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 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 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 Yoga for the Creative Soul written by Erin Byron and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the Ancient Wisdom of Yoga to Explore the Deepest Aspects of Your Creative Self Combining expressive arts and yoga therapy, Yoga for the Creative Soul is an invaluable guide to healing emotional wounds and creating a joyous life. Through drawing, writing, dancing, humming, and cooking—as well as yoga postures, meditation, relaxation, breathing, and self-inquiry—this book helps you cultivate your true intentions and live your deepest values. With helpful tips for daily practice and a quiz to support you in identifying areas of imbalance, author Erin Byron shares techniques that you can personalize to meet your specific needs. Discover how to bring color, movement, and melody into everyday moments with the five paths to self-realization: Karma, Jnana, Raja, Bhakti, and Tantra. Engaging a process of personal transformation and learning how take control of your life are gifts you can give yourself with Yoga for the Creative Soul Praise: "I'm dazzled. Yoga for the Creative Soul is more than a program or philosophy. It's a gift, merging the tenets of ancient and yoga-based psychology with the expressive arts and personal healing...In this blessed book, Erin presents us with an all-inclusive path to joy."—Cyndi Dale, author of Llewellyn's Complete Book of Chakras "A DIY guide full of exceptional exercises to awaken your best and most creative self . . . Yoga for the Creative Soul will help you to gently release fear, embrace change, gather courage, and overcome your inner-perfectionist."—Amy B. Scher, author of How To Heal Yourself When No One Else Can
Download or read book Motion and Creation written by Cheril Lynn Walker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the relationship of integrating a therapeutic hatha yoga practice with the creative process as viewed through the visual arts. In my research, I examined the eight limbs of yoga and the path to wholeness, as well as the benefits of image-making to one's personal well-being and deepening awareness. With a personal belief in the transformative process of creativity, the intention for this research was to examine the connections that exist within each of us to use our innate expressive qualities to heal the self. This research brings attention to the negative and far reaching effects of stress on an individual's health and seen through a holistic lens, the ways in which yoga and art can address this common ailment. Through the process of yoga, involving asanas, pranayama, and dhyana, an individual is able to engage with the source of creative expression in an open, genuine manner. This engagement has the ability to bring self-awareness and to transform an individual to a healthy state of being; in body, mind, and spirit. This research followed eight practitioners of yoga through the process of a therapeutic hatha yoga practice immediately followed by image-making, for a period of six weeks. These individuals began a journey of self-discovery; with open hearts and minds they courageously explored the possibilities of reaching further inward to explore their creative potential and its power in restoring balance and promoting health and well-being.
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 Integrating Yoga and Play Therapy written by Michelle Pliske and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the foundational knowledge to ethically and knowledgably integrate yoga into play therapy practice with children and families and create life-long change. The mind-body connection that underpins the approach taken by the authors helps children to integrate adverse experiences and find new meanings associated with the past, and allows healing to begin. The book covers infant toddler mental health, theories of attachment, learning and development, neurobiology and the pervasive effects of developmental adversity or trauma on a child. It offers adaptations with special populations including group work and family systems work, and provides next steps for future professional growth in this area.
Download or read book Art Heals written by Shaun McNiff and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2004-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional and spiritual healing. In this book, Shaun McNiff, a leader in expressive arts therapy for more than three decades, reflects on a wide spectrum of activities aimed at reviving art's traditional healing function. In chapters ranging from "Liberating Creativity" and "The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace" to "From Shamanism to Art Therapy," he illuminates some of the most progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy: • The "practice of imagination" as a powerful force for transformation • A challenge to literal-minded psychological interpretations of artworks ("black colors indicate depression") and the principle that even disturbing images have inherent healing properties • The role of the therapist in promoting an environment conducive to free expression and therapeutic energies • The healing effects of group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio • "Total expression," combining arts such as movement, storytelling, and drumming with painting and drawing
Download or read book Focusing Oriented Art Therapy written by Laury Rappaport and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing provides an effective way of listening to the innate wisdom of the body, while art therapy harnesses and activates creative intelligence. Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body's Wisdom and Creative Intelligence is a ground-breaking book integrating renowned psychologist Eugene Gendlin's Focusing with art therapy. This new, Focusing-based approach to art therapy helps clients to befriend their inner experience, access healing imagery from the body's felt sense to express in art, and carry forward implicit steps that lead toward change. Written for readers to be able to learn the application of this innovative approach, the book provides in-depth examples and descriptions of how to adapt Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy to a wide variety of clinical populations including individuals and groups with severe psychiatric illness, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and more, as well as applications to private practice, illness and wellness, spirituality, and self-care. Integrating theory, clinical practice, and numerous guided exercises, this accessible book will enhance clinical sensitivity and skill, while adding resources for bringing creativity into practice. It will be of interest to art therapists, Focusing therapists, psychologists, counselors and social workers, as well as trainers and students.
