Classes | Creative Path with Paulette

THE CREATIVE PATH CLASS

Receive the gift of your creativity and be the artist that you are. For the creative mind just beginning or just blocked — you can manifest your creative gifts with boldness and success. The workshop will be a catalyst for your creativity so that you will:
Learn how to identify your censor while overcoming blocks.
Learn specific techniques for transforming ego into enthusiasm.

Using the inspirational book, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, with a unique synthesis of imaginative techniques, therapeutic and spiritual explorations, The Creative Path will inspire new energy into your art. Guided imagery, writing, art, dance, acting, music, and dialogue with peers are some of the expressive vehicles utilized to free the imagination of each unique artist. Paulette guides the group in a magical experience!

This class has been taught over twenty-five times to hundreds of students, artists in wide variety of fields.

Some of the venues, include Ryokan College, Culver City Adult School, many bookstores as well as private groups.

Yoga

Stretch and Dance

Walking In Your Shoes

Walking In Your Shoes — Training in Conscious Empathy

A powerful process of doing and then becoming the Other.

We learn to empty our minds to allow for full, authentic awareness of the greater whole. We embody our Higher Self, and by transcending into the space of unity, experience the soul of another—even a person we may just have met or one who has passed over into other realms, or someone we may never have met at all. This is a very personal way of transcending our duality and separateness. Deep healing takes place when one soul sees another.

Taught at Chochmat HaLev, Berkeley CA and used extensively on-to-one in with individuals and couples in psychotherapy sessions.

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Jewish Spirituality Leadership

Paulette is available to lead Kabbalat Shabbat, Dancing with the Divine Shabbats, life cycle events. She has an especially artful way of conducting services for Older Adults.

Paulette was trained in the Davennen Leadership Institute through Aleph at he Isabella Freedman Center in Connecticut. An active participant in the Jewish Renewal Movement she is dedicated to bringing dance, poetry and storytelling to prayer. Paulette has led services at The Gardens Assisted Living and Sunrise senior Care.

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Dancing with the Divine

“A dance before the Blessed Holy One
is prayer.”

— Baal Shem Tov

Celebrate, mourn, praise,
Rise up through dance, liturgy, poetry and song.

A Shabbat service of prayer through dance, a workshop or an on-going class. Breathe deep into the body and transcend into the ineffable. Morning service in parks on an intermittent basis. Taught as class at Ahavat Torah.

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Storytelling

There is nothing like a good story for laughing and learning.

Paulette first became interested in the power of story through her studies in Milton Erikson’s Indirect Hypnotherapy. From there she began to acquire a repertoire of teaching stories, jokes and personal stories.

Storytelling is folded into much of Paulette’s teaching and therapy style. Paulette has performed at libraries in the southern California region.

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From the Creative Learning Place, an example of Paulette’s creative work with children:

POETRY AND MOTION

“The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.”

— FOG, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

From Jump rope rhymes and rhythms to “the fog coming on little cat feet” poetry is filled with images of movement.

Students will learn to enjoy poetry through creative dance. In this first workshop for children 5-8, we will explore the joy of motion through movement fundamentals and creative dance.

Paulette will present some poems – this time Cat Poetry. So if you have cats in your house or your friends’ homes this is a good opportunity to look very carefully and observe how cats move- walking, rolling, stretching, and curling.

In later workshops- we will be learning more poetry and dance forms and students will write their own poetry and create their own dance.

Parents are welcome to participate and dance and move with us.

Paulette Rochelle-Levy, MFT is a multi-faceted artist. She has danced since she was three years old- which was a short time of several decades ago. She is a movement educator, Yoga teacher, psychotherapist, artist and author. Her work includes : Dancing with the Divine: Prayers & Meditations for Movement & Stillness, And You Shall Be A Blessing, and the CD, Medicine Words.