Spiritual Art, Seeing Auras, Aura Colors: FAQ's

Does this process involve belief or a spiritual practice on the part of the subject?

No. Plain and simple. All that's needed is to be alive. The Energy Portrait is based on the natural flow of energy, or chi, through your being, no matter what you believe or don't believe.

What is an Energy Portrait?

It's a portrait of an individual based on Leiah's inner sight of the colors emanating from the individual's being. Some call them "aura portraits" or "chakra portraits." They are tools for healing and activation of your journey. They reflect where you are on your path and how you are responding to your life, and illustrate your own inner "programming" or soul instructions.

An Energy Portrait by visionary artist Leiah Bowden offers a look at the living being from another dimension, perhaps bringing us an extremely simple idea of the view from which the Divine sees us. Also known as "aura portraits" or "chakra portraits," these dynamic pictures depict resplendent emanations pouring out from the subject's body, with the crown chakra extending far higher than the physical head, sometimes doubling the size of the physical body. In the mirror these portraits offer, people find joy, promise, and an affirmation that they, themselves, and all life, are indeed beautiful and worthy of great respect and tenderness.

How long does it take?

A full Energy Portrait such as those on this page takes about 45 minutes. A Crown Chakra Portrait takes about 25 minutes. A reading, or interpretation, may add an additional 15 minutes or longer.

Spirit guides often speak to us by saying that they are our brothers or our sisters. This is to help us understand that they are not more evolved than we are, or more worthy of our respect than we ourselves are. We are the same - but they live in a different dimension than we do and so can see beyond the limits than we think are real. For instance, when we speak to Jesus, he speaks to us calling us his brother or his sister.

All the energies in your Energy Portrait come from YOU. Now .... the YOU I am speaking about is not the you inside your skin. That's why I speak of multi-dimensional realities and why these Energy Portraits are so special: they describe your multi-dimensional self, and you are far greater than what is in your skin. Your spirit guides express themselves - to a small degree - through what you see in your energy portrait, but what you see there is you, not your spirit guides., and the energy all comes form the energy that you move around moment by moment as you live your life.

A template is a pattern: it gives the energy a basic outline around which to organize itself, otherwise you would have disorganized perceptual dynamics, difficult thinking and it would be hard for you to make sense of things in a way that helps you organize your life so that you follow your soul's purpose.

Let your intuition guide you in this and in all things relating to your path and the direction you take for yourself. Take cues from your body awareness, from any change in your feelings about elements and people in your life, and in your response to familiar ideas and events.

To arrange an Energy Portrait session,

Call Leiah Bowden at (518) 374-4388 or email her at yes@lightspeak.com. Work long distance is possible because Leiah receives these images intuitively, not physically. You can send a photo or call her to establish the intuitive link on which she will create the Energy Portrait..

Allow four weeks for delivery after payment has been made (and if using a check through the mail, after your check has cleared.)

Does the portrait come with an interpretation?

Information comes in the form of words, melody, or chanting - and sometimes all three - as Leiah is creating the portrait. Typically, the reading may include guidance from the subject's higher self or from the angelic kingdom, past life aspects related to the energy visible in the portrait, multi-dimensional aspects of the self across time and space - and species - or other information about the subject's path, challenges, and opportunities.

What's a chakra?

Chakra is a Sanskrit word used to denote one of the body's several energy centers. The third eye chakra is the area just above the bridge of the nose. Sometimes, especially when looking at an object or thinking hard, people find that they need to press on or rub this area of the forehead. The crown chakra is the energy center located several inches above the physical head. As shown in these portraits , the crown chakra extends high above the body.

What's the process?

A portrait can be done in person or long distance.

In person ...

The person having the portrait done sits opposite Leiah, who observes the person for a few moments, and then goes into a light trance, which faciitates the transition from ordinary sight to inner sight. She then starts the portrait, and works quietly until it is finished. The subject may talk, meditate, sing, or simply relax. Linda meditated, as did Sister Jean; Gary focussed on his balance. Martin, whose portrait depicts a view from his waist up, worked on his computer.

long distance ...

The process is entirely intuitive, so Leiah does not have to be n the same room as the person. She can link with the person via phone or photo.

How is the singing and chanting related to the Energy Portrait?

When Leiah sings and chants as she creates the Energy Portraits, she is singing the energy as well as painting it. In effect, she is singing the energy of the person as well as painting it.

Frequently the singing comes as the door of her perception opens to the person's energy. Sometimes she begins to paint the energy and then a song or chant comes to fill it out as a feeling, as she continues painting - or she may pause to sing while she sees the colors and shapes build, or feel them, and then paint what has developed on her inner canvas, so to speak.

Prices ..... unframed; includes audio tape

18" X 24" or 19"X25 12" x 18"

Crown Chakra only* $150.00 $ 75.00

Full Body including Crown $300.00 $125.00

Group Portrait (2 or more together) $600.00 (or more) NA

Additional interpretation post delivery $ 30.00

Shipping via priority mail $ 5.00

*The crown chakra starts at the forehead and extends up, sometimes four or five feet - or more!

Prices ...framed

Sending an Energhy Portrait as a present, you may wish to have Leiah take care of the framing. Email Leiah at yes@lightspeak.com or call Leiah at (518) 374-4388 to discuss the possibilities.

All images and words on this website are copyrighted. While I am flattered that you might like to borrow them, do not do so without my express, written permission. I look forward to hearing from you with any such request. Thank you ..... Leiah

What does it do for me?

The Energy Portrait contains illustrations, in a way, of the larger patterns which you are expressing in this life, brought from other lives and planes of existence in which you are simultaneously living.

It shows you what and where your strengths are, sometimes it shows how and where you learned to develop these strengths. During the creation of the Energy Portrait Leiah will extend healing, loving energy to any and all places in your mind/body that seem to need healing. She will do this before she“seals” the energy flow in that area by expressing it in color as part of the visual portrait. In this way, the Energy Portrait is an audio/visual healing and mirroring of the life you are manifesting at this point on your path, and it expresses your flow in radiant beauty because that’s what we are: radiant beauties is spirit, of spirit. Physical or emotional pain does not mar this beauty.

Mother and Son

This double arrangement shows some similarities in the Energy Portraits of Noreen and her son, David. They were created on two seprarte sheets of paper. Double or family portraits are available. See below for costs.