Manifesting From the Beyond III : Creativity as Collaboration and Mystery: An Eight-Week Class and Workshop Led by Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein with Guest Presenters, Begins May 7
Eight week class taught live, online, via Zoom
Wednesdays, May 7 - June 25, 2025
7-9 pm ET (NYC TIME) (* Last class will run longer to accommodate final projects)
Admission: $175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
Please note: All classes will be recorded for those unable to attend
Join Morbid Anatomy founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein and seven special guests as we explore—in concept and practice—ego-free co-creation in collaboration with that elusive “beyond self” all creatives seek.
Each week, we will welcome a guest speaker/practitioner from a different tradition, each of which will speak about—and lead us through—their own techniques for connecting with the invisible world, whether they define that as the unconscious, the realm of the divine, or the land of the dead.
Topics will include visionary art with sculptor Eleanor Crook, shamanistic ancestor work with death midwife and shaman Lisa Cox, dreamwork with Jungian analyst Patricia Llosa, spiritualist candle reading with medium Tiffany Hopkins, exploring creativity from different chakras with meditation teacher Bryan Melillo, Tarot for creativity with artist and witch Dannielle Tegeder, and more!
Students are invited to bring an idea or image they wish to work with to class, or be open to one that emerges over the course of our exploration. In the final session, students will have an opportunity to share a creative work they produced utilizing some or all of these systems and speak about their experience.
In doing this work, we will take inspiration from our ancestors, who viewed creativity not a willful act of ego, but as a mysterious phenomenon with links to the divine. They sought the support of The Muses when embarking on a new project, and the in-spiration they longed for meant “influence of a god." Psychologically, this approach allowed for a distancing of ego from creative product, decreasing the likelihood of personal inflation, and engendering a sense of humility, gratitude and appreciation of the mystery.
PRESENTER BIOS (In alphabetical order)
Lisa Cox is a teacher, shamanic practitioner, and Wyoming's Death Midwife, whose practice Hjertehagen Healing Passages provides life transition and support, physical, emotional and spiritual, during and at the end of life and beyond. A Maine native and Wyoming transplant, Lisa holds degrees in History, Education and Political and Soil Science. She has completed the Advanced Shamanic Healing program in Core Shamanism, is currently in the 3 Year Program in Advanced Initiations through the FSS-E in Italy, and completed training through Death Midwife. In addition to her healing practice, Lisa pays the rent by providing exceptional pet care in the community. When not in her healing space or doing "country doctor rounds," she can be found cooking, hiking or snowshoeing, reading, or sitting on a lake in her kayak.
Eleanor Crook is a sculptor and wax modeler who works between the UK and several international medical museums. She is an art tutor a number of UK's major art schools and an art educator in various European medical museums. She trained in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy Schools, working from life and as a medical artist in the dissecting room. She is artist in residence at King’s College’s Gordon Museum of Pathology and the Vrolik Museum Amsterdam. Her work is in the collections of the Science Museum London, Gordon Museum of Pathology Guy's Hospital, the Museum of Pathology at the University of Padua, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society London and the Hunterian Museum Royal College of Surgeons of England. Her specialism is handmade effigies, baroque bronze and eerie lifelike waxes.
Joanna Ebenstein is a Mexico-based artist, writer, curator, photographer and graphic designer. She is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. Her books includeMemento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy and Death: A Graveside Companion.
Tiffany Hopkins (she/her) is an author, medium, educator, and researcher. Her first book,Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide to the Dead (Sterling Ethos, 2025) shares her story of being a tech strategist and moving to the 145 year old Spiritualist community of Lily Dale. She loves to help rationalists and woo-woo folks alike through finding their own approach to mediumship. She works to share the unique experience of living surrounded by people who talk to the dead through Normalize Talking To The Dead, a website, podcast, and residency.
Patricia Llosa, MFA, LP, is a Peruvian-American Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. She earned her undergraduate degree in archaeology and art history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did graduate work at The School of Visual Arts. For more than 20 years she worked as an administrator and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A graduate of Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program and has taught her workshops in Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Peru and Spain. A member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis she serves on their Gradiva Awards Committee. She is also on the board of ARAS, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.
Bryan Melillo has studied meditation in the Jñana and Bhakti yoga traditions for the last 25 years. Experiencing a Kundalini experience in 1997, his path eventually led to Tiruvannamalai, India, where he has studied with the same teacher since 2001. Here, he began learning (and eventually teaching) a variety of breathing (pranayama) and mantra-based meditation techniques. Bryan completed an End of Life Doula certification training with the goal of integrating eastern understandings of death with the growing Western end of life care and the death with dignity movement. Bryan is also a professor at NYC’s Parsons School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design.
Dannielle Tegeder is a New York-based Tarot practitioner, artist, and educator. She has been working with Tarot in her own art practice, grounded in painting, combining legacies of hard-edge abstraction with spiritual wisdom. Dannielle’s magick-centered pedagogy empowers students to confidently use the power of Tarot to find guidance and enhance creativity.
