Calendar
image: Midwinter Tale #6 (c) Mary BurtonThe 5 Sessions
2) Concepts & Writing– Wednesday November 20, 7:30 –
9:30 PM
3) Artmaking - Family Constellations with Barry Krost - Saturday, Dec. 7, 1 - 5 PM OR Painting Yule with Colleen Koziara Sunday, Dec. 15, 2 - 5
PM
4) LFAE Performance Rozhanitsa Brings The Sun - Weds., Dec. 11, 7:30-9:30 PM
5) Closure - TBD
What it is a Healing Arts Intensive?
Life Force Arts Method (LFAM) - a modern version of universal wisdom teachings that value true self and creative community. It is based in 4 Skills that give us the wisdom to deal with the basic issues of human life.
Transformational Goal - Each participant focuses on a personal Transformational Goal (Intention) that they want to see fulfilled by the end of the Intensive
Artmaking - Creating and observing interdisciplinary arts - visual art, writing, dance, theater, music, storytelling - is the activity that enables each participant to actualize their Transformation Goal
The Format
~ Each Healing Arts Intensive has a Group of three to twelve participants guided by a Facilitator ~There are five sessions, usually meeting once per week for five weeks. The sessions are 3 hours each
~The sessions are:
1) Orientation
2) Artmaking
3) Concepts & Writing
4) Life Force Arts Ensemble performance
5) Closure
~Between the sessions, participants are guided in designing their own individual self-reflective and artistic practices as part of the process of accomplishing their Transformational Goal
Tuition Credit Policy for Healing Arts Intensives
FREE PARKING in Central Savings parking lot - click here for directions
- Personal
growth and healing: find new ways of personal empowerment and
expression for relating to your most inner world to the outer world
- Singers,
dancers & actors: find your full expressive range in voice and
movement; break through performance blocks; connect to spiritual energy
to empower your performance and shapeshift into characters
- Healers (energy workers, therapists): add sound healing to the tools you offer in your sessions; use sound healing and movement for self-care
- Energy Field & Chakras - directing the energy in and around the body; initiating voice & movement from the 7 energy centers of the body
- Dimensions - finding full range (height, width, depth) in voice & movement
- Dynamics – qualities of voice & movement like the elements: Water, Earth, Fire, Air & Space
- 4 Skills (Life Force Arts Method) - 4 Skills of working with energy from your most inner world to the most outer world; how you relate with voice & movement to self, society, nature and the spirit realm
Life Force Arts Center is open to the public during these hours:
Fridays, 1:30 - 6:30 PM and by appointment
Please stop in to enjoy our current art exhibit, The Waning Year, shop for art and jewelry, and learn more about our classes, events and other ways we share transformation through the arts.
Come for the inspiration of three spirits, playing both toghter and solo, whose band began last year for one bar gig down the street. Leave with new thoughts about your world. J-Lynn, with these two as backup, often draws in the crowd at Elbo Room for pop-punk anthems of strength, heartache, queerness and justice. Brad Herwy of string band The Devils Let Us absorbs the haunting tones of the forest and releases these through drumming, cello and mandolin. Kat Kidwell, booted from a major musicians’ society at 17, turned to create extradimensional psychedelic folk-punk band The Raging Clovers to spread stories of magic, self-discovery, sexual anarchy, and the secrets of dragons and wolves. Bring an art project to work on, if you’d like, and let the songs, angst and reflections wrap their roots around your soul.
Suggested admission: $15
LFAC has FREE PARKING in Central Savings bank parking lot - click here for directions
You must
complete the Voice & Movement Intro class series as a prerequisite for taking the Level 2 class.
Please contact Joan at joan@lifeforcearts.org to register for the Level 2 class. Click here for more information on Voice & Movement Intro class.
Painting The Wheel of the Year: Wheel Template 3 & 4 with Colleen Koziara
Sunday, November 17, 2:00 PM » 7:00 PM
NOTE: This is a double session, covering the material in sessions 3 and 4, so class will be 2 - 7 PM
The Wheel of the Year. Time, not linear but
circular. Round and round we go, and have always gone. Since the
beginning of time, humans, of every faith and culture, have found time
best tracked in circles. Humans have created stone circles aligned with
the seasons for at least 200,000 years. Everything in life falls
comfortably somewhere upon the spokes of the wheel of time. The times of
day, the seasons, the astrological calendar, the trees and symbols of
the Ogham, Alchemy, Festivals, ages of human life, the colors, musical
notes, emotions, tides. All of time, all of creation.
This is what we will explore in this year-long series of painting classes held once a month. Eight of our sessions will focus on the seasonal festival: Imbolc, Ostara, Beltaine, Summer Solstice, Lughnassadh, Mabon, Samhain and Yule. For these sessions, we will create acrylic on canvas paintings.
Four of our sessions will focus on the Wheel of the Year Template as a whole. In these sessions, each participant will use ink pens, markers, paint, and/or collage on acetate sheets to create a multi-layered depiction of a personalized Wheel meaningful to their own life path.
Our theme for November 17: Wheel Template 3 & 4
Session 3 & 4 of 4 on the Template of the Wheel. Here we will continue our creation
of a multilayered clear acetate diagram that symbolizes exactly what
layers and correspondences we personally feel are best included in our
personal representation of the passing of a year in our own life. We
will review and consider the wheels created from cultures and traditions
around the world and across all the ages of time, and then we will
design and create our own personal Wheel of the Year.
All
materials will be supplied and no previous experience is necessary.
The class will begin with a smudging and guided meditation, and continue
on with the painting session. Each session will include a central space
arrangement of items that speak to the season and the spoke upon the
wheel that is our focus for that session.
Additionally, each student will be provided with a computer file, and a link to a YouTube Playlist that features a wide variety of supportive documentation on The Wheel as it appears in its many varied forms and focuses: images of Circles, Mandalas and Wheels of the Year from a wide variety of cultures and locations as well as stories and legends from around the world to be used as reference material for their study.
Pre-registration is required due to material and supply orders that must be placed.
NOTE: This is a double session, covering the material in sessions 3 and 4, so class will be 2 - 7 PM
Sunday, November 17: Wheel Template 3 & 4
Painting The Wheel of the Year series: 12 Sundays
Remaining dates
- November 17 – Wheel Template 3 & 4
- December 15 – Yule
Each session is paid for separately. Each class is $55/$45 early registration by one week before class. Attend 5 sessions and your sixth class is free! Each session is a stand alone class and you need not attend them all. However, the full experience of all 12 Sessions is HIGHLY recommended.
LFAC has FREE PARKING in Central Savings bank parking lot.
Healing Arts Intensive "Rozhanitsa Brings The Sun" Concepts & Writing
Wednesday, November 20, 7:30 PM » 9:30 PMThis program started November 13. Please click here for information and registration
This is a 4 week class that began November 14. Please click here to register for the class