Mindful Art!

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Mindfulness and Healing Through Art

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Mindfulness is the art of being fully present in our lives. Expressive Art is a practice of using art to awaken individual creativity, recognize our inner voices – even when they sometimes ‘collide,’ and foster healing – of mind, body, and spirit.

In this 4-session class, we’ll use simple art supplies to explore color, shape, images, and texture to enter the ‘flow’ of creative expression. Each session will open with a mindfulness practice connected with a theme for the week, including Mindfulness of Body, Breath, Heart and Spirit. We’ll guide you through an Expressive Art activity which can be completed in silence or in the Zoom session. We’ll have time to share and reflect at the end of each virtual session.

No prior experience required.

Basic materials needed:

  • Pencil, eraser

  • Markers, oil pastels or crayons (12 – 24 colors), or colored pencils (12-24 colors)

  • Scissors, glue stick or white glue

  • Collage materials (scraps of paper, felt, netting, fabric, or magazine photos)

  • Several sheets of white paper of any kind, or an art journal

  • Construction paper; colored tissue paper, and any household reusable items that you have on hand.

Instructors:

Rochelle Hall, MA-LMFT, is a certified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, trained in expressive arts therapy. She experiences expressive art as form of creative ‘presencing’: Bringing full awareness, moment to moment, non-judgmentally, to what arises creatively through the channels of our senses.

Meg Cornish, LCSW, has training in mindfulness and art expression for healing trauma and coping with illness. She has a passion for a playful approach to art with the use of kinesthetic awareness. Meg loves using everyday household supplies as art materials.

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MINDFULNESS AND DREAMS

Embody the dream with mindfulness of body, emotions and expressive art

Have you ever wondered what your dream meant only to over analyze it and get more confused? Do you disregard what your body or your emotions are trying to tell you? If so, you are invited to participate in a nonverbal exploration of dreams, their emotions and images using guided meditation and expressive art.

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When we explore dreams, emotions, and images, if pay close enough attention through the “felt sense” meditation practice, we can discover that our body actually holds it’s own wisdom, it’s own message for us to respond to. Rather than using our mind or dream dictionaries to interpret our dreams, images or emotions, we will use mindfulness and expressive art to help us understand and voice the embodied message. We will start by a guided mindfulness meditation moving into a guided “felt sense” of your dream images and emotions. From there, we will silently transition into the expressive art process as you create images from the felt sense. We will wind up with giving voice to the dream and its nonverbal expression.

It will be held at 716 Lighthouse Ave., Suite E, Pacific Grove 831.869.2809

Cost: $35 per group.   Drawing materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your favorite art supplies. No expressive art experience need; just bring your dream!

This group will be facilitated by Meika Hamisch, LMFT    Meika has facilitated dream workshops for 35 years using various tools to explore the messages being offered through the gift of dreaming. She has studied with various dream teachers, including Robert Moss who is a major international dream facilitator.

To register and for more information please contact Meika

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Compassionate Image Collage

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When cultivating compassion for yourself, often a “Compassionate Image” is used to evoke a sense of unconditional love.  This particular image reminds us we are loved for who we are, that we can be ourselves in all of goodness and challenges.  The image can be a place in nature, a pet, a religious figure, a mentor or a special loved one.  Creating a collage that represents our Compassionate Image and placing it in our house or office, allows us to return to that place of being loved and fully accepted.

Join us in mini-workshop where you will be guided in a self-compassion/kindness meditation.  From there you will be guided to create a collage of that image.  You can use pictures from magazines, bring your own picture and/or draw.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Meika. Meika has done this workshop many times and participants have found it powerful and helpful in their self-compassion practice.