Forest Reflections: Awakening to Life – Saturday Drawing Sessions
with Rena Czaplinska-Archer
“The journey of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons but in opening your eyes.”
To hear what trees want to teach us we need to spend time with them and while we do that, we can draw them. Drawing requires that we focus and pay attention, it calms down our busy minds. We become aware of our own bodies and senses, and the perceptions broaden. We become more awake.
Drawing and sketching allow us to get in touch with what we are looking at. It takes time to discover what we are seeing. Let’s revitalize our creativity and meet ourselves through drawing. Using simple somatic practices to awaken the senses and tune the body we will explore how this changes the way we see and becomes visible in our drawings.
The course will be run in three sessions:
Session 1: Saturday 14 August, 1:30 - 4 pm
Session 2: Saturday 21 August, 1:30 - 4 pm
Session 3: Saturday 28 August, 1:30 - 4 pm
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Rena Czaplinska-Archer PhD is a practicing Australian architect specializing in ecological and healthy building design, a lifelong educator, researcher and writer, visual and somatic practitioner, a former Sydney University Architecture Faculty Lecturer, student of Anna Halprin and a founder of Time for Drawing workshops which are offered in Australia and internationally. Her process helps the articipants to shift from their habitual ways of moving, seeing and thinking and releases their natural impulse to draw.