| The Mandala
Experience is a Experiential workshop that grew out of a series of 20
workshops held in Newmarket in 2005 (initialized
on May 4th 2005). It is an exercise in
community building through creativity and also an exercise in creating
sacred space for the individual and the group. |
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| A very important
element of the Mandala Experience is the use of live music to
create a "feedback loop" between sound and image -musician and drawer.
In this workshop the mandalas are drawn and also played as the
participants switch back and forth between different modes of expression
to explore how the "mandala" (or the act of creating one) is actually an
act of Self - of self exploration and expression. |
| The purpose of
mandala drawing (and playing) is the process. The geometric
structure of the mandala provides the safe "matrix" within which to
create and express. Many participants report feeling elated afterwards.
This is most likely due to the fact that in the act of creation,
in the process of self-expression we actually encounter
ourselves-sometimes hidden parts of self that are brought forward into
consciousness. |
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