Name: Apple Aniseed Arts
Address: Aberdeen
Telephone: 07976619747

Eurythmy and Transpersonal Arts

What I Do

A Transpersonal Arts Facilitator for Inner and Outer Change.

I invite participants bearing new life to access inner calm, resilience, and trust in their intuition.

I invite developing children to engage with imaginative ways of learning, where Goodness can be discerned as a felt sense of their sense for truth.

I invite participants in their adolescence and adult phases to move dynamically between imagination, and intellect as a process to explore the literal and symbolic we may feel confronted by.

Trusting the questions and the many view points around them, ca in time offer self-confidence that knows when and how to challenge as well as accept all thought-life.

In essence, the effort to take an interest in the unfamiliar and unknown 'other' within our experiences, may offer new inspirations for those who are willing to approach oneself through wonder, openness, and reverence.

One may carry the question: “How can I as a human being alive now, learn to Breathe between the many Opposites of Life that seek to pull me towards extremes - both of which weave through my Heart in different directions, inviting flexibility?”

So, I design and facilitate bespoke workshops with Eurythmy exercises - the Art of Visible Speech (as given by Rudolf Steiner), and arts-based processes using a variety of arts media, poems, songs, and stories to enter a guided self-enquiry.

One-to-One / Groups / In-person / Online

Specialist Workshop Series :

“Eurythmy for Highly Sensitive People” - to discover the beauty and value behind sensitivity, and practice coming Home to oneself. Ten-session structure to learn the whole sequence.
Some examples of ‘high sensitivity’ : Pregnant Women, Trauma and Adverse Experiences, Relationship Breakdown and Isolation, Economic Instability, Mental Health changes, Addictions, Systemic Failures, Work roles with Screen-use, Emotional Homelessness, Loss of Autonomy, Stigma and Shame, Fear, Insecurity, Confrontations with Conscience and Moral ideals.

Transpersonal Arts for individuals navigating changes across physical, cognitive, perceptual, kinaesthetic, and social challenges
Eurythmy courses for Wellbeing, and Highly Sensitive People
Seasonal group arts workshops throughout the UK
Threefold Listening practices groups
Nature-based arts workshops querying medicinal plants
International arts workshops exploring “The Philosophy of Freedom”, by Rudolf Steiner

As a Transpersonal Therapeutic Arts Facilitator, I am committed to accompanying a broad demographic of people in places all around the world, to discover the feeling of coming Home to Oneself, where the Source of Meaning may invite a wider view of Wealth, Health, and Home.

Workshops and Services I Offer

Masters in Transpersonal Therapeutic Arts, Level 7.

Transpersonal Arts work :

Arts, Songs, Poems, Stories - for the developmental stages of Embryo to Baby to Child
Arts, Songs, Poems, Stories - for the developmental stages of Child to Adolescence
Transpersonal Therapeutic Arts based on Goethean Observation, for movement towards the feeling of Adulthood

Project work :

Design and delivery of bespoke change experiences, training and staff Wellbeing programmes
Arts for ‘Crossing of the Threshold’ for people in palliative care and hospices
Accompanying Life Biography querying and creating a Life-book of memories
Accompanying transitions, to transform utilised sensory impressions
Singing Performance - for socials, ceremonies, parties, and funeral ceremonies. (international songs, folk songs, spiritual songs, hymns, kirtans, bhajans, and love songs).

Arts Media Usage :

Clay Modelling, Oil Painting, Watercolour Painting

Drawing with Charcoal, Graphite Pencil, Colouring Pencils, Soft Pastels, Ink Pens

Collage art, Stone Carving by hand.

One-to-One Transpersonal Art Therapy sessions

International Clients Online

In-Person in Rubislaw, or at a pre-arranged location in Aberdeen and the surrounding areas

Group Arts Wellness Workshops

Many Nature-based themes to explore, based on the Senses, using a range of arts media

Eurythmy and Singing Workshops for Pregnant Women, and Friends

For soon-to-be and new parents and caregivers :

Eurythmy movement for Mothers-to-be.

Friends and Partners most welcome too.

We will also practice songs of the chld's world and learn to create short soft songs, rhymes, and lullabies, in preparation for receiving the child.

Ten-Week Eurythmy Wellness Experience for Everyone.

Gentle Rhythmical Movements that build balancing bridges between the Cosmic cycles and Natures cycles.

