I’m Jamie Ridler and...

I believe in magic.

All my life I have found it through the arts, from when I was a little girl lost in The Witch’s Buttons while perched in our willow tree to coming home to myself on the dance floor after a difficult breakup in my thirties to helping creatives transform into artists in my Devotion program.

Throughout my 20-year career as a coach, my focus has been creativity. 

I’ve created courses, content and products that have helped thousands of people around the world bring their creativity to life. I’ve hosted a successful creative living podcast with stellar guests like Julia Cameron and Brené  Brown. I have reached tens of thousands of people through my Creative Living TV channel on YouTube.

Magic is woven into the fabric of

everything I’ve made.

Classes start with candles and intentions. The Studio Yearbook begins with an invocation. Engaging in my work, you will follow the rhythms of your heart, the seasons and the moon. We may pull a tarot or oracle card for guidance and insight. This is the Studio Way. I had no idea it was so far outside the realm of most people’s everyday life.

I remember several years ago a friend asked me, “How do you deal with everyone thinking you’re weird?”

With shock on my face I responded, “I’m weird?”

This life of an artist, this way of magic, has always simply felt like home to me. 

That’s why I created The School of Creative Magic, so that it can be home for you too.

I know how the world can squeeze the creativity and magic right out of us, especially us sensitive souls. We’re told to stop daydreaming and to be ‘realistic’. 

In response, we start hiding our true nature. 

We pose as ‘normal’, but the costume never really fits. 

We long to set our wild creative magic free.

We long for paint on our hands and play in our hearts. We long to sing loudly and proudly, to shine brightly and beautifully. We long to dance with wild abandon and follow the fairies into the forest. We long to surrender to the creative fire until it consumes us, and we emerge transformed, renewed and, if we are lucky, with an artifact from the journey: a book, a song, a dress, a poem, a painting.

Do you know this longing?

All you have to do is open the door.

I believe in you.

Take your first step now by joining The School of Creative Magic™. You’ll have access to our school library which includes a five-part series of Creative Practice workshops and many more inspiring treasures. You’ll also receive weekly email love letter plus a 10% student discount on most offerings. Let the magic begin.

Jamie Ridler MA CPCC

Jamie is a creative mentor who helps highly sensitive creatives find the clarity, courage and confidence to go from painfully hiding their light to fully embracing their artistic spirit and finally creating what only they can make.

For two decades, Jamie’s magical approach to coaching, courses and content has helped awaken the creative spirit in tens of thousands of people around the world. Her experience in the arts includes writing, theatre, dance, the visual arts and more, giving her a range that allows her to see creative challenges across mediums and to work powerfully with artists of all kinds. A recognized expert, The Huffington Post called Jamie “One of the Top Five Women Podcasters You Must Listen To” and she has been consulted as a guest expert for articles at Psychology Today and Spirituality & Health. She is particularly proud of her Give a Girl a Journal initiative which put journals in the hands of girls across Canada and the US, the UK, India, Australia and more.

Jamie lives in Toronto with her beloved husband and three Studio Kittens. You can see Shibumi, Scout & Escher on social media regularly enduring Jamie’s penchant for photography. Jamie’s lastest projects include: a collage series of magical animals and learning how to DJ. (Expect solstice dance parties in the future!)

The School of

Creative Magic™

The School of Creative Magic is an online portal to a world that reminds you of one simple truth: you are a creature of magic, capable of great wonders.

Through courses, content and coaching, The School of Creative Magic helps you untether from whatever has kept you small and hesitant so that you can finally walk through the wardrobe and claim your place in a world of artists, magicians, healers and other magical beings.

Here you will discover that magic is real and for sensitive creative souls like you, the arts are the way to unlock it.