The Inner Altar ™ is a private offering for sensitive creatives and cultural workers ready to return to their own pace. This work is for the person standing at an awakening in their life and creative practice.

You may be rethinking your work, your relationships, your creative path, your body, your capacity, or even the ways you have learned to survive inside systems that no longer feel honest. Like most of us, you dont need more strategies. You need a foundation to hear yourself clearly. Together, we listen for what your life is already trying to tell you.

Through Human Design, ancestral somatics, eco-somatics, intuitive guidance, and creative direction, we map the conditions that support your clarity, energy, inspiration, and inner authority.

This is for you if…

You are in a transition and can feel that something in your life needs to change, but you do not want to force the next chapter from a place of panic or hurried attention.

You are highly intuitive but have a hard time trusting your own timing and moving on your impulses.

You are creative, sensitive, or spiritually attuned, but feel overextended by work, caretaking, visibility, or the expectations of others, which color the decisions you make regarding your creativity and ultimately your life.

You want to return to your body, your creative practice, your ancestors, the natural world, and your own inner authority.

You are tired of shaping yourself around what is "practical" while your spirit keeps whispering something more true.

Our Process

1:1 sessions

Weekly 60-minute sessions held over six weeks. Each session is shaped around what is present in your life, body, creative field, and decision-making process.

Somatic mapping

Together, we look at what is trying to emerge in your life or creative practice. This may include clarifying an offering, naming a transition, restructuring your rhythm, or identifying what needs to be released, protected, or nourished so you can make a confident step towards your goals as a creative being. Together I will help you craft rituals, practices, and anchors that help you return to yourself and your creative fire

Light support between sessions

You'll have access to gentle support between sessions for reflections, questions, or moments of integration. This is not constant access, but a soft thread of continuity while you move through the mentorship.

Closing integration

At the end of the mentorship, you'll receive a summary of your key themes, practices, insights, and next steps so you have something to return to after our work together closes.

Why I Created The Inner Altar

The Inner Altar™ grew out of my own periods when the life I had built could no longer hold the person I was becoming.

There have been moments throughout my fifteen-year life as an artist when I was deeply creative, outwardly capable, and continuing to meet the demands of my work, while inwardly feeling disconnected from my own voice. I could make, teach, organize, support, and envision for others, yet still feel uncertain about my own rhythm, direction, and desire beneath the layers of responsibility, conditioning, family expectation, institutional pressure, and the inner critic.

What I needed during those seasons was not another formula for becoming more productive, visible, or successful. I needed a place spacious enough to hear myself again. I needed practices that could help me distinguish between what I had been taught to want and what my own life was quietly asking of me.

The Inner Altar emerged from that process of listening myself back into clarity.

The name first came to me through meditation as an image of the inner self as both altar and vessel… a place where our questions, desires, memories, contradictions, and emerging identities can be gathered without being rushed into resolution. It initially took form through conversations with clay, which were intimate, generative exchanges grounded in the understanding that both a vessel and a life are shaped slowly, through pressure, attention, rupture, and repair.

Over time, The Inner Altar expanded into a mentorship for artists and creatives standing at the crossroads between what no longer fits and what is ready to emerge from within.

The is for the person whose creative life may still be moving, but whose inner life is asking for a different pace, structure, relationship, or direction. The person who does not necessarily need more advice, but needs the space and support to hear what they already know beneath the noise.

This work is grounded in a belief that an artistic practice cannot be separated from the body, relationships, environment, ancestry, livelihood, and everyday life of the person making the work.

The Inner Altar is not only about advancing a project or career. It is an invitation to deepen your relationship with yourself, your practice, and the life your work is asking you to live.

Energy Exchange: $1,500

I work with a limited number of creatives each season.

You do not need to arrive with a perfect plan or know exactly where you are going. You only need to be willing to listen for what is ready to emerge.

If something in you recognizes this work, I would be honored to meet you there.

The Experience I Bring

I’m Iman “Dayo” Person, an interdisciplinary artist, educator, cultural researcher, and founder of Altar Archives.

For more than fifteen years, my work has moved between the studio, the classroom, and the institutions that shape contemporary culture. Alongside maintaining my own multidisciplinary practice, I have worked across artist-run initiatives, nonprofit arts organizations, commercial galleries, and blue-chip spaces, giving me an intimate understanding of the many forms an artistic life can take and the structures artists are often asked to navigate.

I have worked as an arts administrator, curated exhibitions, organized and stewarded a year-long artist fellowship, participated in fellowships and residencies, managed the studios of established artists with practices spanning more than two decades, and supported artists across multiple stages of their creative lives.

For the past five years, I have also taught at the college level, guiding hundreds of emerging artists through creative development, critical inquiry, interdisciplinary experimentation, and the work of building a sustainable relationship with their practice.

My own artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally through installation, performance, video, sculpture, ceramics, and sound. Drawing from cultural anthropology, ancestral memory, ritual, and ecological systems, my practice considers how bodies, landscapes, sound, and materials function as living archives. My research has included fieldwork in Jamaica and has been shared through exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and institutional collaborations.

These experiences have allowed me to witness creative practice from many angles: the intimate rhythms of the studio and the external realities of galleries, museums, universities, fellowships, residencies, and cultural organizations.

But The Inner Altar was not created to teach artists how to better conform to those systems.

It was created to offer my creative community something those systems rarely provide: a place to slow down, listen deeply, recognize what is changing, and build a creative life that feels inhabitable from the inside.