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Curare Art Space Meaning "to care for," CURARE gives artists a space to explore the deeply personal in a dynamic online platform.

A quiet time to pause, create, and listen inward. 🍵A guided workshop exploring how art and simple body-based practices c...
17/09/2026

A quiet time to pause, create, and listen inward. 🍵

A guided workshop exploring how art and simple body-based practices can help us slow down, become more present, and pay attention to what we’re carrying.

MEDITATIVE ART-MAKING 🎨
Expressive Arts & Body Literacy Practices
For Wellness & Well-being

Through color, texture, paper, breathing, tapping, and gentle movement, we’ll create space to notice, express, and reconnect with ourselves. No art experience needed. Everything is provided. Come as you are. 🎨

All participants are welcome to enjoy tea from Sage Garden Modern Apothecary. 🍃

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Teacher Lex is a meditation teacher, wellness educator, and cultural worker dedicated to bridging healing, embodied spirituality, psychosocial support, and the expressive arts. He is the founder of Wounded Healer PH, a platform that offers healing services and cultivates spaces for embodied spirituality. His approach to holistic health and energy healing is grounded in traditional lineages. He has trained extensively as an Usui Reiki Master-Teacher and as a practitioner of the Vipassana and Chan (Zen) meditation traditions. He is a certified Psychological First Aid Provider, an Expressive Arts Facilitator through the Arts and Health Institute Philippines, and a Capacitar Tools for Stress Relief Practitioner through Capacitar International. He has also completed training in Transcending Trauma: Art, Imagination, and Spirituality, integrating creative and contemplative modalities to support well-being. In 2023, he completed a three-month monastic immersion at Fo Guang Shan Buddhist monasteries in the Philippines and Taiwan. He currently serves as a lecturer at the University of the Philippines Diliman - College of Fine Arts.

The third week of Art in Healing with  was an exercise in how we hold ourselves. 🌅​We sat with George Catlin’s Landscape...
07/03/2026

The third week of Art in Healing with was an exercise in how we hold ourselves. 🌅

​We sat with George Catlin’s Landscape (1846–1848), allowing mindful looking and creative visualization to surface, and transform into creative writing.

​The session moved into a one-on-one work on groundedness, focusing on the words we hold onto during troubling times.

💚 bit.ly/salusaloart

Art can offer profound experiences in times of rest, reflection, and renewal. 🎨Through weekly mindfulness and expressive...
13/02/2026

Art can offer profound experiences in times of rest, reflection, and renewal. 🎨

Through weekly mindfulness and expressive arts practices, we create space to notice, feel, and move with what arises, using imagination and the body as guides.

Art in Healing: Imagination & Embodied Expression

⚪ Mindful Art Appreciation
Group practice for creative mindfulness
Tuesdays, 9:00–10:00 AM

⚪ Expressive Arts as Therapy
One-on-one guided embodied art-making
Tuesdays, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM (30-minute sessions)

is a spiritual table, a place where we gather stories, hold one another with care, and make space for gentle healing.

👉 bit.ly/salusaloart

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Lex is a certified Meditation Teacher, Psychological First Aid provider, and Reiki Master-Teacher with over a decade of contemplative and healing practice. Trained in Vipassana and Ch’an Buddhist traditions, including monastic immersion in the Philippines and Taiwan, his work approaches healing as a compassionate, liberative practice. ​As an educator, cultural worker, and founder of Wounded Healer PH, he creates reflective spaces that integrate mindfulness, expressive arts, and care—for self, community, and the wider world.

Art in Healing: Imagination & Embodied ExpressionA weekly mindfulness practice with expressive arts modalities for creat...
13/02/2026

Art in Healing: Imagination & Embodied Expression

A weekly mindfulness practice with expressive arts modalities for creativity and well-being with . Salu-Salo is a spiritual table, a place where we gather stories, hold one another with care, and make space for gentle healing.

⚪ Mindful Art Appreciation
Group practice for creative mindfulness
Tuesdays, 9:00–10:00 AM

⚪ Expressive Arts as Therapy
One-on-one guided embodied art-making
Tuesdays, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM (30-minute sessions)

Art can offer profound experiences in times of rest, reflection, and renewal. Through weekly mindfulness and expressive arts practices, we create space to notice, feel, and move with what arises, using imagination and the body as guides.

Salu-Salo Soul

👉 bit.ly/salusaloart

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John Alexis Balaguer is a certified Meditation Teacher, Psychological First-Aid Provider, Expressive Arts Facilitator, and Reiki Master-Teacher. He is also an independent curator, arts writer, cultural worker, and founder of Curare Art Space. His explores curatorial pedagogies for the speculative, creative art writing, and artistic modes of reenchantment. He currently teaches at the University of the Philippines - Diliman, integrating expressive arts and contemplative practices into the classroom.

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