Sasha
Torchinsky
Artist and writer — a contemporary expressionist working between abstraction and figuration, in paint and on the page.
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Extending the same intuitive practice into direct encounter, the energy work approaches healing as attention, presence, and care. Grounded in an inherited mystical lineage and a daily contemplative practice, it moves between Reiki and mediumship — offering clearing, witnessing, and channelled image and language. Themes of transformation, vulnerability, and the search for meaning carry through here as elsewhere.
A practice of energy and attention. Certified in the Usui Ryōhō tradition as Master and Teacher, the work offers gentle, focused clearing — distance and in-person — grounded in a living lineage.
Witnessing as image and as language. Through readings and channelled pieces — a drawing, a poem, a page made with you in mind — the work attends to memory, presence, and what asks to come through.
Sasha Torchinsky is a queer, Jewish artist and writer, born and raised in Vancouver — on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Working between abstraction and figuration, they paint and write from a single source — images and language emerging through accumulation, erasure, and rediscovery. The poetry has been recognised nationally and internationally and is gathered now into a full-length collection, Notes From a Dream Body; the paintings stand beside it as equals.
As a certified Usui Ryōhō Reiki Master and Teacher and a working medium, they carry the same attention into energy work and channelled art and writing — a practice threaded through an inherited Hasidic mystical lineage and a daily Kabbalistic devotion.
They live and work in Vancouver, between the studio, the page, and the communities they organise with.
Sasha Torchinsky lives and works on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Energy & mediumship are pay-what-you-can — no one is turned away for lack of funds. Based in Vancouver; sessions worldwide.