About My Mandala Workshops

Making mandalas is a spiritual practice and a spiritual practice is typically a solitary activity, even though you may be part of a group, one that helps you to grow towards your higher self through contemplation and self-reflection.

Why Make a Mandala ?

The urge to make mandalas emerges during moments of intense personal growth. Their appearance indicates a profound re-balancing process is underway in the psyche. The result of the process is a more complex and better-integrated personality.

• Mandalas can tell a story of our inner self using images, forms and colors to symbolize deeply felt feelings when words are not enough.

• By creating a Mandala we are laying down a map for finding our own way to our self. The signs are specific symbols for what we need to know and realize for our journey. By re-connecting to our story we are guided to wholeness.

• In Mandalas, the center represents the point from which everything began and the boundary is the central dot magnified or expanded. These two aspects of a Mandala represent the connection between our deep inner self and our outer world, which exist simultaneously. A Mandala therefore is a ‘complete picture’. A mandala is a picture of the process of Individuation.

• The design of the mandala is supposed to be visually appealing so as to absorb the mind in such a way that irritating thoughts are unable to get through and a spiritual essence surrounds the individual observing the mandala, which in turn allows the individual a higher consciousness or awareness, almost as though being hypnotised. This allows the busy mind to take a break while the creative mind is allowed to run free. – A meditative state.

• If you meditate using a mandala, you can experience a relaxed and connected sense of being. You may find a greater personal understanding of yourself and feel that everything in life is connected in some way.


Who can make a Mandala?

Anyone and everyone can make a Mandala.
No prior creative or art training is required.