Healing Hands takes us on an intimate and uplifting journey examining the art of healing and the healing power of art.
The sculptor/filmmaker, Laurie Blakely, collaborates with four non-traditional healers to explore questions about death, loss, gratitude, and joy. She creates colorful ceramic sculptures around the healers’ cast hands and asks them about their own struggles, how it feels when they are working with a client and how they view the healing process.
These musings and personal stories are enhanced by images of the woodland and streams outside the artist’s home. And a sound healer contributes a calming, melodic soundscape.
Message
Healing is about becoming as whole as possible- physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Healing Hands addresses the questions that contemporary culture often avoids:
What does healing mean in the context of a terminal illness?
How do we stay centered in difficult times?
How do we nourish our sense of gratitude and joy?
Healing Hands empowers us to reflect on our own path toward a more fulfilling life with a hopeful message of love and care. We are invited to view healing as an art form. Each step on the journey is a creative act that might bring us little closer to wholeness.
The Importance of Local Healers
Healing Hands is a contemplative film that explores the healing wisdom in the small rural community where the artist/filmmaker lives. The film emphasizes the importance of local healers with the belief that wise and helpful guidance can be found in almost every community.
Meet the Healers and the Filmmaker
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Linda E. Smith
HEALING TOUCH PRACTITIONER, NURSE AND COUNSELOR
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Kitrina Hunter
REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPIST
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Leigh Wolf
LICENSED ACUPUNCTURIST
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Siri LeBaron
SOUND HEALER
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Laurie Blakely
ARTIST AND FILMMAKER