Your workshop host
Debra Esterhuizen - Psych.BSc.
Professional Felt Artist and Wellbeing Practitioner.
Workshop and Retreat Designer, Art Teacher, Meditation and forest bathing teacher.
Formerly a Cognitive Psychologist specialising in childhood attentional deficits, Debra left academia to pursue her passion for felt making which she discovered on her travels to Nepal in 2002.
Debra now works part-time from her studio in Appleby, Cumbria, where you can find a fabulous Aladdin's cave full of colour, textures and creative energy. Here Debra runs in person workshops in Felt Making, (felt art, 3 D felt - slippers, vessels, bags and Nuno felting, Needle felting, Spinning and dyeing fibres). Her classes are suitable for both beginners and experts.
As well as workshops, Debra's Felt Making Retreats in the Lake District UK , Norway, and the French Alps are very successful and many clients have returned again and again. As well as felt making, there are Yoga, Meditation classes for anxiety reduction and forest bathing but still leaving plenty of time for rest and discovery. Fabulous locally sourced home cooked fare and great fun to be enjoyed with kindred spirits in stunning locations to suit all budgets.
Debra also has an online felting school where you can learn everything there is to know about felt making as well as a you tube channel -Debra's Felt Studio. See below for information and how to join or click the subscribe button.
Felt making is Alchemy in the making, allowing people to access deeper thoughts and feelings allowing emotions to settle. It is extremely grounding and healing. No experience necessary.