Heal & TRANSFORM with creativity & mind-body practices.

Welcome, I’m Marga Fripp, a trauma-informed expressive art therapist, certified Qigong teacher, and artist in Western North Carolina.

During my 30 years of experience as a nonprofit executive and coach, I have helped empower thousands of women and families from domestic violence to immigrants, refugees, and trauma survivors.

Through creativity, movement, and mind-body practices, I offer coaching and healing experiences for people navigating complex life challenges, stress, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. My role is to empower you to re-imagine and create a healthy life of meaning and purpose.

Marga Fripp Studio is honored to be The Winner of the 2023 Washington Parent Picks for Well-being/Tai Chi & Qigong. 

Marga Fripp Studio supports The Pollinators Foundation donating artwork to raise funds for community health and mental wellness programs.

Your bold, beautiful life begins here.

Awaken CREATIVITY and nurture your spirit.

Restore your HEALTH
and build resilience.

Connect to your inner WISDOM and truth.

It is as easy as a movement or the stroke of a paintbrush.

The arts and meditative movement are powerful healing and resilience-building modalities. I offer group classes, individual coaching, and combined workshops and retreats online and in person. Discover your body’s wisdom and innate ability to heal and transform. Joyful, creative, and calming, these sessions are for people of all ages and walks of life.

Discover THE POWER OF ART to HEAL & EMPOWER

Art Healing online & in-person with Expressive Arts

Through a unique blend of compassionate listening, art-making, poetry, and writing, I coach people navigating transitions and life challenges to heal, grow, renew, and transform.

I offer art healing experiences online and in person at my farm studio in Clyde, NC. My clients include people from all ages and walks of life including trauma survivors, conscious leaders, artists, sabbatical-takers, and seekers. 

Embrace MINDFUL MOVEMENT to NOURISH & RENEW

QIGONG Group Classes & Private Instruction

Qigong is a gentle, moving meditation and energy healing practice similar to Tai Chi that transforms stress into vitality. Qigong strengthens the immune system, improves health, and cultivates ageless grace and wellbeing.

Why work with me?

You are interested in learning skills and holistic mind-body practices to help manifest your highest potential. You want to find your unique pathway to health and vibrancy—and feel confident, resilient, and brave at any age.

Enjoy Health: Body, Mind, and Spirit

After over two decades of executive nonprofit leadership in empowering women to create their own businesses and become entrepreneurs, I shifted my work to helping people discover their power to create health and craft a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

As a holistic Healing Arts Practitioner and Artist, I use mind-body research-backed practices like mindfulness, qigong, and expressive arts to help my clients grow resilient and wise through life challenges and transitions.

Let’s get started!

What people are saying.

  • “Your beautiful, sacred movement program has significantly uplifted my wellbeing and awakened my energy and my brain cells. Your luminous spirit and energy add premium wattage and love.”

    Cheryl

  • "How does one attune sensibilities that allow for deeper ways of knowing?  Marga embodies these tender sensibilities and shares her resources and goodwill as a sincere, exquisite guide.  She emanates a natural, genuine beauty of strength and softness, a maestro of attentive articulation and artistry." 

    k2, Expressive Arts Expert

  • “Marga exudes calm and joy during her QiGong practice, making her leadership authentic and honest. She establishes a personal connection with each person in the group. I so looked forward to practicing with her, calming my body and mind.”

    Karen L.

  • “I am a former RN and now a professor and I hate exercise. But I love Marga’s classes because it is also about something we do not get in other programs: Tension relief! It is about loving ourselves and caring for ourselves and doing the simple things that we can do every day to enable good feelings, heightened happiness and all the while getting stronger, and well.”

    Meg

  • “My elbow was quite sore coming to class after slipping on ice and falling on my arm. The class was gentle enough, and I could easily adapt to practicing with one arm. It was interesting to tune in and notice my good arm activating and moving the flow of Qi to both arms like a big sister caring for a little sister. Finally, the ache and soreness of my elbow and arm became nearly non-existent.”

    LouLou

Day 19 - Art Every Day Month, Gardens of Delight, Collage
Day 18 - Art Every Day Month, The Soul is daydreaming, Collage 💓🐝🙏🏽
Day 17 - Art Every Day Month - All we’re here for is to love, and to share our light and the unforgettable heart gifts of joy, kindness and grace 💓🙏🏽🐝😇
Day 16 - Art Every Day Month - The more she loved, the less she had to say. No longer had she have to prove her worth, the gold was in her listening heart 🙏🏽💓🐝
Yesterday, I gifted myself time to try something different. I attended a workshop at The Creative Thought Center Waynesville NC and played with watercolor, guided by the beautiful soul friend artist, Joan Doyle. It was magical to create a ripple dapp
Day 14 - Art Every Day Month - She knew that to tend to the world she had to keep her heart open and her dreams awake. And when the day was over, she had to let go and let the mind rest 🙏🏽💓🐝