Images by channeling aritst Hilma af Klint: 1) Altarpiece, Group X, No 1, 1915; The Swan, No. 1, Group IX, 1915
Eight week class taught live, online, via Zoom
Wednesdays, May 7 - June 25, 2025
7-9 pm ET (NYC TIME) (* Last class will run longer to accommodate final projects)
Admission: $175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
Please note: All classes will be recorded for those unable to attend
Join Morbid Anatomy founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein and seven special guests as we explore—in concept and practice—ego-free co-creation in collaboration with that elusive “beyond self” all creatives seek.
Each week, we will welcome a guest speaker/practitioner from a different tradition, each of which will speak about—and lead us through—their own techniques for connecting with the invisible world, whether they define that as the unconscious, the realm of the divine, or the land of the dead.
Topics will include visionary art with sculptor Eleanor Crook, shamanistic ancestor work with death midwife and shaman Lisa Cox, dreamwork with Jungian analyst Patricia Llosa, spiritualist candle reading with medium Tiffany Hopkins, exploring creativity from different chakras with meditation teacher Bryan Melillo, Tarot for creativity with artist and witch Dannielle Tegeder, and more!
Students are invited to bring an idea or image they wish to work with to class, or be open to one that emerges over the course of our exploration. In the final session, students will have an opportunity to share a creative work they produced utilizing some or all of these systems and speak about their experience.
In doing this work, we will take inspiration from our ancestors, who viewed creativity not a willful act of ego, but as a mysterious phenomenon with links to the divine. They sought the support of The Muses when embarking on a new project, and the in-spiration they longed for meant “influence of a god." Psychologically, this approach allowed for a distancing of ego from creative product, decreasing the likelihood of personal inflation, and engendering a sense of humility, gratitude and appreciation of the mystery.
PRESENTER BIOS (In alphabetical order)
Lisa Cox is a teacher, shamanic practitioner, and Wyoming's Death Midwife, whose practice Hjertehagen Healing Passages provides life transition and support, physical, emotional and spiritual, during and at the end of life and beyond. A Maine native and Wyoming transplant, Lisa holds degrees in History, Education and Political and Soil Science. She has completed the Advanced Shamanic Healing program in Core Shamanism, is currently in the 3 Year Program in Advanced Initiations through the FSS-E in Italy, and completed training through Death Midwife. In addition to her healing practice, Lisa pays the rent by providing exceptional pet care in the community. When not in her healing space or doing "country doctor rounds," she can be found cooking, hiking or snowshoeing, reading, or sitting on a lake in her kayak.
Eleanor Crook is a sculptor and wax modeler who works between the UK and several international medical museums. She is an art tutor a number of UK's major art schools and an art educator in various European medical museums. She trained in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy Schools, working from life and as a medical artist in the dissecting room. She is artist in residence at King’s College’s Gordon Museum of Pathology and the Vrolik Museum Amsterdam. Her work is in the collections of the Science Museum London, Gordon Museum of Pathology Guy's Hospital, the Museum of Pathology at the University of Padua, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society London and the Hunterian Museum Royal College of Surgeons of England. Her specialism is handmade effigies, baroque bronze and eerie lifelike waxes.
Joanna Ebenstein is a Mexico-based artist, writer, curator, photographer and graphic designer. She is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. Her books includeMemento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy and Death: A Graveside Companion.
Tiffany Hopkins (she/her) is an author, medium, educator, and researcher. Her first book,Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide to the Dead (Sterling Ethos, 2025) shares her story of being a tech strategist and moving to the 145 year old Spiritualist community of Lily Dale. She loves to help rationalists and woo-woo folks alike through finding their own approach to mediumship. She works to share the unique experience of living surrounded by people who talk to the dead through Normalize Talking To The Dead, a website, podcast, and residency.
Patricia Llosa, MFA, LP, is a Peruvian-American Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. She earned her undergraduate degree in archaeology and art history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did graduate work at The School of Visual Arts. For more than 20 years she worked as an administrator and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A graduate of Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program and has taught her workshops in Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Peru and Spain. A member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis she serves on their Gradiva Awards Committee. She is also on the board of ARAS, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.
Bryan Melillo has studied meditation in the Jñana and Bhakti yoga traditions for the last 25 years. Experiencing a Kundalini experience in 1997, his path eventually led to Tiruvannamalai, India, where he has studied with the same teacher since 2001. Here, he began learning (and eventually teaching) a variety of breathing (pranayama) and mantra-based meditation techniques. Bryan completed an End of Life Doula certification training with the goal of integrating eastern understandings of death with the growing Western end of life care and the death with dignity movement. Bryan is also a professor at NYC’s Parsons School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design.
Dannielle Tegeder is a New York-based Tarot practitioner, artist, and educator. She has been working with Tarot in her own art practice, grounded in painting, combining legacies of hard-edge abstraction with spiritual wisdom. Dannielle’s magick-centered pedagogy empowers students to confidently use the power of Tarot to find guidance and enhance creativity.
