Workshops

Your Personal Mandala: Art, Numerology & Meditation 

Nov. 3rd, 10th & 24th 12:00-2:30pm

In-person Art School of Columbia County, NY 1198 CR-21 Ghent, NY 518-672-7140

Website  artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org

A Three-Day Workshop  7.5 hours 

What if your birthday could become a work of art? In this immersive three-day workshop, artist, author, and yoga teacher Melissa Forbes will guide participants through the creation of a personal mandala based on their birth date—bringing together art, numerology, sacred geometry, color, and meditation.Using a traditional nine-by-nine numerical square, participants will calculate two primary numbers associated with their birth date—their psychic number and destiny number—and explore the qualities and archetypes connected with each. Melissa will introduce the colors and geometric forms traditionally associated with these numbers and show how they can be translated into a personal visual language.Then the numbers become art. Over the course of the workshop, participants will construct and color their own individual mandala, learning how shape, pattern, repetition, and color can be used as tools for focus and meditation. Melissa will also introduce the use of mantra as part of the creative process, inviting participants to experience mandala-making not simply as an art project, but as a contemplative practice. Each participant will leave with a completed personal mandala to take home—a beautiful, meaningful work of art created specifically from the numbers of their own birth date

Art supplies provided