C R E A T I V E W O R K S H O P S
Our minds create images, even before we can find the words to describe what we are thinking and feeling. The combination of working with calming the critical mind and practising non judgement of self, together with art making, allows us to use this imaginative capacity of the mind to build bridges, connecting thoughts to feelings -preconscious to conscious, and ourselves to others. Using lines, form, space, texture and colour as our language, we can create a work of art that communicates our feelings and ideas that has no words. An opportunity to access a deeper, seemingly inaccessible place, gently and quickly and without any analysis. The body and mind gently shifts through seeing these images of self out of the body. This is not a new age methodology, it is an ancient way of being that we know and need to re practise in a world full of speed, technology and left brain thinking.t that communicates our feelings and ideas that have no words.
RACHEL offers talks on how to tap [back] into your creative source, your creative intelligence, followed by practical experiential workshops. Schools, corporates, individuals and groups on healing programmes.
We can change our ideas when we forget about the end product and simply use the creative process to relax, refocus and re-energize ourselves. This way of creating allows us to enjoy the therapeutic value of creating art – always with an eye turned inward and with the ability to transcend traditional ideas and learnt patterns and create new one's.
During the practical workshops we create using a variety of materials; including mixed media, printing, clay, paint, crayons & pastels, dyes, recycled & found natural things. By using materials that children use, we hope the fear of creating is calmed and thus creativity can simply be free and flow.
We focus on the Process and not on the Product.
Workshops are 3 hour and really give sacred me-time in our busy worlds, offering opportunities to explore the unconscious & access the deeper, mysterious & hidden places within our soul that have no words, allowing self healing on a gentle level. Leave all expectations, inner critics and judgements at the door and create at an intuitive level whilst being gently guided step by step in a safe and contained space.
*ASTAR [Awakening Spirit Through Art] www.astar.co.za
RACHEL offers talks on how to tap [back] into your creative source, your creative intelligence, followed by practical experiential workshops. Schools, corporates, individuals and groups on healing programmes.
We can change our ideas when we forget about the end product and simply use the creative process to relax, refocus and re-energize ourselves. This way of creating allows us to enjoy the therapeutic value of creating art – always with an eye turned inward and with the ability to transcend traditional ideas and learnt patterns and create new one's.
During the practical workshops we create using a variety of materials; including mixed media, printing, clay, paint, crayons & pastels, dyes, recycled & found natural things. By using materials that children use, we hope the fear of creating is calmed and thus creativity can simply be free and flow.
We focus on the Process and not on the Product.
Workshops are 3 hour and really give sacred me-time in our busy worlds, offering opportunities to explore the unconscious & access the deeper, mysterious & hidden places within our soul that have no words, allowing self healing on a gentle level. Leave all expectations, inner critics and judgements at the door and create at an intuitive level whilst being gently guided step by step in a safe and contained space.
*ASTAR [Awakening Spirit Through Art] www.astar.co.za
[ set yourself free of your inner critics and feel your creative self play again ]
