Discover Your True Self
Through Creative Expression
Through Creative Expression
MULTIMEDIA
LOVE LETTER
💌感官情书💌Come home to yourself
with a 3-month
virtual creative somatic journey
designed for heart-led humans.
with a 3-month
virtual creative somatic journey
designed for heart-led humans.
led by Mengwen Cao
supported by Ana Rosa Marx
Info Sessions
1.
a somatic self-portrait workshop
11/1/2026 SUNDAY
4:00-5:30pm PT
7:00pm-8:30pm ET
ted
2.
a somatic website visioning workshop
11/8/2026 SUNDAY
4:00-5:30pm PT
7:00pm-8:30pm ET
8:00am-9:30am CST
* RSVP open soon.
Join the waitlist
to be the first to know.
a somatic self-portrait workshop
11/1/2026 SUNDAY
4:00-5:30pm PT
7:00pm-8:30pm ET
ted
2.
a somatic website visioning workshop
11/8/2026 SUNDAY
4:00-5:30pm PT
7:00pm-8:30pm ET
8:00am-9:30am CST
* RSVP open soon.
Join the waitlist
to be the first to know.
You are here because...
- You feel blocked or stuck. You want to embody your creativity, feel it in your body, and use it as a tool for self-love and connection.
- You’ve been holding back your stories, unsure how to express them fully.
- You crave a creative transformation. You know creativity is healing, but you’re not sure how to fully integrate it into your life.
- You’ve struggled with feeling seen and understood. You feel alone navigating the in-between space.
- You’re longing for a softly structured space to play and create without the pressure to be perfect.
- You’re looking for new ways to express yourself beyond words. Whether through photography, text, sound, video, or website building, you want to see what’s possible when you bring your whole self into your work.
- You’re ready to dive deep into your mind, body and spirit and create from a place of raw authenticity.
- You might be BIPOC, queer, immigrant, neurodivergent, sensitive, or navigating other complexities of identity. You’re looking for a community that will hold space for your full expression—where every part of you is welcome.
Imagine, in 3 months,
- You are deeply connected to yourself, your emotions, and your body, having integrated somatic and creative rituals into your daily life.
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You’ve built intimate connections with a supportive community of like-minded creatives, feeling seen and celebrated in your authenticity.
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You’re empowered to continue expressing your story through photography, video, sound, and writing, without fear of judgment.
- You are proud of who you are. You start to live a life following “a love ethic”1, embracing “all the dimensions of love—care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect, and knowledge—in our everyday lives”.
“This was a beautiful container that offered love, co-incubating and courage to step into my creation energy.
This retreat felt like a huge mirror to myself.
During the retreat, I became more aware and present to myself, my physical + energetic body, how I am constantly changing - that I move in cycles, even when I may not feel that I am changing!
This has been so humbling and comforting for me, it has lent me a lot of grace and kindness to myself in my journey.”
- Sola, 2024 Fall MML Participant
What is Multimedia Love Letter Retreat?
Multimedia Love Letter is a 9-week creative somatic retreat that helps you access deep self-love, cultivate authentic intimacy, and build embodied connections through multimedia storytelling & somatic coaching.
We will slow down together, get in touch with our senses, return to our center, reflect on the relationship we have with ourselves and others with the goal of creating a multimedia “love letter” to share or keep as part of your personal archives.
We will engage with a blend of photography, text, sound, video and storytelling to create a multimedia love letter using a website builder (no coding necessary).
This retreat will be personal; an open heart is required. This is not a technical class, but you will find yourself acquiring a variety of different skills along the way.
You will need a device that can record photos, videos and audio — anything from a smartphone to a camera to a recorder.
We will slow down together, get in touch with our senses, return to our center, reflect on the relationship we have with ourselves and others with the goal of creating a multimedia “love letter” to share or keep as part of your personal archives.
We will engage with a blend of photography, text, sound, video and storytelling to create a multimedia love letter using a website builder (no coding necessary).
This retreat will be personal; an open heart is required. This is not a technical class, but you will find yourself acquiring a variety of different skills along the way.
You will need a device that can record photos, videos and audio — anything from a smartphone to a camera to a recorder.
Multimedia Love Letter Framework
Every week, we will explore each topic from this framework.
Would you like to join this journey of love?
“It was exactly what I hoped it would be!
A blend of spending time with myself (going deep), and also reinvigorating my creative practice in a playful way.
I thought every session was very thoughtfully planned with the opening, somatic exercises, partner work, creative challenge etc. I always felt held & challenged simultaneously.
