More About R. Sierra
the artist at age 10
Robin Sierra began her creative journey at 21 when she moved from Los Angeles to the isolated coastal village of Trinidad in northern California, a place that encouraged her to turn inward and begin both a deeper dialogue with herself and a profound relationship with nature. These have become an integral part of her life, paintings, and work with people.
She began a lifelong passion for painting in 1972, receiving her degree from Humboldt State University in Fine Art, with an emphasis in psychology. At that time she also began practicing meditation, which continues to sustain her.
Realizing that she had much personal healing to do from her family history, she began a deep therapeutic process that eventually led her to experience and study many different psychological modalities and to pursue graduate work in Counseling at Southwestern College in Santa Fe and in the Art and Consciousness program at JFK University in San Francisco.
While in Trinidad, Robin cofounded a non-profit organization, Full Circle, whose mission was to bring spiritual teachers into the far northern California area, and to produce retreats and classes. She also began facilitating workshops, using art as a tool for personal transformation, in 1976. After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1982, Robin founded the Green Mountain Institute which produced events and workshops using spirituality and creative process for personal transformation.
She has also trained in Process Oriented Psychology, Life/Art Process with Anna Halprin, Radiance Breathwork, and Death and Dying retreats with Stephen Levine and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and worked at Marin County AIDS Services, the Living Dying Project and Hope House doing art process with AIDS patients. As a Certified Grief Counselor she worked at the Tucson Medical Center Hospice and the University of Arizona Medical Center, as well as leading a support group for Homicide Survivors in Tucson and doing individual grief counseling.
In the 1990’s, she collaborated with her husband Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, to develop Callings workshops which they taught at venues around the country, including teaching the Ghost Ranch Retreat Center, Portland State University, Esalen and Omega Institutes.
