Hi! I’m maddie!

My name is Madelyn Mulvaney but everyone calls me Maddie. I am a Creative/Conscious Retreat facilitator, meditation facilitator, entrepreneur - and a contributing writer for various Arts and wellness magazines. I am also currently working on my Breathwork Coach certification.

I am also the owner/founder of the Luminous Elephant Studios - a playful Arts and Wellness space located in Vancouver B.C. Luminous Studios is a big-hearted studio that embraces the arts and our own unique creativity that sparks joy, imagination and nourishes the soul. We offer art and ceramics classes and experiences in painting, watercolour, drawing, pottery, art therapy, energy healing along with cheery corporate events.

For over 16 years I have been leading individual and Corporate Creative Conscious retreats worldwide since my very first retreat at Esalen Institute that encourage individuals to reconnect to themselves through playful creative arts workshops and mindful wellness practices such as Breathwork/Journaling/Yoga/Meditiation. In particular I love to lead retreats on Bowen Island at Nectar Yoga/ Galiano Island,Salt Spring Island and Tofino. The Gulf islands feel very enlivening and healing to my spirit and I love to share them with our retreat community.

The touchstone of my heart is the love I share with my two beautiful children, my Grandaughter Olivia, my husband Gerry and his three terrific boys – and our dogs Lucy, Luna and Tobi. I currently reside with Gerry and our combined family of four sons on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, known as Vancouver, BC.

My happy time is spent hiking, bicycling, reading, kayaking, writing poetry - and hanging out at PERCH (our 100 square foot passion project cabin on Galiano Island.)

If I wasn’t running Luminous Studios I would likely be rescuing dogs around the world and finding loving homes for them.:)