One day Focusing and Blind painting Workshops
The Body Brain can tell us secrets
Feb 20th. 10-4, March 20th. 10-4, April 24th. 10-4
Most of us are overwhelmed at the notion of addressing our country’s and/or the world’s problems. Perhaps now is the time to turn inward and begin with less global more personal issues, trusting that healing is contagious. We are all connected. Listen unconditionally to our own heart and the ripple effect will reach the farthest shores.
During these workshops and/or private sessions we will first "Focus".* Dropping our awareness deep inside the body. we access a felt sense of some puzzling issue in our life, perhaps the sense of a heaviness in our heart, or a tangled knot in our belly . Then we allow the body energy of this felt sense to guide our hands as we paint and draw with our eyes closed.
Blind painting enables us to re-route our creative pathways. Instead of going from eyes, to brain, to hand to paper, we go directly from body to hand to paper. The brain does not get the chance to grab onto what we experience and cloak it in interpretations, evaluations, and judgements.
The resulting marks are full of the primal energy of life, unlimited by thought. They come from the body in the present moment and so provide fresh new shapes and forms never before encountered. If we engage with them, without judgement or agendas, they will reveal new, or lost parts of ourselves and can guide us forward.
All in person reatreats, workshops, and classes have been cancelled due to covid 19. until further notice.
To book a private zoom session call 802-254-6881 or email helenrhawes@gmail.com
Private sessions are two hours long . There is a sliding fee scale from $100 - $150
The one day workshops cost $60 and Run from 10-4 With a break for lunch from 12:30-1:30
There is a six person limit so if you are interested please reserve a place soon! Call 802-254-6881 or email helenrhawes@gmail.com .
* For more information on Focusing go to www.focusing.org