Download or read book Yoga Therapy written by Ellen G. Horovitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga Therapy: Theory and Practice is a vital guidebook for any clinician or scholar looking to integrate yoga into the medical and mental health fields. Chapters are written by expert yoga therapy practitioners and offer theoretical, historical, and practice-based instruction on cutting-edge topics such as application of yoga therapy to anger management and the intersection of yoga therapy and epigenetics; many chapters also include Q&A "self-inquiries." Readers will find that Yoga Therapy is the perfect guide for practitioners looking for new techniques as well as those hoping to begin from scratch with yoga therapy.
Download or read book Yoga Therapy as a Creative Response to Pain written by Matthew J. Taylor and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporting yoga therapists to create a programme of care for those living with chronic pain, this guide brings pain science, creativity and yoga together for the first time. It includes the emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual in its definition of pain and acknowledges there that is no simple physical 'fix'. The book offers advice on creating an environment that restores hope and meaning to clients, and on building a successful business by creating a community of support. Matt Taylor's blend of creativity and yoga came from his own chronic spine pain as a physical therapist and his discovery of yoga therapy which led to his yoga-based rehabilitation clinic.
Download or read book The Interview in Art Therapy written by Susana Villarroel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Therapy is just a tool in order to achieve a final goal. Art Therapists should know how to anticipate, it is necessary to know how to read every patient, they are similar to a book. The creative process which is found during each session is extremely interesting. The therapist should have the ability to know which exercises are good according to the patient's situation. Working with different cases for years makes you a better person and a better professional. Of course, each patient is unique, there are not like drops of water. The only thing that it is not unique are the problems or situations. Each one is the same, but each patient will react different to each of them. Everybody had the loss of a beloved person, depression, addictions, loneliness, chronic illnesses, and we may name more situations... Helping future professionals is still my goal, take this book as a support for your professional development. I know it may not change your perspective, and it is not my intention to do it. My only purpose is to be just a sand grain in this beautiful world full of Art.
Download or read book Art Therapy in Asia written by Debra L. Kalmanowitz and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As art therapy rapidly makes its mark across Asia, this book documents how the field of art therapy is taking shape as both a profession and a discipline in this region. It looks at how art therapists in Asia are assimilating Western models and adapting them to create unique home-grown practices. Building on theory, research and practice that has been developed in the West, practitioners throughout Asia are creating innovative art therapy programs that reflect cultural diversity and draw on ideas from Chinese medicine and Eastern philosophy, spirituality and art traditions. With chapters from leading art therapists and community artists in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Cambodia, Thailand, China, India, The Philippines and Singapore, this book pulls together thought-provoking perspectives and effective approaches from which East and West can both learn. The first of its kind, this book will be an informative and inspiring addition to the bookshelves of all art therapy professionals and students, as well as anyone with an interest in Eastern cultures and cross-cultural working.
Download or read book Expressive Arts Therapy written by Sally S. Atkins and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faculty from the Expressive Arts Collective at Appalachian State University reveal insights on expressive arts therapy for therapists and for students who are becoming therapists. Early chapters describe the historical context and theoretical grounding for this emerging field, and later chapters describe the cycles of the creative process, from beginning through finding voice, bringing art to life, and closure, offering examples of experiential exercises, personal stories, and poems related to that cycle. Color examples of art are included.
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 A Graphic Guide to Art Therapy written by Amy E. Huxtable and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the core concepts of art therapy? What can you learn from a drawing of a bird's nest, a collage or some scribbles? Why become an art therapist and how do you do it? What happens in the therapy room? In the style of a graphic novel, A Graphic Guide to Art Therapy answers these questions and more. Art therapy and its key concepts, theory and practice are introduced through illustrations and text. Beginning with an overview of art therapy as both a practice and a career, it shows the routes to becoming an art therapist and what the role entails. The essential approaches, frameworks, techniques and assessment styles of art therapy are visualised and discussed, making this book the perfect companion on your journey as an art therapist.
