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Home › Spectrum of Services › Anthroposophic Therapy Approach › Painting and plastic arts therapy

Painting and plastic arts therapy

What is it?

The foundation of plastic arts is the body, and for painting, the surface. In anthroposophic painting therapy, the process of painting and the effect of colors are the main focus. Colors are not just all around us, they are also within us. They are connected to our soul and with our organs.

In therapeutic painting, this inner world of color is stimulated and can have a harmonizing and balancing effect on us. The experience of this world of color and color properties is actively fostered and its effect purposefully deepened. It is not important to create «a work of art». What matters is that the way in which the colors appear together on the surface is true to an inner set of principles.

Painting stimulates the search for equilibrium between the thinking human being and the acting one. This type of painting is surprisingly therapeutic and offers many opportunities for discovery.

In the plastic arts, the mild resistance of the clay challenges one’s willpower and creativity. From the initially unformed clay, gradually shapes and changes in form are developed. The patient’s inner drive is stimulated, which subsequently expresses itself in a more solid form and thereby fosters recovery.

For whom?

We treat patients who have a prescription for this therapy, those who wish to participate on their own volition, and upon request by relatives.

  • People from all walks of life
  • Outpatients and inpatients
  • Relatives, people close to the patient, children, teens, and adults
  • All people who want to do something good for themselves.

How is this therapy applied?

Physical level

  • for reduction of pain
  • to slow breathing and stimulate deep breathing
  • to relax muscles
  • to stimulate
  • to equalize organ activity

Spiritual level

  • to calm and organize mental processes
  • to potentially experience and to newly perceive repressed and hidden feelings
  • To strengthen feelings of hope and communication capacity

Personality level

  • to establish feelings of self-worth
  • to help grapple with existential questions
  • to strengthen courage and willpower

Do you have any questions?

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  • Anthroposophic Therapy Approach
    • Painting and plastic arts therapy
    • Healing Eurhythmy
    • Music Therapy
    • Rhythmical Massage Therapy
    • External Applications in Cancer Therapy
  • Pain Therapy
  • Nutrition

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Bergstrasse 16
CH-8805 Richterswil

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Tel.: 044 787 27 07 (Day clinic)
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Schweizerhofstrasse 3
CH-8750 Glarus

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Brunngasse 6
CH-8400 Winterthur

Tel.: +41 52 224 48 80

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