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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 !!! 11,404 photos, 286 members
- Faces and The story they tell 1,479 photos, 61 members
- Busy Colourful Art & Design 6,935 photos, 378 members
- **The Most Interesting People (portraits)** 50,796 photos, 2,145 members
- creative masks 849 photos, 186 members
- masked! 695 photos, 184 members
- Masked Women of any kind 740 photos, 557 members
- Masks Around the World 1,384 photos, 190 members
- Masks Masks Masks 913 photos, 241 members
- .Masked Faces {Stronger Rules} Cleaning done 6,800 photos, 2,359 members
- Portraits Unlimited 163,596 photos, 6,181 members
- Combat Camera 8,093 photos, 282 members
- TOUR OF DUTY 22,160 photos, 1,278 members
- the art process... building a painting 2,828 photos, 514 members
- Poetry 3,292 photos, 444 members
- Simply Poetry 6,681 photos, 1,059 members
- Artistically Illustrated Poetry 1,499 photos, 250 members
- ARTFUL ELITE 8,190 photos, 703 members
- RAW (Raging Artists of the World) 10,157 photos, 627 members
- Collage Painting 838 photos, 99 members
- Abstract Paintings 27,794 photos, 2,793 members
- visual journals 36,101 photos, 2,141 members
- ART, THERAPY, PSYCHOANALISYS AND AESTHETICS 1,023 photos, 94 members
- Soul Art 6,434 photos, 423 members
- Women in the Arts 18,877 photos, 1,078 members
- ART WOMEN post 1 and comment any 1 38,371 photos, 3,729 members
- The Art of Anatomy 2,245 photos, 469 members
- Altered Art Shrines 2,002 photos, 536 members
- wow that's deep !!! 2,756 photos, 220 members
- Masks 4,489 photos, 941 members
- 我们练习气功 - We practice qigong 323 photos, 61 members
- The Artful Spiritual 2,916 photos, 243 members
- Healing thru Art Journaling 9,394 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