Nice to meet you
My name is Sophia Fernhout-Levi; I am married to Ori and am the mother of Yarden, Anna, Zohar and Shir. I am a multi-disciplinary artist and have also practiced Chinese Medicine since 2004.
I should like to invite you to enter my creative and therapeutic world – a world that links Nature, simplicity, breathing and human contact. To my studio I bring everything and anything that amazes me: the first steps of working with wool, sculpting with clay, contact with earth, the magic involved in plaiting and botanic printing on wool, clay, cloths and paper.
Personal encounters with patients and participants in workshops are an integral part of the therapy, the creativity and of course, my path. The ability to be completely present for another person, to see the magic happen and changes come about through the art as well – in one's body, one's spirit– gives me the strength to continue to search, investigate and create. The approach which guides me is based upon calmness, balance and authenticity. I believe that creating and healing – simply and naturally – can open a space in which people breathe, feel, express themselves and reconnect with themselves. My motto is simply to be, because everything begins and ends with a breath.
KIS7B – Keep it Simple & Breathe
The studio
A place to create, heal and be inspired
The Studio overlooks the Mikhmoret Nature Reserve and is situated under a mulberry tree. I have been nurturing such a space for many years, inside of me, and in 2023, it took on its physical shape. Inside, it is divided into two areas –the clinic, and the studio, and this makes it possible for me to combine two great loves: the love for creating and the love for healing.
In the clinic, I treat through Chinese medicine – acupuncture, healing herbs and touch – following the holistic precept of body and spirit, aiming at easing one's pain, reducing suffering, and bringing back a feeling of balance, calm and health.
In the Studio, I create and lead art workshops, through the use of natural and recycled materials, drawing on curiosity, freedom, listening to what is alive within us, and movement. I feel that creating does not have to be limited to one direction - there is a personal, gentle and liberated way which makes it possible for every person to express themselves at their own pace.
This space heals – whether through art or through Chinese medicine, or whether simply through a moment during which a person breathes, touches objects and once again, feels as one with him/herself.
