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CLAIRE PAPOULIS has always been interested in the path of holistic healing, forging a personal mission from a very young age to bring wellness and balance to her own life. After discovering the Amma Therapy program at The Wellspring School for Healing Arts, these values began to blossom as a career path. As a therapist, she strives to create a comfortable space in which clients can explore and enhance this path for themselves through education, healing, and relaxation. She continued her training in herbal medicine in the Professional Herbalist program through the East West School for Planetary Herbology. It is her priority to treat each client through a holistic model, addressing all elements of mind and body in unity.

Alongside her career, Claire has always valued the arts, striving to maintain creativity as a presence in her life. Growing up with her father the NYC-based composer Jim Papoulis, she was exposed to music from day one and developed an awe with creative figures and the creative process. Although she has experimented with different mediums, her recent life has brought her back into mentorship under sculptor Greg Steinsieck with whom she is exploring creative expression through visual art. She holds a strong belief in the important interaction that occurs through stimulating different parts of the brain by engaging in a variety of both intellectual and creative mediums.

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Collaborative Projects

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Is Wellness a Creative Practice?

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So oh good I'm a massage take three All right, so, you know what the question of how
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is wellness a creative practice?

Creative Problem Solving in Wellness

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You know, as a practitioner, I think about some of my more kind of complicated cases with that question. And a lot of times, you know, there are, of course, some simpler cases where you're presented with something and there's a kind of very easy answer, right, or thought on what's going on. But sometimes, you know, I mean, we're very

Complexity of Human Beings

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dynamic beings and we have our bodies are complicated, our minds are complicated, you know how that whole show is going on is incredibly complex process and the you know as a practitioner that becomes creative in terms of okay how do I kind of solve this the mystery of what's being presented to me you know if you're developing a treatment plan or making an assessment
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there's a process of fitting those pieces together to get to that end place that you're trying to get

Flexibility and Creativity in Wellness

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to. But if your mind is too rigid and you're not able to think kind of outside what's right in front of you and figure out what questions to ask your client or the person you're working with to get to that next space, that's
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going to be a difficult time. And I think in essence, even with a doctor, any kind of wellness professional, there has to be that ability to go beyond what's obvious sometimes. And so in that sense, it becomes absolutely a sort of creative process.

Personalized Approach to Wellness

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And then the second piece of that is there's this whole kind of meeting the client where they're at.
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and being creative in the sense of, okay, I'm going to develop something that's not just textbook, what I should be doing, but it's also going to work for the individual person. And so each case in that sense kind of becomes its own little project, shall we say. And, and with, with,

Art and Wellness Connection

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working as a healer in that regard and just your comments around the impact of art, I surmise that you see far closer a connection between those aspects of your life and what you do than might be readily apparent at first. Yeah, absolutely. I think that one of the main benefits