Beginners Uplifting Color Therapy For Self Empowerment (Udemy.com)
Discover how to work with color for improved lifestyle and self-development via visualization, exercises and meditations
Created by: Kristen Palana
Last updated February 2026
What you will learn
- Utilise color to bring both short and long term goals to fruition.
- Uncover the clues to see auras around all living matter.
- Gain an understanding of using the main seven chakras to restore good health and improved lifestyle
- Harness the power of color to fight stress, energize, and soothe yourself and others.
- Realise the use of food to energise and heal our chakras
- Use color in a dynamic way to make a positive impact at home and work. Integrate color into every aspect of life.
How it compares
Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 34% of them
- Reviews106#864 of 1,108 by number of reviews
- Length2.1 hoursshorter than 56% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2026more recently than 71% of them
Course Description
Working with color is a powerful lifestyle practice that you can use every day to create magic in every aspect of your life. Color can be used to bring your heartfelt dreams alive, to energize, to heal, to relieve stress, and to give you a clearer direction for moving forward towards your self-development goals.
This introductory self-development course for color will help beginners by illustrating the power of color to affect the mind, body, and spirit and get you started using color more intentionally in your life. This is a great little course if you are on the go or commuting - tune in and discover color on your train commute for example.
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"This is such a fascinating and enlightening course. The Instructors, Kristen Palana and Sharon Ramel do an amazing job helping their students to learn, understand and become motivated to enter into the different aspects in world of color. Kristen teaches how to use color to your advantage to affect moods, emotions and behaviors, while Sharon introduces you to the mystical aspects associated with colors. This is an inspiring course taught with the guidance of two knowledgeable and exceptional women. I highly recommend it."
-Gidget Harris
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Discover how to utilize and visualize color for self-development to positively improve your emotions. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Utilize color to bring both short and long term goals to fruition.
Uncover the clues to see auras around all living matter.
Gain an understanding of using the main seven chakras to restore good health
Harness the power of color to fight stress, energize, and soothe yourself and others.
Realize the use of food and its colors to energize and heal our chakras
Use color in a dynamic way to make a positive impact at home and work. Integrate color into every aspect of life.
Join us as we use color as a means to discover and realign our dreams together. You may also use color to strategically help influence the emotions and actions of others by what you choose to wear. Did you know that color increases brand recognition by 80%? Discover which colors will best serve your dreams, ideas, your message of who you are and where you are headed.
Discover the main chakra system and how to use color to influence them. Chakras are our life force or vital energy. Some call them “the spinning wheels of light" located all over your body. The role of the chakra system is to be able to regulate the flow of our energy force or what we commonly know as aura. Once our energy force is blocked due to the many challenges and emotional roller coasters we find ourselves in, we may become ill – not only physically and mentally, but also emotionally. Discover how to use color to reverse this trend.
You will be given basic tools to help you to see the auras that surround all things. With self-development practice this vision will open for you.
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About the Instructors:
Sharon Ramel offers spirit based courses to encourage kindness and peace within each and every one of us. She has worked with the healing arts for most of her life and has been teaching people how to free the selves of the stories they cling to and define themselves by. Leaving limiting beliefs behind is a healing balm to the soul. She is an intuitive healer and brings to life simple concepts that are profound and enriching. Her course offerings all have active discussion boards/forums. So please share your stories in our sacred space as they move to enrich us all.
Kristen Palana is an interdisciplinary artist and university professor recently returned to Italy after eight years in Myanmar and Malawi. After decades as a digital artist, in 2021 she reconnected with her fine art roots. Inspired by the lofty mission statements used by the world’s top organizations, Kristen’s mixed media drawings are a call to action to visualize better outcomes for our lives, communities, and the planet. Since 2000 she has been teaching students all over the world using her tried and true custom approach (turning complex information into something simple, memorable, easy-to-understand in as short amount of time as possible) to ensure that students get the most important, relevant, and useful information that can be applied immediately.
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Please Note: All students who enroll in this course also will receive periodic free and discounted access to our other top-rated current and upcoming courses.
You have a 30-day, 100% money-back guarantee with no questions asked so you have nothing to lose. We make ourselves available so you will have access to us if you have questions or need specific feedback along the way.
Empower self-development yourself now by enrolling in this color therapy course for beginners and join our growing learning community!
Click the "Take This Course" button in the upper right corner and let's get started building your powerful new color superpowers today.
The material in this course is provided for educational purposes only, and is not to be used for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
106 Reviews
Kristen Palana
My goal is to empower unapologetic idealists through art, design, and education.
I am an American/Portuguese interdisciplinary artist who recently returned to Italy after nearly a decade in Myanmar and Malawi. After focusing primarily on digital media and animation for over 20 years, I reconnected with my fine art roots in 2021. Inspired by the lofty mission statements of the world’s top organizations, my mixed-media drawings serve as a call to action to visualize better outcomes for our lives, communities, and the planet. My earlier animations have screened at over 75 international film festivals, earning numerous “Best Animated Short Film” awards, including at the Cannes Short Film Festival, Italy International Film Festival, and Sunscreen Film Festival.
