Movement – Dance – Drawing – Active Imagination – Creative Writing

September 7th - 9th

Elisabeth Guentert

“If you want to find your soul, you risk encountering yourself.”C.G.Jung

The inner child, the origin of our creative, divine Self, is sleeping in all of us most of the time. Once awake its impulses turn life into a blissful experience full of joy, love and trust.

How can we access this life affirming child within if buried so deeply in our unconsciousness?
Courage and trust enables us to face our inner shadow. Guided with active imagination, we will come upon hidden, yet painful wounds of our childhood. The wounded child within is calling upon us for validation and loving support. With drawing, dance and creative writing we are able to express its feelings. This process leads through transformation back towards our origin the divine, creative child.

"Healing Arts Therapy" is a spiritual path towards healing ourselves. We are working in the here and now, becoming engaged on all levels of the person (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) Active Imagination, Drawing and Creative Writing help us to build bridges between our conscious and unconscious Self. Expressing the unknown through Dance and Movement, we speak in our primary, archetypal language and go beyond culture, religion and social boundaries.

The physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of the body are interconnected. We live in and through our bodies. The body contains and reveals our entire life experience. Only through the inner body experience, we can come to know ourselves and the world, and changes can happen.

Cost:

$195 till July 31

after $225

(plus meals and lodging)
Take along: notebook, pen, oil pastels, personal photo of your early childhood, comfortable clothing for movement, drawing pad will be provided

Elisabeth Guentert Bay is a registered Expressive Arts Therapist BCATR, holding a MA in Psychology and Healing Arts. She graduated at Tamalpa Institute in California as a Halprin Life/Art Practitioner and Movement Ritual teacher. Over the last 20 years she worked with individuals and groups in her private practice, in psychiatry wards and clinics. She has given numerous workshops and seminars in nature as well as in indoor settings.

Her work  “Healing Arts Therapy” founded in 1991 is rooted in the fields of Psychotherapy (C.G. Jung, Dream Work, Gestalt Therapy, Psycho Synthesis), Expressive Arts Therapy (Life/Art Process, Breath Therapy, Feldenkrais, Sensory Awareness, Sound Therapy) and Alternative Medicine (Nutrition and Herbs, Tibetan Massage, Energy Work). She is also a Swiss registered Nurse.

“It is my intent to combine arts and healing, in other words to awaken each person’s  creative energy for her/his own healing.”

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