TAMALPA LIFE ART PROCESS
The Tamalpa Life Art Process® is an internationally recognized expressive arts approach which combines movement, visual art and creative writing to access the innate wisdom of the body and transformative power of the imagination. This work supports personal, interpersonal and social change - teaching new models of health, education, psychology and art.
PHILOSOPHY
There is an essential connection between creativity and life that can facilitate greater wellbeing and self-development. Tamalpa is interested in a new aesthetic that reflects the here and now of the reality of peoples' authentic live experiences rather than a beauty based on form or technique.
For Tamalpa it is our real life experiences that feed our art and our art that informs the real issues in our lives.
Tamalpa Life Art ®, developed at the Tamalpa Institute in California, is an integrated approach that explores the wisdom of the body expressed through movement/dance and imagination. We use artistic processes and media to explore and deepen our relationship to psychological life, to social issues and to creativity itself.
TOOLS
Body, Movement/Dance, Voice/Sound, Drawing, Dialogue, Improvisation, Performance, Reflection.
METHODS
Two levels of awareness response, Movement Studies, Body Part Explorations, Five Part Process, RSVP Cycles, Creative Writing, Performance, Witnessing and Active Listening.