As an educator, I've taught at universities on four continents. I created the Digital Media track of the Communication Program at The American University of Rome, where I earned tenure in 2009 and led the Film and Digital Media Program from 2013 to 2016. From 2016 to 2024, I expanded my teaching to academic institutions and NGOs in Myanmar and Malawi. When not making fine art, I work as a consultant in art, design, communication, and small business development, teaching once again at The American University of Rome while collaborating with international agencies such as WHO, UNICEF, WFP, GIZ, UNDP, and UNFPA.<
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Reviews
By Creative Rootz Designing A Life Worth Li on 1/31/2022
I have now completed this course and found it incredibly informative for a beginners course and fun too. The spiritual aspects of colour and exploring this rarely shared perspective helped me really feel into what i was learning and take my love for colour to a whole new level. Thank you to Sharon and Kristen - a very powerful teaching team
By Dr. Cynthia S. Hirtzel on 1/3/2019
This is a beautiful, inspiring course. The blend of technical, academic knowledge and materials together with the spiritual point-of-view is powerful and offers a unique learning experience. The power and energy of color, from psychological and spiritual perspectives, is well-presented, thought-provoking, and insightful. The dedication, knowledge and expertise of the Instructors are clearly demonstrated throughout the course lecture, practical applications and exercises, and the supplementary materials (e.g., links and handouts accompanying the lectures) provided. This course has been an exceptional, positive and encouraging learning experience and i recommend it to anyone who has any interest-professional, personal, or otherwise-in color, color therapy, color energy, energy healing, spirituality or any related subject. In brief, and as the previous comments reflect, this course is an extraordinary, exemplary lifelong learning experience. And i know i will continue to access these materials in the future [aside: this life-long access feature that Udemy provides for the courses in which one has enrolled is wonderful! i frequently refer back to all the Udemy courses which i have already completed, and i know i will do so for this course].
By Delfina Maria Alberto Ferreira Taborda on 3/13/2018
Como podemos usar a cor no dia a dia, alimentação, roupa, cor no local de trabalho para nos sentirmos mais equilibrados, e também do ponto de vista espiritual. A parte da aura e da analogia com a flor, muito interessante, eu própria no meu caminho individual já tinha chegado aí e é muito interessante perceber que estou ir no caminho certo. Obrigada às formadoras, gostei muito.
By Ramona Kilian on 1/26/2018
I really enjoyed the course and got some amazing new insights. I Really liked the part of using colors in clothing for different results. And tried it with good results for myself. The only way to improve would be more of the good stuff you supported. Both of you are great teachers in my opinion and I am glad that I took the course. Thank you for this course Kristen and Sharon.
By Gidget Harris on 5/31/2017
This is such a fascinating and enlightening course. The Instructors, Kristen Palana and Sharon Ramel do an amazing job helping their students to learn, understand and become motivated to enter into the different aspects in world of color. Kristen teaches how to use color to your advantage to affect moods, emotions and behaviors, while Sharon introduces you to the mystical aspects associated with colors. This is an inspiring course taught with the guidance of two knowledgeable and exceptional women. I highly recommend it.
By Rachel Smets on 3/19/2017
Thank you Kristen and Sharon for creating this course on color therapy. I had some basic knowledge in color and how they can influence, but I had no idea it would be involved and influencing in so many areas: from accessories, websites, in clothes, in healing, chakra's, to food and what we eat. So YES, I learned! And for those who like meditation, Sharon takes you through that too. I like how the course is structured and combining both teachers who compliment each other beautifully. Both are experts in their own area and it fits so well together. Also visually, this course is great to watch. Background, titles, images, colors (of course!) and the way they speak is very clear and pleasant. NOW, to be honest, I cannot wait to go search for Kristen's Color Psychology course, which I think will be even more practical and useful for me. I like to use what I learn, so I will check it out and you'll see me back!!! Guess what I'll do now? Prepare my clothes for a speaking gig I have tomorrow, and it'll include black, white and a touch of red! :) Love that knowledge I learned! Thanks again, Rachel Smets
By Susan Shay Brugger on 2/5/2017
Interesting concepts; well-presented. I particularly enjoyed Kristen's presentation on using color in art, as well as one of the early ones in the course about the meaning of color.
By Meera Kakadekar on 1/11/2017
This is good course for very beginners. It would be good to mention as an introductory course, so that people will be aware of what they r getting into. I gave 1 star for not because content or lecture bad, because i didn't get what i wanted, expected more detail information than this. Thx
By Kpeers on 11/16/2016
I enjoyed this course in learning more about color. My goal is to create illustrations for my own children's book and to paint with acrylics. This course has offered me many different ways to explore and experience color. Thank you both for offering this course :)
By Nellie Kampmann on 11/5/2016
This class gets into more aspects of color therapy than just the basic chakra information that I already knew a bit about. The section on color to treat physical ailments was particularly helpful. The instructors explain things well, are interesting to listen to, and have provided additional downloadable documents with supplementary information.
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