Awaken Through Beauty
awakenthroughbeauty.com
Providing elements of peace, tranquility and simplicity for you and your life!
Awaken Through Beauty is a company designed to bring relaxing, educational experiences to you, your home, garden, corporation or group.
Through art, flowers, garden design, tea ceremonies and more, Rebecca Cragg will give you the tools and customized training to enjoy:
– stress-relief through Asian art and culture
– bring to life your creativity through art and flower training
– tranquility through experiences designed to help you relax and escape the challenges of everyday life.
Rebecca Cragg has been working in arts training and education for 20 years and has a strong background in Asian culture.
Artist
Rebecca’s works have been featured in art galleries as well as books and frequently illustrates poetry. Her art is available through Redbubble.com.
Author
She is the author of 3 colouring books: the Four Noble Ones (available on Amazon), Earth Beauty, Gentle Flowers as well as books on Tea Ceremony including Tea Ceremony Bowls of Canada and Tea Ceremony Journal in addition to the garden design book Interior Zenscaping.
Instructor
Rebecca offers instruction in a wide-variety of Asian arts for private individuals as well as groups of all sizes.
Background
After completing a decade of university studies at Trent and McGill in cultural anthropology, museum studies and language instruction, Rebecca lived in Japan from 1998 – 2005 and returned to work at the Embassy of Japan followed by a year as Executive Director of Ottawa’s Asian Heritage Month Society where she created and coordinated over 70 events.
Her strengths include education, communication, curriculum, programme design and presentation. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Japanese and is trained in 10 traditional Asian arts including tea ceremony (Chanoyu and Sencha Do), Ikebana flower arranging, ink brush painting, calligraphy, bamboo flute, martial arts (Tae Kwon Do and Karate), the art of sweets, incense ceremony and zenscaping (garden design).