Thais Aquino
Founder of Soul Portraits Temple & School
a mythosomatic image making experience for healing artists with oracular beauty.
MAUI ✺ NEW YORK ✺ NEW MEXICO
PHOTOGRAPHER
STORIES OF LOVE
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HEALING
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COURAGE
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MYTH
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RECLAMATION
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IMAGINATION
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POWER
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BEAUTY
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REBIRTH
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REMEMBRANCE
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FREEDOM
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STORIES OF LOVE 〰️ HEALING 〰️ COURAGE 〰️ MYTH 〰️ RECLAMATION 〰️ IMAGINATION 〰️ POWER 〰️ BEAUTY 〰️ REBIRTH 〰️ REMEMBRANCE 〰️ FREEDOM 〰️
YOUR BODY HAS THINGS TO SAY
be seen by
Soul Portrait
Soul Portrait sees you in your expression, expansion and emergence. Soul Portrait expands your capacity to receive. Soul Portrait has a deep spiritual root. Soul Portrait disconnects you from the ideal-you and reconnects you with the essential-you. Soul Portrait embraces the multidimensional you. Soul Portrait loves your psyche, your depth, your insecurities, mythos and the season you are in. Soul Portrait is a homecoming. Soul Portrait connects you with the invisible world. Soul Portrait is prayer to the ancestors. Soul Portrait is a remembrance, a memory. Soul Portrait is a resource. Soul Portrait celebrates the liminal, in-betweens, thresholds and descents. Soul Portrait is simplicity. Soul Portrait is incredible abundance. Soul Portrait deeply sees you. Soul Portrait allows you to slow down. Soul Portrait is de-colonial practice. Soul Portrait quantum leaps you. Soul Portrait is an ally in your leadership. Soul Portrait connects you to the sacred breath of life. Soul Portrait anchors you in your body-temple. Soul Portrait is a process. Soul Portrait is embodiment. Soul Portrait is an initiation. Soul Portrait is medicine.
BE HELD IN SACRED WITNESS AS YOU UNFOLD IN THE NATURAL IMAGE OF YOUR SOUL’S EXPRESSION.
Deep. Alluring. Evocative. Revelatory. Mythical.
GLOBAL TOUR 2024
NEW YORK IN OCTOBER
NEW MEXICO IN NOVEMBER
BAY AREA IN NOVEMBER
MAUI IN NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
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SOUL PORTRAIT TEMPLE IS A SAFE SPACE TO SUPPORT YOU COMING OUT OF HIDING AND OPENING YOURSELF UP TO TASTE THE SUBLIME ALIVENESS THAT PULSATES INSIDE OF YOU. BE SEEN IN THAT BEAUTY. OPEN TO THAT NECTAR. BE IN THAT LOVE THAT IS SO AVAILABLE FOR YOU.
Embodied artists, leading coaches, educators and healers.
“No words can really describe how it feels to be photographed by Thais, but a few of them are:
A rite of passage
Deeply transformative experience
An Illumination of forgotten power
An Ode to the rebirth of my spirit
Magical, timeless, multidimentional
Midwifery for my soul voice
You are are cultivating a mythic living, nourishing a field of resonance in all that you do, refining your ways of showing up in the world, orienting towards a cyclical living and taking responsibility for your life, joy and voice. Soul Portrait is for folks with deep care and respect for the arts and the artist, admiration for photography and resonance with my work. Soul Portrait is a powerful tool for self expression, homecoming and also a powerful business activator. It’s you are someone who is going deeper into your essence; celebrating life, activating your business; birthing new offerings; deepening with the soul of your work and looking for a nice dose of artistic inspiration and poetic encounter with the mystic, yourself.
Meet the Team
You will be held by Thais and her Field, in a sacred witnessing container. This is a 3-way relationship between you, Thais and the energies that want to be known/seen in your collaboration.
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Founder of Soul Portraits Temple & SchoolMEDICNE ARTIST IN PHOTOGRAPHY
IThais is the intuitive reflector-artist, photographer and sacred witness behind Soul Portraits. Born and raised in Brazil, she is currently based on Maui, Hawai’i. She tours the world sharing Soul Portraits photographic transmission with a community of inspiring artists, leaders and retreat facilitators.
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The world needs better witnesses. The field we are held when you choose to be with Soul Portraits is a field of deep remembrance and presence. We tune into the art of noticing, we greet sunrise/sunset, we welcome water experiences, silence, movement. We experience ancestral memories, mystery and endless BEAUTY.
MAP: MEDICINE ARTIST IN PHOTOGRAPHY, A COURSE.
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MAP: MEDICINE ARTIST IN PHOTOGRAPHY, A COURSE. ✺
MAP: the course
A Transmission Style LIVE Journey for Photographers - COMING SOON
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artist
EMBODY YOUR GIFTS
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Photography is a healing art, it touches our biggest fear and greatest desire: to be seen. Photography reveals layers from our subconscious that our hearts long to see. Learn how to offer a service that is beyond .jpeg images and more so a transformational experience.
