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2018-04-122018-04-12America/New_YorkThe Art of Wellness
‘Creative Expression in Art is a Royal Road to the Unconscious’ – Sigmund Freud
The creation of art is a healing practice. Like the human need for food, rest, and social engagement, the need for creative expression evolved with our physical bodies and the physiological systems, nervous and hormonal, that keep us healthy, or make us sick.
Dysfunction of these systems leads to problems with blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and chronic inflammatory disease, in addition to anxiety and depression.
Methods to improve the function of these systems can be powerful. One hour of certain kinds of writing can bring measurable improvements in inflammatory conditions like asthma and arthritis for many months. Creating visual art produces measurable decreases in stress hormone, a trigger that causes fatigue, depression, diabetes, and clouded thinking.
This class will involve practicing art while using biofeedback monitors to form an understanding of the physiological processes connecting art with our physical and emotional health. We will explore painting, clay sculpture, dance and expressive writing.
You do not need to be an artist to participate
Facilitated by Dr. Mike Weddle, who previously taught ‘Writing into Wellness’
Sponsored by Allegany College of Maryland (ACM) and the Allegany Arts council
Sessions, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Thursday evenings, March 15 – April 19, 2018
Location: Allegany Arts Council, 9 N Centre Street, Cumberland
To register: call ACM Continuing Ed at 301-784-5341, Course# CHE811
Registration and materials fee $35
9 N. Centre St.,Cumberland,MD,21502,United StatesAllegany Arts Councilart@alleganyarts.org
‘Creative Expression in Art is a Royal Road to the Unconscious’ – Sigmund Freud
The creation of art is a healing practice. Like the human need for food, rest, and social engagement, the need for creative expression evolved with our physical bodies and the physiological systems, nervous and hormonal, that keep us healthy, or make us sick.
Dysfunction of these systems leads to problems with blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and chronic inflammatory disease, in addition to anxiety and depression.
Methods to improve the function of these systems can be powerful. One hour of certain kinds of writing can bring measurable improvements in inflammatory conditions like asthma and arthritis for many months. Creating visual art produces measurable decreases in stress hormone, a trigger that causes fatigue, depression, diabetes, and clouded thinking.
This class will involve practicing art while using biofeedback monitors to form an understanding of the physiological processes connecting art with our physical and emotional health. We will explore painting, clay sculpture, dance and expressive writing.
You do not need to be an artist to participate
Facilitated by Dr. Mike Weddle, who previously taught ‘Writing into Wellness’
Sponsored by Allegany College of Maryland (ACM) and the Allegany Arts council
Sessions, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Thursday evenings, March 15 – April 19, 2018
Location: Allegany Arts Council, 9 N Centre Street, Cumberland
To register: call ACM Continuing Ed at 301-784-5341, Course# CHE811
