

Art to heal and empower

I came as an old soul
Deep wisdom I hold
A long way I have come to the now
Tons are carried with me
To release and transform
For long I have been lingering in the past
For now I am crawling out of the shadows
My soul never leaves me alone
She sees how my journey gradually unfolds
All that I have been through
Paved the way to a new dawn
So behold the light within
And walk steadily on the path
The Above needs me to walk the way Below
There's so much love holding us on the road
Blessings from ancestors in dreams
Spirit guiding from the unseen
Hands on my shoulder, feathers in my robe
They remind me gently, that
"You are always loved and held
You are always worthy and beautiful
We are always here walking beside you
There's always love you can turn to
Always healing you can open up to
So dear child, choose to heal with love
Darkness has been a great teacher
But in the end, the name of your greatest healer
Is love."
The healer for me, the healer for all
Love is where we shall all return
In the end, it is love that heals it all
In the end, it is love that heals it all
by Lumi,
June 2024
Illumina (Changyi Li)
or Lumi Blue Feather
Soul expresssionist | light warrior | medicine holder & carrier | child & guardian of Gaia

Born with a passion for art and spirituality, Lumi heard the calling to serve through art in her late teenage years after passing through an intense time of declining health conditions and depression. She embarked on her self-healing journey at nineteen and started exploring her expression during the pandemic lockdown. Lumi’s intuitive art service began within the spiritual group she was in when she channeled art using Sumi-ink based on individual needs. Through this, Lumi felt her soul mission calling more strongly and affirmed her way to become a healer-artist.
With her highly sensitive and empathetic nature, Lumi works from the intangible - feelings, energies, and visions, and her art is mostly the outcome of “collaboration with the unseen” involving high spontaneity and free flow. The skills harvested in a degree on Architecture led Lumi to explore digital art. With no background in
professional training, her art grew into its unique form and recorded her growth and inner transformation.
Lumi’s art springs from her inner journey and the spiritual teachings she encountered. Many expressions were inspired by other healing arts such as medicine music, ecstatic dancing, ancient rites of passage and ceremonies. The common themes of her expression are personal growth and development, spirituality, self-healing journey, cosmic connection, ancient wisdom and primitive culture, rewilding and reconnection to nature. Intuitive writings and poetry are also a part of her healing art. She is fulfilling a healer’s mission through authentic expression to awaken and inspire the ones who seek healing and growth, as well as to honour the ancient wisdom in this modern age for a collective remembrance of our deep roots
and our soul identity as love.

“From the beginning I have a sense of destiny, as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled. This gave me an inner security... I did not have this certainty, it had me... That gave me the strength to go my own way.”
C. G. Jung





The Journey of the Artist-healer
Self-healing & soul seeking, words from Lumi
Art found me from quite a young age. I still remember clearly when I was asked what I wanted to be in the future before going to school, I said I wanted to be an artist. It is interesting how these childhood instincts expressed my soul’s calling.
But around that time, I didn’t know.
My soul had been waiting for years till my teenage age, when it knocked open the door of esoterics and mysticism, and led me into the realm of the inner and the unseen.
At the same time, I started to confront some deep unknown emotions and visceral sentiments which seemed to be coming from nowhere.
Feeling loaded, lost and bewildered, I found difficult to find my place in this modern and fast-going three-dimensional world.
There have been many voices around on how my path should unfold.
There were many social values and beliefs in me which did not belong to myself.
These mental chaos became overwhelming and soon made me forget my childhood inner voice.
I assumed art wouldn’t be my way. I assumed my life would be the same as what others around me suggested.
During my high school time in the UK, I faced depression at university application stage when I was struck by enormous inner discontentment and disorientation. Around that time I realised I wasn’t doing the things I truly love, and this led to a drastic change in my university offer from pure science to architecture.
It was then I realised that my artistic fire has not been put off, and I so desperately needed it to keep burning to bring me light.
After quite a struggle, I eventually managed to get into my dream university doing my dream course.
But I was heavily drained. Something deep within had to change to truly align myself on my path - those imposed values and limiting beliefs that imprisoned my heart and hindered me from living the true life of my own.
I was soon led on my path, started off by facing a strange but strong fatigue which lasted for a month. This put me out of work, and pushed me to find healing.
Then, I got connected to my first spiritual guide in human form, who offered me immense support and insight, and guided me onto my path. She later became my Buddhist teacher.
The journey for me officially began, and that was the year 2019.
During the pandemic lockdown, healing waves heightened within me while at the same time, my expression found me again.
I was called to draw a series of illustration on some quotes of C.G.Jung’s autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections. This was the first-ever art project of my own - a deeply opening and profound experience.
I felt the calling, strong and affirming, that I would need to express things from the heart and soul through art.
When I felt it, I knew it was the way. Although I still wavered. Although fear and uncertainty still threatened to take me over. But deep down I found that cord which could anchor me into the vast realm of stillness and peace.
That was the beginning of my self-exploration through expression.
I soon started exploring Sumi-ink paintings intuitively, and was intrigued by the process of free flow. Many pieces were sent to friends who resonated with the art. I found this process deeply nourishing and healing, and the feedback and comments to me were affirming and encouraging.
I knew my expression is needed by many. This affirmed my way to become a artist-healer.
This was the beginning of my service through art, and I used the pseudonym HeartLotus for all the work around that time, a name given by my Buddhist teacher.
After university, my focus shifted from Sumi-ink to digital painting, and soon found my style and way of expression. My channel has been the same, it was just the change in medium.
I also started travelling around South-western England to visit ancient sites. Nature and the ancient invited me inwards, and connected me to the land and the wisdom and spiritual traditions from the past.
More and more I remembered who I truly am - my soul identity as a shaman, or a wounded healer, walking her way of self-healing and bringing healing to others.
My art grew and flourished as my healing journey unfolded, many turned out to record my inner transformation and expansion, as well as the spiritual teachings I encountered along the way.
Soon, other free-form expressions found me such as intuitive writing, poetry, ecstatic dancing and singing.
In 2023, I separated from my Buddhist teacher’s group, and setting off on my own journey following my inner guides in a complete new self.
Since then, I changed my artist name from HeartLotus to Illumina, or Lumi, meaning “to light up” or “the light-bringer”.
In the peaceful town of Totnes, Devon, UK, I started card selling at the weekend market. Again, this process of connecting to like-minded souls through art brought deep nourishment to me. I knew I had to walk my way from the heart, from what I am truly passionate about and from what brings me joy and spiritual abundance.
After the beginning of 2024, my work started to expand as my healing went deeper. I felt called to participate in gallery open calls, as well as submitting pieces to magazines.
After experiencing a Vision Quest ceremony on Dartmoor in May, I felt the future calling me strongly to step out further as the healer I inherently am. Everything has been preparing for me on my way, and now, it is time.

