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Discover your own artistic path in a lively and playful way

Waldorf Pedagogy | District 7| art therapy

Art therapy

 

Art therapy is an umbrella term which includes all forms of therapy that work with creative means: drawing and painting therapy, music therapy, dance and movement therapy, speech and drama therapy, theatre therapy and more.

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In art therapy, patients actively participate in the activities. Trained art therapists orient them in their personal and creative development processes in a non-judgmental and sensitive manner.

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Art therapists understand the human being as holistic and capable of development. They take into account the social, societal and family environment of their client. They build up a sustainable relationship with their clients and make agreements with them about therapeutic goals. Accordingly, therapist and patient choose and apply artistic and therapeutic means. I offer art therapy lessons and courses, and work with painting, drawing, sculpting, textile art and collage.


Methods I use and their effects:
 

Plastic-therapeutic design brings imagination, experience and action into a lively interplay. When applied in a targeted manner, it has a strengthening and regulating effect on the vital forces and ego forces. In particular, the clay is shaped by the hands. Objects are created by touching, attaching, removing, pushing and pressing as well as using simple tools.

 

In the process, spaces, surfaces and rhythms are created, which, in interaction, lead to a living form. The work with spaces and surfaces as well as with the weight of materials is always an examination of oneself. When working with clay, the patients themselves get involved in the healing process. This therapy method is suitable for mental abnormalities such as hyperactivity, depression, fears, concentration problems and problems from the autistic spectrum disorder. For each individual disease situation, therapists develop special exercises and sets of exercises.

 

Drawing and painting therapy promotes the experience and creation of color qualities and their relationships with each other. Awareness-building and psychological processes are stimulated by various painting methods and color combinations. Colors speak directly to us with their qualities of warmth and cold, light and darkness, transparency and density, closeness and distance. In therapeutic painting, brushes, liquid paints, chalk, charcoal and pencils are used for painting and drawing.

 

Painting on the surface expands psychic experience, lines help to resonate and delimit, shapes create order and balance. Perception is trained, fantasy is stimulated by the creation of inner and outer motifs. Both strengthen the sensation and feeling, with effect on all rhythmic functions. Painting exercises warm up and relax the organism and deepen the qualities of the soul. 

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Thereby they stimulate releasing, structuring or stabilising processes. One-sided psyche behaviour patterns or pathological processes, whether in an acute or chronic state, are purposefully counteracted. Through targeted exercises, stiff tendencies are resolved, excess strength is structured, excitement is calmed, stagnation is stimulated and self-confidence is developed. The non-verbal, pictorial examination of biographical themes supports the process of finding oneself.

 

Creative textile art and collages: from fragments new units are created. “Dry" materials such as papers, fabrics and yarns with different structures, textures, colors and qualities are used (any other necessary materials are available). Knowledge about biographical connections is acquired, which helps to feel (again) and find the "golden thread" and thus to experience one's own experience in a new light and from a new perspective.


Therapy forms:

  • Private lessons

  • Small Groups 

Kunsttherapie

Meditation

 

In meditation course participants train their perception of body, thoughts, emotions or stress patterns. In addition, there are stretching and mindfulness exercises. We reach a state of perception that has to do with meditation, which goes back to Buddhism and is based on going through the world with open eyes.

 

Anyone at any age can practice the meditative state.

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All people suffer to a greater or lesser degree - mothers who yell at their children, people lose their inner balance, suffer from bullying at work. Others can learn to deal with their chronic problems, many have a deep longing to come to themselves.

Suffering is a universal phenomenon that requires a universal, non-sectarian solution. When someone is angry, that anger is not Buddhist, Hindu or Christian. Anger is anger. When one is moved by uncontrolled emotions, this agitation is not Christian, Jewish or Muslim.

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Meditation can be done detached from any religious spirituality.

Meditacao

HATHA YOGA: generating and taking care of health

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Hatha consists of the words HA and THA. HA means sun and THA means moon. Sun and moon stand for the polarities and dualities (= opposites) that one wants to overcome in Hatha-Yoga in order to reach the inner centre. So the opposites are to be brought together into the so-called "oneness".

 

The word Yoga originates from the old Indian language Sanskrit and means "taking the reins in hand",  that is, to seek to connect the restless, confused and jumping from place to place part of our mind with the perception of breath, movement and the newly forming energy. HATHA YOGA: generating and taking care of health.

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Marge Oppliger

Art therapist, special needs teacher, Waldorf teacher, yoga and breathing therapist, Zen-buddhist nun.

I love to accompany people to their true self and to help them discover their resources and learn to use them.

 

There is an enormous potential of abilities and healing powers slumbering in the subconscious of the human being. When one is going through great suffering this potential is no longer consciously perceptible, although it is still present. I offer suggestions on how life itself can become an artistic exploration.

 

Through attention and active exercises, you will be able to perceive your own abilities, wishes and goals, and then implement them in the outside world. To support people in finding their own way is my highest goal.

 

The spiritual dimension is an ethical framework that permeates the personal and professional aspects of my life. To practice an art means to personally experience the act of creation as an exercise of totality. It is a means of awakening to our intimate reality and getting in touch with the beauty and mystery of life. Art performs a therapeutic function as long as it is consciously developed and applied.

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Rudolf Steiner School Zurich

Plattenstrasse, house 33, 1st floor 8032 Zurich

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