Giving Back: A Conversation with Atira Tan – founder of Art to Healing

Art to Healing is a not-for-profit organisation which supports women and girls who have been impacted by sex slavery. Through expressive art therapies and awareness-based practices (including yoga), women and girls are empowered with resources to heal themselves and each other.

Our Bliss Baby Yoga Marketing Manager, Beth Ivy Buxton, spoke to Founding Director, Atira Tan, about how Art to Healing came about and the important work they do.

 

Supporting ‘Art to Healing’ with your purchase of ‘Moving with the Moon’

10% of all profits from the sale of ‘Moving with the Moon – Yoga, Movement and Meditation for Every Phase of Your Menstrual Cycle and Beyond’ by Ana Davis (and accompanying audio tracks) are donated to Art to Healing, a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates the recovery of women and girls globally who have been impacted by sex slavery.

To learn more about Art to Healing visit: www.arttohealing.org/

To donate to Art to Healing visit: www.arttohealing.org/donate/

To learn more about Ana Davis’s approach to yoga for your cyclical, feminine life, or to purchase a copy of ‘Moving with the Moon’, visit: www.movingwiththemoon.com/

 

Atira Tan is the Founding Director of Art to Healing. With over fifteen years of experience working with trauma-informed approaches to healing (including Expressive Art Therapies, Somatic Experiencing, Yoga and Mindfulness), Atira has a deep commitment and passion for empowering and healing women and girls globally from the inside out. Hailing from Singapore, she has a deep understanding of Asian cross-cultural women’s issues through her own journey of recovery and empowerment from gender discrimination and domestic violence. In addition to her work at Art to Healing, Atira has worked as a clinician and supervisor in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region in the contexts of psycho-social care, mental health services, disaster relief, community health and as an higher educator in Transpersonal Art Therapy in Australia. She is also in private practice, specialising in sexual abuse recovery.

Beth Ivy Buxton joined the Bliss Baby Yoga team as Social Media and Marketing Manager in 2019. She has a dual passion for both marketing and women’s wellbeing, and has worked to support mothers and children for over 15 years. Beth teaches women’s and prenatal yoga classes in Auckland, NZ (find her at Moon Mamma).