YAM--Yoga, Art, & Meditation with Laura & Mary Angel

Name: YAM--Yoga, Art, & Meditation with Laura & Mary Angel
Start: 2024-05-18T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-18T16:00:00-04:00
Location: BlissBlissBliss

Schedule

Sat May 18 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

BlissBlissBliss | Morgantown, WV

What is YAM? YAM stands for yoga, art, & meditation. Everyone is naturally creative, but we’re often so speeded up by daily demands, we can’t access our creativity. Art, however, can’t be rushed or forced. To get into our alpha or flow state, we must slow ourselves down somehow. Three big avenues of access are yoga, breathwork, and meditation. YOGA slows the overactive mind and speeds up the underactive body. It opens the energy channels, puts you in an alpha brainwave pattern to prepare you for meditation.
And on the subject of MEDITATION. . . If you believe that you CAN’T meditate, that you’re too speeded up to meditate, we have designed meditations that are guided or open-eye meditations. Our culture speeds us up and then makes us feel guilty for not being happy and contented. So there’s inherent frustration.
ART. In these workshops, we don't provide an art lesson; rather, we use art to get into or augment the alpha state. Therefore, we don’t focus on the final product but only on what is happening in our minds and bodies while we are going through the act of creating.
CREATIVITY: Convenience kills! Speed and convenience—both of these modern realities might have left us with more external “time,” but the quality of time they’ve robbed us of is enormous! We must learn to slow ourselves down. There’s no such thing as multi-tasking. You’re not doing everything well à la fois!
With these ideas in mind, Laura Layva and Mary Angel Blount have designed these workshops to show you how to access your creativity, and further, to make its access effortless. Mary Angel Blount, MFA, RYT, is a certified Sound Healer and Certified Grief Movement Guide with 8 years’ experience. Laura Layva, RYT, is a gifted artist, marketer, and yoga instructor.
Each session will be unique. Below is an outline of upcoming YAM sessions:
Date Chakra Meditation Art
2/24/24 2 Finger painting Painting birdhouses [This workshop will be held at 1:00-3:00pm--all others are 2:00-4:00pm]
3/23/24 4 Trateka Marbling paper
4/20/24 3 Sound bath Neurographica
5/18/24 6/7 Mandala Prayer writing

Cost: $45 per session.
No materials or prior art, yoga, or meditation experience necessary.
It's all there waiting for you! Come join in!