Mindful Creations Lab: Meditative Art

UC Master Gardeners of Placer County Demo Garden

Loomis, CA- OUTDOOR EVENT (COME COZY)

BLANKETS WILL BE PROVIDED

Saturday, November 7, 2026 | 10:00–11:30 AM

UC Master Gardeners of Placer County Demonstration Garden | Loomis, CA | $45 per person

As we roll into the holiday season, our schedules can fill quickly, expectations can grow, and it can become easy to move through the season on autopilot.

This Mindful Creations Lab is an outdoor, 90-minute reflective and creative experience. Mindful Creations Lab is designed to offer a little space to slow down, reconnect, and consider what you actually want to carry with you into the months ahead through color, shape, line, and reflective expression.

This gentle, beginner-friendly experience will guide you through a calming meditative art process using acrylic markers, fineliners, and simple creative techniques. Throughout the session, you will receive reflective prompts that help you explore everyday thoughts, emotions, challenges, and personal growth without pressure to create something “perfect.”

Gathered under the oaks at the beautiful UC Master gardeners of Placer County Demonstration Garden, we’ll explore how stress, expectations, emotions, and increased demands can affect our mental and physical well-being. Through approachable nervous system and holistic wellness education, guided reflection, mindful writing, and creative expression, you’ll be invited to notice what is asking for your energy and what may no longer need to come with you.

This is not an art class, and you do not need to consider yourself creative. The creative process is simply another way to slow down, engage your senses, reflect, and give yourself room to process without needing to find all the right words.

Your experience will include:

• Gentle nervous system and holistic wellness education

• Guided grounding and mindfulness practices

• Reflective writing and journaling

• A hands-on mindful creative experience

• A studio supply art kit to use during the lab

• A small kraft journal and Mixed Media art material to take home after the creative experience.

• Tea and light bites

• Time outdoors beneath the oaks

• Space for personal reflection and meaningful connection

The goal is not to create a perfect holiday season. It is to enter it with a little more awareness, intention, and permission to carry what matters and release some of what doesn’t.

Come as you are. Create without expectation. Take what supports you.