Light, Darkness, and Color
Light, darkness, and color exist in the atmosphere. This is most notable during sunrise and sunset. In the human being we relate the brightness of light with thinking, the movement of color with feeling, and darkness with the activity in our physical body.
When thinking, feeling and the activities in our physical body work creatively and in harmony with each other health is experienced. Prolonged disharmony results in discomfort, illness, and hindrances for healthy development. Specific therapeutic painting and charcoal exercises working with light, darkness, and color are designed to restore balance and harmony so healing can take place.
When thinking, feeling and the activities in our physical body work creatively and in harmony with each other health is experienced. Prolonged disharmony results in discomfort, illness, and hindrances for healthy development. Specific therapeutic painting and charcoal exercises working with light, darkness, and color are designed to restore balance and harmony so healing can take place.
A Therapeutic Painting Course
The first session(s) are used to work freely in self-expression. There is no right or wrong. Children paint with watercolor. Adults use charcoal and paint with watercolor.
These sessions show which specific therapeutic exercises would be appropriate to start with. Therapeutic painting sessions are then scheduled once or twice a week according to each individual's needs.
It is important to know that Collot Therapeutic Painting is not about creating art; it is about creating better health.
These sessions show which specific therapeutic exercises would be appropriate to start with. Therapeutic painting sessions are then scheduled once or twice a week according to each individual's needs.
It is important to know that Collot Therapeutic Painting is not about creating art; it is about creating better health.
History
Collot Therapeutic Painting was developed by Liane Collot d'Herbois who studied light, darkness, and color as an artist, and through many years of practice developed a therapeutic painting method. She found that light, color, and darkness exist in healthy human beings according to the same laws in which they exist in the atmosphere in the sky.
Liane Collot d'Herbois taught this unique approach (of working with light, darkness and color) in painting therapy to physicians and art therapists. She based her work on Rudolf Steiner's spiritual research.
Marielle Levin was introduced to the work of Liane Collot d'Herbois in 1995. She studied artistic painting with several artists for 4 years, before pursuing therapeutic painting in depth. Marielle is a graduate of the Collot d'Herbois Schooling in Light, Darkness, and Colour, in Wisconsin. She is certified as an Art Therapist by the Section of the Anthroposophic Medicine at the Goetheanum. Marielle is a former Registered Nurse, and is a Waldorf painting teacher.
Liane Collot d'Herbois taught this unique approach (of working with light, darkness and color) in painting therapy to physicians and art therapists. She based her work on Rudolf Steiner's spiritual research.
Marielle Levin was introduced to the work of Liane Collot d'Herbois in 1995. She studied artistic painting with several artists for 4 years, before pursuing therapeutic painting in depth. Marielle is a graduate of the Collot d'Herbois Schooling in Light, Darkness, and Colour, in Wisconsin. She is certified as an Art Therapist by the Section of the Anthroposophic Medicine at the Goetheanum. Marielle is a former Registered Nurse, and is a Waldorf painting teacher.
"Healing requires movement, inner movement for change and growth. One of the greatest gifts of our time for encouraging such movement is artistic therapy--Collot painting and charcoal work. If time and space allowed, I would recommend it for every single person I see."
- Adam Blanning M.D.
Therapeutic Exercises by Adults:
Therapeutic Exercises by Children:
