Art Classes for Stress Reduction

How creating art relieves stress….

Creating art provides an activity that can allow your brain a break from usual thoughts.
Art is a natural way to practice mindfulness: it can help us to process our challenges, boost our confidence and instill in us a sense of resilience.
This workshop will provide you with studio time to relieve some of your stress, soothe the emotions through the use of art, meditation and breathing, residing in creating more space, less reactivity and more resilience.
This class is focused more on relieving the stress rather than on creating a work of art.
“Art is a natural way to practice mindfulness: it can help us to process our challenges, boost our confidence and instill in us a sense of resilience.”
No previous experience with Art is necessary, just a willingness to explore and heal!

Awakening to the Heart
A Mountain Sanctuary for Heart-Centered Community
Saturday, 7/27 10-3
Located in the White Mountains of NH
https://awakeningtotheheart.com/

Releasing Stress thru Neuro-Art

In this workshop we will be exploring and alleviating our stress through a variety of drawing + painting techniques to help reformat the neural pathways of the brain, soothe and tame our emotional stress, improving and repairing the nervous system and creating a personal practice thru the practices of self-awareness, mindfulness and art expression. You will leave with 3 Self Care Art practices, as well as, guides for incorporating breathwork + meditation.

We will incorporate, breath, gentle movement, meditation and neural art prompts to release the hold of tension in our bodies, mind and spirit. This class is focused more on relieving the stress rather than on creating a work of art.

No previous experience with Art is necessary, just a willingness to explore and heal!

Carol Ellis is an Artist, Yoga & Qigong teacher, Reiki practitioner, and has always felt a deep connection for sharing perspectives and techniques through a variety of sources and mediums. She created "Art for Stress Reduction" workshops to address the habitual stress we all endure, whether it be our daily life's struggles, the effects of illness, or the shifting changes in our world. Carol finds great joy in providing artistic prompts and a setting for individuals to explore, release, and restore harmony to their well-being; whether this be through Yoga, Qigong, Meditation, Reiki or Art.

$65. + $10 Materials fee

Great North Woods Center for the Arts
Sacred Geometry
1/2 DAY RETREAT
https://www.gnwca.org/

Changing the pattern of your environment and energy field can have the power to transform stress and create an opening for new beginnings, transformation and inspirations.

We will discuss the nature of patterns as energetic visuals that can be absorbed and emulated. Nature’s designs, sacred geometry and forms support and enhance our energy and behavior. We will work collectively on a larger sacred grid and also create a smaller grid for our personal practice. This workshop will cover a variety of Crystal benefits + grid patterns to utilize in our meditations/intentions, allowing for a frequency and energetic vibration, that can be sewn into the energetic matrix and absorbed.

In this workshop we will be exploring some of the Sacred Geometry found in our world, its purpose, history, and how it can be incorporated into your own meditation practices. We will be examining grid designs, physical, spiritual + emotional aspects of the grid, crystal arrangements, and how you can utilize this tool for your mental health + well-being. All Grid materials will be supplied + some crystals.

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Carol Ellis Art Instructor, RYT800, Meditation, Qigong, Grand Reiki Master, & Labyrinth Facilitator