Monica Basile, PhD is a visual artist and designer, Reiki Master/Teacher, Licensed Massage Therapist, and educator in Iowa City, IA.
With more than 28 years of experience as a healer, midwife, and space-holder, she is passionate about helping people to experience beauty, enchantment, connection to the earth, and inner peace through honoring the seasonal and cyclical transformations of life.
Drawing on her ongoing herbal studies and lifelong connection with plants, her art practice currently focuses on botanical illustrations as meditations on the spiritual-material interconnectedness between humans and ecosystems.
Monica is a mother and a longtime yoga and meditation practitioner. She believes in the power of gentle compassion, the wisdom of the body, and the light within all beings.
About Raven & Magnolia
Monica’s Raven & Magnolia linocut
Raven and Magnolia represents the non-dualism and interconnectedness of light and darkness, waxing and waning, ebb and flow.
Raven and Magnolia is a symbolic invitation to appreciate the simultaneous complexity and simplicity of a leaf or a petal. To take a breath and feel the same magic in your own body. To find self-acceptance and compassion in the dark and difficult seasons, resting in the knowledge that change is the nature of all things.