Pressure From All Sides

This workshop focused on overcoming the obstacles to absorbing a new language, while adapting to a new stressful New York environment and dealing with the pressure of college deadlines. The (ESL) students reconnected to their inner resources and capabilities by revisiting the past events when those capabilities and resources were demonstrated and available. Their paintings reflect the events of personal success and a now serve as a tool - connecting themselves to a confident and creative state - that they can access when needed.

Changa Ceremony

I painted this with Svetlana Sky at her Art Healing Works session. We sat and got grounded, then meditated and let what spoke to us in our meditations spill out onto the canvas. I actually painted this image rotated 90 degrees clockwise and didn't know I had painted an image from a changa ceremony I had with Daoud Abeid, Rasu Jilani and our brother David Powers the week before.

I had a huge creative breakthrough in this class and I recommended it to anyone who is willing to explore and go beyond

Dahkil Hausif

Lost Love Story

I attended “Art Healing Works” with Svetlana Sky. The session was magnificent, in which Svetlana conveys her high talent and experience in the healing process.

The canvas she provided was a place where I could see Myself through "X" – and the pain I was carrying with the same. Pain, along with the image of the "X" whom I procure to efface, bears a resemblance with my past.

The "X"'s image comes into my mind whenever I am immersed in the moments of equanimity. Why burden ought to intrude my space in time devoted to peace, meditation and contemplation of beauty?

Perhaps, because, by losing someone, we are forced to recalibrate our lives and remember what is truly important to us. Perhaps the difficult lessons are also the ones through which we evolve spiritually. The pain does not define me; it is just a validation of my love. Perhaps, because I shall never suppress it, for I need to go through this process to bring about the fullness of the experience.

Thank you, Svetlana!

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