Laura Newbold

Creative Art Therapist with 6 years of work experience in social work at The Child At Risk Hotline. Screened calls for DSS and sent Social workers to on site emergency situations. Developed Stress Management Art Therapies workshops for Staff at the Hotline. Donated large scale oil paintings to create a calming atmosphere to the Judge Baker Children's Center.

Also worked at the Provident Nursing Home in Allston, MA as an art therapist . Conducted Art Therapy sessions with geriatric clients who have been institutionalized for most of their lives. Modalities included drawing, painting, gardening, and yoga in a chair.

have also taught yoga to seniors in Emeryville California from 2016 to 2019 at the Emeryville Senior Center.

Currently teaching yoga and Pilates classes in the Boston area. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

I started painting in oils at the suggestion of my Jungian therapist in college. That led to becoming interested in art therapy as a way of living. I draw inspiration from dreams, current events, and memory and am currently working on 12x12 wood panels in abstract patterns which can be seen as a meditation on climate change.

I also enjoy working with collage and poetry (haiku) in books which are made as gifts to family and friends. I use colored paper, paint, ink, photographs, glue and sewing thread, anything really for image making. I honor the interface between the inner self and the outer nature of life on the planet. The Self meeting the self is the goal of yoga and my work is a reflection of that ideal. I try to examine my own behaviors through art and meditation as well as physical yoga practice. How to be non violent with ourselves is the path to liberation and art helps me find ways to free myself from harming impulses such as doubt, fear, and other forms of negative thinking.

It is a battle, but relationship is all.