Leaving life prints ...

ART - MINDFULNESS - COMMUNICATION

In a way or another we leave different kind of prints along our lifes.

Printing has been one of the oldest ways of art expression, being the hands prints on rocks maybe the earliest samples of art, dating of around 200,000. Even if print making has evolved with time and has been present in all cultures and times, today we still enjoy the simple way to represent and reproduce images coming from our hands, our feet or other parts of our bodies.

Here, kids enjoy leaving hands and foot prints at same time we play, we laugh, we explore materials and techniques.  But also we focus our mind, we breath with awareness so our body can keep still, allowing us to make beautiful prints full of colour and joy.

A tricky Tree pose. Here is not only a mater of improving balance and toning the legs but about breathing with awareness son our body keep steady, our foot stay on place, we count to 10 and the print is done!

After a tiring day, have you tried to lie on your back, raise your legs and lean them against the wall? And if we add to that some circles with the feet, ah, what a rest ... This stimulates circulation, allowing the blood to go to main organs such as the heart and the brain, balancing the nervous system bringing stress relief … doing this before going to bed allow us a better quality of sleep.

We learn also that we can do every thing in its due time.  There is a time to work, a time to play, a time to pay attention and a time to be calm with ourselves, so important today in our busy lifestyle.  

Using hands and feet prints as a tool to improve a second language communication. 

Exploring with different techniques (ink, pastel, acrylic, watercolour) and supports ...

2022 ... ART & MINDFULNESS HIGHLIGHTS !

 2022 ... some highlights of our projects during our Art and Art & Mindfulness classes !

Mindfulness For Kids & Teens

 

Mindfulness sessions for kids and teens.

Aims to:

- Develop self awareness, self care.

- Promote wellbeing.

- Help to manage and reduce stress and anxiety.

- Create mindfulness practices to use throughout the school and homework time.

- Learn healthy habits.

- Improve communication.

- Deepen relationships with relatives and classmates.

The sessions can include:

Games.

Chanting.

Stretching and exercising.

Relaxation.

Art and Crafts.

Journaling.

Breathing exercises.

Focusing the mind.

Kids will get a good amount of tools like breathing exercises; relaxation or focusing the mind during the classes which, can easily be used at home.

Group and One to One Sessions Available

Love Is In The Air

 Love Is In The Air 

Alexander Calder was the pioneer of the “mobile”. His mobiles made possible to see art as an idea in constant movement. His balancing artworks made with industrial materials in the nature made spaces in great harmony.

I personally, as an artist that believes we live in constant movement even in times where we could think all is stuck, mobiles give me that feeling of pace, balance and harmony, that's why I love to create and recreate them with my students. 

The creation of mobiles is a kind of meditation, we focus our mind in creating the right balance, in doing knots that allow to hold our ideas and feelings and hanging just the necessary elements to create and harmonic movement with air, breath and time.

Here my lovely 6 – 8yrs worked hard and gracefully during 3 sessions to create these beautiful Mobiles … Love is in the Air !

FIRST BUNCH OF COLLAGRAPH PRINTMAKERS

 FIRST BUNCH OF COLLAGRAPH PRINTMAKERS 

A weekend of glue, ink, fabrics, textures ... and good vibes !

Our workshops this weekend were all
a success ... full of fun and full of BEAUTIFUL PRINTS !! 

Thanks everyone for joining ! You did great!

Collagraph Printmaking - Basic course 1 & 2

Collagraph Printmaking

Basic course 1 & 2

Art - Feelings – Mindfulness

            

Art - Feelings - Mindfulness

And the connections between Brain – Language - Body

Kids 4 - 8yrs

Art is a good tool for expressing feelings and a deep form of communication. It helps consciously or unconsciously to reach emotions such as frustration, anger, sadness and get them released. Art helps healing those emotions and help in preventing and healing stress, anxiety and depression.

We learn little by little to feel the body and mental needs when practicing mindfulness. In turn art is a strong tool for mindfulness. Both helps in boosting self-confidence.

We have being living difficult times during the last years due to Covid. Strict sanitary measures and the virus in itself have provoked lot of stress and distress in thousand of peoples in the world. Hong kong has experienced one of the strictest measures with schools, parks and sport facilities closed several times for months each time thus kids have been forced to stay for long periods indoors. Measures have been easing little by little recently and finally we can come back to classes. I though it would be a good idea to dedicate the first classes to talk and express feelings and emotions. Trying to create connections between brain-language-body to release tensions, stress at same time we reflect, we put words, colours and strokes on it.

                                                                                   

Kids often hide their feelings and emotions. It is easy to find kids thinking that some feelings are bad or abnormal so they prefer not to talk about and keep them well inside them.

During our the recent sessions the kids are asked to think about different feelings, those they like and those they dislike. We attribute them a main colour, a stroke, a shape to each of them to represent them in an expressive and abstract way. We liberate the world, we release tensions, gain self-confidence and stimulates our HAPPINESS hormones !

A (4.5yrs) represented her mum's belly while pregnant of her bigger sister !! That's pure love!

Keeping warm, clean and vitalised ...

More than asanas, Yoga is learn to enjoy little things in the present moment. A warm infusion after our deep and meditative yoga session during a cold morning is always appreciated by our senses.

Both ginger and curcuma are used in Ayurveda medicine and nutrition. The first one helps the intestinal transit and the second one protect the gut flora. Both helps to stabilize our three doshas. Warm drinks are also recommended also in Ayurveda to increase vitality and control toxins that cumulate in the body during winter.

Many asanas help to relieve gastrointestinal disorders and to energize the digestion. Ginger and curcuma are just two in a selection of ingredients I use in my infusions, full of taste and aromas to close my sessions … as a last touch for keeping a warm energy and cleaning the body.