Happy Birthday Henry!!
What is essential for you right now?
Through the Wisdom of Nature, Solitude, Sauntering, we will contemplate the essentials of our life.
We will Move, Create, Journal, and Reflect together as a group and individually on our own.
Join us for this unique Expressive Arts class in our new location at Allendale .
What are the Expressive Arts?
Expressive Arts are for adults 18 and Up.
Our Expressive Arts classes for adults offer a unique, inter-modal process of coming home to yourself - an authentic, synchronous group and/or individual experience that invites insight, creativity, self-compassion, and connection.
Our certified Expressive Arts Educator facilitates a safe and supportive, warm and welcoming, inclusive, calm, and enigmatic studio space. It’s a “Come as you are” approach, allowing for any and all ranges of emotions and abilities. Expressive arts is a spiraling practice that includes some or all of the following modalities of expression:
Meditation
Vocal toning
Music
Poetry
Creative writing
Intuitive movement
Visual art
Witnessing
Expression through dramatic arts
Our expressive arts classes require no art experience whatsoever. We provide a non-judgement atmosphere and welcome newcomers as well as old friends.
Our participants are guided in creating a visual art, typically with collage, tempera paint, watercolor, oil pastels, chalks, clay, etc…
The visual art acts as a container, a canvas, or even a “guide” to express and communicate the feelings that emerge through the other modalities.
Therefore, we encourage art that is completely process based (not product), using intuition to explore making marks on the paper. Seeing what emerges from your expression is respected as wisdom to take with you back into your heart and your life.
Expressive Arts as a Creative Personal Practice
for Well-being, Mental health, and Enjoyment of Life!
Below is a partial menu of some of the offerings possible in an Expressive Arts Class.
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Comfort Zone
Learning Zone
Panic Zone
Keeping Confidentiality
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Nature
String
Rock/Pebble
Tarot - Oracle
Rattle
Movement
Gesture - Mirror
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Pebble
Loving Kindness
Hand breathing
Mindfulness
Taking/Sending
Compassion Abiding
Self-Compassion
Mantra, Chanting
Focusing (F.O.A.T.)
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5 Rhythms waves : Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness
Authentic Movement
Melting and Growing
Sticks Dance
Movement Response to Art
Free Movement (Scarf) - Clay
Daria Halprin (Expressive Body)
Morning Altars (Nature Mandalas)
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Drawing (pencils, oil pastels, watercolor pencils, gelatos, chalk pastels)
Touch Drawing
Painting - Watercolor, tempera paint
Collage
Sculpture - Clay
Doodling
Mandala, Mandoorla, Flower of Life
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Life Scripting
Goals - Visioning
Compass
Artist’s Way
Visual Journaling
Gratitude
Grief
Stepping Stones
Haiku - Poetry
Journal to the Self
Writing Alone and With Others
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“When creating together in a group environment, after completing a creative writing, we read our writing aloud, without comment, either by ourselves or anyone else.” (Pat Allen)
“The witness plays a vital and collaborative role. Simply by the act of paying attention, the witness creates a holding environment that facilitates a sense of being seen and cared for. “ -Daria Halprin
Radiant Listening:
Listen not just with your ears but with your heart.
Listening means that we have stabilized our minds so completely that the person who is speaking can actually hear themselves through our stillness. - Andrew Holecek
Types of Witnessing
Silent witness
Aesthetic response (responding to an image, with an image or with movement)
Active witnessing (inviting an I am statement, title, asking key questions
Dialogue with image
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Grounding
Breathing
Relaxing
Into the body
Become Aware of Images, Sensations, Colors, Feelings
What is my inner wisdom guiding me towards?