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"It's about living and sharing aloha." -- Kaleo
Kaleo and Elise Ching teach a holistic process combining art, guided imagery, and Chi Kung as a journey to inner wisdom, a journey that ultimately leads to the connection with the Divine.
They coauthored: Faces of Your Soul: Rituals in Art, Maskmaking, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals (North Atlantic Books, 2006). www.amazon.com/Faces-Your-Soul-Maskmaking-Ancestors/dp/15...
and Chi and Creaitivty: Vital Energy and Your Inner Artist (Blue Snake Books, 2007).
www.bluesnakeblog.wordpress.com
View their Chi Kung and maskmaking videos at www.kaleoching.com.
Twenty years of coteaching in San Francisco Bay Area (JFKU Arts and Consciousness Program, jail psychiatric unit, public schools, and other venues) and beyond have convinced Kaleo and Elise that the Muse resides in everyone.
In their classes, participants learn Chi Kung to engage the chakras and access the energy body, then experience guided imagery to explore the mysteries of inner realms, then express their discoveries through mixed media art. The result is creative expression that emanates from profound personal depths and bridges the realms of spirit, mind, and body.
Often, as Elise holds the vessel of the class, Kaleo journeys through hypnotherapy privately with a student, who then integrates the insights reaped into the artwork. The art transforms as the artist is transformed.
Kaleo also teaches massage and Chi Kung at the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley and has a massage/hypnotherapy practice.
Elise is an award-winning poet and Registered Nurse.
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Groups (33)
- A Magia da Cor !!! 11,435 photos, 286 members
- Faces and The story they tell 1,479 photos, 61 members
- Busy Colourful Art & Design 6,959 photos, 379 members
- **The Most Interesting People (portraits)** 50,895 photos, 2,151 members
- creative masks 849 photos, 186 members
- masked! 699 photos, 184 members
- Masked Women of any kind 741 photos, 557 members
- Masks Around the World 1,380 photos, 190 members
- Masks Masks Masks 935 photos, 245 members
- .Masked Faces {Stronger Rules} Cleaning done 6,765 photos, 2,366 members
- Portraits Unlimited 164,189 photos, 6,194 members
- Combat Camera 8,094 photos, 281 members
- TOUR OF DUTY 22,200 photos, 1,277 members
- the art process... building a painting 2,822 photos, 514 members
- Poetry 3,293 photos, 443 members
- Simply Poetry 6,693 photos, 1,059 members
- Artistically Illustrated Poetry 1,500 photos, 250 members
- ARTFUL ELITE 8,241 photos, 705 members
- RAW (Raging Artists of the World) 10,137 photos, 629 members
- Collage Painting 842 photos, 98 members
- Abstract Paintings 27,918 photos, 2,802 members
- visual journals 36,288 photos, 2,141 members
- ART, THERAPY, PSYCHOANALISYS AND AESTHETICS 1,023 photos, 94 members
- Soul Art 6,470 photos, 423 members
- Women in the Arts 18,903 photos, 1,080 members
- ART WOMEN post 1 and comment any 1 38,563 photos, 3,728 members
- The Art of Anatomy 2,262 photos, 469 members
- Altered Art Shrines 2,003 photos, 536 members
- wow that's deep !!! 2,755 photos, 220 members
- Masks 4,492 photos, 941 members
- 我们练习气功 - We practice qigong 323 photos, 61 members
- The Artful Spiritual 2,929 photos, 244 members
- Healing thru Art Journaling 9,413 photos, 1,083 members
Testimonials (2)
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hajlana says:
"Kaleo Chings inner beauty streams out like a loveriver...
Desire, passion, selfdistance,subconscious.expressing images with great dynamic.
I love your art creations they are filled with devotion and they give me a lot of good energy.
Fear is very well expressed as well.
Thank you for provocing and sharing your expressions of life...the circles of energies...
All the best in your way!
Love fr Helena"11th June, 2009
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writressworder says:
"Kaleo, together with his wife, Elise Ching holds the most powerful, most freeing, most safe, most sacred space for full and free creative expression. Through art, writing, poetry, and movement inspired by and grounded in the awakenings arising from decades of their own evolutionary brand of yoga and Chi Kung, the Chings offer a rich and beautiful space for deepening in self awareness, the influence and participation of ancestors, the healing power and presence of totem animals, the importance of a vibrant, fully flowing, fully expressed human universe of body. These teachers, grounded in Ohana and Abundance offer a FEAST of art supplies, a wealth of knowledge, a deep sense of inner knowing, a cultivated awareness of guided imagery and its powers to plug the individual into their own spiritual network of support. There is no space I have ever been held in that feels as safe, as freeing, as accepting and as celebratory. I encourage you to partake of the feast of healing that is time with Kaleo and Elise Ching. They are master teachers. Don't miss your opportunity to be in the energy they hold."
6th April, 2009