Michael Samuels

Michael Samuels

Michael Samuels, M.D .is a physician and artist. He is the founder and director of Art As a Healing Force, a project started in 1990 devoted to healing yourself, others, the community and the earth with creativity and making art and healing one. He teaches Art and Healing at San Francisco State University, Institute of Holistic Studies and John F. Kennedy University. He is a bear dancer with the Native Americans three times a year, to heal people and the earth.

Michael has used creativity, art, and guided imagery with patients with life threatening illness and life crises for over thirty years in private practice and in consultation. He lectures and does workshops nationwide for physicians, nurses, artists, and patients on how to use creativity and spirituality in healing. He has organized many nationwide conferences on creativity and healing and visited and participated in projects in hospitals where creativity, art and music are used with patients. He has networked people in the field together and is a recognized leader in art and healing. He is a sculptor and marble carver.

Michael is the author of twenty one books including the bestselling Well Body Book, Well Baby Book, Well Pregnancy Book, and the guided imagery classic Seeing With the Mind’s Eye, Creative Healing, Spirit Body Healing, The Path of the Feather, Shaman Wisdom - Shaman Healing and our new book Healing with the Arts.

For more information, please visit michaelsamuels.com.

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We are all artists, all healers- all of us can speak to spirit and listen to spirit animals, angels, spirit guides and ancestors.
November 17, 2016 /0 Comments/in

Empower Your Life with Art

November 15, 2013 /5 Comments/in

Make art and have visions. That is my gift to you today. Both art and visions are deeply healing for your whole life. Make art, anything, draw, sing, dance, write a poem, and you will find out who you are what you are to do in this life. Making art will heal your trauma and wounds. It will heal you, your family, your community and the earth. I know this is true. Make art to relax and to grow. Talk to spirit each day. You will know more about yourself and the universe if you talk to spirit. Close your… Read more.