Expressive Arts Therapy Expressive arts therapy has emerged over the last few decades as an innovative approach towards health in our contemporary society. Expressive arts therapy uses a range of creative media, such as dance, visual art, music, performance, and creative writing towards self-exploration and personal growth. Being able to engage in intermodality by weaving through many forms of art expressions, is a vital component to its application. Expressive arts therapy offers an exceptional healing possibility for those who engage in it because it demands that the participation be fueled by personal material. This personal material, which comes from all levels of experience, i.e., physical, emotional, mental, sensory, and spiritual, can bring about authentic expression that rings from one's own imagination and truthful life stories. Adriana Marchione is trained in the Life/Art Process, a method developed at the Tamalpa Institute by Anna and Daria Halprin. The Life/Art Process is a movement-based approach that utilizes dance, visual art, performance/improvisation and creative writing. It serves as a vibrant method for establishing health and well-being in individuals, groups and communities. Adriana uses expressive arts therapy both with individuals and with groups. Click here for a list of upcoming group offerings. "Expression is itself transformation; this is the message that art brings." - Stephen Levine Recommended Reading List Art and Healing by Barbara Gamin Art as Medicine by Shaun McNiff Body Stories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy by Andrea Olsen Dance and Other Expressive Art Therapies: When Words are Not Enough by Fran Levy (Editor) Dance as a Healing Art by Anna Halprin Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy by Stephen and Ellen Levine Moving Towards Life: Five Decades of Transformative Dance by Anna Halprin Poiesis: The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul by Stephen K. Levine The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy by Daria Halprin