Art Therapy Art Therapy
with Barbara Gagliardi
Art Therapy: a Creative Channel to Your Inner Wisdom
Art therapy is a transformative process of expressing and/or releasing unresolved emotions using the creation of art as therapy. This is a unique method for healing that utilizes your own expression and creativity.
I utilize my training in the Entura Spiritual Art Program to help you learn to use art to creatively express what you’re feeling and reach into your intuitive higher self, the self where your natural, sacred, essence resides.
The benefits of art therapy will bring you to deeper parts of yourself, creating healing and resolve by intuiting deeper levels within.
Entura art is truly unique and unlike any other art form. During a healing session we may use it by itself, or apply it along with my other healing services as a synergistic and complementary method of healing.
Art therapy is also a fun way to read someone else’s energy or a concept you’re interested in, such as joy, love, harmony, or to investigate a specific situation.
Art Therapy can help you
- Open up your creative abilities
- Discover an empowering means of expression
- Uncover and heal inner wounds
- Find a clearer, brighter sense of self
Creatively Uncover Inner Strength and Intuitive Knowing
The art therapy process involves exploring your inner tapestry through meditation. Then, expressing that visually by creating it on drawing paper.
As you create with art therapy, you’re tapping into unconscious memories and gaining insight through the application of the art form. The messages that come through your unconscious manifest to the physical art form where you can see it. This helps you release a wide range of emotional traumas and experiences in your life.
We live in a world of uncertainty and challenges. In response to those challenges, our natural tendency is to look outside of ourselves for the answers, rather than inward.
Grief or loss, unresolved issues, life challenges, how we see ourselves: all of this can be fuel for the creative act of your art therapy process.
The insights gained through the art form will create new self-understanding, which heals you and encourages positive growth.
I Specialize in Entura Art
The program has profoundly influenced the intuitive and energy art forms that I implement in my practice.
Entura (‘entering the aura’) art is a channeled spiritual art, a method of intuitively entering your own or another person’s energy field – a subject – a spiritual concept such as love, harmony, or wisdom – a past or present time period – or a place or thing.
This is a creative and intuitive art process that brings out and encourages your creative abilities. It’s an art of expression – one which will open and heighten your intuitive self.
The process allows a channeled image created through an assisted movement of color and flow through the hands of the artist onto canvas.
As you develop more flow, and with consistent practice, you will bring intuitive insight and understanding related to the specific subject. You will tap into your spiritual guides and gain spiritual wisdom as your channeled art takes on more form.
Entura Art is an artistic form of alchemy that transmits both psychological and spiritual precision by way of symbols and colors that flow onto the canvas.
Through the Entura art process you can receive helpful guidance, emotional and spiritual healing, and ultimately gain new levels of awareness.
As a trained Entura art instructor I will teach you how to channel information and guidance that will help you better understand your personal circumstances, as well as guide you to clear any blocks or negative emotions.
Expressing yourself through Entura Art with proper guidance is invaluable for your self growth and healing. It is a process that opens you to the unseen worlds, creating a trust in connecting with spirit.
How my Art Therapy works with a personal healing session
We’ll start with a guided imagery process – along with a breathing technique – to relax you, bring you into a quieter space, and allow guidance to come through from what you’re feeling from the session.
A personal one-on-one drawing session after a Lotus healing session will help move any necessary energy that needs to be released.
Within this process I’ll guide you through breathing techniques, then guide you how to use colored chalks on canvas.
The drawing will reveal one of 2 things:
- If energy comes up from the session beforehand, it is released. That way that if there is any stuck energy you won’t bring it home with you. And the healing process resumes.
- Or, it will give you clarity and validation of what you felt or experienced in your healing process beforehand.
I use this chalk on canvas approach as a healing tool with individual chakras as well. Each chakra has stored emotions, both pleasant and not so pleasant.
I use guided meditation as a means of healing a particular chakra that needs attention. After the meditation, I’ll help guide you to draw the emotion you’re feeling from the energy center that the meditation evoked. This will release the emotion.
