Connect & Create: This Land: Many Stories, Many Landscapes

with Larissa Noto of The Lovely Little Lotus

As the sun sets on the fall, let's look forward to what winter offers. This season provides a natural invitation to slow down, nourish, and reflect. Join Larissa Noto of The Lovely Little Lotus for a creative, mindful experience inspired by the rhythms and textures of the winter season.

Through mindful breathing, gentle movement, soothing winter soundscape, and looking closely at art, we’ll explore the depth that may be underneath the landscapes around us and within our own lives. When we slow down and soften, we can create space for so much more. Participants will be invited to reflect on how best to honor winter's rhythms more fully; Larissa will be providing participants with a journal to help support the natural rhythm of the season with guided prompts to inspire creativity and reflection during this season.

Finally, we’ll bring these reflections into a hands-on artmaking experience, creating a mixed-media “Winter Landscape” inspired by the colors, textures, and transitions of winter,  as well as the artworks on view in the This Land and ViewFinder exhibitions on view at LUAG.

No prior art or mindfulness experience is necessary. Come as you are, take a breath, and make space to connect with yourself, others, and the changing season.

Space is limited to 12 participants. Advance registration is encouraged.

If you require assistance filling out this form, prefer to share your registration information via email or phone, or have questions, concerns, or any accessibility needs, please email Elise at ejs421@lehigh.edu or call 610-758-6882.

Larissa R. Noto, JD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP, is a longtime yoga and mindfulness practitioner, teacher, trainer, and certified Yoga Therapist who has spent the last 30 years exploring the connection between breath, body, mind, and everyday life. A former school teacher and lawyer, Larissa now shares yoga, meditation, and mindfulness with people of all ages and abilities. She considers writing, art, and music to be forms of mindfulness, as well as creative practices that invite us to slow down, pay attention, express ourselves, and connect more deeply to the present moment. Her work has been featured in Yoga Journal, MSN, NPR, PBS Kids, Yoga Love Magazine, and Lehigh Valley Style. When Larissa isn't sharing the art of mindful movement with others,  Larissa is a wife, mom of three boys, children’s book author, professor, breast cancer survivor, and special needs advocate.

Connect & Create workshops offer a brief exploration and creative conversation around a work of art from the LUAG collection, followed by a hands-on activity and/or creative response led by a local teaching artist or student educator.