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May 2024
Healing House Debuts in Los Angeles with SLS Hotel Beverly Hills
Artist and energy healer Britt Michaelian presents paintings & energy healing modalities in partnership with the luxury & wellness hotel
Beverly Hills, CA – Artist and energy healer Britt Michaelian debuts her art and wellness event Healing House at SLS Hotel Beverly Hills on May 19, 2024, from 3:00 – 6:00 PM. Michaelian will present 20 new paintings in an exhibition, co-curated by Frederick Janka and Wienholt Projects, alongside guided energy healing modalities, including meditations, reiki group healing, sound bathes and a sacred tea ceremony.
Healing House is an annual art and wellness event in which Michaelian and guests co-create a guided visualization, experience the sensations of innovative art, receive healing, and celebrate gratitude through a variety of energy healing modalities. Healing House serves as an introduction to a growing movement in energy healing and stimulating one’s energetic body to find balance, with Michaelian becoming a leading voice in the intersection between energy healing and art.
“When we heal ourselves, we heal the world. Healing House provides a community atmosphere for guests to raise their frequency through meditation, healing art, and reiki so they leave with a sense of calm and peace that ripples out into the world. It’s a beautiful thing for wellness enthusiasts, art collectors, and anyone looking to do good things that benefit the self and others.” – Britt Michaelian
With a background in art therapy, studying art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and working with recovering patients, Michaelian’s unique work centers healing as a daily practice and integral part of creativity. Amongst her other certifications, Michaelian is a Usui and Karuna Ki Reiki master teacher and BQH quantum healing hypnosis practitioner.
Michaelian will exhibit 20 abstract paintings that combine practices like reiki, quantum healing, sound bathes, as well as sacred rituals and materials, many of which are natural, like powdered crystals and non-toxic plant-based acrylics.
This year’s Healing House will take place at SLS Hotel Beverly Hills, voted #1 hotel in Los Angeles by Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2023. Guests will receive a free gift bag followed by several healing modalities, including healing frequency sound, sound bathes with crystal sound bowls, meditation and group reiki healing, a disco dance party, nourishing refreshments, and a gratitude tea ceremony. Marcello Shriman of the Akhanda Institute in Rishikesh, India will lead a meditation for healing. Holistic mental and emotional health digital studio WellSet, a sponsor of this year’s Healing House, will be providing each guest a month of access to the WellSet app. Michaelian will also host an interview with Jesse Stirling, host and producer of “Meetings with Remarkable People.” Kelly Noonan Gores, director of the documentary film Heal and author of Heal: Discover Your Unlimited Potential and Awaken the Powerful Healer Within, will be recording an interview with Michaelian for an episode of her podcast live at Healing House.
The event is free. Please RSVP to attend.
Details
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Date: May 19, 2024
Time: 3:00 – 6:00 PM PT
Location: Garden and Terrace Room, SLS Hotel, Beverly Hills
465 La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048
About Britt Michaelian
Britt Michaelian is an artist and healer. Her painting practice incorporates sacred processes and rituals, such as prayer and intention setting, powdered minerals, soil from energy vortexes, healing frequencies, the use of herbs and essential oils, sacred geometry, and quantum healing to create meditative abstract works that explore the theme of Universal life force energy while transmitting healing energy to the viewer.
Michaelian received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduate degrees in Art Therapy and Marriage and Family Therapy, and a certification as an expressive arts therapist in the hospital setting. The culmination of these studies, especially art therapy, led to her current practice that seeks to combine art and healing practices. Her art has been exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, and more, and is in private collections around the world.
Michaelian is an Usui and Karuna Ki Reiki master teacher and BQH quantum healing hypnosis practitioner. She is also the host of The Daily Healing podcast, which launched its second season in December 2023.
She currently lives and works in Southern California.
Website: https://www.brittmichaelian.art/
Instagram: @brittmichaelian
About the SLS Beverly Hills Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel
Situated at the crossroads of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, the SLS Beverly Hills is where luxury and imagination intertwine, creating a tapestry of award-winning services and magical moments for locals and visitors alike. Designed by the venerable Philippe Starck, the custom interiors of SLS Beverly Hills are a testament to creativity and innovation, showcasing Starck’s visionary touch. Voted the #1 Los Angeles Hotel by Conde Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards, the whimsical destination offers 297 curated rooms and suites ranging from private and open floor layouts and outdoor terraces with city and garden-view balconies; 24-hour in-room dining service; tranquil rooftop pool with panoramic views of the city; 24-hour fitness center including Technogym and Peloton equipment; full-service Ciel Spa; and Wasp in a Wig, a speakeasy tucked behind a discreet glass wall inside the lobby. Inspired by the lost chapter of Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass,” Wasp in a Wig is a contemporary take on the traditional speakeasy with the aim of transporting visitors to another world. In 2024, the hotel is set to unveil a fully reimagined rooftop experience, featuring breathtaking views across the surrounding cityscape, as well as two cutting-edge culinary concepts from Hive Hospitality, the masterminds behind Michelin-starred JÔNT and Bresca in Washington, DC. An enchanting story waiting to be discovered, the SLS Beverly Hills invites you to embark on a journey that will leave you spellbound.
Website: https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/laxls-sls-hotel-a-luxury-collection-hotel-beverly-hills/overview/
Instagram: @slsbeverlyhills
About Frederick Janka
Frederick Janka is a queer Latinx arts advocate and cultural producer based in Santa Barbara, California, on the unceded traditional lands of the Chumash. He specializes in organizing and fundraising for artists and exhibitions, advocating for the preservation of cultural resources, and centering Black, Brown, and Indigenous solidarity as a practice of healing.
With close to 20 years in the contemporary art world, his vast experience in administrative, fundraising, and curatorial roles at galleries, museums, and arts nonprofits in the US and Mexico include Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, SculptureCenter, New Art Dealer’s Alliance and the NADA Art Fair, among others. His current roles include Board President of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, cohort member of the Readying The Museum initiative, and co-founder of JC Connelly, an independent arts consultancy.
Instagram: @sezfreddy
About Kelly Noonan Gores, founder of HEAL with Kelly, Producer, Director and Podcast Host
Kelly Gores is an entrepreneur, writer, director, and producer. She gained recognition for her award-winning documentary HEAL (2017) which explores the power of the mind-body connection and the body’s natural healing capabilities. In 2019, Kelly authored the follow-up book, HEAL: Discover Your Unlimited Potential and Awaken the Powerful Healer Within.
She is also the host of HEAL with Kelly, a podcast that inspires, reveals tools, and shares personal stories of the body’s ability to heal. Through the HEAL brand, she aims to empower people by sharing knowledge about the remarkable ability and intelligence of the human body to expand our belief of what’s possible and become conscious co-creators with our lives.
Instagram: @kellygores
About WellSet
WellSet is the first digital studio providing access to affordable holistic wellness. They have over 20 different holistic modalities such as hypnotherapy, breathwork, Ayurveda, myofascial release, acupressure, eft/tapping and more taught live and on demand by curated instructors.
Website: https://www.wellset.co/
Instagram: @wellsetco
About Wienholt Projects
Aubrie Wienholt founded Wienholt Projects in 2023, following a 10+ year history of working with artists, galleries, museums, and other institutions. Wienholt Projects is committed to producing nontraditional exhibitions of works that interrogate and forward the field of art. Drawing from the experience of working with artists in an alternative capacity through PR for Artists, Wienholt’s creative agency and art house founded in 2015, Wienholt Projects is grounded in a unique understanding of artists’ holistic roles in society.
Website: www.wienholtprojects.com
Instagram: @wienholtprojects
