MAP
MAP is a learning space for you medicine artists in photography who want to infuse your work with more soul, depth and meaning while offering a transformative healing experience to your clients.
the invitation your mystic artist waited for
heal your energy field as an artist in business
A RITUAL TO MEET THE SOUL OF YOUR WORK
MAP is for the seekers, the dreamers, the artists, healers, mystics, but specifically for photographers who are ready to embrace change, connect with their inner wisdom, and step into their expression with original aesthetic, intention and embodied aliveness.
Medicine Artist in Photography
Mapping Your Business Ecosystem with Intention and Resonance
As an Artist navigating the complexities of our times, I understand the profound impact of internal confusion and emotional stress. The collective grief we share has spurred me to create a learning space for individuals like you – discerning souls, image makers, poetic people with courageous heart, seeking an educational haven for reflection, inspiration, and authentic connection.
1:1
Rituals for Self-Discovery and Embodiment
MAP
a listening and learning space; intersection of photography, spirituality and business.
MAP is a holistic approach to photography that holds the space for you to listen to the subtle you, to the voice that wants to be liberated through your art. MAP is a constellation of transmissions, teachings, stories, lived experiences, tools and creative prompts weaved together to welcome you in a journey of transformation and self-discovery. MAP is a portal that holds space and witness the energy that has led you here. An invitation transform your sensitivity into beauty, insecurity into possibility, resistance into freedom, overwhelm into medicine and hiding into expression. A journey of profound healing and growth. Let's dive in together and map it out.
MAP is a creative system available in the following templates:
MAP OFFERINGS
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1:1 map mentorship ~ $1,799
MONTH-LONG JOURNEY
Join me on a transformative month-long journey to deepen your skills and elevate your photography practice with personalized mentorship and guidance. Throughout four immersive sessions, we'll delve into the art of soulful photography, calibrating your business with the soul of your work, deepening into the sacred art of holding space during photoshoots, and receiving personalized 1:1 support and feedback tailored to your unique needs and goals. Whether you're seeking to infuse your photography with soulful storytelling, cultivate a deeper connection with your subjects, or navigate the challenges of running a photography business, this mentorship provides the tools, insights, and support you need to thrive as a soulful artist and photographer.
[ BONUS ] Access to workshop replay Sacred Witnessing and Holding Space (value $97)
[ BONUS ] Portfolio + Website Review (value $195)
4 online sessions, 2 hours
transmission style class
mentorship Q&A
creative assignments + feedback
self portrait project
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1:1 MAP CONSULTATION ~ $397
Align your business with the soul of your work, merge your artistic expression with client work. This 1:1 consultation call is designed to map where you are in business, art and soul. I will support you in witnessing where you are in your journey and call in the next steps to initiate you into the soul of your work. You will deepen your connection with what feels truthful and exciting, gain clarity around your offerings, session containers and rituals, clients, process and get calibrated to your business ecosystems, so you can fully bloom into your expression and stop feeling the knot in your throat.
[ BONUS ] Access to workshop replay Sacred Witnessing and Holding Space (value $97)
Three Parts Offering:
1. Answer an activating (and inspiring) form prior to our call.2. We meet LIVE for 90min call
3. By the end of call, you will receive a creative assignment with a timeline to receive feedback
90 min via zoom
activation form + creative assignment + feedback
BONUS Workshop Replay
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sacred witnessing and holding space WORKSHOP ~ $97 (registration closed)
You will learn how I guide a soulful photoshoot by creating a safe and supportive environment that allows deep healing and transformation. I will guide you through my process with onboarding clients, cultivating a creative field so the art we make is genuine to their essence and meaningful for you as an Artist. I will touch on the principles of the sacred art of holding space, building rapport, posing clients and creating a safe portal to allow genuine emotions to unfold naturally. This workshop is taught transmission style, designed to guide you through becoming a sacred witness in photography and conducting a healing experience that is transformative to your client and important to you. This offering is perfect for medicine artists in photography that long to deepen into a more holistic approach to a service based business.
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2 hours online journey
group workshop
transmission style class
Q&A
If you are seeking a more embodied way to express your artistic self as an image maker in business, MAP is for you.
If you are seeking a more embodied way to express your artistic self as an image maker in business, MAP is for you.
Hiding and feeling stagnant is a common feeling for photographers in business. When we are not fully in love with the art we make or the people we serve, there is very little room for pleasure, honest expression, ease in marketing and cash flow! Join me to unlock the codes within the industry and touch the abundance that is available for you when you align your medicine to your people.
