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Healing Hands
The Art of Finding Peace
After sculptor/filmmaker Laurie Blakely lost several people close to her, she used her art to process her grief. While the work was cathartic, she felt that something was missing. Then, one night, the idea for the Healing Hands Project descended whole. She envisioned an immersive, restorative experience that combined art, music and film. The project would focus on one main question:
“How can we find peace despite hardship or loss?"
The first step was to find the “hands” of Healing Hands. She asked 4 non-traditional healers to collaborate on the project. They contributed their deep, personal wisdom gained over a collective 100 years of practice. For the next 5 years, Laurie embarked on a spiritual and creative journey to explore the art of finding peace. The end result was the Healing Hands film, mini-retreat and series of sculptures.
The Film
In the Healing Hands film, the healers reveal their own struggles and share insights on acceptance, humor, gratitude and joy. We see Laurie create colorful ceramic sculptures around the healers’ cast hands as she reflects on their stories and guidance.
The film is a therapeutic experience in itself featuring lush nature footage and a sound healer’s gentle music as the soundtrack. It provides a supportive space for us to contemplate how to nurture emotional resilience and inner calm. The film has won numerous awards including best short documentary and best soundtrack.
The Mini-Retreat
To deepen the experience of the film, Laurie has designed a live, Zoom mini-retreat that interprets the healers’ insights through an artist’s lens. Like an artist, we discover peace and meaning by awakening our sense of beauty.
Here’s a short video about what you’ll experience:
The 2- Hour Healing Hands Zoom Mini-Retreat includes:
Watching the film
Discussion Session with the Director
Interactive Activities that highlight the soothing, poignant, and delightful beauty that is around us including:
The beauty of our visual world
The beauty of physical awareness
The beauty of our imagination
The beauty of human creation
The beauty of nature
In this mini-retreat, we are encouraged to see healing as an art form and to explore ways to become artists of our own lives.
What people are saying:
“An awe-inspiring journey into the world of the healing arts.”
“I feel like I got a dose of beauty, peace, and hope. Healing Hands is healing medicine”
“Its beautiful photography and caring message will serve as an unexpected and welcome healing experience for the viewer.”
Share the message with your Group
You can schedule a mini-retreat and bring the uplifting message of Healing Hands to your group or community. A mini-retreat can be an engaging highlight of a meeting, workshop or conference.
Please consider donating
We would like to bring the film to communities that may not be able to afford a screening fee. Your donation will help us share the uplifting message of Healing Hands with grief support groups, interfaith centers, hospice centers and prisons.