Today I ran a workshop for a few former students using energy breath work from QiGong and basic energy healing principles used in Reiki practice. I've been a Reiki practitioner for about twenty years. They then made mandalas using oil pastels and we talked about the results together looking at the mandala as a template for their lives and where they might be struggling and where they could make change.
This is always an exercise I enjoy.
Mandala or Sankrit for "sacred circle,"represents our oldest archetype the circle; symbol of the sun, the moon, the cycle of life, even the eyes in our mother's face when we are infants. To work within a circle is inherently healing.
Buddhist monks and native American shaman know this. The circle is considered a spiritual space for healing and change.
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| Kalachakra - Wheel of Life |
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| Medicine Wheel |
The circle, and its allied form the spiral, are found in plentitude in nature and represent the natural tendency for forward movement, growth and change inherent in life.
Energy generally takes a spiral form in terms of growth. This can be seen in DNA and many natural forms. The spiral illustrates a famous number sequence - demonstrated by Fibonacci in which each number in a series is the sum of the previous two: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc...
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| Nautilus demonstrates Fibonacci's Number Sequence |
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| Cabbage |
To make a mandala is simple. All you need to start is a circle and allow the change to follow.
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