And Shalomit Oren is a multi generational and multifaceted performing artist, physical actress, belly dancer and clown. She is a certified person centered expressive Arts counselor, certified wellness instructor and owner of Gleeful Wellness, LLC. Shlomit studied theater at Circle in the Square Theater School in New York. She is half Israeli and half Colombian. She toured the US. With the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey as a clown and Hula Hooper And she has been practicing and performing playback theater since 2018
Idalmis Garcia
@idalmitass · 4:59
It's the way I tell my stories, the way I share who I am. I can express so many parts of me through art that I couldn't say through words. So art making, and that becomes my practice. Now, I am a drama therapist and I use art as a form of healing. And what a beautiful way to shine your light. That just making art, just making art for the process of making, not for the beauty of it, but just to express yourself
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:40
The gift of that kind of work is that people just liberate themselves from so many shackles of cerebral living and more now than ever we need to get off our devices and get into our bodies and dance and sing and feel the light of community and of creativity and we need it so badly. I do know in this space where we are talking a lot, there's something also extremely iterative about it like you don't know where these conversations go
shlomit oren
@shlomit · 4:57
I don't need to match clothes. I actually learned that from being a circus clown, and I just really took that into my life. I always wear flowers in my hair. And when I dress colorfully and with flowers in my hair, I walk out in the street and people are always smiling at me. They smile back at me. They comment on my clothes. They say, wow, your energy. They feel that energy because colors have vibrations
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 3:15
It's so important, and we need that, and we can really do that through the arts. So I'm just so grateful for the work that you do, and I love the mantra and the breaths at the end. My only way is through. Yes. And Shlomit, I love that you said about the way that you dress and that you don't need to match. That really inspired me, and I was like, yes, I want to do that
shlomit oren
@shlomit · 2:26
You. Hello, thank you for this wonderful question. My way to deal with the darkness, because the sun is not always shining and we couldn't see the sun shining if we wouldn't see the darkness too. For me, the way to deal with that is reaching out to friends and using my Expressive Arts tools, which is writing, painting, moving, dancing, meditating, making music, singing, playing instruments. Those are the ways for me to deal when I'm feeling down
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 1:15
And yes, thank you both EDA and Shlomit for answering my how do you allow the sun questions and yes, your offering that's coming up at the end of this month. I put the link here. So folks in NYC, I hope you check it out and follow them on the social media. Posted it on the link as well here and yeah, thank you again, I really appreciate you taking the time to chat with me here as well
