An unwelcome friend has returned to my life. Anxiety. Ahhh…..anxiety. I went a few years without much of it, but lately it has been providing a bitter hum to my days. I hoped giving up caffeine would solve it. It did not. Anxiety. My dear friend. It started up a couple of weeks ago, in response to a stressful […]
How to use authentic movement to relieve anxiety and stress
Do you love your body?
I miss being 8 years old and how freely I danced. My mother was in graduate school, and she listened to classical music while she studied. And I would dance. And dance and dance. I loved to move. Until puberty. This is familiar story to so many women. The moment when their body became a stranger. The realization that their […]
So what exactly is Expressive Arts? And what does it have to offer you?
This is my manifesto. 1. Expressive arts is intermodal Not just multimodal. Intermodal. That means we use the different modes to see our images, thoughts and yearnings through the different lens each offers, in combination with each other. Our cells express hidden wisdom through expressive movement. Spontaneous image making is a form of active imagination – dreaming while awake. Improvised […]
Why learning how to box made me a better artist
There you are, remote in hand, the kids driving you nuts, trying to read the mood of your significant other, feeling defensive and/or pouty. Out of the corner of your eye, you see the table, piled with clutter, where, if you weren’t so “lazy” and “untalented,” you would be creating. But the thought of creating is so blah, who cares? […]