Healing Hands

  • Healing Hands is about transforming sorrow into peace.

About Us:

Healing Hands takes us on an intimate and uplifting journey examining the art of healing and the healing power of art.

The sculptor/filmmaker, Laurie Blakely, collaborates with four non-traditional healers to explore questions about death, loss, gratitude, and joy. She creates colorful ceramic sculptures around the healers’ cast hands and asks them about their own healing journeys, how it feels when they are working with a client and how they view the healing process.

These musings and personal stories are enhanced by images of the woodland and streams outside the artist’s home. And a sound healer contributes a calming, melodic soundscape.


The Importance of Local Healers

Healing Hands is a contemplative film that explores the healing wisdom in the small rural community where the artist/filmmaker lives. The film emphasizes the importance of local healers with the belief that wise and helpful guidance can be found in almost every community.



Emotional and Spiritual Self - Healing

A health care revolution is emerging mainly based on insights from ancient traditions where healing and spirituality are linked. These ancient models come from traditions that are very much alive today—and have never been dormant (such as Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine). They are embraced by cultures worldwide and tailored to their specific needs.

The Healing Hands Starter/ producer- Laurie Blakely started this journey recently on a dreary, wintry day when melancholy and illness seemed to be sweeping the globe. The gloom was drowning her in the pain all around her. She recalls a time when there were people close to her who had persistent physiological and spiritual problems. She wondered if her artistic pursuits were still important and if they could assist to alleviate the pain she witnessed. What type of therapeutic aid may her art be?