CREATIVE LIFE CENTRE
Cultivating community through accessible artsand wellbeing experiences for all.
A study course of the book “Women Who Run With The Wolves.”
Facilitated by Dee Petit
Many women know that something’s missing and sense a call toward a larger, a more fertile life but they don’t know what to do. Join us in exploring and reclaiming our creative intuitive nature as we sit in circle together and explore stories and myths on how to regain our divine feminine birthright and empower the wild woman within that is longing to thrive.
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In this class we will explore through movement how it feels in your body when you are able to connect with compassion, and all the ways it can manifest in our lives. Qoya is a movement practice for women based on the idea that through movement we remember. We remember our essence of being wise, wild and free.
It incorporates the wisdom of yoga with an invitation to dance the yoga as prayer, it brings in wild through creative expression in dance, and free through expanding our capacity to enjoy our bodies through sensual movement. The classes are about 1 1/2 hours and there will be time afterwards to sit, share and integrate all that has come up.
Practitioner: Anita Vlasic Manaia
Anita Vlasic Manaia is of Dalmatian, Scottish and Maori descent with ancestry to Corcula in Croatia and the Tainui tribe of Ngati Haua. She has degrees in Applied Social Work and a Masters in Clinical Arts Therapy. She has studied and published research on therapeutic processes for working with clients using Kaupapa Maori and Arts Therapy.
She was previously an Intensive Case Social Worker in a Teen Parent Unit at Taonga Education Trust in Manurewa, Auckland and has worked with Maori and Pacific Island teenage mothers who live in low socio-economic communities with high and complex needs.
Her passion is working with indigenous people to strengthen identity and build resilience using arts therapy. She is also committed to acknowledging ancestral, spiritual and intuitive knowledge and using this as a resource when working with the impacts of colonisation.