Mindful Art and Yoga Workshops:

Below are some of our simple and fun Online Mindful Art Workshops to support your Creative Self Care.

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SoulCollage® for Self-Care E-Course

What is SoulCollage®? In this video, I share SoulCollage® examples, information about this fun and intuitive collage exercise, and the benefits of making SoulCollage® cards.

Enjoy self-expression through SoulCollage®; a unique, intuitive collage process that helps deepens your self-awareness and creativity. This workshop includes guided meditations, written reflection exercises, and optional group sharing to help you turn inward, play and connect in community. Art demonstrations will be given regarding how to tap into your intuition and select images, ways to use the art materials, and time to create and reflect on your card. SoulCollage® focuses on the process of exploration and internal inquiry through art, not on the end visual result. Everyone is welcome - No experience necessary! SoulCollage® Online Class coming in the next month.

Mindful Mandalas for Relaxation E-Course

Do you feel overwhelmed and stressed? Do you want a simple and fun self-care practice to explore your creativity and relax? De-stress with intuitive art exercises, journaling, and mindful breathing techniques you can do daily (in as little as 5 minutes)! "Mandala" in Sanskrit translates to "Circle." Come explore drawing and writing in this relaxed, playful workshop as we explore the therapeutic benefits of mindfulness and creating circular designs and patterns through expressive arts and writing prompts. These intuitive and simple mandalas help turn inward, express yourself in the moment, and create more space in an otherwise stressful day. Explore an empowering and unique 4-Step Affirmation Writing Exercise inspired by your Mandala Cards. No art experience needed. Give the gift of PLAY and REST to your Inner Creative Muse! 

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Contemplative Instagram Photos:
Seeing the World in New Light

This fun, simple class explores practices to enhance awareness while exploring the natural space around you through the lens of digital photography. Including meditation, breath-work, digital Instagram photography exercises (i.e., Composition, Light, Processing etc), and feedback sessions. You Smartphone (including a Camera and Instagram account) is all you need. No experience necessary; excellent for beginning to advanced students interested in deepening their exploration of self, nature, and the world through photography.

“To take photographs means...
putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis.”
-Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Indirect Self-Portrait

What stories do our belongings hold? Many artists struggle with self-portraits. Using the power of the photographic frame, students will create indirect self-portraits using their surroundings, fragments of self or objects. We will review a brief history of self-portrait photography, discuss our individual definitions of self-portraiture, and review basic camera settings and visual elements (such as composition, color, line, rhythm, movement, form, shape, space, etc). A camera with manual settings is recommended, but not required. 

Mindful Expressive Arts Workshop

Exploring expressive arts, writing, somatic movement and meditation in a supportive, non-judgmental community. The practices help enhance internal awareness, self-expression, and mind-body integration. Many participants report feeling less anxious and a greater sense of ease. No experience required.

Creative Self-Care for the Soul

Reconnect with yourself through simple and calming creative self-care practices. This 6-week trauma-informed mindfulness and expressive arts e-course is made especially for women. Explorations include mindfulness, somatic movement, guided visualizations, meditation, Yoga Nidra, and expressive arts. 

Art and Yoga: Tapping into your Creative Spirit

Have you ever felt more creative while being relaxed or in a "flow" state? Bring your creative muse to life, as we explore a variety of expressive art mixed media techniques, guided visualizations, writing, mindfulness, art and yoga. Enjoy self-expression through mind and body. No previous mindful art or yoga experience required. 

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Somatic Yoga Workshop

This 1-day gentle and therapeutic yoga workshop will explore relieving tension that often causes neck and back pain. Somatic Yoga is not a different style of yoga, but rather a therapeutic style of movement. Somatic Yoga re-wires neural pathways and may allow for greater ease of movement and decreased pain.

SOMATIC YOGA AND EXPRESSIVE WRITING

Have you ever said (or thought) that you're not flexible enough to do yoga? Do you need time and space to release the stresses of your day? Do you feel like you're holding tension in your body or mind? Come release chronic tension, turn inward and find more ease through gentle somatic movements and therapeutic yoga, and reclaim your voice through expressive writing in a safe, non-judgmental environment (optional sharing). 

Somatic-based yoga has been shown to help alleviate chronic tension and pain by re-wiring the neural pathways in our brain. Some participants have experienced improved sleep, decreased anxiety and depression, decreased chronic pain and stiffness, and a greater range of motion and ease in their movements with consistent practice. Expressive writing can also help improve feelings of empowerment, connection, and may calm the central nervous system and alleviate stress. 

RESTORATIVE YOGA

SOMATIC YOGA

Somatic Yoga is a combination of gentle Somatic Movements, Hatha Yoga, breath-work and meditation that is available to every(body). These subtle and therapeutic-informed movements can help re-educate the way our brain senses and moves muscles. Majority of Somatic Yoga practices are done in a supine position (lying on the ground), and many participants experience: reduced chronic pain and headaches, improved sleep and mood, increased awareness, and a greater sense of self-acceptance and ease.

THERAPEUTIC YOGA WALL

Based on BKS Iyengar's principals of alignment, the yoga wall is used as a prop to deepen asana by opening and creating spaces in the body using therapeutic techniques. You will learn how the body aligns in postures with added support and gain a deeper awareness of how the body should feel while staying safe and avoiding misalignment. Also great for restoring spine health.