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The world needs better witnesses. As photographers we play a critical and sacred role as mirrors and witnesses of a field of vulnerability and empowerment. Learn how to hold non-judgmental space and bring out people’s essence to be seen.
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Artists are not meant to produce all the time. I will introduce you to the concepts of the VOID X DREAM as a template to navigate the phases of our creative process and get the most out of each cycle, fully honoring the ebb and flow of your inspiration’s regeneration.
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We no longer exist in a world of competition and comparison. We exist in a world of deep intimacy and right relationship with what is ours to do, create and serve.
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ECO-SYSTEM
GAIN TOOLS, SKILLS AND RESOURCES
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We all long to have awesome relationships with clients, have our boundaries respected, see clients happy and our voices expressed with ease. I will share resources to support you in doing this work and building your confidence to communicate clearly without contraction or fear.
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If you too desire to have as your clients other artists in the healing arts, we will open the conversation and talk about the field we need to cultivate to attract, serve and nurture an awesome on-coming flow of work with amazing people in this segment.
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It’s time that we make peace with the entrepreneur in us and put some systems in place to support us with automation, client experience and workflow. I will show you what I use to run Soul Portraits Temple and the energetics behind each tool.
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Give yourself permission to create and curate an original and authentic offering that will offer a transformational and meaningful experience to your community while having your values reflected back to you by a metric of joy, purpose, happy clients and money.
CULTIVATE A CREATIVE FIELD OF RESONANCE
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The journey that connects all the dots you are missing is a journey where you gain deeper access to yourself and to what you really want to be, feel, experience, live. I will share with you ancestral creativity practices to get you into your body and feelings so you can start decoding what lives inside of you.
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There is a way of crafting photographs that evokes story, myth, soul, depth and the essence that you felt in a session with a client. Learn tips on how to shoot and edit your images to best translate the stories your work is here to give voice to.
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Mythic artists are alchemists, we are aware that 100% of the time our way of being and creating, the health of our creative process, aka, our work and business, depend on our ability to transmute emotions into art, depth into beauty, terror into poetry. We are in constant movement (not production, movement).
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After 2 full years living a nomadic work-life I have collected insights and tips on how to go on trips as a working photographer while taking care of your health, community and energy field. There is a whole a lot on this theme that is useful beyond nomads.
For mystics in PHOTOGRAPHY Who Sense Their medicine as an artist is beyond .jpegs and more of a therapeutic approach to photography as a healing art and transformational container.
It’s time we MAP it!
Join us in a journey of wonder, discovery and growth.
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"Thank you for deeply listening and seeing me. Thank you for holding the space for me to tap into the nuances of my vision, what I want to create and who I want to create with. Thank you for reflecting with me and for offering me tools to tap in with my creative process." - Caity Duffus.
"I have been forever transformed after going through this mentorship program. With each session, I felt seen by Thais - which only affirmed for me that I am able to lead a soul-based photography business centered on my love and appreciation for community." - Angel
you are here because you…
Soul Portraits are for:
Leading Coaches
Mythic Creatives
Wellness Educators
Healing Artists
Somatic Facilitators
Ceremonialists
Therapists
Dancers & Musicians
Conscious Brands
Earth Entrepreneurs
You are a space holder for the mystery, more likely than not, you are guiding communities into remembrance through your art, embodiment and transmissions. You are already in an expansion path, anchoring your leadership in the birth of the new world.
My clients have strong a transmission and fierce grace. They know love as their home. They take no bullshit and they have tasted surrender over and over again. They know true power and they know they are human, not perfect. They come to me in full permission to be with their aliveness. They live cyclically, they know the important of their descents. They are full of magic. They are not into spiritual materialism, spiritual bypass or basic goddess aesthetics. They are interested in what lies underneath. They love the void because they have learned about the magic of seeing in the dark. They know beauty. They know their medicine. They know revolution is kindness. They are dreamers, deep thinkers, revolutionaries. They leave a mark in the world. And we all benefit from their power. We heal from them and with them. They are powerful alchemists, they know it’s not all in the mind, and they tend to their nervous system as their primary respiration. They are self-aware and self-responsible. They are not interested in cancel culture, hierarchical insanity and projections. They know rest. They know they are pattern breakers and that is big, hard work. They are often busy transmuting the intensities of the world into beauty, poetry and healing. They are a community of resources. They know ancestral healing. They know that to be a space holder they need to first tend to their gardens. They too, need to be deeply seen. And that’s what I do. Why I exist here. I see the ones who are seeing humanity deeply. Welcome to the Soul Portraits Temple. Resonance to this invocation is mandatory for our work together.
My clients are sacred to me. They choose me and I choose them. Our medicines choose each other. Their stories matter to me. And our collective stories matter to our collective remembrance.
