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.
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.
You are invited to take a life pause: As a trained ASTAR* facilitator, I hold a space for healing art classes, in a non judgmental and nurturing way for anyone who wants to unblock their creative flow. We are all born with creativity. Someone along our life journey can block this flow with criticisms & judgements. In this studio space, this flow is felt again.
We create using a variety of materials; including mixed media, printing, clay, paint, crayons & pastals, 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.
Weekly 3 hour classes give sacred me time in our busy worlds and give 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.
Founder of *ASTAR [Awakening Spirit Through Art] Lindy Solomon, has been teaching art for nearly 30 years, has published successful art teaching books & facilitates weekly process art classes. Every 2 years, for the last 6 years, Lindy has trained groups of ASTAR facilitators. Work is being done in prisons, old age homes, [drug] rehabilitation clinics, all types of schools, in township communities and privately in suburbs from the North, through Cape Town city, Ronderbosch & surrounds across Constantia to the Scarborough area
CURRENT CLASS SCHEDULE: all adult and children's classes have been put on hold for this term, as Rachel builds new course material for requested corporate courses. Classes will resume in April 2015. Please see www.astar.co.za if you need to find a fill in ASTAR teacher. Thank you.
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.
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.
You are invited to take a life pause: As a trained ASTAR* facilitator, I hold a space for healing art classes, in a non judgmental and nurturing way for anyone who wants to unblock their creative flow. We are all born with creativity. Someone along our life journey can block this flow with criticisms & judgements. In this studio space, this flow is felt again.
We create using a variety of materials; including mixed media, printing, clay, paint, crayons & pastals, 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.
Weekly 3 hour classes give sacred me time in our busy worlds and give 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.
Founder of *ASTAR [Awakening Spirit Through Art] Lindy Solomon, has been teaching art for nearly 30 years, has published successful art teaching books & facilitates weekly process art classes. Every 2 years, for the last 6 years, Lindy has trained groups of ASTAR facilitators. Work is being done in prisons, old age homes, [drug] rehabilitation clinics, all types of schools, in township communities and privately in suburbs from the North, through Cape Town city, Ronderbosch & surrounds across Constantia to the Scarborough area
CURRENT CLASS SCHEDULE: all adult and children's classes have been put on hold for this term, as Rachel builds new course material for requested corporate courses. Classes will resume in April 2015. Please see www.astar.co.za if you need to find a fill in ASTAR teacher. Thank you.
[ set yourself free of your inner critics and feel your creative self play again ]
