Art as Food for the Soul
Event description
Just as we eat for nourishment, healing, and joy, art feeds the soul the same way.
Join us for a session of art therapy through watercolour painting and sharing of life stories.
A feast for our souls.
- Time: Thursday, 12.00 - 13.00 IST (India Time UTC+5.5) on July 14th 2022 (check your local time here).
Preparation for the session
- Materials:
- 3 watercolor colors: red, blue, yellow / each color to be diluted in water in small bottles or any vessel / 2 bottles for brush cleansing / cloth for wiping brush / painting board or any surface where water will not seep through. Participants are free to have colored pencils or chalk pastel on hand.
- Paper: Ideally watercolour paper. Even A4/A3 in size. Otherwise any paper at least 120 gsm.
- Please call in from a quiet place where you can be comfortable
- It’s best to connect via a laptop/computer
This is a part of GENOA Monthly Healing Circle, which is held every full moon for collective practice to nurture inner transformation, global wellbeing and peace.
The circle is offered as a gift for anyone who feels called to attend. Please consider donating to support the facilitators and GENOA team.
About the facilitator
Rinna Soriano is a Waldorf Teacher. July 14 is a special day for her because it was the day 26 years ago when her father suffered a massive stroke leaving him “speechless” and paralyzed in his right extremities. When his granddaughter Francesca was at the Manila Waldorf School her teacher Mary Joan Fajardo suggested that he do some wet-on-wet watercolour painting which the children did in school. That started his journey into the healing arts. One of his earlier painting exhibits was called, “Blessed by Illness… It all started with one stroke!”
For the past 25 years, Rinna has found inspiration and meaning in the ideas shared by Rudolf Steiner on human beings and their practical applications in life. Having been trained previously in business and finance, as well as woodworking, and learning profoundly from her experience of caring for her father, witnessing his life from action to passion, she found joy and comfort is seeing the thread of the essence of being human offered by anthroposophy living in the various fields of work that she found interest in, seemingly unrelated before, but all relating wonderfully like a bouquet of flowers held in one’s hand, to be offered to a loved one. Or a watercolour painting, perhaps, with colours singing in harmony.