Experiences & Achievements
2022
BSc (Hons) Architecture, University of Bath
The Mundus Imaginalis, course on Jungian psychoanalysis
Issued by The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies
2023
September - January 2024
Card sale at Totnes weekend market, Devon
15 -22 December
Painting From the Source showcased in the INFINITY Exhibition
held by The Holy Art Gallery, London
2024
12 - 28 January
Digital art Remember You from the Garden showcased in the Art On Loop London - Athens Digital Exhibition
held by The Holy Art Gallery, London
13 January - 13 February
Digital art Nature Mystic and Passage to Light showcased in the virtual exhibition
held by The Holy Art Gallery, London
9 - 22 February
Digital art There Is Only Love in the Infinity of the Heart showcased in the Heart Centered exhibition
held by the Fox Yard Studio, Suffolk
8-13 March
Art Gateway to A New Heaven and The Deep Serenity Within showcased in the Inner World exhibition
held by Boomer Gallery, London.
27 July
Spoken words on personal healing journey through intuitive expression, Lewes.
Painting Drumming Under the Moon showcased in UK’s Witches Magazine Summer Issue 2024
Selected by the international creative platform Arts To Hearts Project to be featured in the annual book
100 Emerging Artist: Women’s Edition 2024
Brainz Magazine Executive Contributor, selected by Brainz Magazine
Read Lumi's articles here on Brainz Magazine website
6-19 December
Six digital paintings showcased at the Rome International Air Fair 2024 at Medina Art Gallery, Rome, held by ITSLIQUID.
The Way of the artist-healer
Ethos & beliefs
Expressions find me for a reason, aligns to my mission to bring healing to the world. My love for art and spirituality, my self-healing journey and my mission as an artist-healer are never discrete aspects of me, but woven into one holistic being.
I am not here to save the world, but to fulfil my mission to connect and serve those who tune in. My art is not for everyone, but that's how it should be. Commercial art does not interest me. My art should be for all who wish to tune in.
It is a time of collective awakening, this includes collective remembrance, healing and transcendence.
Art comes to me, comes through me, and speaks not only for myself but for all who walk this journey.
Expression from the heart is most healing and irreplaceable. I am here for the hearts. I am a strong advocate of "acting from the heart" - from what calls you. Success and fame should come as the by-product of doing the work from the heart, instead of being the ultimate goal.
I am not interested in fitting into the norm. The "norm" to a big extent hinders the individual from becoming his true self.
I am always a rebel who challenges mainstream social values by walking the way of my own. All of us are unique, and so it should be. What everyone else is doing might not be something that truly serve us on the way. Constantly we are all changing and evolving; the new is birthing from the old - that's how it should be.
I am not the only creator behind my work. I am the one on stage, seen by the public, but I have a whole backstage of unseen empowering and holding me and what I do.
They are my tribal ancestors, spirit guides, angels, messengers from Mother Nature, as well as the energies and presence of all inspiring souls I encountered along the way e.g. friends, teachers, soul mates. My work is always a tribute to all of them. Without their presence, me and my art will not be here.
There are a lot for our humanity to call back and remember - wisdom from the past, sovereignty, and our true identity as love. There is deep wisdom from the ancient surfacing and re-entering the public awareness. I am one of those medicine carriers of ancient wisdom and a big part of my mission is to speak the ancient voice through art to reconnect our modern minds to our ancient roots. There lies the secret to our deep healing.
All healing work that truly empowers and transforms is down to the healer committing to his/her self-healing and growth journey. It is the energy of the healer that draws the audience and ignites more hearts.
For the torches to be passed on, there has to be the initial fire in one's heart. I am the illuminated heart that pass on the fire, and I shall keep my fire burning to guide those in the dark through the night.
