Thinkific / Arts & Healing Initiative
Body Wisdom: An Art Prescription for Pain Relief - 9/25/25
Body Wisdom: An Art Prescription for Pain Relief - 9/25/25
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date:
Thursday, September 25, 2025
time:
Noon to 1:30 pm Pacific Time (PT)
instructor:
Nadia F. Paredes, MA, LMFT, ATR
description:
Chronic or recurring pain can silence our creativity and disconnect us from our body. This gentle and empowering online session offers a restorative space to learn simple tools to support emotional regulation, increase self-awareness, and cultivate a more compassionate relationship with our pain.
Together, we’ll slow down and tune into our body’s wisdom through guided breathwork, grounding techniques, and gentle movement before exploring oil pastels and watercolors to give form and color to our internal experiences—creating expressive images that reflect both the challenges and strengths within.
Open to all, including caregivers of those living with chronic pain—and no previous artistic experience is required. Offered in partnership with Creative Healing for Youth in Pain (CHYP) in support of Pain Awareness Month.
additional information
Instructor Bio
Nadia F. Paredes, MA, LMFT, ATR helps people connect with their inner creativity and empower their mind and soul through her expressive arts program and is the founder of Nadia Paredes - Creative Studio, a bilingual resource for empowering, healing, and artistic inspiration. With expertise and training as an art therapist, Intuition Painting facilitator and a licensed marital and family therapist, Nadia creates programs for transformation, creativity, and art making as a mindfulness practice. Her offerings include a YouTube channel and podcast in Spanish called Revolución Creativa, The Smart-Heart Method: Art Journaling for Personal Well-being, and introspective art groups: a female-centered wellness program through Embodied Arts. Nadia is an adjunct professor and art therapy supervisor at Loyola Marymount University, where she teaches about art activism. Learn more at artfooddreamers.com.
Materials - What to Bring
Please wear comfortable clothing, and have the following items for this session:
- Oil pastels
- Watercolors
- Watercolor paper
- Paint brushes
- Cup of water
Online Login Details
This is a online program through Zoom. A welcome email, which includes the link to join the program, will be sent to you after you register. Please check your inbox and spam folders.
Digital Media Release Policy
By registering, you give Arts & Healing Initiative approval to record this event, still and/or moving images from which may appear in printed materials or digital channels for archival, educational, or promotional purposes.
Note that Zoom breakout rooms are not recorded.