We’ll follow with a clearing meditation – and then another drawing. Every Chakra we work on starts with a release drawing, followed by a clearing drawing. This is a process of releasing and healing, ending with an overall clearing meditation.
I also hold Entura Art workshops where I teach the techniques to interested students in a group.
Recommended Sessions for Art Therapy Results
A single art therapy session is $75 a session and takes somewhere around 1 hour.
If the art therapy session is an addon to another healing service in order to clear energy, the art therapy session usually takes an additional ½ hour for $20.
If you have a specific situation to heal, we can start with a personal weekend or 2-3 day art therapy workshop.
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Frequently Asked About Art Therapy
What can a series of Art Therapy sessions help me with?
I use different art modalities depending on the specific art form: art through the Chakras, Entura Art, or Entura art.
They all help you with releasing unhealthy emotions that are held within that hold you back from moving forward. All of these forms of art can give you great insight and understanding about yourself.
They encourage healing within and help you develop your creative expression and trust in the sacred part of yourself.
When we work through a series of Art Therapy sessions over time, I can help you:
- Gain clarity and feel a greater sense of peace
- Heal emotional and spiritual wounds
- Acknowledge talents you didn’t know you had or that are lying dormant
- Encourage positivity
- Uncover and resolve doubts and fears
- Renew or awaken your inner strengths
- Connect you to your highest state of awareness
Can I do Entura Art even though I am not an Artist?
Yes. It’s actually easier to teach someone who has no skills.
It is more difficult to teach someone who has a learned a way of art simply because art therapy is about trust, not skill.
How do I trust the Art Therapy process?
With learned breath work and guided visualization techniques you will understand how to trust.
Art therapy methods are feeling and intuitive art forms. You will learn how to trust your own energy that flows through your hands.
Everyone does well even in the first class or session. If trust is an issue, we will get to the source of it through drawing.
What is 'spiritual art'?'
Spiritual art combines the inspiration of creativity along with tapping into your intuitive abilities using an artistic tool.
An example of this is shamanic journeying, which brings you into an altered state called a trance state. Then you express the experience on canvas, allowing and trusting your higher inner guidance.
Can anyone do channeled art?
Anyone who is sincerely interested in their personal or spiritual growth, or exploring and developing their intuitive and psychic abilities can do Entura Art.
It’s not necessary to have developed artistic abilities. It’s actually better if you don’t.
Through the channeled art process you’ll be connecting with your intuitive self through trust and channeled guidance. It’s a fun and intriguing process filled with many opportunities to explore beyond your visible world.
What is a Energy Art?
Energy Art is another form of channeled art, one that is generally used by practitioners to gain insight about their clients.
With energy art, a trained specialist can explore your energy field using intuitive psychic abilities. Using breathing techniques and intuitive guidance they can see what’s happening with you emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually.
Energy art is a great tool to develop intuition and psychic abilities, as well as to understand both positive and negative energies that are helping or hindering your overall health and well being .
As a trained Entura art instructor I will teach you how to channel information and guidance that will help you better understand your personal circumstances, as well guide you through any emotional or spiritual blocks, or difficulties in your life that need clarity.
What is the history of art therapy?
Art Therapy has its roots in many traditions and cultures. Sandpainting amongst the North American Navajo, included shamanistic rituals dancing ceremonies for expression and healing.
Tibetan’s used sand painting for Mandalas that are used for prayer and intention for healing as well.
Music was combined with art form as well. Christians and Buddhists believed in music and meditation for art and healing.
Masks date back to our African and South American cultures identifying the wearer with certain spirits and animals for protection as well as power. Working with mask art now is indicative to uncovering the old and reinventing the new.
Our modern day shamans use trance states to produce art. Many well known Artists, musicians, dancers have used art forms as their medium to transmute their ailments as well as a form of therapy as they became absorbed in the process of their creations, forgetting their pain.