LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Josephine Sculpture Park is making sure the community has a place where wellbeing can meet movement, the arts and community connections. JSP’s Wellness in the Wild offers programs along with regional partners.
This season of Wellness in the Wild includes yoga, trail runs/walks, along with grief support and nature connection through the creation of art. Registration for the programs is encouraged and can be done here.
The arts and time in nature have both been proven to increase the quality of life, and that is what JSP wants to bring to Kentucky communities.
“When artistic experiences and connecting with nature become regular practices in our lives, they can be powerful tools to support our mental and physical health — on both the individual and community levels,” said JSP’s Director of Programs and Partnerships Jeri K. Howell in a release.
JSP program offerings include:
Yoga in the Barn with The Ashventure welcomes all levels to a bi-weekly yoga class. Certified instructor Ashtin Morgan will guide participants through a one-hour class with views of blooming meadows, sculptures and woodlands from the comfort of the shaded, solid floor of JSP’s event barn. Yoga in the Barn kicks off May 30th and continues every other Saturday from 9 to 10am until October 3rd. Red Oaks Forest School Art Club at JSP welcomes all ages to spend time in nature and create art to explore participants’ feelings and deepen their observations of the world around them. This program meets year-round on the second Saturday of every month from 10am to noon. Sculpture Trail Club with WalkBike Frankfort invites the community to walk, jog, or run JSP’s 2 miles of trails that explore over 70 artworks and diverse habitats. This club meets the first Wednesday of each month, now through October, from 6 to 7pm. Artist Mollie Rabiner created a wind phone which is a disconnected phone and placed in a wooded area of JSP where visitors are invited to speak words left unsaid to loved ones they have lost, releasing thoughts, grief, love, and memory into the wind. On May 23 from 1- 3:30 p.m. at JSP, art therapist Danielle Creamer will facilitate an expressive arts grief workshop. On June 23 from 6:30-7:30 p.m., Mollie Rabiner will unveil the sculpture, inaugurating the JSP wind phone as a community space for grief and healing. JSP’s wind phone project is in partnership with the Kentucky Center for Grieving Children and Families and is supported by grants from South Arts and Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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