Hues that Heal, a creative retreat with Siraj Saxena
Hues that Heal: Discover healing through art in nature’s embrace
Nature and life have many layers of colors, emotions, and senses. Depending on how we view these layers, we may treat them differently. Life is a beautiful journey filled with ups and downs.
Similarly, art is also layered with colors that reflect our senses, emotions, and thoughts. The absence of colors and emotions would make our lives incomplete. Our visual experiences are how we practice and treat colors in our everyday lives. Colors play a significant role in determining our personalities and give meaning to our identities. Through our choice of colors and the layers they contain, we give meaning and value to our lives. This visual retreat will offer the opportunity to explore colors as well as the layers of colors on canvas. As a result of applying one color over another, we can create a new color.
The goal of this retreat is to free you from the day-to-day responsibilities of your life and to experience the feeling of living in our space. Creating art allows us to connect with our inner selves. It is quite intriguing how with colors and the layers they contain, we get a glimpse into our innermost selves, for this reason, art is often termed as a healing medium.
It is an inherent ability that most of us must be creative. In other words, we are naturally able to respond to the colors on a canvas or, in other words, to our current circumstances.
The duration of the retreat is flexible between December 5 to December 12, 2024. Stays can be chosen for 5 nights and above.
Dates & Information
December 5 - 12, 2024
Set in a dense Sal Forest just outside Dehradun, with the Himalayan foothills of Mussoorie to the north, Six Senses Vana is a refuge for all beings, people, plants, birds, butterflies, and the odd monkey.
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Is this retreat right for you?
It’s fun to play with colors, paper, and clay. This art retreat will make each of us complete and creative on an emotional level as we learn how to use colors, paper, and clay to create art while immersing into a wellness journey.
Benefits
You may expect to experience a connection with your inner self and healing.
- Experience the feeling of living in a space that is close to nature
- Creating art and the layers of colors allows us to connect with our inner selves
- The layers of colors allow a glimpse into our innermost selves
- Giving a shape or form to clay is a transformative experience
- Escape the stresses of daily life and let the mind and body unwind
What's included:
The price indicated is for five consecutive nights in a Garden Room (any time between December 5 to 12, longer stays are possible)
- Arrival and departure wellness consultation
- All cuisine including breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner
- Attire to wear within and outside Six Senses Vana, footwear, summer and winter accessories
- Return airport transfers to and from Dehradun Airport
- Access to daily wellbeing activities from retreat program
- Painting Sessions with artist Siraj Saxena
- Paper making sessions
- Clay or Pottery Session
Daily program
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Accommodation & Price:
Five-night retreat price starts at USD 3,150 plus taxes or single occupancy and USD 4,900 plus taxes for two people joining the retreat and sharing one Garden Room (double occupancy).
The retreat can be booked as a duration of 5 nights, 7 nights, 10 nights, 14 nights (minimum 5 nights). A higher category accommodation can be booked with an additional charge.
For more information, please contact us at reservations-vana@sixsenses.com
Extra treatments, consultations, and activities are available on request
About the presenter
Siraj Saxena: Artist, Author, Visual storyteller
Siraj is an epitome of a global citizen with very strong roots and a bond for his country. He brings the rural and tribal aesthetic into the contemporary landscape like no other artist in India today. For him, art is a way to live, and it gives wellness to life. He works in mediums like paintings, ceramics, graphic art, textile, metal and wood. He is the author of three books. His articles have been published in various national Hindi news dailies and magazines. Siraj has worked tirelessly on Six Senses Vana’s project, creating almost 500 pieces of bespoke art across several different mediums including oil on canvas, oil on paper, kite paper, metal mesh, mirror, and a prolific variety of ceramics.