Stick Dolls - Making Your Own Healing Dolls

I'm gradually emerging from my six-month sabbatical, which began on January 1, 2024. For the remainder of 2024, my focus will be on conducting classes, creating videos, and facilitating discussions on the topic of How to Make Your Own Healing Dolls. This choice is deliberate; without the knowledge of crafting art dolls for healing and without understanding the language of healing dolls as spoken in The Healing Doll Way, one may encounter frustration and obstacles in doll-making endeavors. Each art and healing doll embodies a distinct energy, leading to a journey of self-discovery as the doll takes form and shape, with this energy evolving and intensifying throughout the creative process."
So in you are interested in the subject of making your own healing dolls, then email at [email protected] and I will put you on a mailing list.
You must have purchased and read my book The Healing Doll Way before signing up for the classes.

Michael Samuels and Mary Rockwood Lane, authors of the book "Creative Healing," explore the concept of energy and its connection to healing:
"What is this energy? Chi, prana, kundalini, God’s breath, acupuncture energy meridians, chakras, the life force? It has been described throughout all time. It is an integral part of the human experience. Because art acts at the level of the spirit, because art is the language of the spirit, energy is involved. The simplest metaphor for how art heals is that it frees our body’s healing energy to flow…unites with the deep source; and energy is released…"

Your stick dolls can serve as healing dolls. Crafting a stick doll is an intimate act of healing. When you fashion a stick doll/healing doll, you're manifesting an image of a responsive, loving spirit that moves through your heart, mind, and hands, offering insights or teachings on your healing journey. Infused with your energy as you manipulate the materials, your stick doll becomes a conduit for your creative power. Holding her in your hands, beholding her beauty, invites you to embrace your connection to creativity and feel blessed by it.

Perfection is not the aim when crafting with sticks. Each stick possesses its own unique shape, size, thickness, and color, inviting you, the creator, to engage in playful exploration with the materials at hand.

The use of natural materials imbues the artistic process with a sacredness distinct from painting and drawing. These objects carry with them the spirits of nature, lending a shamanic or spiritual dimension to the creation. Nature's elements act as talismans, embodying the forces that birthed them and guiding and inspiring your artistic expression.
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When gathering materials, approach the natural world with sensitivity and mindfulness. Appreciate and attend to the expressive qualities of these objects in their natural habitats, honoring the spirits of nature as you collect them. These gathered items infuse meaning and narrative into your stick doll, serving as a tangible connection to nature and a reminder of your creative journey through it—collecting, gathering, and receiving.