meaning, in addition to practical offerings addressing the struggles of the everyday artist.

    Cat

    Martial arts teacher and facilitator

  • "Mariana is one of the few people I’d classify as a true healer. Her patience and soothing, calm, supportive energy have helped me in more ways than one. She approaches problem-solving with a positive, spiritual approach that is truly unique. She has championed my creativity and career for years and her support is unparalleled. I’m so grateful for her unwavering support and guidance in my art.“

    Elena N. Mudd

    Professional Photographer

  • "Mari, your calm, gentle demeanor made me feel safe and nurtured, which is no small thing for me! I was able to work through anxiety I’ve been holding, so I am grateful! Your session flowed clearly and I felt your instructions were clear and supportive. "

    Nelle Gregory

    Creative Facilitator

  • “As a musical partner and as a resilient friend she has always been unequaled in expression and genuine openness. Many people try to grow real meaning into their everyday lives, I’ve met few that succeed as often or as gracefully.”

    Robert E Musseman III

    Musician, Author, Filmmaker

  • "Mari seemed to step effortlessly into her role as a wise guide with a dash of mystery. I immediately felt a sense of trust in her leading the way. She helped us to easily connect to one another in a sweet, yet profound way."

    a.rae

    Artist, Somatic Guide