Inside MAP, you will MEET yourself:
Embracing Change and Transformation
Accessing Your Inner Wisdom, the Subtle You
Exploring Ancestral Creativity
Cultivating Resonance and Connection
Healing Energetic Wounds
Birthing Your Offerings with Intention
Setting Boundaries in Client Relationships
Creating Systems and Structures for Success
Mapping Your Business Ecosystem
Navigating the Artist Wound
Becoming a Healing Artist within Photography
Embodying the Art of Soul
for image makers
If you are feeling isolated in your practice, lost, not knowing what direction to go, or how to apply your gifts to be seen and recognized by the right people, you will want to join this spellbinding container for mystics in art who like you, are looking for deeper belonging in their expression and business.
If you have been experiencing fear of being seen, judged, exiled and want to find deeper root in your practice, deeper connection with your medicine and clients, so the illusion of comparison, competition and inadequacy naturally falls away and you let go of contraction, expand into your gifted, talented, creative self, join me at MAP.
If you self-taught yourself up to now but hit a wall where you are ready to receive new perspectives, gain valuable insights, resources and learn from my real lived stories as I photographer who has toured the world and worked with the most amazing artists and leaders, sign up for one of the current offerings at MAP.
client work should be art work, ~ no separation.
MAP ETHOS
MAP is for you if you want to…
Have consistent, clear, inspiring and purposeful clients, art and photography.
Know how to communicate the value of your work so people book you with a full YES in their heart.
Present your rates to clients with ease, clarity and confidence.
Start having pleasure when marketing yourself because you finally own your gifts and channel your medicine to the right people.
Marry the mystic with the Artist in you so your business can be an expression of your Soul
Have the tools, skills, resources and systems in place to run a business.
Hold projects, ideas, dreams all the way through and stop cycles of energetic miscarriages.
Shoot and edit photos that are congruent to who you are, serve your people and pay your bills.
Build good ethics and awesome relationships with dream clients you respect and admire.
Turn your photography passion from a hobby into a full career where your gifts are seen and your value reflected back to you.
Come out of hiding/silence and give voice, art and expression to the realized artist and entrepreneur you are
Learn how to get paid for your talent, time and services and stop the resentment loop of trades/unpaid work.
Gain clarity over your messaging and unique medicine so you never run out of ideas on how to promote your offerings.
Embody the artist way of living in a rhythm and unshame your under-productive guilt.
MARCH 9TH WORKSHOP
Sacred Witnessing and Holding Space
choose your journey:
The month-long mentorship will be tailored to your moment, I will prepare transmission style classes based on your themes of interest. A specific form will be sent to you after I receive your application.
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Join me on a transformative month-long journey to deepen your skills and elevate your photography practice with personalized mentorship and guidance. Throughout four immersive sessions, we'll delve into the art of soulful photography, calibrating your business with the soul of your work, deepening into the sacred art of holding space during photoshoots, and receiving personalized 1:1 support and feedback tailored to your unique needs and goals. Whether you're seeking to infuse your photography with soulful storytelling, cultivate a deeper connection with your subjects, or navigate the challenges of running a photography business, this mentorship provides the tools, insights, and support you need to thrive as a soulful artist and photographer.
[ BONUS ] Access to workshop replay Sacred Witnessing and Holding Space (value $97)
[ BONUS ] Portfolio + Website Review (value $195)
4 online sessions, 2 hours
transmission style class
mentorship Q&A
creative assignments + feedback
self portrait project
~ $1,799
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Align your business with the soul of your work, merge your artistic expression with client work. This 1:1 consultation call is designed to map where you are in business, art and soul. I will support you in witnessing where you are in your journey and call in the next steps to initiate you into the soul of your work. You will deepen your connection with what feels truthful and exciting, gain clarity around your offerings, session containers and rituals, clients, process and get calibrated to your business ecosystems, so you can fully bloom into your expression and stop feeling the knot in your throat.
[ BONUS ] Access to workshop replay Sacred Witnessing and Holding Space (value $97)
Three Parts Offering:
1. Answer an activating (and inspiring) form prior to our call.
2. We meet LIVE for 90min call
3. By the end of call, you will receive a creative assignment with a timeline to receive feedback
90 min via zoom
activation form + creative assignment + feedback
BONUS Workshop Replay
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You will learn how I guide a soulful photoshoot by creating a safe and supportive environment that allows deep healing and transformation. I will guide you through my process with onboarding clients, cultivating a creative field so the art we make is genuine to their essence and meaningful for you as an Artist. I will touch on the principles of the sacred art of holding space, building rapport, posing clients and creating a safe portal to allow genuine emotions to unfold naturally. This workshop will guide you through becoming a sacred witness in photography and conducting a healing experience that is transformative to your client and important to you. This offering is designed to serve medicine artists in photography that long to deepen into a more holistic approach to a service based business.