Especially helpful for high sensitivity, and neurodiversity.

Currently in Rubislaw, Aberdeen.

Willing to travel for in-person workshops.

Eurythmy for Staff Wellness Programme

Gentle Rhythmical Movements that build balancing bridges between the many opposites of Life

In-Person in Aberdeen and online through Zoom.

Willing to travel for in-person workshops.

Workshops for the change from Childhood to Adolescence

Children and Young People will be accompanied to enter an imaginative story alongside a diverse range of artistic approaches. Participants will learn to lightly support each other to invite playful questions, that may in time reveal ways of living and contributing innate individual gifts to the social development of a healthy society for all.

Clients

The Christian Community for Religious Renewal
Aberdeen Interfaith Society
ACE Voices Choir, Aberdeen
Mucky Boots Kindergarten, Maryculter Woodlands, Aberdeen
Aberdeen Anthroposophical Society
Eurythmy4You International
Simeon Care Home, Aberdeen, Scotland
Camphill Steiner Schools, Aberdeen, Scotland
The Christian Community - Movement for Religious Renewal
Tobias School of Art & Therapy
Zenubian Art Gallery, London
OXO Tower Art Gallery, London
Brent Health Educators Partnership, London
Greenwich Steiner School, London
The Ubele Initiative, London
The Princes Trust, London
Kith and Kids, London
SENDIASS Greenwich Carers Group, London
MIND Mental Health Charity, Adult Crisis Counselling, Greenwich, London
Cressey College Secure Girls School, Croydon
Shree Kutchi Leva Patel Samaj, London
Hare Krishna Temple, Watford
Jas Entertainments
Dilse Entertainments
Slough Asian Theatre Company

Client Testimonials

Dr Daniela Deiosso, Klinghart Institute, Brighton, UK

It has been so deep and at the same time, uplifting and invaluable to me. The Therapy has brought me to a very intimate connection with my soul. It's very organic and gentle, even though I might process things, feel pain, or cry. I'm extremely grateful. I enjoyed the whole 360 degree process, and the little poetry an song surprises. I couldn't have asked for anything better.

Sarah Riggs Owen, London

“I’m doing my Yoga now and going to art galleries. I can tell that your Transpersonal Art Therapy is really special. The way you brought such wonder and playfulness to your work felt really helpful. I feel like I’ve slowed down, whereas before I was rushing around doing so many things.

When I arrived at therapy, I was so worried I’ll fall apart or not be able to do it, but you guided me gently and beautifully through simple movement and creative activities.

I left feeling much stronger and able to see I don’t need to force my son into school. We can do Home Ed for him, which he will appreciate.

Adrian Dow - Headteacher for Greenwich Steiner School, up to 2022

Nisha has been a real gift to us. She has a lovely manner and exudes warm loving energy to all she speaks to.

I have witnessed her commitment and care dealing with specific cases and her grappling with formalities, while not dictating solutions, but allowing for processes to run their course whether it is internal healing, or a cathartic process of transformation. Her insights have been very helpful and she has been courageous dealing with parents who sometimes struggle to self-reflect. Nisha has really grown over the years and I am pleased she has provided support and care for several of our children and parents, and made a positive impact working with our team of Kindergarten teachers during a 3 day session which she facilitated herself. In a nutshell, Nisha is a gem and we consider ourselves lucky to have worked alongside her.

Libby Agate, Crisis Counselling Lead, MIND mental Health Charity, Greenwich

Nisha has worked very well in our team of counsellors. She is very able to self-reflect and to use this for the benefit of the work. Nisha has been an asset to Greenwich Mind. Her work has been creative and healing.

In addition, Nisha has offered support to the organisation during the covid19 crisis, including taking on extra clients, who are self-isolating, and facilitating arts and nature connection activities in the local park. She offered helpful support for the organisation as a whole, and through our online wellbeing platform. We feel very grateful to Nisha for her skills and commitment. She is a boon to the profession.

Nayna - a highly sensitive pregnant woman, London

I felt so relaxed and centred doing the four calming Eurythmy gestures for pregnant women. To my surprise, I went on to birth my baby in a natural way.

The nurses stood around my bed in awe of my strength to say No to their many generous offers of pain-relief interventions.

I knew that what my baby needed from me.

I knew I could trust my own intuition and my senses.

Thank you.