About the practice

Your Inner Artist as Your Guide

Art life coaching is a blend of creative inquiry and compassionate life coaching. We use expressive practices—journaling, creative writing, visual storytelling, singing, vocal improv and much more—to help you see your life more clearly and choose your next steps with heart.

Whether you are returning to creativity after a long pause, navigating a transition, or simply longing for more color and meaning in your days, this work meets you where you are.

Compassionate inquiry

We move gently through resistance, curiosity, and self-discovery without judgment.

Creative practice

Art becomes a mirror, revealing patterns, desires, and possibilities words alone may miss.

Improvisation

We say yes to the unexpected, letting spontaneity loosen the grip of perfectionism and awaken your inner child.

Creative Freedom

You choose your medium, your pace, and your direction. Here, there is no wrong way to create or become.

About me

The creative force has been my most faithful companion

Portrait of the art life coach smiling outdoors

I write to understand my inner world and heal my relationship with the unknown.

I compose poems to transcend conventional speech, touch the mystic power of the word and expose the geography of the soul.

I sing to express my emotional palette and embody my unique energetic signature, my voice. I AM MUSIC.

I capture fleeting images and become humble to the transience of existence through the preciousness of each chosen frame of view.

Sometimes I think in pictures and sing inside without a sound. Sometimes poems grow like winged beings and turn into wisdom teachers to my future self. I witness, I feel, I express, I gather, I reassemble, I synthesize and take apart, I get close, I pull back, I learn, refine, then despair and get back to ground zero: that original raw spark along the electric circuit of any creative beginning.

The creative force has been my most faithful companion over more than 20 years. The creative flow was generous with me and did not choose a single outlet but many possibilities: I have worked as videographer and photographer for over 15 years, written poetry since 2014 and published 2 poetry books, explored my natural singing voice across self-guided modalities, hosted Open Mic events and creative community circles and much more.

I have grown to realize that creativity is our birthright, our essential self, the life vest that comes to the rescue when the everyday pales or when we lose a sense of meaning or belonging. When we are at an impasse but no amount of thinking about a problem or talking it out can provide relief. In these moments, inspiration is at the edge of our perceived reality, waiting for the slightest invitation, the most minute inkling. All we need is a container. All we need is a chosen medium. All we need is a permission to start and not know exactly where we are going. Art becomes a powerful intimate guide of self unearthing and catharsis. For everyone, everywhere, all the time. Not a vocation, but a divine intervention. A deep process of inquiry and breakthrough, a direct manifestation of complete presence in the NOW, a meeting of the Creative Being with Creative Doing.

Precisely because I have lived this profound transformation across many avenues of expression, I have taken on a new purpose: to share with you the magic of creativity as a personal development tool or as your pathway to community connection.

I became certified as an Art Life Coach with an accredited institution and my journey as a facilitator and co-potentiator of your most lit-up, liberated and joyous self is just starting!

Art Life Coach Certification for Lazarina Todorova
Art Life Coach certification
Poetry

Words that hold what the heart cannot yet name

I have used poetry as a primary tool of personal self-awareness, catharsis, self-therapy and integration on the path of becoming.

Magnetic Dancer

On the courage of beginning something new.

So many doors to destiny Stay closed For those too blind to see To fight or flee Has never been the answer Become the Dancer Of magnetic hearts Burn down the fear And your life will start

Holy Daughter

On reclaiming the divine identity within.

Who am I, a mere stranger? On this path of hidden danger Shaman, Priestess, Holy Daughter? In this drought I’m hauling water Quenching thirst And drowning flames Ruling over the untamed

Old Skin

On self acceptance and letting go.

After falling comes each rise with delectable surprise Go on, celebrate the mess The parts of you you never blessed Spinning, grinning, and unwinding Curious and new threads finding Put your pride a while to sleep Let your old skin peel and weep

Masterpiece

On creativity.

Create your masterpiece With each intention With every mis-step, trial and error Springs well-earned wisdom, something better There are no meaningless attempts Your art shall craft and twist and mend The heart note on each sacred journey So bless each season and each leaf that's turning

VOCAL EXPRESSION

Voice as a pathway home

Conventional vocal coaching never really worked for me. It provided me with some music education, but also somehow took me out of the heart and towards more self-consciousness and inner compression. I cultivated my own practice for over 12 years while singing at open mics, with a capella groups, at drum and song circles, and jam sessions. The biggest discoveries of my instrument were gleaned in the practice of doing what I love and reaching for even more expressive authenticity and away from dry technique and exercises. My breakthroughs also happened when singing with others and in a context of freedom and experimentation.  My Natural Singer approach incorporates awareness of technique but gently, at the right pace and never as a primary goal or at the expense of enjoyment or authenticity. We never sing to impress, but to express, witness, embody, become and belong.  You can book a session if you struggle with vocal confidence or performance anxiety and especially if you wish to feel more free and spontaneous with your voice. If you want to sing for joy, self-healing or to share with community, this is for you.

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All of Me - a capella cover with harmonies
Bulgarian folk song
Strong Enough cover
Improvisation
VISUAL STORYTELLING

Frames of Embodiment

I've been a visual storyteller and worked extensively in the field of documentary videography, video art and photography. For my biographical documentary "Life After Babylon" I was awarded a New Paradigm Award at the San Francisco Earth Day Festival and the Awareness Festival in Los Angeles. In the spirit of creative freedom and experimentation, I will preview here one of my lesser known video art creations, Butoh Symphony.

A meditation on the archetypal human journey through the movement vocabulary of Butoh Dance

Services

Ways to work together

Every offering is designed to be warm, accessible, and grounded in your unique creative rhythm.

1:1 Creativity Coaching

Personal sessions where we explore your current chapter, identify creative blocks, and design small, meaningful steps forward.

From $120 / session

The Creative Reset

A 6-week guided journey to reconnect with your artistic self, build a sustainable practice, and restore creative confidence.

$500 / program

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Ready to begin your creative journey?

Every session is a safe, welcoming space to explore where you are and what wants to emerge next.

Flexible times

Morning and afternoon sessions available throughout the week.

Gentle first step

Begin with a free discovery call or book a full session right away.

Schedule your session (or free discovery call)

Fill out this intake form. Takes a minute and gives us a good foundation to work from.

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Let's begin with a conversation

Have a question before booking? Send a message and we will find the right next step together.

Currently accepting new clients for September openings.