Download or read book Yoga Flow and Art Therapy written by Megan E. Lear and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yoga s Effect on the Creative Process in Art Therapy written by Shell Tracy R and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity is perhaps the most important factor contributing to human happiness and adaptation, and yet there is little known about initiating and maintaining creative states commonly referred to as flow. In a time of global population expansion, economic uncertainty and political chaos, the challenges we currently face are without precedent. Creativity is implicated in workplace success, healthy psychological functioning, and the maintenance of healthy interpersonal relationships (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). Psychologists, medical doctors and researchers are beginning to recognize the healing power of creative flow and understand its ability to advance the field of psychology and improve people's lives. This research is an investigation into the mind-body connection through a practice of Hatha Yoga and its impact on the creative process. This study purposes to evaluate the efficacy of integrating a practice of Hatha Yoga with positive psychology, mindfulness, and art therapy directives into an intervention to beneficially influence the creative process and increase overall well-being in adults.
Download or read book Integrating Art Therapy and Yoga Therapy written by Karen Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga postures, meditation and art therapy-based techniques are combined in this innovative approach structured around targeting a specific treatment goal for each therapeutic session. For each goal, a mudra (hand position) meditation, yoga pose and art directive are recommended to embody the chosen intention.
Download or read book Head and Heart written by Ellen Horovitz and published by Handspring Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envisioned as a resource for yoga teachers and all mental health and health professionals, Head and Heart is intended for: all health professionals who focus on mental health and/or wellbeing and want to broaden their understanding of how yoga and creative art therapy interventions can influence mental health approaches, best practices, and efficacy of treatment those who assist the therapeutic /healing processes who aspire to incorporate both yoga and creative art therapy interventions into their practice yoga therapy practitioners/teachers and creative art therapists/teachers who wish to deepen their knowledge of integrating yoga and creative art approaches into yoga, mental health and well-being. Western psychological processes (compared to the Klesas, V?ittis, Kosas, Gu?as, Do?as, Nadi System, Cakras, and the Yamas and Niyamas) make this book accessible even to those unfamiliar with yogic philosophy and psychology. Clearing exercises, warm-up techniques, yogic breathing for mood management, modifications and sequencing of poses, assessments (for the mind and body), digital and telehealth applications, yoga prop usage, and co-morbid, clinical cases (children, adolescents and adults) are presented throughout as a guide for the reader. Practical reflection exercises are offered in the Introductory chapter and chapters 3-6. These suggested practices summarize and reiterate the clinical material for the reader, and afford expansion toward oneself and /or one's clinical caseload. No matter what form it takes to move towards a creative opening, the reader will find that this book will aid you in moving yourself and your patients into the exploration of art, yoga, and well-being. This interoceptive research (going within) facilitates an expansion towards self and others and ensures that expansion, whether making art, practising yoga or working with disease. May this book move you and your patients toward that trajectory of sattva and well-being.
Download or read book Drawn to Yoga written by Jodi Rose Gonzales and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the YogaDoodles, a groundbreaking fusion of art therapy and yoga wisdom teachings. Jodi Rose weaves storytelling and personal anecdotes into her explanation, clearly demonstrating the breakthrough outcomes and sheer simplicity of the technique. The YogaDoodles can be completed in just minutes, and are effective for your personal development even if you think you're not creative, or if yoga is new to you.
Download or read book Art as Contemplative Practice written by Michael A. Franklin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon his personal experience as a practitioner-researcher, visual artist, and cancer survivor, Michael A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting various practice traditions including yoga, rasa and darshan experiences, imaginal intelligence, and the contemplative instincts of select early twentieth-century artists. From this synthesis, Franklin suggests that we treat art as a form of yoga and meditation with the potential to awaken deeper insight into the fundamental nature of the Self. Exercises and rubrics are included that offer accessible instruction for any artist, meditation or yoga practitioner, art educator, or art therapist.
