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Creative Sand Play
With
HarDarshan K. Khalsa, MA
Sand
tray healing was first developed by psychiatrist Dr. Margaret Lowenfield
in the early 1900s as a tool to better understand the internal or
psychological world of small children with limited verbal skills.
In sand tray work, the client (child
or adult) has access to a small box of sand and many small objects
with which to create a
miniature world. This creates an opening into the subconscious, liminal world of symbols. The word liminal means threshold, the boundary
or doorway between the seen
and the unseen, the known and the unknown.
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"Amid
the swirling, confusing, unfocused energies of the
modern world, there is a light, a calm and a healing
in the center
of all things."
-Yogi Bhajan
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Sand play
can be like a meditation - a way to connect kinesthetically
with the earth element (sand), and way to express creatively
without needing to possess artistic talent. Particularly
for adults who do not often give ourselves permission
to play, it is a wonderful outlet of expression.
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