Welcome to The House. Welcome Home
Who is House of Fluid Reflections?
We are a wellness community on a mission to re-humanize creators. We help people feel seen while providing spaces for creative growth and self healing.
What Does HFR Do?
Currently, we facilitate private wellness experiences called Sanctuary Soul, which provide participants with the opportunity to make art, connect with others, group journal and share before they experience a sound bath and guided meditation. We also produce three web series: Artists Touch, GRYSKLL and NFT Backstories. Along with our productions, we collaborate on creative photoshoots, produce music and video, create cover art and run a photography business.
Why Our Mission is So Important to Us
We want creators to have an easier go at things. We want you to have access to what you need, when you need it. What we’re offering and providing are also things that we wish we had access to at different stages of our own wellness journeys and artistic careers. We know we can continue making a difference, especially with your help.
Why is HFR Crowdfunding?
Since 2019, we’ve been operating and funding all things HFR out of pocket from our savings, Shaah’s 401k and my photography business. Now we’ve come to the end of the road with our financial reserves and need additional financial resources to continue serving our community, the HFR Family.
We’ve also had several unexpected life events that have forced us to pivot, from family deaths to our furnace going out to a leak in the basement that has caused mold. Each of these things has affected our ability to support creators and forced us to divert time and energy to focus on earning income and finding funding. Our hearts have been broken as we’ve had to postpone assisting our HFR Family members and defer others until a later time.
Lastly, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that's related to changes in seasons affects many HFR Family members and people who are interested in our services. We want to continue our mission because what we do has helped to alleviate some of the affects of SAD in our community.
With your help we’ll continue serving and supporting creators and potentially you.
The House
“The House,” the physical manifestation and base of operations for House of Fluid Reflections, is currently our home in Silver Spring, Maryland. This is where our Sanctuary Soul experiences are hosted and most Artists Touch, NFT Backstories [virtually] and GRYSKLL [virtually] episodes are filmed. Our next big step is opening The House as an intimate co-working space.
Since 2020 we've been converting each room into a unique space. So far, we’ve created a sanctuary, meditation space, photography studio, music studio (the basement leak and mold has affected this area), office and common room.
Along with remedying the furnace, water damage and mold, each of these spaces needs a bit more work before The House can open back up to our community and the public. You can find an itemized breakdown here.
About Us
Yani
Hey! I’m Yolanda Marie or Yani for short. A quirky introvert, who loves nature, family, the arts and travel. What do I do? I’m a multi-disciplinary artist who helps creators and the arts community feel seen as I encourage wellness through art practices.
I currently serve the arts community by providing a platform for creators to share their stories, art and feel seen as people through HFR’s Artists Touch and NFT Backstories web-series. I’ve been a photographer for 9 years and curate safe and fun photoshoot environments that people feel seen and free to be themselves in. And I host HFR Sanctuary Soul experiences, guiding people through group art sessions, journaling, sound baths and meditation.
Shaah
I’m a former full time computer systems architect/engineer who, through trauma, found my mission to re-humanize creators. I started with myself. I spent much of the 90s working toward becoming a music producer but I was a victim of Imposter’s Syndrome so I didn’t take advantage of the opportunities before me at the time. Opportunities that led me to spend a little time with a few well known producers.
For the past 3-4 years I’ve been heavily focused on healing the trauma that caused me to forego opportunities like those. In that time I’ve been learning and sharing my lessons and resources with other creators in hopes that they will also be able to use “arting” as a tool to heal themselves. My primary vehicle for sharing my messages and creations is GRYSKLL.
Thank You!
Shaah and I are so grateful to you for taking time to get to know us and our mission. We appreciate each and every one of you and Thank You in advance for your most generous support!
Much love!
Other Ways You Can Support:
Join Us for an Online Sanctuary Soul Experience:
Group Session: calendly.com/hfrconnect/group-sanctuary-soul
1 on 1: calendly.com/hfrconnect/sanctuary-soul-1-on-1
Book a Photoshoot with Yani:
https://www.loveyolandamarie.com/book-with-me
Collect an NFT:
Yani's genesis collection - No Man's Land: https://opensea.io/collection/nomanslandbyloveyolandamarie
Shaah's genesis collection - Pitchfork's Pieces: https://dragonspitchfork.com/pitchfork-pieces
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