Meet Your Instructors & Staff
“What an unexpected, eye opening, truly magical experience! [The staff] created a warm, safe, and supportive environment that allowed to really think of myself and my life as an artist.”
— Annie, Los Angeles
Ana Victoria Calderón
Ana Victoria Calderón is a Mexican/American watercolor artist, published author and teacher with a bachelors degree in Information Design and continued studies in Fine Arts. Her licensed artwork can be seen in retail outlets throughout the United States and Europe on a wide variety of products. Ana teaches in-person workshops and hosts creative retreats in Mexico and exotic locations around the world. She also has over half a million students between Skillshare, where she is a Top Teacher and Domestika.
Ana has just released her fourth book “Creative Drawing Symbols and Sacred Geometry” after the success of her first books in the Modern Makers series published by Quarto Creates.
See more of her work on Instagram (@anavictoriana), YouTube (Ana Victoria Calderon), and Facebook (Ana Victoria Calderon Illustration).
She currently lives in Mexico City, Mexico with her husband and has recently become a mother of a beautiful baby girl.
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Margartia Calderón
Margarita Calderón is a designer living in NYC. She grew up in Cancun, Mexico and went to school for fashion design at FIDM in San Francisco.
She created and ran a swimwear line for 10 years called Margarita Mermaid where she did all of the designing, creative direction and production management. She is currently between projects. Some of her other interests are writing, spells, and perfumery.
One of the most important things in Margarita’s life is being fiercely loyal to what creativity wants to say through us, and following what our intuition is telling us to do in order to live our most fulfilled lives. She believes we're at a time where more than ever before we can invent our own jobs and lives and find the right people and customers to share that with, though it takes a lot of breaking of old thought patterns and outside expectations to follow through.
Victoria Oliva
Victoria Oliva is a holistic therapist who has dedicated the last 10 years to the study of different alternative healing techniques.
She was born in Mexico City but has lived in Cancún and Guadalajara, where she discovered her passion for meditation, oracles and ceremonies.
She currently lives in Mexico City.
See more of her work on instagram ( @victoriomh ) youtube ( Victoria Oliva Terapeuta) and Facebook ( Victoria Oliva -Terapeuta).
Lorena Rodríguez
Llueve y escribo. Crear historias es algo que hago desde que puedo recordarlo y las escribo desde que aprendí a poner mis ideas en papel. Creo que la vida es más ligera en comunidad e intento integrarlo en todos los aspectos de mi vida. Mi formación es de Diseñadora de Información con Maestría en Administración de Empresas, actualmente dirijo una agencia de Branding y Marketing Digital en el sureste de México, encontré que combinarlo con algo que vibre mi corazón expande mi creatividad, es por eso que en 2020 fundé una comunidad de lectoras que ha evolucionado en un espacio seguro para todas y en un plan de vida para mi (www.corazoncreativo.com).
Nadia Payan
Note: Nadia is co-author of Magic Jungle: Un manual para el desarrollo del espíritu creativo and co-teacher of our Domestika course. Nadia has moved on from Magic Jungle and will no longer be attending in-person retreats as of 2024. Nadia is focusing her energy on leadership and life coaching, as well as her Montessori school. Reach out to her via email if you want to stay in touch: nadia@nadiapayan.com
Nadia Payan is a guide, artist, educator and TEDx speaker devoted to guiding people back to their relational leadership and creative power.
She is a third culture, mixed woman: an embodied bridge between Moroccan, Colombian and USA peoples and cultures. Nadia celebrates difference and the power of “both/and/also” as it lives in her blood and bone.
That has evolved to centering Creative Healing, Relational Practices & Skills, and Aligned Leadership across all my work. Nadia’s clients span from young children at the Payan Montessori School to influential creative leaders with decades of experience.
Today, her offerings include Leadership Coaching and Training, Corporate Wellness Facilitation, as well as Meditation and Creativity Programs.
Learn more about her over at nadiapayan.com.
She currently lives in Miami, Florida.