Kristine Wilkerson – At the Heart of Center Within

by Lena Morgan
images by Cindy Minier & Kristine Wilkerson

Kristine

An artist, healer, mentor, guide, and manifestation consultant.

I love the way she describes herself:

“…a bridge between the unconscious (where we hold unhealed stories); the super-conscious (where we discover unlimited potential); and our conscious physical world (where we manifest).”

Kristine Wilkerson

I ask Kristine to tell me a little bit about her work and her clients. She looks pensive and then she launches:

There is a misperception that there is a right way and a wrong way to live life. I don’t believe that. For me, there is no right or wrong. There is just the way. Through our thoughts, feelings, and inner knowing we are drawn to what uniquely excites us. And this excitement, this zest and enlivenment, directs authentic choice.

We’ve gotten away from listening to what we truly want and aligning our actions with what we know to be true for us as individuals; as Creators. Instead, we source from the outside world and from other people’s agendas for whether we are living our life ‘the right way’. We do this falsely believing that is what is required to be accepted, admired, and loved.

We move out of alignment with who we really are and what we know to be truth for ourselves. As these misalignments become pattern, our authentic way is lost. To cover our fear, disappointment, and pain we withdraw from the bounty of our full presence. We live in the past regretful and we swirl in fear and worry about the future. We mask and medicate these misalignments.

Kristine Wilkerson

She says some of her clients come with great clarity, knowing what is calling them. They feel the fire in their belly. Ideas and excitement are abundant, but what eludes them is how to bring their visions, desires, and dreams into reality.

Other clients, not so much; their focus is on what others want. The pattern of not following their truth has created a cloud of confusion, overwhelm, dissatisfaction, and frustration. They are stuck. They say: “I don’t even know what I want … how can I possibly know how to move forward, where to even start.” The main desire for every human is how to find freedom, fulfillment, peace, and joy. Kristine believes “success is in our presence”.

Live life to all of its juicy, luscious edges.

Kristine Wilkerson

Utilizing expressive and healing arts, Kristine and her clients launch on a journey of exploration to attain freedom and joy in their lives. The process she describes as fun, creative, informative, supported, enlightened, and all about being in alignment. She uses the word Ayni and explains it is a Quechua word meaning “right relationship, reciprocity, and alignment”. It strikes me that when she speaks of right relationship she speaks first of right relationship with the Self.

As a healing artist, Kristine’s array of gifts map where clients are, where they want to go, obstacles and blocks in their way; clearing the path for embodiment of a new blueprint. This allows manifestation of the desired outcome. She trained in energy medicine with the Four Winds Society. Her shamanic medicine is connected directly to the Peruvian and Amazonian Shamans and the ancient wisdom. She is a Holy Fire Usui and Karuna Master. On the business front, she taps her 30+ years of experience in both the legal field and the running of an art and design gallery. These life experiences merge to provide insight in Life Artistry. The design and creation of a fully expressed life.

“Judgment paralyzes artistry,” Kristine told me as we spoke about this creative space. Center Within uses expressive art in all forms to allow one to play at life with ease and grace. Breathe that in, play at life … when did you stop playing at life? When was your artistry tucked away and silenced at the hands of learned behaviors and the judgment of others?

“We are our greatest artistry. Let’s dream the world we truly desire into being.” These words void of fear offer us the permission to show up and explore the vision and dreams we have for ourselves. These words are elevating agents, ripples from her pebble tossed into the pond of community that resonate deeply.

Center Within offers space to explore the elements of our lives, the heartbeat of our genius, and the subtle ways in which we can tap into them. The space and the land upon which Center Within lives in Huntsville, UT is sacred. It is cared for. It is loved. The core of this also lives in Seattle on Alki Beach. Through the sacred tools employed by the community that gathers in these spaces, there is stillness from the chaos. There is an opportunity to tap into the quiet, subtle knowing of the connection that exists when you are in Ayni, giving and receiving, manifesting and allowing reciprocity. There is Art in all of its forms, all the time. This is Center Within.

C Within is the magazine you are reading. It is a celebration of all things Art and Artistry. It is a tool showing by example, article by article, and artist by artist “the way”. The way of the brush, the way of the writer, the way of the singer, dancer, poet, sculptor, healer … the way of the fearless dreamer. C Within is at its core an invitation to each of us to become OUR FULLEST EXPRESSION free of judgment and fear; to dance and sing and paint and vision and in these acts of creation be and live a life of artistry, authenticity, liberation, and ultimate joy. Read on, play on, “live life to all of its juicy, luscious edges.”

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