Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Welcome!

    • Facilitators: Julie Sawyer and Becky Manuel

    • Updated Syllabus

    • Week 1 Agenda

    • Community Link

    • Sketchbook Prompts: Recognizing Challenges & Honoring Our Strengths

    • Setting Intentions: Finding Time to Prioritize Health

    • Short Yoga Practice: Grounding/Root Chakra

    • Notes about the Deep Root Meditation & Drawing Activity Below, Becky Manuel

    • Deep Root Meditation & Drawing Activity, Becky Manuel

    • Week 1 Discussion Board
  2. 2

    • Week 2 Agenda

    • Is Mental Health the Next Pandemic?

    • Sketchbook Prompts: Control vs. Uncertainty

    • Building Nervous System Resilience

    • Pranayama Practices to Calm the Central Nervous System

    • Short Yoga Practice: Sacral Chakra

    • Art Activities: Contemplating Contemporary and Automatic Drawing, Becky Manuel

    • Gallery Program Format: Contemplating Contemporary, Becky Manuel

    • Week 2 Discussion Board
  3. 3

    • Week 3 Agenda

    • The Baltimore Museum of Art's Webinar: Art, Mindfulness, and the Brain

    • Tara Brach's Many Resources

    • Tara Brach -- Creating a Home Retreat: Finding Freedom Wherever You Are

    • Tara Brach -- Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty

    • Sketchbook Prompt: Meeting Loss with Compassion

    • Restorative Practice: Yoga Nidra Guided Meditation

    • Art Activity: Zentangles, Becky Manuel

    • Lake Visualization Meditation

    • Short Yoga Practice: Solar Plexus Chakra

    • Week 3 Discussion Board
  4. 4

    • Week 4 Agenda

    • Neuroscience and Yoga

    • Art Activities: Emotional Color Wheel and Take a Line for a Walk (Becky Manuel)

    • Short Yoga Practice: Heart Chakra (Anahata)

    • Sketchbook Prompt: Supports

    • Week 4 Discussion Board
  5. 5

    • Week 5 Agenda

    • Course Resources

    • Sketchbook Prompt: Inner Resources

    • Pranayama practice: Nadi Shodhana

    • Short Yoga Practice: Throat Chakra (Visuddha)

    • Art Activities: Perspective and Nature Drawings (Becky Manuel)

    • Nature Drawing Workbook for Art Activities (Becky Manuel)

    • Articles on Yoga, Meditation, Art & Schools (Becky Manuel)

    • Anne Kaplan's Collection of Resources

    • Week 5 Discussion Board
  6. 6

    • Week 6 Agenda

    • How Yoga Helps Us Build Inner Strength

    • Sketchbook Prompt: Inner Strength

    • Short Yoga Practice: Third Eye Chakra (Ajna)

    • Art Activity: Cloud Meditation and Drawing (Becky Manuel)

    • Using Flipgrid to Cultivate a Supportive Community (Kerry Parrish)

    • Week 6 Discussion Board
  7. 7

    • Week 7 Agenda

    • Sharing Timelines and Reflections

    • PDF of Google Slides for NAEA Presentation

    • Chakra Archetype Guided Meditation

    • Reflection as Art- Cut Paper Mandala

    • Week 7 Discussion Board