REGISTRATION CLOSES 3/19/24

A Fiber Woven Tale:  using a loom to weave your narrative.

Join us for a fun, expressive afternoon!
Sunday, March 24, 2024
1-4 pm

$60 workshop fee (plus materials; see below)

Loom weaving has long been a craft that leads to beautiful and practical pieces you can adorn yourself or your home with. It is also a great way to express yourself via art therapy. Join Vanessa Levin, LCMHC, in a workshop that teaches loom weaving basic techniques along with centering exercises and opportunities to share the stories and designs you create in class.

Do you have something that’s been on your mind you’d like to work out?  It keeps swimming around in your mind? This class is for you! It’s also for you if you have a memory/story you’d like to keep in a tangible kinesthetic format.

Or are you just curious about loom weaving and want to see what all the hype is about? No experience necessary in loom weaving, art, or story telling.

Workshop Details:

We will have a snack and stretch break. There is a coffee shop close by and a grocery store across the street to get drink and food should you decide you don’t want to bring snacks. Wear comfortable clothes as we will do some light stretching and breathing exercises to get focused.

• Cost: $60 plus loom and materials cost
• 1-4pm March 24,2024
• Location:  GateWay studio: 875 Islington Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801
• 5 person minimum/12 person class max

Info and Registration

Registration closes 3/19/24

Contact Vanessa

rivershen13@gmail.com

Workshop materials to bring:

• A loom you want to work on that is a simple table frame loom (pegged or notched like this)
  LapLoom A – Harrisville Designs, Inc.
  or
  https://www.etsy.com/listing/1124213115/large-weaving-loom-12-18-inch-weaving
  or
  https://www.michaels.com/product/easel-loom-by-loops-threads-10664450
  or (least expensive option):
  https://www.hobbylobby.com/Yarn-Needle-Art/Knitting/Knitting-Looms/Arrow-Weaving-Loom-All-In-One-Kit/p/80876189

(Contact Vanessa if you have questions about which loom to buy)

• A large dull needle to thread your yarn
• A shed stick( a paint stir stick works well)
• yarn/roving you’d like to weave with. You can bring extra yarn/roving you won’t use or want to donate for the group pile
• Beads and string if you’d like to zuzh it up.
• A pen
• A metal fork

Workshop Leader:  Vanessa Levin,  LCMHC, LMT, CYT,

Vanessa Levin is a member of the Ko’asek Sovereign Nation of New Hampshire. She’s a Certified 500 hr Therapeutic Yoga Teacher, Certified Barre, Pilates and Qi Gong Teacher, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, and Meditation Guide since 1999. After a severe back injury, she found yoga to rehab herself back to vitality and gratitude. As a licensed Mental Health Counseling in her business RiverShen Counseling & Bodyworks, she specialises in Somatic therapies for Disordered Eating, Anxiety, Grief and Loss, Adjustment Disorders, and Life Transitions.  She is also a Massage Therapist and utilizes her combined skills to help clients with chronic conditions, preventative treatment, and post surgery rehab. Living in Buddhist Monastic Communities in Texas, California, Massachusetts,  Upstate New York and NYC has helped her continue to cultivate curiosity and community. Vanessa spends her free time playing in the woods and on waterways,  wild foraging and making herbal medicines, artwork,and music to honor and respect the earth and all she gives us.