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Slam chinks of clay to beat stress
Updated On: 13 July, 2010 07:16 AM IST | | Malini Banerjee
Active! went to the Yellow Spider's Pottery Club to experience the stress-busting powers of kneading, wedging and moulding clay
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Active! went to the Yellow Spider's Pottery Club to experience the stress-busting powers of kneading, wedging and moulding clay
Growing up in a mining colliery of Hazaribag in Bihar (now Jharkhand), we didn't have new-age raw materials like plasticine to play with. Mud was readily available and totally free of cost, from which we'd mould different shapes and then "fire" them in an open chulha. In hindsight, those two hours of "fiddling around" were fun and
therapeutic.
Yellow Spider's Pottery Club takes this basic art form and uses it as a stress-busting mechanism. "Clay therapy is increasingly used to supplement treatment for depression and bipolar disorder. Its therapeutic benefits can last a lifetime," explains Neha Ramaiya, director of Yellow Spider's Pottery Club.
Growing up in a mining colliery of Hazaribag in Bihar (now Jharkhand), we didn't have new-age raw materials like plasticine to play with. Mud was readily available and totally free of cost, from which we'd mould different shapes and then "fire" them in an open chulha. In hindsight, those two hours of "fiddling around" were fun and
therapeutic.
Yellow Spider's Pottery Club takes this basic art form and uses it as a stress-busting mechanism. "Clay therapy is increasingly used to supplement treatment for depression and bipolar disorder. Its therapeutic benefits can last a lifetime," explains Neha Ramaiya, director of Yellow Spider's Pottery Club.
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