SPIRITUAL ARTS CLASS/WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Chakra Healing Art - Certificate Series
Chakra specific healing art courses.
Spiritual Arts
A variety of workshops designed to allow you to tap into your
inner being through creativity.
Chakra Healing Art - Certificate Series
Certificate awarded upon completion of all courses in this section.
Practicing specific yoga poses can help unblock or strengthen individual chakra centers in
the body. So, too, can participating in specific art-making activities. Art-making can also be
an avenue for expressing chakra energy at a particular moment in time, leading to profound
physical, emotional and spiritual insights. No art experience is required for class participation.
The way you work with each medium and the experience you have with it are more
important than the finished product. This progressive series offers students another tool for
helping to heal the body's energy centers.
CCA
161 Chakra Art Level I - Root Chakra Art
CCA 162 Chakra Art Level II - Sacral Chakra Art
CCA 261 Chakra Art Level III - Solar Plexus Chakra
Art
CCA 361 Chakra Art Level IV - Heart Chakra Art
CCA 362 Chakra Art Level V - Throat Chakra Art
CCA
461 Chakra Art Level VI - Third Eye Chakra Art
CCA 462 Chakra Art Level VII - Crown Chakra Art
CCA 161 Chakra Art Level I - Root Chakra Art
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.5 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 (plus $10.00 material fee)
(2.5) Art of Healing Credit Hours
Root Chakra Art: Hand and Foot Painting
You will enjoy participating in hand and foot painting during this workshop and will also
experience visual journaling (using image-making to express how you feel and writing to
interpret those feelings), body-centered awareness exercises, tonal healing and more.
Central themes of the root chakra include sense of trust and security and groundedness. An
imbalance in this chakra can often be traced back to earliest childhood. Using the hands, feet
and other body parts as painting instruments can be a liberating experience, allowing you to
reconnect with your inner-child and authentic creative-self.
Energy healers, art therapists and those in counseling professions may find this workshop of
special interest. This class is an expression of your spirit. No talent in or experience with art
is necessary.
CCA 162 Chakra Art Level II - Sacral Chakra Art
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.5 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 (plus $10.00 material fee)
(2.5) Art of Healing Credit Hours
Sacral Chakra Art: Clay Play
The sacral chakra is the center of human sexuality and feminine energy.
There is no better
artistic medium for total body involvement than clay. Clay can be
shaped and reshaped until
you have outwardly embodied what you feel inside. You can dump anger
into clay, but also
create enclosures and protective fortresses. Tenderness, sensuality
and erotic feelings also
lend themselves to full expression in this medium.
CCA 261 Chakra Art Level III - Solar Plexus Chakra Art
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
4.0 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: CCA 161
Fee: $55.00 (plus $15.00 material fee)
(4.0) Art of Healing Credit Hours
Solar PlexusChakra Art:
Mask-making
Central themes of the navel chakra include self-confidence and personality.
Mask-making and
wearing can unlock inhibitions thereby allowing varying and unexpected
sides of yourself to
emerge, opening the door to greater self-confidence, self-awareness
and self-understanding.
CCA 361 Chakra Art Level IV - Heart Chakra Art
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.5 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 (plus $10.00 material fee)
(2.5) Art of Healing Credit Hours
Heart Chakra Art: Gestural Painting
The heart chakra
forms the center of our humanity and feelings for others. Gestural
painting
combines the versatility of scribbling or doodling with the freedom
of whole body movement.
By encouraging you to work with paint on a large-scale in an uninhibited
way, gestural paint-
ing helps to open up the heart center on a physical, emotional and
spiritual level.
CCA 362 Chakra Art Level V - Throat Chakra Art
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.5 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 (plus $10.00 material fee)
(2.5) Art of Healing Credit Hours
Throat Chakra Art: Connecting Words and Images
The conscious use of language, the desire to speak the truth in all
things, and the ability to
express yourself are all dependent upon the energy that arises from
the throat chakra. The
nine family of feelings and your relationship to verbal and written
language will be explored
through a variety of exercises using mediums of your choice, including
crayons, chalk and oil
pastels, paints, colored pencils, color markers and fabric.
