art & shiatsu workshops
Rejuvenate & Create: Art & Shiatsu Workshops
with Julie Kesti and Cassandra Monson
at Alight–A Studio for Shiatsu
Take an afternoon vacation combining the creative and healing arts of Japan!
Shiatsu practitioner Julie Kesti and artist Cassandra Monson are teaming up to offer you a unique experience making art and receiving bodywork.
During a 2½-hour Saturday afternoon workshop Julie and Cassandra will provide fine art instruction with quality materials along with rejuvenating bodywork.
Bring your friends and share a creative and relaxing afternoon. These workshops are held at Alight Shiatsu Studio~located in the Warehouse District of Downtown Minneapolis, next door to Corner Coffee.
Join us for one of four workshops–
two for adults and two for grown-ups and kids together!
Kids and Grown-ups Together
Invite your friends and neighbors for a creative experience you won’t want to miss!
While you (the grown-up) are receiving wonderful bodywork and relaxing in a coffee shop, your child (ages 5 – 14) creates an Uchiwa ~ a flat, round Japanese Fan. Children will work with Cassandra for the full 2½-hours making handmade paper and painting on their paper using quality watercolors.
Each student will take home a finished Uchiwa masterpiece. Each adult will receive a relaxing 20-minute Shiatsu session with Julie. Bring your fellow grown-ups-with-kids along for a couple hours of conversation or relax alone in the coffee shop perusing their great selection of magazines!
Workshop Dates:
Saturday January 26, 2008 12:00 – 2:30pm
or
Saturday February 9, 2008 12:00 – 2:30pm
Workshop Fee:
register before Jan. 10:
$55 for one adult and one child
$20 each additional child
register after Jan. 10:
$65 for one adult and one child,
$20 each additional child
You may register online ($2 processing fee added) by clicking on the Instant Gift Certificate Link on Julie’s website (look to the left), and clicking under Art & Shiatsu Workshops. (just act as if you are buying yourself a gift–which you are!)
You may also email Julie to register by mail, and avoid the $2 fee: julie@alight-shiatsu.com
Adult Workshops
Spend the afternoon relaxing with friends!
In this 2½-hour long workshop you’ll receive bodywork from Julie, learn how to bind your own blank book with Cassandra, and enjoy delicious Japanese tea.
Each adult will receive a fabulous 20-minute Shiatsu session with Julie. When you are not receiving bodywork Cassandra will teach you the bookmaking technique of Japanese Stab Binding. You will design and bind your own hardcover, blank book~which can be used as a journal, sketchbook or scrapbook!
*Workshop Dates:*
Saturday March 1, 2008 12:00 – 2:30pm
or
Saturday March 15, 2008 12:00 – 2:30pm
*Workshop Fee:*
register before Jan. 10:
$55 per person
register after Jan. 10:
$65 per person
You may register online ($2 Processing fee added) by clicking on the Instant Gift Certificate Link on Julie’s website (look to your left), and clicking under Art & Shiatsu Workshops. (just act as if you are buying yourself a gift–which you are!)
You may also email Julie to register by mail, and avoid the $2 fee: julie@alight-shiatsu.com
ABOUT JULIE AND CASSANDRA
Cassandra Monson is a professional artist and a freelance art teacher. Cassandra has a BFA from the College of Visual Arts and many years of teaching experience. She teaches art classes all over the Twin Cites and facilitates community-based collaborative public art projects and artist residences in public and private schools. Cassandra teaches students to invest themselves in the creative process so that they will build a quality product. She has a fluid but organized teaching style that works with children and adults of all ages. She teaches all art forms from painting to papermaking and sculpture to bookmaking. She is excited about working with Julie to offer families and individuals a holistic experience that involves both the body and the brain.
Julie Kesti is a Shiatsu and Thai Yoga Bodywork practitioner at Alight-A Studio for Shiatsu. She has over 800 hours of training in Asian Bodywork Therapies. Shiatsu is a Japanese form of bodywork that uses stretching, kneading, pressure, and other techniques along acupressure channels to harmonize your energy, helping your mind relax and your body feel better. No oils are used, so you enjoy your session in comfy clothes-which are also the perfect clothes for being creative! Julie can’t wait to collaborate with Cassandra on this new series of workshops!
