I love having creative partners! And I love combining the arts modalities with each other to create new expressive arts offerings. The possibilities are limitless. Victoria, Tamara and I, as partners, each bring our ideas together and, like ingredients, they find
endless ways to enhance and blend, and emerge as something delicious! We trust this process.
Tamara Teeter Knapp and I are collaborating to create Movement Meditation and Mandalas, a body-mind-spirit workshop that we will offer for the first time next Friday.
I have been making mandalas for much of my life, from the time my grandfather taught me to make the Flower of Life design. The mandala, or sacred circle form, is a container or mirror of the self. For me, creating
mandalas is a contemplative and exploratory practice of deep listening, self-discovery and reflection. In a way, my mandalas contain me, and all of my experience. They are a place of safety and acceptance, that I return to again and again. They "hold" me and they connect me with my deepest creative wisdom.
Tamara has been dancing all her life. Fluent in all the arts modalities, movement is her "home". Working closely with her, I remember to keep my arts practice embodied. If I am stuck in my art or my writing, I remember to move. i know that all my experiences live in my body, and that
I need to tune in deeply to my somatic experience to embody growth and change. Expressive Arts is an intermodal, holistic process. Each form of creative expression touches into a different aspect of our body-mind-spirit.
As practitioners, we are familiar with the territory of all of the arts, and we listen - to ourselves and to our clients - to invite one modality to be enhanced or deepened by another. This sensitivity is a skill we teach our students. How might a poem emerge from a painting? How does
movement influence the creation of a mandala?
We have a lovely group gathering next Friday for our first-time offering of this brand new workshop. Will you join us?
MOVEMENT MEDITATION AND MANDALAS
Friday December 8 1-5 pm $65
The upcoming Solstice calls us to listen within, the busy time of year demands self-care, and the tumultuous times we are living in call for connection with our deepest knowing. Expressive Arts helps us bring our best, most
authentic self into the world. - Through some gentle and expertly guided movement practices, such as authentic movement and walking meditation, you will become deeply attuned to your body
- Guided meditation will transition your deep listening process from movement into visual art.
- You will create a mandala that contains and expresses your own creative wisdom.
We will guide you carefully and gently through a holistic intermodal arts process that touches and restores the body, mind and
spirit.
No art or movement experience necessary.
Watch the FB video!
Another creative partnership is coming up in February! Donna Papenhausen and Victoria Domenichello-Anderson bring
a blend of Intentional Creativity and Expressive Arts inquiry
Check our website for all upcoming offerings, both virtual and in the studio.
And stay tuned - within the next
couple of days we will be sharing all the info about our 2018 workshop at Hollyhock, B.C. Aug. 29-Sept. 2! (That photo of Tamara and I up at the top of this newsletter? It was taken at Hollyhock last summer.)
Watch your inbox for more info very soon.
Warmly, Kathleen, Tamara, Victoria
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE Tamara Teeter Knapp, BA, Certified K-12 Teacher
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