Sacred & Subversive Stitch - Reclaiming The Wild Feminine

Sacred & Subversive Stitch -Reclaiming The Wild Feminine

Myth, Story, Dance, Stitch & Song

A day of embodied, creative and wild myth making including using ancient stitch in a modern, riotous and yet therapeutic format.

Join us at the iconic Goddess Hall for a day of rebellion, reclamation and restoration using women's ancient craft, archetypal stories and the natural world.

Experience how women's empowerment stories combined with therapeutic stitch can cultivate transformation and change within your practice.

You will learn a variety of common and complex stitches and mixed media approaches that can be used in your own therapeutic inquiry or to support others in therapeutic and artistic practice.

Delving into our own sacred and subversive stories with experimental song, movement, poetry and with creative, compassionate and embodied enquiry. Exploring how the archetypal reveals itself in us and leaning into aspects of this with inspiration from fairy-tale and folk lore.

"She wanted peace. So she forgot all she was taught and remembered herself." Jaiya John

For therapists, creatives, caregivers, teachers, nurses, feminists, students, artists, activists and those wanting to explore more fully with the archetypal feminine in creative and embodied practice.

Refreshments are provided.

_Most materials are provided - please bring an embroidery ring. _

CPD certificates will be available for professionals.

Environmental Arts Therapy is a practical eco psychology that uses the locations, themes, cycles and materials of nature as its therapeutic media.

“Practical, poetic, innovative and magical, it invites us to make environmental art and ritual a vital and healing part of our lives once again and teaches us how to take the personal issues that bind and oppress us out into nature where they can be met, confronted and transformed.” ~ from Environmental Arts Therapy and The Tree of Life by Ian Siddons Heginworth, author and lead EAT pioneer.

For further information please contact Michelle at artcures@hotmail.co.uk or 07904 898090

Photo credit : A WOMANS WORK IS NEVER DONE by Eliza Bennett (2012, Flesh, Thread).