Healing through the Art of using a Potters Wheel

Touch is a basic human need.  We are born with the instinct to reach out and touch.  It is a universal action to touch, to feel, to experience.  Touch allows for loving energy to be transmitted.  Reaching out to touch activates the energies within the human body.   The art of touch as a healing art has been practiced for thousands of years in nearly every culture.

Healing begins when you take a clump of moist clay and put it on the potter’s wheel.  Your fingers slide across the clay as the wheel turns.  As though something magical happens, the mind and the body begin to work in complete harmony with each other.

The forming of the clay allows your mind to focus upon a natural element of the Earth.  A meditative state is entered as everything from the outside world is left aside.  The stress and tension slip away.  The forming of the clay upon the wheel releases everything that is negative and infuses through the simple art of touch a connection with the Earth.

Through the art of crafting a piece of pottery the imaginative and creative energies within you are unleashed and allowed to be expressed.  There is something special and energizing about creating something from nothing.

The healing extends long after your time at the wheel.  The experience can be relived each time the fired pottery is held.  The infusion of energy, the grounding of the spirit, and the activation of creativity can be carried throughout your day.

Customer Testimonial

Walking into Healing Touch Pottery has truly helped me to heal.  My career demands long days caring for people.  For years I cared for others and never made time for myself.  When I found out that there was a pottery studio in Hampstead, I knew it was time to start making time for me.  I can stay that since I have been throwing pottery at Healing Touch Pottery I am a better mother, wife, friend and doctor because of it.  The time spent in the studio is my time to just sit, be still, and create.  They have really helped to realize that the bumps and boulders that use to distract me from my purpose...well it's all "just clay."  Thank you Healing Touch for the vision you had to build a destination for the people in this community to come, create, and heal.

Dr. Holly Ruocco

Chiropractic First

Center for Family Health & Wellness

http://www.drholly.net/wordpress/doctors/

202 Main Street, Suite G-2
Salem, NH 03079
Phone:             603.894.5654      
Fax: 603-894-0657

Healing Benefits of Pottery

Every person is creative.  Healing is a creative and expressive process.  Working with clay on the wheel can help explore a person's creativity while they become part of a family in a safe and loving studio that has experienced and gentle employees.

The wheel begins to spin.  A lump of wet clay sits atop the wheel, your hands begin to form a mystical shape.  The mind and body synergies with the clay and universal energy it holds.  The mind begins to let the days stress wash away.  No worries, no frustrations, and no distractions - only the clay that transforms in ways that leave you in awe.

Each line, each indentation a story of the creator.  The longer the clay spins, the more relaxed and in tune the potter becomes.  It is as though the clay some how magically draws out the energy signatures that cause stress, worry, or anxiety.

Each piece of pottery created is one of a kind and made by hand on the wheel or hand crafted.  The clay is smooth to the touch.  Touching and holding the pottery during the creation process (and after the firing) is part of the healing process.  It should feel good to hold.

Working with clay on the pottery wheel can be a spiritual experience as a person connects with the clay.  As the clay is transformed in a nearly mystical way, one can find the calming and soothing nature flowing through the quartz based clay.   The natural flow of connectedness to Universal energy is only the beginning of the healing that can happen through pottery.

Whether you are brand new to pottery or a highly skilled potter, the benefits and therapy the craft provides are widespread.  Working with clay on the wheel allows for a creative expression of negative energies that strike us all.

It releases stress, shifts focus, and allows for a deeper connection through a quieting of the mind and body.  It has been shown to have positive effects for every age group, every disability and every mental dysfunction as there are no rights and wrongs in art.  It is simply a creative expression.

At Healing Touch Pottery, this is taken one step further.  All of the clays and glaze compounds are infused with various quartz and minerals allowing for the healing benefits of vibrational energy signatures to work with each individual.  Each piece is charged with Reiki energy once it is removed from the kiln, allowing for any that hold and touch it to also receive the vibrational energies of Reiki.

An afternoon at the studio at Healing Touch Pottery will transform your your thoughts and attitudes.  Come on in and experience for yourself the healing touch that pottery provides.

Healing Touch Pottery and Region 10 Community Support Services, Inc. Join Forces to Raise Awareness

Press Release

East Hampstead, NH, February 14, 2011:  Healing Touch Pottery participated in Region 10’s Community Support Services, Inc. 14^th Annual Kids Carnival.  Proceeds of the event benefit children and adults with developmental disabilities or acquired brain disorders in New Hampshire.  Region 10 Community Support Services was established as a not for profit agency to respond to the critical need for local community resources for individuals who have developmental disabilities and their families.  More information on the support services that Region 10’s Community Support Services, Inc. can be found   at http://www.region10nh.org.

Region 10 stated, “Your generosity and thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated and will not be forgotten” to Healing Touch Pottery.  Donna Rollins, owner of Healing Touch Pottery, shares in the vision of providing a community support for all individuals and often works with various not for profit organizations in sharing the healing process that can be found through pottery.  “The studio has become a community gathering place,” one recent visitor stated.  Donna Rollins shared, “the growing of a community is part of the healing process and part of the mission of Healing Touch Pottery.”

Healing Touch Pottery is located in East Hampstead, New Hampshire.  In addition to the signature mug series and other hand crafted unique pieces, the studio offers classes in using the pottery wheel, paint your own pottery, and glass fusing.  Special orders and signature pieces are available in the New Hampshire store, various distributor locations, or can be directly shipped to your location.  If you are interested in becoming a distributor for Healing Touch Pottery contact Donna Rollins at drollins@healingtouchpottery.  For further information visit www.healingtouchpottery.com or call (603)489-1893.

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