“As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression, we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.” Anna Halprin
Movement-based expressive art is a creative approach to understanding and exploring self, story and potential through the expressive arts. By tracking inwardly on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels of awareness, we gain material for our written, moving, and visual expression.
Our life experiences and internal states are translated into forms of expression such as movement, visual art and writing. These expressions—whether they are colors, symbols, words, or textures—serve as a way to make our internal world visible, tangible and relatable.
By creating and reflecting on these expressions, we gain new perspectives on ourselves and our experiences. This process helps to integrate our insights and emotions, fostering a sense of wholeness and living artfully with the wound.
Each session starts with a check-in, where we explore what’s currently happening in your life, what you’re aware of and any issues or concerns you’d like to explore further. We then use creative exploration to engage with this material.
During the session, we might draw to visually represent your thoughts or feelings, write a story or poem about the situation, and move in response to the drawings or story. This creative process helps externalize your situation, creating space for poignant insight and integration.
After engaging in drawing, movement, and writing, we conclude with a ‘check-out’ period where we discuss at-home practices to continue integrating and working with the insights gained.
Sessions happen via telehealth and are 55 minutes. Prices are on a sliding scale from $80-130 per session. Longer sessions can be requested.
Each session begins with a check-in – what is happening, what are you aware of, what is troubling you that you’d like to know more about? Then, we relate to this material through other ways of knowing. We draw the situation, we write a story or poem about it, and we dance the drawings or the story. We bring what is on the page into expression and track what insights arise. We give space to discover. After drawing, movement, and writing, there is a ‘check out’ period where at-home practices are suggested to continue the work.
Sessions happen via telehealth and are 55 minutes. Prices are on a sliding scale from $75-130 per session. Longer sessions can be requested.
“Working with Julie is working with soul. She brings a rare level of depth and listening to her work. Julie’s commitment to community development through the written word, movement, and image, as well as her work with dreams, offers a crystalline perspective. This perspective includes an edge of continued learning and commitment to the earth and all bodies. I am lucky to know and learn with her, and you would be too.”