Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Thursday, January 04, 2024
Leaving life prints ...
ART - MINDFULNESS - COMMUNICATION
In a way or another we leave different kind of prints along our lifes.
Hands representations and prints have 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 outlining, drawing, decorating hands and feet; making 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!
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Labels: Art & Mindfulness , Art classes , Arte & Plena consciencia , Hands & Foot prints , Leaving life prints , Mindfulness , Plena Consciencia , printmaking
Saturday, January 28, 2023
2022 ... ART & MINDFULNESS HIGHLIGHTS !
2022 ... some highlights of our projects during our Art and Art & Mindfulness classes !
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Labels: Art classes , Mindfulness , Yoga & Mindfulness
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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.
Group and One to One Sessions Available
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Labels: Mindfulness , Plena Consciencia
Friday, June 24, 2022
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 !
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Labels: art , Art classes , Mindfulness
Monday, June 13, 2022
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 !!
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Labels: art , collagraph , colografía , grabado , printmaking
Monday, May 23, 2022
Collagraph Printmaking - Basic course 1 & 2
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Labels: art , collagraph , colografía , grabado , printmaking
Monday, May 02, 2022
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.
A (4.5yrs) represented her mum's belly while pregnant of her bigger sister !! That's pure love!
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Labels: art , Mindfulness