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Outside the Lines: Mindfulness Through Art

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts 1632 U Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States

Outside the Lines: A Creative Art Studio will help you reclaim art-making as a healing tool through guided creative projects.

Meditation and Mindfulness

Developing mindfulness skills can help combat stress, anxiety, and uncertainty. Join for regular sessions to help you better understand your mind.

Knitting on the Couch

Trained volunteers provide knitting instruction and quality materials in an effort to foster wellness, comfort, and community.

A Year of Living Mindfully

This group will examine a different topic each week relevant to members' lives. We will explore meditation and mindfulness practices that can be applied to life experiences in a supportive way.

Thinking about the Holidays

This program is being offered in a virtual format. In order to participate, please click the RSVP button above or email programs@smithcenter.org. with Sarah Diehl, MDiv, MS, LCPC in partnership with Ulman Foundation, Life with Cancer and Hope Connections Holidays can be a lot. Music, decorations, food, gifts, travel. Overstimulation. Pressure for feelings of joy, … Continue reading Thinking about the Holidays

Cancelled – Leukemia and Lymphoma Support Group

This monthly support group is designed for adult patients/survivors diagnosed with Leukemia or Lymphoma. The group will incorporate education lectures coupled with emotional support.

Energy Balancing

Bring the subtle energies of your body back into balance with a half-hour of stress-reducing relaxation to calm the body and enhance your well-being.

Young Adult Supper Club: Friendsgiving

Join other young adult cancer survivors around the table to share a delicious meal and good conversation at Smith Center’s Friendsgiving.

Painting for Life

By intentionally focusing on the emotional process rather than the artistic product, participants are able to unleash their creative powers and produce striking works that have the power to heal and awaken.

The Mindful Cancer Journey

This group will examine a different topic each week relevant to members' lives. We will explore meditation and mindfulness practices that can be applied to life experiences in a supportive way.

Chair Yoga

Connect body and mind. You are invited to relax deeply as we move through a series of gentle seated and supported poses that promote self-care.

Gentle PM Yoga

Enjoy a greater sense of well-being and enhanced energy through yoga postures, techniques in progressive relaxation, breathing practices, and meditation.

Knitting on the Couch

Trained volunteers provide knitting instruction and quality materials in an effort to foster wellness, comfort, and community.

Qigong

An all levels introduction to the practice of Qigong including discussion, movement and an energetic transmission and meditation.