Welcome to my new blog.

Hello my name is Rinske Salverda, 
I am an art therapist, an artist and Reiki practitioner. In this blog I am going to show you how to work with art exercises and how they can be combined with the Reiki energy to enhance emotional healing and personal growth and I will be here to answer your questions and to share insights and exercises that you can do on your own.

The mediums I work with are watercolour, paints, black & white drawings and clay modelling. As well, I will be posting  ideas, inspirations and interesting links to events, as well as highlighting other healing practitioners and websites.

If you have told yourself that art is not for you and that you are anything but creative, I am here to tell you that each one of us is creative and unique. If you can hold a paintbrush or put a pencil on paper then this can be the beginning of your creative, healing,  journey.

It is important to remember that while your are engaged in the creative process  and journaling about the experience, to keep your eyes open for the artist that is hidden in you.

This is the job of an art therapist. Art therapy helps you to get in touch with your feelings, and with the heart. We can learn again to live from the heart!


Our first exercise.


Here is an exercise that is very effective to relieve stress and calm the nerves: with a soft pencil, draw waves on a fair size paper that you lay in horizontal position on a flat surface. Repeat the same movement from the left margin to the end of the paper. Try a steady movement going out to the rounding of the wave and then inward so that it becomes a breathing movement repeated till you have completely filled the paper.
As a matter of fact, any handwriting is actually good for the nerves. Try it and observe your experience.

Good luck, and let me know how it went.


Rinske.


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rinskesalverda@gmail.com