Culture is their tool for better health

Breathe, sing, dance, draw, yoga, heal, play, rest. Eight words on the site describe the new meeting place, Hökis Hope.

In a room on Sjöskumsvägen, across from Konsthall C, entrepreneurs, Hökis residents and mothers Ida Lod, Eva Elfström and Irini Dougias Andersson gathered to realize a common dream.

We want to make people feel a little more than life. You should be allowed to do the things that make you happy. We provide tools for both children and parents, for example to learn to relax. Eva Elfstrom says there is a lot of stress and anxiety in today’s society, not least among young people.

Culture and health studio they call it. The starting point is that culture, in the form of, for example, singing, dancing and painting, has a therapeutic and health-promoting effect.

All three are domains in their specific fields: Ida Lod is a percussion teacher and sound therapist.

I work a lot with music through body and movement, she says.

Children’s and family choirs, voice therapy and children’s singing are part of what it offers. The idea of ​​the latter is that it should be as healing for mothers as it is fun for children.

– I’m a mother myself and I know how annoying it can be. She says that the sound has great healing power.

Breathing and drawing

Eva Elfström is naprapat certified, but has more strings in her ukulele.

“I’m interested in the emotional body: how events of stress and turmoil can stabilize the body in the form of tension and blockage,” she says.

You describe it as a lot of us walking around in body armor. Its role is to help us get rid of them.

It does this through a system known in English as bioenergetic respiration and shock release. It consists, among other things, of breathing exercises, body movements, sound, touch and meditation. According to Eva Elfstrom, it is above all about orientation to conscious existence and security in the body.