Herspiral Arts is home to Miriam Hall, teacher, mentor, coach, and facilitator.

I help you to

nurture

your creative

nature

How?

• I encourage each of my students, mentees, and participants to connect with their own inherent wisdom and creativity through a suite of contemplative arts practices. You do not need to be an artist, a buddhist or any other “ist” to benefit!

• I teach and mentor art-based contemplative practices, include contemplative writing, contemplative photography (Miksang), creative process, and contemplative psychology (Karuna Training).

• I teach and coach online and in-person, through classes, retreats, and with individuals.

• I use a lens of social justice in all my work; I am a mentor/coach with Leesa Renee Hall’s Inner Field Trips and do my personal and community work around race, in particular.

• I believe as living, sentient beings, perception is available to all of us, all of the time; all of us have access to creative inspiration.

• Meditation, dharma teachings and contemplation are woven into all I teach.

• For fifteen years now, I have offered various forms of Contemplative Arts as a full-time occupation.

• See more below specific topics/areas.

If you want to know more about how I came to teach contemplative arts, please read my story.

I look forward to playing in perception with you soon.

Testimonials:

Miriam Hall has devoted her life to create safe spaces for people to explore the vast depths of healing through writing and photography. What blows me away about being around her is how this practice is gifting me back with tremendous, and innate, creativity. Miriam and her classes are a rock solid cornerstone of my life.

- KRISTINA AMELONG – RETREATS, FEEDBACK GROUPS, CREATIVE COACHING, WEEKLY CLASSES, MIKSANG, AND SHAMBHALA ART

Miriam Hall is an exquisite teacher. I've taken a number of her weekend classes, and teacher instruction, and have consistently been entertained (a must for me!), stimulated, and inspired. Her students grow more curious and more self-assured in encountering this constantly changing world.

-JAKE LORFING - MIKSANG PHOTOGRAPHY AND MIKSANG TEACHER TRAINING

Contemplative Writing

I teach writing as a practice, as writing for writing’s sake, not just as something to be edited, finished, published.

Natalie Goldberg has said of me:

“Miriam Hall has the heart and head and hands of Writing Practice.

Study with her.”

In Contemplative Writing (Writing Practice), I offer retreats, and week-to-week classes, both online and in person. I am an internationally-recognized teacher, and increasingly published author. I am sought out for my kind manner, sharp awareness and precise understanding of Buddhist teachings and human condition.

Nalanda Miksang

Miksang is a form of contemplative photography based on the perception teachings of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. It is a full practice, with much training and application, and is passed on from teacher to student.

More than an art form, Miksang is a vehicle for realization of the here and now. For more information, visit my Miksang page, the main Nalanda Miksang website, or the Facebook Nalanda Miksang Group, or buy our books in my store.

Creative Process

In addition to Contemplative Writing and Miksang Photography, I present several other paths that share a similar view towards mindful, spacious approaches to practice.

Return is an annual program, running from January 1 - December 31 of each year. It’s a coaching community, where we polish each others’ wisdom and witness each others’ confusion.

Creative Coaching continues the theme of flexibility while offering a more structured environment. I have Creative Coaching clients with whom I meet in person here in Madison, and clients who live in another city, state, or country with whom I meet through Zoom or Skype, and email/text. Please fill out this form if you are interested in discussing working together.

Shambhala Art is a series of weekend programs which presents a variety of artistic disciplines. I will update when I am offering one of these programs.