Making and Moving: Tools for Sustaining Your Art Practice

This workshop uses embodied activities to nurture and develop creative practices across all art forms. Aleta will guide students through a series of collective and individual activities to support their creative process: gentle movement, guided visualizations, walking meditations, listening exercises, and a host of other practices that art makers can incorporate into their routine to sustain their craft and physical stamina. Using arts-based research methods and somatic explorations, Aleta will help each student develop a mindmap and a toolkit to support their embodied connection to their art-making. This class is open to any creatives interested in building healthy routines around their artistic practice and developing their ideas through embodied awareness. No prior experience in dance or movement is required. Students are encouraged to take this course at any stage in the creative process.

Materials:

• Students should bring a yoga mat for floor exercises. A bath towel also works fine if a yoga mat isn't accessible.
• Students should also bring a notebook, journal, or device to write/draw in.

By the end of this workshop you will be able to:

• Targeted embodied tools to support students’ artistic routines
• Mind map for one creative idea or work
• Building a community of creative accountability