We are going to display and give away the Circles of Love our mandala classes have created. They were originally made with the intention of projecting love, light, peace and healing to the friends and families of New Town, Connecticut. That intention has grown and we now make and give the Circles of Love...Read More

“Let’s make a Grand Sextile Mandala on the beach,” I emailed mandala-making friends. They showed up with flowers, herbs and shells on July 29, 2013 at 12:12 PM. After a short ceremony, declaring our intention of expansion of divine consciousness in our own lives and on the planet with the mandala, we began. I had...Read More

When a student sent me an email about the Grand Sextile planetary alignment on July 29, 2013, I got a message from my spirit guides to participate and to invite others to participate with me. This event has very positive, harmonious and beautiful aspects which we can participate in if we choose. It will be...Read More

Allow Me To Introduce Myself! She would introduce herself if she could. This is Zelda, a blue jay who has captured our hearts. She has trained us to feed her peanuts, waiting patiently every morning at our back door for one, or two or three!  She takes the peanuts from our hands and, when she...Read More

    On the last day of the Watercolor Flower Mandala class everyone brought fresh flowers and foliage and we made a big flower mandala on the floor and added our individual “seeds” to it. We made and painted seeds of ourselves to exchange with each other like gardeners do with their seeds and bulbs....Read More

Want to create your own Circle of Love? This is a step by step process to show you how to make one of your own. These are instructions for how I did the one shown, but you can do one however you want. To begin, gather your materials.       You Will Need the...Read More

I created the Seed Exchange Project many years ago and it is reprinted from my book below.  I have always had a fascination with the potential within a seed. The project was to paint and make “seeds” of ourselves and exchange them in class with each other. We then incorporated the seeds into our mandalas....Read More

When the members of our mandala class heard about the events in Connecticut we wanted to do something. We began making small mandalas of love, light, peace and healing for the victims and families.  We took inspiration from the small “seed” mandalas we do in class which are painted mandalas representing our individual positive seed...Read More

I had a class in which 5 of the 8 participants were breast cancer survivors. But Yoriko’s cancer had metastasized, although she looked healthy and happy. She enjoyed coming to the next mandala class announcing that after she’d started painting mandalas she went off all her heavy medications. She said she was doing mandalas for...Read More

I was finally able to visit Prague where both my grandfather and great grandfather were born. Besides connecting with my ancestry, I wanted to heal an old wound they suffered from the church. My dad had told me the story of how my great grandfather, Josef, who was a blacksmith, was asked by his priest...Read More