TESTIMONIALS
Feel Into What my Clients are Saying
“ As soon as I saw Thais’ photos I longed to be seen through her eyes, but it wasn’t until I had actual experience with her behind the lens that I began to understand the powerful, playful, pleasurable magic of working with her. So much more than a photoshoot, these experiences with her are a ceremony, a co-creation, a dance. Photoshoots with Thais simply document the natural arising of awareness of the beauty of the world and the subject of her focus. I look forward to Thais making beautiful, timeless photos of every major rite of passage for the rest of my life, so that my children and all of their descendents can know me as their ancestor in a way that is infused with love and care and texture and feeling.” - Ganga Devi
"After a Soul Portraits session with Thais, I cannot imagine ever working with another photographer. She has clearly perfected her craft as a photographer, but what truly sets her work apart is of course, SOUL. Participating in the session felt like a mystical experience in and of itself. With her creative direction she brought out such emotion, aliveness, and authenticity in me and my partner, and has given us the best and most unique photos that have ever been taken of us. Thais is an awakened, tapped in person who merges ceremony with art to deliver you the most depth-full and beautiful reflection of yourself fathomable. So much respect and love for you Thais - I can't wait to work with you again!" - Mia and Azra
WOW! Working with Thais was a treat. What a beautiful soul. And to then see the final product!! Amazing. Thais, you have a beautiful gift of seeing the magnificent in the mundane. You capture the Divine Feminine in ways that can be felt via your images. We had so much fun during the experience. Your gentle nature allowed us to open up as a flower would in the presence of sunlight. Goddess bless. We are excited to share these images. Obrigada! - Brujas of Brooklyn
“Wow, I’ve never witnessed myself through the eyes of pure art, pure beauty, pure poetry, pure myth and pure mysticism. This is pure, primordial inspiration that I will forever cherish. Brilliant, spellbinding and deftly captured. An ode to the rebirth of my spirit. An honor and heart healing experience to be seen by you during this pivotal time. I shall wait for the divine moment when we are ready to offer this weaving of beauty and magic for other souls in a mythical land that calls us home. Immense gratitude, reverence and awe for the rare gift that you are Thais.” - Joan Dakeeni
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"Oh my Goddess- I don’t even have words darling for how amazing these are & how healed and whole they make me feel! I cannot even begin to tell you the medicine of seeing myself in this way, it’s like the cloud of illness is wiped from my third eye and I can see clearly the vitality and healing that is alive and me and then I feel it shining and embodying me more. This is pure medicine! You are truly an alchemist!" - Marysia Miernowska
“I was drawn to working with Thais’s energy. She radiates peace yet is eternally on the hunt for universal truth. She captures the essence of life in her images – a magic, untouched but in front her lens momentarily held. She is an artful soul who brings her entire being into every project, meeting heart with heart.” - Cait
“Thais worked with me to take photos for my website as a yoga teacher. The process of working with her was amazing - I felt so supported to do my thing (yoga) and trust that the photos would represent me in a real and affecting way. She also came with inspiration of her own and worked with me to get creative and heart-full shots. The process of working with her was a wonderful experience in and of itself. And to top it off, when I received the photos, I was astounded by the absolute quality and soulfulness of the photographs. After 2.5 hours of shooting, I received 200+ high-quality photographs that I can use. Thais is incredible.” - Michael
“As a photographer myself, I know how photo sessions can be be vulnerable and exciting wrapped up in one. I still get nervous while on the other side of the camera, but Thais has a calming energy that allowed me to relax and open up during our maternity shoot. She created a safe space for this transformation to be celebrated, and artfully documented a wide variety of feelings that I'm in awe of! The final gallery is something I will treasure, and these photographs will be printed and held close to the heart.” - Cadence Feeley
“I am in awe of how so gently and powerfully you give of your gifts. It amazes me.... in my life these days... how abundantly the universe pours her blessings upon me... I feel so very loved, adored, cherished and celebrated at the moment. You are a huge part of this. Your Soul Portrait Blessing has been a HUGE part of this. You have captured SO MUCH more than me and my physical being... you have captured the energies of grace and flow and beauty and especially SURRENDER. This process with you was a huge part of my surrendering to LOVE.” - Lisa Beck
Thais has an unusual capacity of being extremely skilled as a photographer and deeply kind and empathic, almost one might say empty of self. This quality allows her to see and capture everyday magic. She photographed my daughters wedding, and also did a photo set for me personally. The photos exceeded my hopes and expectations, it is as though she perceived an essence in the environment as well as the subjects which was felt but is rarely captured. I have used my photographs in my business as a psychotherapist, and my clients are delighted by them, and my family both close and extended were thrilled at receiving. As she is is in the act of photographing a sense of presence, and love is tangible. It's a great joy to work with her and the value is outstanding. - Ram Jyoti
Soul Portrait has a deep spiritual root. Soul Portrait disconnects you from the ideal-you and reconnects you with the essential-you. Soul Portrait is a homecoming.