Images by channeling aritst Hilma af Klint: 1) Altarpiece, Group X, No 1, 1915; The Swan, No. 1, Group IX, 1915
Eight week class taught live, online, via Zoom
Wednesdays, May 7 - June 25, 2025
7-9 pm ET (NYC TIME) (* Last class will run longer to accommodate final projects)
Admission: $175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
Please note: All classes will be recorded for those unable to attend
Join Morbid Anatomy founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein and seven special guests as we explore—in concept and practice—ego-free co-creation in collaboration with that elusive “beyond self” all creatives seek.
Each week, we will welcome a guest speaker/practitioner from a different tradition, each of which will speak about—and lead us through—their own techniques for connecting with the invisible world, whether they define that as the unconscious, the realm of the divine, or the land of the dead.
Topics will include visionary art with sculptor Eleanor Crook, shamanistic ancestor work with death midwife and shaman Lisa Cox, dreamwork with Jungian analyst Patricia Llosa, spiritualist candle reading with medium Tiffany Hopkins, exploring creativity from different chakras with meditation teacher Bryan Melillo, Tarot for creativity with artist and witch Dannielle Tegeder, and more!
Students are invited to bring an idea or image they wish to work with to class, or be open to one that emerges over the course of our exploration. In the final session, students will have an opportunity to share a creative work they produced utilizing some or all of these systems and speak about their experience.
In doing this work, we will take inspiration from our ancestors, who viewed creativity not a willful act of ego, but as a mysterious phenomenon with links to the divine. They sought the support of The Muses when embarking on a new project, and the in-spiration they longed for meant “influence of a god." Psychologically, this approach allowed for a distancing of ego from creative product, decreasing the likelihood of personal inflation, and engendering a sense of humility, gratitude and appreciation of the mystery.
PRESENTER BIOS (In alphabetical order)
Lisa Cox is a teacher, shamanic practitioner, and Wyoming's Death Midwife, whose practice Hjertehagen Healing Passages provides life transition and support, physical, emotional and spiritual, during and at the end of life and beyond. A Maine native and Wyoming transplant, Lisa holds degrees in History, Education and Political and Soil Science. She has completed the Advanced Shamanic Healing program in Core Shamanism, is currently in the 3 Year Program in Advanced Initiations through the FSS-E in Italy, and completed training through Death Midwife. In addition to her healing practice, Lisa pays the rent by providing exceptional pet care in the community. When not in her healing space or doing "country doctor rounds," she can be found cooking, hiking or snowshoeing, reading, or sitting on a lake in her kayak.
Eleanor Crook is a sculptor and wax modeler who works between the UK and several international medical museums. She is an art tutor a number of UK's major art schools and an art educator in various European medical museums. She trained in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy Schools, working from life and as a medical artist in the dissecting room. She is artist in residence at King’s College’s Gordon Museum of Pathology and the Vrolik Museum Amsterdam. Her work is in the collections of the Science Museum London, Gordon Museum of Pathology Guy's Hospital, the Museum of Pathology at the University of Padua, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society London and the Hunterian Museum Royal College of Surgeons of England. Her specialism is handmade effigies, baroque bronze and eerie lifelike waxes.
Joanna Ebenstein is a Mexico-based artist, writer, curator, photographer and graphic designer. She is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. Her books includeMemento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy and Death: A Graveside Companion.
Tiffany Hopkins (she/her) is an author, medium, educator, and researcher. Her first book,Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide to the Dead (Sterling Ethos, 2025) shares her story of being a tech strategist and moving to the 145 year old Spiritualist community of Lily Dale. She loves to help rationalists and woo-woo folks alike through finding their own approach to mediumship. She works to share the unique experience of living surrounded by people who talk to the dead through Normalize Talking To The Dead, a website, podcast, and residency.
Patricia Llosa, MFA, LP, is a Peruvian-American Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. She earned her undergraduate degree in archaeology and art history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did graduate work at The School of Visual Arts. For more than 20 years she worked as an administrator and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A graduate of Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program and has taught her workshops in Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Peru and Spain. A member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis she serves on their Gradiva Awards Committee. She is also on the board of ARAS, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.
Bryan Melillo has studied meditation in the Jñana and Bhakti yoga traditions for the last 25 years. Experiencing a Kundalini experience in 1997, his path eventually led to Tiruvannamalai, India, where he has studied with the same teacher since 2001. Here, he began learning (and eventually teaching) a variety of breathing (pranayama) and mantra-based meditation techniques. Bryan completed an End of Life Doula certification training with the goal of integrating eastern understandings of death with the growing Western end of life care and the death with dignity movement. Bryan is also a professor at NYC’s Parsons School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design.
Dannielle Tegeder is a New York-based Tarot practitioner, artist, and educator. She has been working with Tarot in her own art practice, grounded in painting, combining legacies of hard-edge abstraction with spiritual wisdom. Dannielle’s magick-centered pedagogy empowers students to confidently use the power of Tarot to find guidance and enhance creativity.
Images by channeling aritst Hilma af Klint: 1) Altarpiece, Group X, No 1, 1915; The Swan, No. 1, Group IX, 1915