Download or read book Integrating Art Therapy and Yoga Therapy written by Karen Gibbons and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic approach to therapy combines yoga and art to heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit - through the use of intention. In this practical guide art therapists will learn how to incorporate yoga poses, mudras and meditation, and yoga therapists to introduce art directives, into individual and group clinical work for a more holistic healing process. Readers will discover the parallels that exist between the two modalities, and how to use a specific intention as a framework for structuring sessions, with the aim of reaching a deeper level of healing in their clinical work. Guidelines for staying within each modality's scope of practice and working ethically are included, as well as an extensive Practice Chart, which shows how to match treatment concerns with an intention, mudra meditation, yoga poses and art activity. Ideal for art therapists looking to expand and enhance their practice, this book will also appeal to yoga therapists and teachers with an interest in art-based techniques. Although primarily meant for therapists, it is also accessible for individuals looking for self-improvement.
Download or read book Mindfulness and the Arts Therapies written by Laury Rappaport and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience. Written by pioneers and leaders in the arts therapies and psychology fields, the book includes 6 sections that examine mindfulness and the arts therapies from different perspectives: 1) the history and roots of mindfulness in relation to spirituality, psychotherapy and the arts therapies; 2) the role of the expressive arts in cultivating mindful awareness; 3) innovative approaches that add mindfulness to the arts therapies; 4) arts therapies approaches that are inherently mindfulness-based; 5) mindfulness in the training and education of arts therapists; and 6) the neuroscience underlying mindfulness and the arts therapies. Contributors describe their pioneering work with diverse applications: people with cancer, trauma, chronic pain, substance abuse, severe mental illness, clients in private practice, adolescents at camp, training dance and art therapists, and more. This rich resource will inspire and rejuvenate all clinicians and educators.
Download or read book Art as Medicine written by Shaun McNiff and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1992-10-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering art therapist extolls the arts as a powerful tool in psychotherapy, describing how activating the imagination can heal the mind, heart, and soul The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to “familiars”—the themes, methods, and materials that interact with the artist through the creative process. “Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul,” writes Shaun McNiff, “the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine.” Art as Medicine demonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through this natural process. Author Shaun McNiff describes his pioneering methods of art therapy—including interpretation through performance and storytelling, creative collaboration, and dialoguing with images—and the ways in which they can revitalize both psychotherapy and art itself.
Download or read book Opening Intuitive Flow Through Artwork written by Giora Carmi and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a manual of how to create and use intuitive flow in art. When art is created intuitively it detects all that stands in the way of happiness. These are the subconscious limiting beliefs and thought patterns. When working with the method, these blockages to happiness show up very clearly in the art. In order to understand them the book also teaches a simple way to read the artwork. It gives you an invaluable instrument to look at your subconscious, or your client's, and understand what blocks you or your client. As such, this book is an original addition to all that we already know about looking at the subconscious and dissolving inhibiting beliefs. The method that the book gives does this observing faster than many other known methods. It finds the cores of emotional issues, and dissolves them quite surprisingly. It is a way to heal.There is no need to be an artist in order to use this method. The way of art making that the book teaches can be done by anyone, regardless of talent or lack of it.The method is not only a very effective therapy instrument, or self-therapy instrument, but also a way to create growth. It is a powerful spiritual path. In addition to teaching the method, the book teaches about intuition and its importance in everyone's life. This teaching is unique in that it uses pictures to demonstrate the content. And lastly there are examples of real therapy sessions that made use of this method, including all the art that was done and the readings.In the end of the book there is a way of using the method to find your own core issue and dissolve it. This does not happen immediately, but if taken as a practice, will free you of your core issue and your life will change. It is a moving, beautiful and powerful book.
Download or read book Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy written by Cathy A. Malchiodi and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Psychological trauma can be a life-changing experience that affects multiple facets of health and well-being. The nature of trauma is to impact the mind and body in unpredictable and multidimensional ways. It can be a highly subjective that is difficult or even impossible to explain with words. It also can impact the body in highly individualized ways and result in complex symptoms that affect memory, social engagement, and quality of life. While many people overcome trauma with resilience and without long term effects, many do not. Trauma's impact often requires approaches that address the sensory-based experiences many survivors report. The expressive arts therapy-the purposeful application of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing and imaginative play-are largely non-verbal ways of self-expression of feelings and perceptions. More importantly, they are action-oriented and tap implicit, embodied experiences of trauma that can defy expression through verbal therapy or logic. Based on current evidence-based and emerging brain-body practices, there are eight key reasons for including expressive arts in trauma intervention, covered in this book: (1) letting the senses tell the story; (2) self-soothing mind and body; (3) engaging the body; (4) enhancing nonverbal communication; (5) recovering self-efficacy; (6) rescripting the trauma story; (7) making meaning; and (8) restoring aliveness"--
Download or read book Art As Contemplative Practice written by Michael A. Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon his personal experience as a practitioner-researcher, visual artist, and cancer survivor, Michael A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting various practice traditions including yoga, rasa and darshan experiences, imaginal intelligence, and the contemplative instincts of select early twentieth-century artists. From this synthesis, Franklin suggests that we treat art as a form of yoga and meditation with the potential to awaken deeper insight into the fundamental nature of the Self. Exercises and rubrics are included that offer accessible instruction for any artist, meditation or yoga practitioner, art educator, or art therapist.
