Art as Therapy is another creative arts therapy utilized in the Imagination model. Participants may be painting, drawing, creating a fear sculpture or quietly completing a breathwork through a mandala piece. Participants are painting or doing art for the process vs. the product, which allows access to yet another doorway into an experience with the true self, once again releasing and energizing the soul. Doing art and painting is a way to attune to the inner Self, the inner voice – the hidden and mysterious aspects of the psyche.
The Imagination painting processes and experiences allow participants to journey to the innate creativity inside. When the body/mind expresses, one becomes free, takes risks, and uses color for vibratory healing. Every color has a vibration and is rich with meaning, corresponding to different vibratory frequencies in the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual body. The soul speaks through the hands and the paintbrushes engaging and revealing the psyche. Paintings become symbols and metaphors for the healing and transformation process. Every part of every work of art is purposeful and part of the process.
The Imagination process utilizes Movement and Dance in an effort to free the body, heal past wounds protected by body armor, and open to the passion of the soul in the creation of a new future. We dance ecstatically, move, march, play, do the copycat dance, slip and slide, mill around, become animals or engage the angry walking process. Some use dance to chasm jump (stretch their limits) or for final transformational theater presentations as an initiation rite. Movement and dance is an expression of one’s life story. The body will tell a story through movement. One can heal past wounds when one lives and moves the body. Dancing is a creative arts therapy for emotional expression, releasing and transforming old memory, a letting go process; a process for becoming authentic and true to Self.
Writing and Poetry is a therapeutic component of the Imagination model. This encompasses journaling, prose, poetry, song writing, monologue and more. There are writing assignments every day of the process contained within the workbooks including a place to write intention, affirmation, and feelings. Writing gives the client a way to express feelings, commit to words, open awareness and express. Writing is a form of therapy and art as the writer is able to release feelings, heal wounds, process grief, commit to new ways of being, set healthy goals, and externalize experiences.
Everyone has a story to tell, a poem to write, a song to sing, a body to move! Our inner sounds, colors and movements are part of our unique being. Our healing becomes art as we capture our own soul and true essence in the process.
Music and Sound Healing is another creative arts therapy utilized in The Imagination Process. There is a healing power in music and the human voice, which have been used throughout history as natural therapies for healing. Sound and music therapies, include: healing mantras, sacred words, chants, incantations and Shamanic Breathwork™. Historically such use of sound has been used to cure many physical ailments using sacred words for healing. Knowledge of breath, sounds, rhythms, and chants are important healing techniques for the creative arts therapist. Music is known to be a powerful, evocative tool for emotional response. Music and sound goes deeply into the memory and imagination.
