PERFORMING ARTS AS MEDITATION is a fun, challenging way to develop creativity from the inside out with eyes open and closed. The workshop series offers opportunities to: 1) Experience a relaxed, non-judging environment. 2) Experiment with both structured and free improvisations. 3) Discover opportunities to pause, listen, reflect and go deeper. 4) Take creative risks you never thought you could take. 5) Tap inner sources of creativity, wisdom and laughter. Suitable for both beginners and experienced performers and meditation practitioners. Please bring something to explore and/or a work-in-progress in music, dance, acting, writing and/or visual art!

FACILITATOR: Lee Gershuny is Artistic Director of The Elements World Theatre and an award-winning playwright in both the USA and UK. She has developed new forms of theatre and facilitated creative development workshops with a diversity of participants in local, national and international festivals and conferences, including the Alternative G8 Summit (Edinburgh), the World Youth Congress (Stirling), Roars, not Whispers (Scottish Youth Parliament Leadership Training) International Civicus Youth Assembly (Glasgow) & the Edinburgh International Middle-Eastern Spirituality and Peace Festival (MESP) from 2004 to 2012. She also practices and teaches meditation.