CCA 461 Chakra Art Level VI - Third Eye & Crown Chakra Art
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.5 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 (plus $10.00 material fee)
(2.5) Art of Healing Credit Hours
Forehead/Third Eye Chakra Art: Mandalas
The forehead chakra is the spiritual center of awareness and intuition. The making of a per-
sonal mandala can act as active reflection for the purpose of personal growth and spiritual
enrich-ment. Using the medium of your choice, you will create a mandala that explores the
interconnectedness of the world that extends both beyond and within your body.
CCA
462 Chakra Art Level VII - Crown Chakra
Art
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.5 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 (plus $10.00 material fee)
(2.5) Art of Healing Credit Hours
Crown
Chakra Art: Touch Drawing
Spirituality, self-realization and enlightenment
are the central themes of the crown chakra.
Touch drawing is a simple yet profound process where fingers take the
place of pen or brush.
Paper is placed over a freshly inked surface and wherever it is touched,
an imprint is made
on the back side. The process of touch drawing is meditative, translating
impulses into form
and image as organic extensions of the soul.
Spiritual Arts
SAC 291-A Making a Gratitude Box
SAC 291-B Creating a Spirit Rug
SAC 291-C Creating Mandalas for Insight, Healing and Self-Expression
SAC 291-D Soul Portrait Collage
SAC 291-E Exploring the Continual Experience of Opposites Through Mandorlas
SAC 291-A Making a Gratitude Box
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.5 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $50.00
The attitude of gratitude can bring amazing things into our lives - most of us knew this even
before Oprah Winfrey let everyone in on "The Secret"! But how do we practice gratitude
when life's challenges keep intruding on our good intentions? One way is to make and use a
gratitude box. This workshop is an opportunity to create a place and time to show thanks on a
daily basis. Boxes and all decorative materials are included in your fee. However, feel free to
bring items that hold personal meaning to use in the making of your box. Ways to use your
box and additional box ideas will be discussed.
SAC 291-B Spirit Rug Weaving
Facilitator: Dr. Vickie Yorke
4.0 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 Class Fee; $20.00 Loom (yours to keep)
During
this workshop, you will learn to use a loom to create a “Spirit
Rug” that brings to life
a part of your inner being. You will be using yarn and various offerings
from nature including
branches, feathers, rocks and crystals. You can also bring along personal
memorabilia of your
choosing to incorporate into your creation. Class size is limited.
SAC 291-C Creating Mandalas for Insight, Healing and Self-Expression
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.0 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 plus $7.00 for materials
Mandala
is a Sanskrit word that means "whole world" or "sacred
circle". It is often referred
to as the Circle of Life. A mandala is far more than a simple shape: it
represents wholeness,
and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself,
from the micro to
the macro in the world as we know it. The making of a personal mandala can act
as active
meditation for the purpose of personal growth and spiritual enrichment. When we create
a
mandala we make a personal symbol that reveals who we are at a particular moment in
time. This workshop is an opportunity to create a personal mandala and explore the inter-
connectedness of the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds.
SAC 291-D Soul Portrait Collage
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.5 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00
Our Soul talks to us through the images we create and are attracted to, providing us with
guidance and self-knowledge. In this workshop participants will create a Soul Portrait Collage
using a variety of mediums including magazine images, fabric, color implements, beads, yarn
and more. Through the process of art-making itself, as well as through breath-work, meditation
and writing, the unconscious meaning of your images will be explored, opening pathways to
life energy, personality insights and inner and outer transformation.
SAC 291-E Exploring the Continual Experience of Opposites Through Mandorlas
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lewis
2.0 Hour Session
Registration: Required
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $40.00 plus $7.00 for materials
A mandorla is an almond-shaped segment made when two mandalas - or circles - overlap. A
mandorla represents the opposites experienced when we are torn by competing demands of
the rational and intuitive mind or between what we think and feel, or any other expression of
inner conflict. Mandorlas remind us that life is a continual experience of opposites - masculine
and feminine, yin and yang, heaven and earth, light and darkness, giving and receiving.
When we encounter opposites in apparent conflict, mandorlas reveal to us how to reconcile
the opposites so that we are able to hold - to live in comfort - with both. This workshop is an
opportunity to explore a means of letting go of inner and outer conflict and embrace the
dicotomy of life.