1-1 SESSIONS
The Red Room: A private space to feel what you haven't been able to say
Somatics, painting, and honest conversation held together in one session, shaped entirely around you and whatever you bring.
Not a therapy session OR an art class.
What a session includes:
Two hours together in a carefully prepared space. Cacao, candles, incense, binaural beats. A guided opening meditation to bring you into awareness of your body. Space to share whatever needs to be said. A womb inspired painting session with gentle prompts and deep focus time. And a 30 minute yoga nidra with a visualisation to close, so you leave grounded and in your body.
Everything shared is confidential and nothing is too much.
‘My cramps are gone and my womb is telling me that art is the medicine.’ - Lucia
It’s exhausting to always be the one holding everything.
Whether or not you consider yourself an artist, you sense that creativity is good for you – but you struggle to make time for it, feeling like it’s a selfish indulgence.
Your body is always speaking. Every cramp, every mood shift, every wave of fatigue carries a message. The question is whether you have a space to actually hear it.
That’s what The Red Room is for.
This work is for women who are functioning – maybe even thriving on paper – but feel flat underneath. It’s for those who have tried talking about it and realise that words only go so far.
- You are navigating cycle pain, shame, or a body that feels like it’s working against you
- You are sitting with miscarriage, infertility, or a loss that hasn’t had proper space to be grieved.
- You find group settings too diffuse to get to the heart of what you actually need
- You are done managing symptoms and ready to work with yourself differently
- You want to feel spacious inside your own life again, not just less bad
Client Love
“I really enjoy the meditation and tuning into my body – the slowing down and having space to think. Specifically the initial asking my womb – how are you feeling? I had never done this before and found it astounding in an amazing way.”
-Keji
School taught me that creativity had to follow rules. There was always a “right” way to do it – and somehow, I always got it wrong. Over time, this led to a deep frustration and the belief: “I’m not artistic.”
So I was surprised when Theo welcomed me into her world. A space where I could express freely from my womb and heart.
Honestly, I thought we would just paint, I had no idea how transformational this would be. I’m deeply grateful and can recommend Theo 111%.
She is incredibly attuned and sensitive – and her holistic, intuitive approach is exactly what our masculine-driven world needs.
– Jenni Kuhl
Why Art Works
There’s more and more evidence for the power of art making in connection to physical wellbeing.
PMS SYMPTOM REDUCTION – ÇITIL & CANBAY, 2024 A randomised controlled study found that weekly art-based sessions over 8 weeks produced meaningful improvement in PMS symptoms, including physical ones like bloating and sleep irregularity, through creativity, not hormonal intervention.
PCOS & BODY IMAGE – BMC PSYCHIATRY, 2024 Mindfulness-based art therapy significantly improved body image in women with PCOS – a condition that affects how women feel inside their own cycle and skin.
SHAME & ART THERAPY – SCIENCEDIRECT, 2023 Researchers found that art therapy addresses shame in ways other psychotherapies cannot replicate. Words alone are inadequate to express the complex experience of shame.
HERTRAMPF & WÄRJA, 2017 – THE ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY Creative arts therapy showed measurable benefit for women navigating gynaecological illness – supporting emotional processing in the body where the experience actually lives.
Your nervous system is not being dramatic. Art can make you feel relaxed in your cycle.
I’m Theodora.
I was tired of painful periods I’d been told to just manage. Tired of making neat, acceptable art that looked spiritual and pretty but felt like nothing. Tired of being very good at holding everything together while quietly falling apart.
Painting changed that. Steadily, by making things that scared me, I found that what came out on the canvas started shifting pain to pleasure in my body too.
I now hold Womb Art Circles and 1-1 sessions for women who are somewhere in that same tiredness. Women who suspect their body has been trying to tell them to create and express. Women who haven’t made art since school and women who make it every day but haven’t made anything honest yet.
This isn’t a space for performance. Not of wellness, not of healing, not of being a good student.
It’s a space to find out what your body actually wants to say.
In person or online, you choose
IN PERSON – MATERIALS INCLUDED
Single session £150
2 hours. Private venue. All materials and space included.
Two sessions £280 – Save £20
For women who want to go deeper. Recommended if you are holding something significant.
ONLINE – MATERIALS NOT INCLUDED
Single session £88
2 hours via video. You bring your own materials – a list is provided on booking.
Two sessions £150 – Save £26
Space to return, go further, and let the work settle between sessions.
Frequently Asked Questions
We each have distinct feelings about our womb. Our menstrual journey, and perhaps with fertility, menopause, and motherhood are full of emotions that can go unheard for years.
This is a unique opportunity to take up all the space you need and express what is held in your womb, releasing the tension that can be held in this fast paced and demanding world. We can reclaim our power from those who seem to hold it, as well as remember the joy and peace that is inherent in our being.
As such these painting 1-1s are unique and can vary according to your needs, but the bare bones of the session remain the same:
- We will start with a cup of cacao or tea to begin to gently tune into the body and its incredible wisdom.
- There is a meditation so that you can release tension and tune into what your body wants to express.
- Over an hour of painting time.
- Closing meditation to step into what you desire.
- Intention setting.
- Sessions are 2 hours.
You don’t have to be an artist, or have regular creative time. The point here is to open up to more your self through painting, messiness and all.
I want you to know it’s normal to have this hesitation come up because in making art you step into the unknown.
Instead of seeing art as the free and expressive space that it is, you might feel contracted or tense.
This is a completely normal learned adaptation that helps you to survive and cope. The way I approach this is helping you to gently unfurl that energy through art, it’s not the enemy, just a part of you that is frozen.
Whatever your painting ends up looking like is perfect, and also kind of irrelevant because the process of doing it is what matters most. In my experience, the more of these alienated parts you can bring into your art, the more authentic and healing your artwork gets.
I will be hosting these sessions at Mother Studios in Lewisham. If you need them to be in Surrey, it’s an extra £25 for the meeting room at Newhouse Art Space.
If you’d like me to come to your home instead to offset my costs and lower the price for you, please be aware that we need a fully private space to keep the energetic intentions and boundaries in integrity. I’m available in the Surrey and London areas to do sessions at your place.
If you’d like for it to be fully online to enjoy the comfort of your own home, this is also possible.
You will have to bring your own painting equipment for the online sessions, but I can help with recommending the right medium.
If you’re more than 20 minutes late to a session, I reserve the right to cancel the session, which in this case is non refundable.