And it was an incredible group of people. Very grateful to have participated!”
- Jasmin Chang
- Jasmin Chang
* click around the symbols meet magical creatures and appreciate their love letters.
KIND WORDS FROM
PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS
“As a gigging musician lost in self-doubt, I kept postponing my creative dreams. Meng’s class changed everything.
I discovered just how much I can create with my own hands and how much creativity I’ve been sitting on and not celebrating. From conceptualizing a portrait video to building my own website, I found confidence, clarity, and a community of like-minded artists. I now proudly call myself an artist.
Meng is pure magic — wise, open, and deeply empowering.”
-Yanran Li
“If you want to learn more about yourself, you should try this class before going to a psychologist.
Believe me, a lot will change in your life.”
- Zeynep Dildar Gürcan
- “Meng's workshop is the right one for the times we are living. Exploring all the digital tools and dig deeper in our emotions to tell a personal story.”
- Samuel Mustri
“Challenging yet accessible class for anyone willing to grow as an artist and as a human being !
- Thank you Meng for your wise teaching and gentle eye on our works...
- You pushed me to try things I never imagined I could do. <3”
-Lara Micheli
- “I feel as though this course has inspired me to heal within myself in various ways while also creating a meaningful dimension of work that others can relate to and feel a safe space within. I really am excited to continue with multi-media projects and how the form of it influences future work.“
“To know Meng, & participate in their offers, is to know what it is to practice love as an ethos of care. Meng’s capacity to show up with a generous open heart to share with folks makes their facilitation incomparable. Their ability to emphasize the importance of love, in all its forms, radiates from their heartland to shape the landscape of all the hearts they encounter. To be seen by Meng is a ritual of honoring yourself. Regardless of how Meng is distributing medicinal medicine by serving as your mirror (photography, somatic coaching, facilitating), their gift of presence shines through. Meng’s use of dropping casually gorgeous gemstones of knowledge will nestle into your heartland space as you share space with them. To participate in Meng’s offering is to be moved by a deep sense of embodiment between yourself, the human, & the non-human living things around you. After all, love is freedom and freedom is Meng.”
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Kay Brown author of Assemblage: Baby’s Breath
TWO PATHWAYS
[SELF-PACED]
- Lifetime access to the course
- 9 modules – segmented video lessons of creative and somatic rituals
- 9 interactive workbooks
- Trauma-informed, inclusive curriculum
$333 USD or 2 payments of $166.5
[LIVE + COHORT]
- Everything included in the self-study course
- 3 months of live cohort learning and personalized feedback
- 9 weekly live sessions
- Exclusive pathway to Multimedia Love Letter Alumni Community
- first 10 participants enjoy 50% off
- Discounted Price: $777
- Full investment: $1555
- Payment plans available
Meet The Artists and Facilitators
Behind Multimedia Love Letter
Lead Facilitator
Mengwen Cao (they/them) is a photographer, artist, educator and somatic coach creating multimedia portals for personal and collective transformation.
Weaving their embodied experience as a Chinese queer diaspora nonbinary person into their spiritual and creative practices, they use care and tenderness to explore in-between spaces.
They see photography as a vehicle for healing and a tool to visualize the future. As a facilitator, they are trained in somatic coaching and various healing practices.
Their projects have been featured on publications like Aperture, Vogue, i-D, The New York Times and NPR. They have participated in international exhibitions like BredaPhoto, Photoville, Jimei Arles, Lianzhou Foto Festival.
Mengwen graduated from the New Media Narratives and Documentary Practice program at the International Center of Photography in 2017. They received NLGJA’s Excellence in Photojournalism Award in 2019. They were recognized by The Lit List in 2018, PDN 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch in 2019, World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent in 2020 and Art in America 20 Talent to Watch in 2023.
Previsouly, Mengwen has served as a board member of Authority Collective, championing space for diverse narratives and perspectives in the media industry.
mengwencao.com
Ana Rosa Marx is a mixed-media artist who grew up between Havana, Cuba and Chicago, IL. Weaving photography, film, performance, and installation, her practice is shaped by the collection and veneration of objects, images and stories that have been abandoned or overlooked. Ana is primarily concerned with archival absences, and with turning over two fundamental questions: How do we let the silences of history speak? And if they could develop this power, what would they say? She also organizes with No More Deaths in Arizona to resist dehumanization and state violence towards migrants and asylum seekers crossing the US’ southern border. These days, she is inspired by ways that inter-species alliances, inner-child play practices, and speculative fiction can be used to manifest alternate (post-capitalist/colonial) futures.
anarosamarx.com