Therapeutic power of imagination, play, and the arts
Come experience the healing and transformative power of imagination, play, and the arts. Imagination is one of the most fundamental, essential human faculties. We make sense of our experiences, form a sense of self, connect with others, project our possibilities in the world, and create a desirable future with this innate imaginative capacity.
However, sometimes our imagination gets injured due to various challenges we face in our everyday life, and as a result we experience psychological difficulty. We may feel stuck, confused, helpless, powerless, or worthless. What is required in such situations is restoration of imagination, revitalization of our psyche, and re-imagining of self.
The arts, as disciplined play and media of imagination, foster the restoration of imagination. Expressive arts therapy fosters such restorative process by facilitating a playful, imaginative self-exploration process. It provides a sense of safety through the frame of play, a distance of fiction, and a means for expression in various forms--images, sound, movement, action, and words--to give fuller expression to our feelings and thoughts for maximum clarity of our understanding. WIth the creative power of imagination and the manifesting and transformative power of the arts, the exploration leads us to surprising self-discovery, self-empowerment, self-acceptance, healing, and self-transformation.
Nao Sasaki also uses Yoga technique to work with the body with awareness and sensitivity, gently releasing suppressed emotions and trauma, balancing the nervous systems, and restoring a sense of wellbeing to the whole system.
Nao offers individual Expressive Arts therapy and therapeutic yoga sessions in English and Japanese at her home studio in Vancouver. The studio is conveniently located near Commercial Drive, 5 minute walk from Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station. For workshops and classes, please click on the tab “workshops” above.
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