Learn the benefits & history of mandalas and the basic techniques & principles for creating your own healing mandala
HEALING MANDALAS WORKSHOP:
Intro to Creating Your Own Healing Mandala
Sunday, 1/9/09, 2:00-4:30 pm
Manifest NE Studio (nr. NE 22nd & Alberta)
$12-$30 sliding scale
FREE for Manifest Members
RSVP: Due to insufficient registrations, the Healing Mandala Workshop has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconveniece.
In this workshop you’ll learn the benefits & history of mandalas, as well as the basic techniques & principles for creating Healing Mandalas. Then we’ll do a guided meditation to receive from your unconscious the symbol(s) you’ll be working with to create your own Healing Mandala. As you’re creating your mandala, you’ll learn how to maintain a reflective meditation so the mandala creation is a dynamic, personal healing process.
DESCRIPTION
Mandalas are sacred circular designs, created using a meditative process that focuses and reflects spiritual energies. The creation of the mandala is a traditional and inspirational art form of circular drawings found practiced in every human civilization throughout history. It is a potent symbol for wholeness, harmony, and balance. The act of creating a mandala reflects an individual’s own personal creative process for centering, healing, and growth activity. It is a tool for deep self-exploration and meditation. Through this mandala workshop, participants will learn how to focus their own creative energy, using meditation and prayer, as centering tools to experience the creative and healing process of the circle. Please bring a beginners mind, an open heart, and a willingness to explore how to bring forth images of healing, challenge, loss, transformation, peace, beauty, and/or harmony. We will explore the creation of mandalas as a healing journey and exploration of our divine light experiences. The emphasis will be on process, not product, so no artistic talent or experience is necessary.
BENEFITS:
Participants will come away with basic sacred art tools to:
• Heal the mind, body, and spirit;
• Increase their individual sense of balance and wholeness;
• Enhance the use of both sides of our brain;
• Respond to life situation rather than react;
• Continue and deepen personal growth.
FACILITATOR’S EXPERIENCE & CREDENTIALS:
Vince Ferguson is a Mandala Intern currently completing certification under Judith Cornell, Ph.D, author of Mandala Healing and Mandala: Luminous Symbols for Healing. His twenty years of professional life has been diverse. It has included: Structure Mechanic for the US Air Force and a large scale aircraft manufacturer; providing public entertainment as a radio station programmer and engineer; and working within the nonprofit and Human Resources communities providing positive training atmospheres in many various subjects including Building Positive Relationships and Effective Communication.
As an artist and an expert in computer graphics, Vince has devoted energy toward the creation of Digital Mandalas – under the artist pen name of Vincent Farkasovski – and the establishment of Digital Mandala, LLC over the previous 5 years. Digital Mandala, LLC displays art and offers self esteem, confidence building workshops using the personal creation of mandalas to provide healing guidance. Workshops are offered both as drawing workshops and how to create mandalas using computer graphics programs such as Photoshop. He works with people both individually and in small groups. Vince recognizes, and strongly emphasizes, that creating mandalas is not a diagnostic mechanism, but instead, can be used as an addition to suggested healing paths. He continues to display original Digital Mandala art at various facilities throughout Portland, OR. For more information about Digital Mandala art please visit http://www.digimandala.com
WORKSHOP GOALS
The goal of this workshop is to create a safe, secure, spiritually creative atmosphere for individual participants to attain the spiritual healing they need to overcome the obstacles they face in their everyday lives.
WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES:
The Activities for this workshop will include mandala discussion, including the benefits of mandalas and history of mandalas; guided meditation; reflective meditation; and mandala creation using sacred art principles and guidance.
INFO: Vincent 503-223-8822 x1
RSVP: Sorry, we’re not taking reservations. Event has been cancelled.
