Eating Disorder Recovery and Healing through the Tamalpa Life/Art® Process, with Maria Guiñazu

Today, I’m talking to Maria Guiñazu, a qualified psychologist from Argentina. Maria is an educator in the intersecting fields of arts, somatics and education and has been working in this field in the UK for the past 8 years. Maria trained at Tamalpa Institute in California – the internationally recognised training centre for movement based expressive arts therapy. This is home of the Tamalpa Life/Art® process created by Anna Halprin. Maria uses a variety of tools that engage movement, dancing, drawing and creative writing for people to overcome disordered eating and feeling dissociated from their bodies. She worked at the Amy Winehouse Foundation with small groups of women recovering from addictions and eating disorders. Maria also collaborates remotely with a women-only outpatient eating disorder service in Mendoza, Argentina. Alongside her studies in Counselling and Psychotherapy, she is working with the Oasis project in Brighton where she works with women struggling with eating disorders, addictions and body image issues. Maria is hugely passionate about the benefits of dance and creative arts in healing. I hope that you enjoy this episode. To find out more: Instagram: @maria.iggy The Tamalpa Life/Art® process     If you would like to support this podcast and and/or access additional episodes, do enroll in my Patron Thank you so much