Welcome To

MAYU Arts: The Unfolding Studio

Mayu (繭) means “chrysalis” in Japanese — a protective cocoon where transformation takes place, where stillness and mystery prepare new life for emergence.

For me, Mayu is both a metaphor and a guide: a reminder that creativity, healing, and growth begin within. In this unfolding, we move, we awaken, and we create.

About Tomoko

Tomoko Murakami is a Bay Area–based visual artist and educator with more than 35 years of experience in printmaking, large-scale woodblock works on silk, and mixed-media installation. Her art explores transformation, nature, and belonging, themes that now weave into her work as an expressive arts facilitator in training with the Tamalpa Life/Art Process. Tomoko has exhibited widely and received awards, including the Kala Fellowship and the Susan Seddon Boulet Award.

Explore her visual art portfolio at tomokomurakami.com.

Invitation

MAYU is a space for exploration, healing, and becoming. Whether through group workshops, individual sessions, or community collaborations, I invite you to embark on this unfolding journey.

Move. Awaken. Create.

Expressive Arts & Creative Facilitation

Services and Classes Offered

SoulCollage – The Art of the Imaginal Soul

A creative process for discovering the many inner voices—personal, archetypal, ancestral, instinctual—that live within you. Through collage, reflection, and guided inquiry, each card becomes a doorway into deeper understanding and new possibilities.

A one-hour online sanctuary where movement, art-making, writing, and dreamwork come together. We follow the quiet language of the body and the symbols that rise from waking life and dreams—finding clarity, resonance, and new paths unfolding. No experience needed, only curiosity.

A movement- and art-based class inspired by the Tamalpa Life/Art Process. Through gentle movement, mark-making, and reflective writing, you’ll reconnect with your body, imagination, and creative vitality.

“To live as closely as possible to the instinctual self does not mean to abandon one’s culture; it means to bridge them.” – Mary Oliver