Download or read book Trauma Healing at the Clay Field written by Cornelia Elbrecht and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using clay in therapy taps into the most fundamental of human experiences - touch. This book is a comprehensive step-by-step training manual that covers all aspects of 'Work at the Clay Field', a sensorimotor-based art therapy technique. The book discusses the setting and processes of the approach, provides an overview of the core stages of Gestalt Formation and the Nine Situations model within this context, and demonstrates how this unique focus on the sense of touch and the movement of the hands is particularly effective for trauma healing in adults and children. The intense tactile experience of working with clay allows the therapist to work through early attachment issues, developmental setbacks and traumatic events with the client in a primarily nonverbal way using a body-focused approach. The kinaesthetic motor action of the hands combined with sensory perception can lead to a profound sense of resolution with lasting therapeutic benefits. With photographs and informative case studies throughout, this book will be a valuable resource for art therapists and mental health professionals, and will also be of interest to complementary therapists and bodyworkers.
Download or read book Integrating Art Therapy with Yoga Therapy written by Lauren E. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mindfulness Based Art Therapy Activities written by Jennie Powe Runde MFT REAT and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the healing power of art Painting a seascape or sculpting a clay pot is more than just a fun way to spend an hour—it can also be therapeutic. Explore art's healing potential with this compelling art therapy activity book. You'll pair mindfulness with different creative projects, using self-expression and introspection as tools to work through difficult emotions, stressful situations, and self-doubt. Rooted in mindfulness—From drawing to digital photography, explore a variety of relaxing and beginner-friendly activities designed to help you improve your focus, awareness, and self-compassion. Dive into different art projectsFind deeper meaning in God's Word with thoughtful commentary that speaks to issues all married couples face, from establishing good communication to remaining faithful. Reflect on your work—Every project concludes with thoughtful prompts that encourage you to view your art through the lens of mindfulness and connect it to the present moment. Find serenity through self-expression with Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy Activities.
Download or read book Art Yoga written by Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to express your soul's longing, delve into images that awaken your imagination and speak of a truth yet unexplored. Allow Art & Yoga to take you on a journey to your intuitive, creative and authentic self! Yogis will find creative exercises to deepen their experience of yoga, while artists will discover simple, yet profound yoga and meditation practices that will help their creative flow, focus, and intuition.For anyone interested in yoga and the arts, this book explains how to create a daily Art and Yoga practice, providing step-by-step guidelines for producing art and doing yoga as complementary practices individually, in a group, or in community. Along the way, we draw inspiration from the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, nature, artists of the past, and recent developments in healing and spirituality.There is no need to know how to draw, paint, meditate, or do yoga to use this book. The art exercises are designed to make the experience accessible and fun, while also introducing a variety of inexpensive, safe, and easy-to-obtain art materials. Any experience you bring to the process will be helpful. If you teach yoga or art or if you work as a healer, you'll find inspiration and practical ways to deepen your professional practice.
Download or read book Yoga Adult Coloring Book written by Christopher Dwayne and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Art Therapy has over 200 pages of Yoga Poses for coloring. Illustrated by @TheFallBackUp on instagram, this book features real people doing yoga. This book will bring you relaxation and joy as you color each page in your own style. Art therapy is used to reduce the stress in Adults and the beautiful images in this book are sure to do just that. Be sure to get a copy for yourself, your friends and all Yoga lovers you know. A great way to pass time while being motivate and inspired to be creative and hopefully even try Yoga yourself. Enjoy!
