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INTUITIVE ART – ACRYLIC PAINTING AND ESSENTIAL OILS

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Intuitive Art
Instructor: Sharon Elkins, selkins@pausd.org
Duration: 9 wks
Date range: March 21 to May 23
(No class: April 4.)
Date(s) of the week: Monday
Hour: 7–9:30 p.m.
Quarter: Spring 2022
Prerequisite: None
Address: Palo Alto HS Rm 106
Price: $208

Access emotions by using a unique combination of painting and aromatic tools. This class is led by an art therapist but is NOT therapy. In this course you’ll learn about how essential oils can help you connect with your inner self. Please bring journal/notebook, brushes and acrylic paints to the first class. You will be educated about appropriate essential oils and the instructor will provide an opportunity to purchase specific essential oil supplies in class.

Connect with your emotions on a deeper level using a combination of painting and aromatic tools. In this course you’ll learn about how essential oils can help you connect with your inner self. IntuARTiv—Intuitive essential oil painting is, at its most basic, painting without an end in mind. Learn to use tools to help you reconnect to your intuition and drop from your head into your heart.

Using a powerful layered painting technique, Sharon Elkins, a credentialed art therapist (ATR) teaches you to let go of perfection and fear with a unique combination of intuitive painting and dōTERRA® essential oils. Using this method, you’ll soon experience whatever is painted will be painted over and unseen—helping you to access and work through emotions. This is where the magic happens. Led by an art therapist but NOT therapy, this class allows you to peek into your soul in a fun and artistic way. Come enjoy the journey of painting.

BENEFITS INCLUDE:

  • Strengthen your intuition
  • Release creative blocks
  • Understand and feel the power of essential oils
  • Learn to let go (of the past, of perfectionism, of problems, of needing to be in control)
  • Emotional release
  • Clarify where you are at and where you have been
  • Increase creativity
  • Connect to your soul
  • Make visible that which isn’t seen
  • Increase visual and manual skills
  • Shift left brain to right brain for a more global, intuitive approach

REQUIRED MATERIALS
Participants are required to bring the following materials to the first class.

  • Journal/Notebook
  • Brushes
  • Acrylic Paints

The instructor will bring the aromatherapy tools for the first few classes with information on what and how to purchase additional aromatic supplies.

Please note there is a lab fee. Instructor will send an email with materials needed.