2 hours online journey
group workshop
transmission style class
Q&A
REGISTRATION CLOSED
~ $97
*MAP, THE COURSE will be a longer group journey planned to launch later in the spring/summer.
your guide, Thais
Thais Aquino is the founder of Soul Portraits Temple & School, a company that offers powerful and awe-inspiring images through soul portraits and insightful education for artists. Thais is a photographer and sacred witness who captures the essence and beauty of individuals in their expression and emergence. Born and raised in Brazil, after 5 years in New York, Thais has drifted to the waters of Maui to be fully supported by the scandalous nature of the island and give birth to Soul Portraits. Soul Portraits is a spiritual practice and a holistic approach to photography. Thais provides a safe space for individuals to be seen and celebrated, offering transformational experiences and meaningful connections. Soul Portraits is not just a photography service, but a powerful tool for self-expression, homecoming, and business activation. Thais works with leading coaches, educators, healers, and artists who have a deep care and respect for the healing arts and the artist. Through Soul Portraits, individuals have been anchoring their leadership in the birth of the new world. Thais is based on Maui and has no upcoming tours planned.
my temple home on Maui
from where I will be tuning in for our calls :)
The Ethos in my Transmission
I am a healing artist first, photographer second.
I help artists and photographers come out of hiding and express their soul with meaning and impact in their art so they can liberate their voice and attract client work that is aligned with their soul.
I serve artists who are overcoming old stereotypes of inferiority, like the ‘black sheep’ or ‘depressed artist’ and want to gain courage and freedom to express their art without shame and guilt, be seen and paid for their soul work.
I want to offer people the space to taste themselves and feel liberated from what has silenced their voice and access what is sacred to them. I want artists to take more space in our culture, be needed and valued beyond the primary ideas of creativity. I empower artists to be visionaries, leaders and creators of culture. I support artists to overcome their ‘small-me’ complex and stop the narrative in their mind that the world does not understand them. I believe it’s time for the world to not only understand the importance of art, but prioritize, give space, value and give money to the deep poetry and meaning in an artist's voice as they transmute our collective grief and sentiments.
Soul Portraits School is emergent and a deep feeler of the world. It’s here to nurture, hold and listen to what the Artist has to say, process and create at times of profound changes. I care a lot about what lives in the soul, the sacred sanctuary of humanity’s sentiment and inherent belonging. I believe that if we can create from that place, we are creating from love, from truth, from deep beauty, from coherence. A creation that heals. The soul is enormous, beyond words, beyond image, it needs all of our mediums and voices to be expressed to be brought into a field we can collectively feel and stay connected, resourced, loved.
The art that carries soul provokes us viscerally. It has a natural magnetism that can ignite transformation through enchantment and awe-originality. It’s medicinal, visceral and a spiritual necessity as we re-imagine the world we want to belong in.
Because I am such a devotee of descents to our soulful truth, which unlocks our embodied aliveness and true belonging, I do not have permission from my ancestors or any interest in teaching ABC formula based short cuts. In fact, I intentionally make an effort to not be in rooms where people are not willing to journey and accept initiations. My spaces will most likely take you on a journey of frustration if you don’t resonate with the path of shadow work and slow embodiment through presence and active listening.
This is the spirit in which I will show up for our time together, as a sacred witness, a guide and someone who is passionate about transmitting to you all I’ve learned in my journey and supporting you in connecting the dots in your world. I am a reflector in Human Design and is part of my gift to be a natural mirror and see clearly. Welcome to the space. I am honored for the resonance you feel (I mean, if you are still reading this, we’re game, my darling).
How to tell you have a YES in your body
You feel expanded, excited about a listening and learning space for fresh perspectives to arise
You feel inspired, activated and safe in your desire to give back to yourself
You feel ready to look inward and initiate yourself into a journey of self-reflection, transformation and love
You feel at ease with the offerings currency exchange and the value they offer
You are grateful to be offered an easy and affordable access to my transmissions
You already feel an ecstatic energy of a new field of your artistic expression
Your soul is warm and ready to create art with deeper connection with profound aspects of life
Ask me a Question
Feel free to ask me any questions before booking your session. If you are ready to book, please click the link above to fill out the official registration form.
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