This work will be on view from Oct 5 until Oct 29 at The Upstream Gallery, 8 Main Street, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY. The opening Is this Sunday 10/8/23 From 2-5 Pm. Please drop by.
I will be holding a reiki healing circle with reiki master Alice Shapiro in the gallery on friday 10/13 from
7-9 Pm. Space Is limited to 10, so please register with we at [email protected].
These works are a direct result of my doctoral studies and research in body-based methods of therapy. In winter of 2021, I was given an assignment to do Arts-Based Research in an area of my interest. I have been a reiki energy practitioner for close to 30 years and when I became an art therapist I wanted to combine these two Interests. Naturally for Arts-Based Research I chose a project that involved art, energy, and the body.
Arts-Based Research (Or ABR) is a form of analysis that uses one method of art-making to analyze another. In my process I used a body-meditation based on polarities – connecting two parts of the body in order to create more energy flow. These meditations focused on the elements of ether, air, fire, water, and earth and their corresponding chakras. After each meditation, I made a drawing/painting of the internal sensation of each element. I recorded each drawing process with video and then created a poem in response to the drawing process. The creation of poetry is the ABR process of analyzing one art form with another. The creation of a short movie constituted another form.
In the last two years I have lived with these five drawings and encouraged many others to do similar works as part of my dissertation project. It’s taken me this long to determine how to transform them further, take them to the next level of my own personal embodiment. In addition I created two traditional body tracings, which are a classic art therapy method. One is of myself and the other of a reiki master friend. Each shows us in three poses representing the complex unity of parts that makes one human being.
Finally, I have lived with reiki symbols for so much of my life that they are embodied in my being and engrained in my mind. These images are my interpretation of the sacred symbols of healing as they are held in my and as they exist in the world. I hope that you enjoy and feel their blessings.
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For those who are interested there will be a reiki healing circle in the gallery on Friday 10/13 From 7-9 pm. Capacity is 10 people so please register in advance with [email protected].
I will be holding a reiki healing circle with reiki master Alice Shapiro in the gallery on friday 10/13 from
7-9 Pm. Space Is limited to 10, so please register with we at [email protected].
These works are a direct result of my doctoral studies and research in body-based methods of therapy. In winter of 2021, I was given an assignment to do Arts-Based Research in an area of my interest. I have been a reiki energy practitioner for close to 30 years and when I became an art therapist I wanted to combine these two Interests. Naturally for Arts-Based Research I chose a project that involved art, energy, and the body.
Arts-Based Research (Or ABR) is a form of analysis that uses one method of art-making to analyze another. In my process I used a body-meditation based on polarities – connecting two parts of the body in order to create more energy flow. These meditations focused on the elements of ether, air, fire, water, and earth and their corresponding chakras. After each meditation, I made a drawing/painting of the internal sensation of each element. I recorded each drawing process with video and then created a poem in response to the drawing process. The creation of poetry is the ABR process of analyzing one art form with another. The creation of a short movie constituted another form.
In the last two years I have lived with these five drawings and encouraged many others to do similar works as part of my dissertation project. It’s taken me this long to determine how to transform them further, take them to the next level of my own personal embodiment. In addition I created two traditional body tracings, which are a classic art therapy method. One is of myself and the other of a reiki master friend. Each shows us in three poses representing the complex unity of parts that makes one human being.
Finally, I have lived with reiki symbols for so much of my life that they are embodied in my being and engrained in my mind. These images are my interpretation of the sacred symbols of healing as they are held in my and as they exist in the world. I hope that you enjoy and feel their blessings.
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For those who are interested there will be a reiki healing circle in the gallery on Friday 10/13 From 7-9 pm. Capacity is 10 people so please register in advance with [email protected].