A mindful practice for self expression

. LEARN . CREATE . MEDITATE .

Invest a moment in time and allow your mind the freedom to express, with no judgment in a safe supportive environment.
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This is not a colouring in class – You will be creating your very own personal Mandala. I will teach you the fundamental principles behind making a Mandala and guide you through this mindful practice, allowing your mind the freedom to express your individual personality.

Mandala Therapy
Art making for the purpose of transcendence, mindfulness, and wellness.
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Traditionally, the mandala is used as a meditation tool to search for the meaning of self. This often requires a study of this diagram which we may call the “personality” – the part of ourselves which bares witness to our vast invisible potential.

The very nature of creating a mandala is therapeutic and symbolic. The shapes and colours you create in your mandala art therapy will reflect your inner self at the time of creation. Using ones instinct and feeling should inspire and guide you through the process of creation.

Ultimately, you will be creating a portrait of yourself. Whatever you are feeling at that time, whatever emotions are coming through, will be represented in your mandala art therapy.

Once you have enjoyed creating your mandala, it has already served its purpose for you. We will together learn to the laws of impermanence and step into the wonderful world of “process art”
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Your Mandala is a representation of you. A snapshot – a brief moment in time spontaneously expressed through your unique personal mandala.
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Your facilitator ♥
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Stephanie June Ellis has been working as a professional artist for the past 10 years and is a qualified colour therapist .
Her creative practice aims to transcend viewers beyond the physical world and encourage a wider vision of awareness through spiritual and enchanted themes. By exploring symbolic references, she plays among geometric and organically formed abstract patterns influenced by vibration, energy, light.

For now, Stephanie currently resides between Australia and Bali, deepening her daily self practice and engaging with local communities offering a safe space for people to visually express themselves, adorn their homes and their bodies, to contemplate spirituality, to heal, re-frame, transform and relate.

A note from your facilitator
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“I have always thought & believed art should be offered and accessible to everyone, its not about grades, technique. it’s about self expression. Visual art is extremely therapeutic, euphoric and joyful. I have been experimenting with the concept of Mandalas and how process art offers something that is not too scary; it feels more free and safe. As soon as a feeling of trust takes over, people respond with powerful unique creations. Their minds unfold rapidly, reflecting and shedding the chatter along with their personality and current emotional state …Someone once said that The mind is a good servant but a bad master; Humans are so tied up in our minds we tend to lose our senses. By collaborating with art and nature, we gift our senses the time and space to listen.”

“Essentially – the point can’t be explained in words because art is not words – but after a while you will understand the point
and that point will be the art itself.”
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XOX
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