We are the pulse. We live at the intersection of breath and feeling. We exist to help your artist heart keep beating.
What is Yan Land?
Yan Land is a weekly newsletter about creative process and soul journey.
Yan Land is where the artist and the mystic meet.
Yan Land is also a community for the artists, lovers, misfits and poets…
…who didn’t make it as comedians or get discovered as Barbizon Models.
Yan Land is the place you come to feel your own heartbeat again.
Yan Land is what you read when you need your soul to call you back.
Yan Land grabs your face in its hands, looks you in the eye and gives you the creative courage to leap into the void.
Yan Land is also the only place you’ll be able to read (and listen to) Yan’s tell-all memoir. Those wild, soul saturated early years as a traveling photographer—newly divorced single mom, ex-mormon, sexually experimental artist building a world-renowned business? Yeah, that’s all here. We maybe should have led with that.
Who is Yan Palmer?
Yan Palmer gets away with defying categorization more successfully than most. She’s been around the block and the world as an internationally celebrated film photographer, educator, and public speaker. She is best known for guiding thousands of artists to align their work with their guts, including many top industry leaders in the photography world.
If you asked Yan to her face, she’d tell you she’s “in the love business”. You’d wonder what she meant by love business, and her eyes would be gleaming in a way that’d make you wonder if she’d be more likely to star in Touched by an Angel or Pretty Woman.
Jokes aside, but mischievously gleaming eyes in tact, Yan specializes in the journey of the soul, where the artist and mystic entwine. She came for the big show and to feel everything. She’s here to tell you the truth about it. She’s here to sing the song.
(She is also he single mama of three teenagers living in Provo, Utah)
Why subscribe?
Lightning round!
Because no one knows what the hell they’re doing, and being an artist is lonely (become part of a flourishing creative community),
Because too few people tell the truth about how they create, live, and love (come for creative inspiration),
For creative pep talks, inspiration, tips and rituals,
To access a growing resource to recenter your artist soul,
To read my memoir, the free-spirited journey of a photographer on the road—behind the scenes of what it was really like to explode a marriage, leave a religion, single parent, and establish myself as an artist all at once.
To put it plainly, subscribing directly supports me and makes it possible for me to do this work and follow the pull of my own creative heartsong while being a single mom.
Traveling the country as a film photographer can be both glorious and deadly. I’m needed at home. I’ve been needed for a long time. But I need your help. I need to solve two problems: I need to keep creating as an artist and sharing the pulse I feel called to share with the world. And I need to be able to do so without my kids and our health coming second.
A privilege? Hell yes. The utmost. But I’m hoping and believing that what I’ve tried to build and share for the last 16 years is ready to come back to me. Scratch that. I know it is. I feel you with me already.
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Paid subscribers get access to:
The weekly newsletters,
Post comments and join the community for discussions,
Archives of my top newsletters and podcast episodes, full of mystical nuggets of wisdom,
Semi-regular online classes, creative pep talks and Q&As with Yan,
The only place to read Yan’s tell-all memoir, with new chapters published biweekly (with audio read by Yan),
Endless love & gratitude (and karma—can’t promise it’ll be good, but it’s likely).
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xx,
Yan
