A life affirming way to move imaginatively towards an embodied sense of wellbeing, connection and purpose
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Noriko Oka, MA, RCC Expressive Arts Therapist Registered Clinical Counsellor
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EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
Rooted in a somatic, sensory and play-based approach, expressive arts therapy fully engages the right brain. Shape your world using sound, movement, visual art, drama and writing with the freshness of a beginner's mind. Discover where movement naturally trickles and tickles with a sense of ease and spaciousness (laughter is a potential side effect). Follow the flow of this fine thread and make sense through this co-creative, experiential and process-oriented healing arts that can sometimes cut to the heart of the matter. Land in your essence and undergo a transformational journey back home. No background in art is necessary...just a sense of curiosity.
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For the past two decades, Noriko has been fortunate to serve diverse communities across the whole spectrum of life in various clinical and community settings. She found her way to this field while immersed in her love of clay and inspired by the war time stories of resilience by Japanese Canadians with whom she was working at Momiji Centre. The merging of these two realms set her on a path towards her calling as an expressive arts therapist.
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Photo: Carmina Articona
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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
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Blessed as an uninvited guest to work, play and create within the unceded lək̓ʷəŋən territory also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt nations. Embracing indigenous wisdom to learn how to cherish the world, honour interconnectedness and live in harmony with nature.
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