Create your own Mandala while learning about and experiencing the attitudes of mindfulness. Additionally, you will enjoy a mindful-movement practice and a restorative-rest session enhanced by sound medicine. All materials are provided. No prior yoga experience is required.

We will practice asanas and be taught to create a mandala to practice the Yogic concepts of dharana (concentration) and dhyana (meditation). It’s impossible to ‘empty’ the mind, but we can train it to become so completely absorbed with one thing that we lose all sense of time and space. This is the process of dharana and dhyana.

A mandala is a spiritual and ritual symbol. It can be understood in two different ways: externally as a visual representation of the universe, or internally as a guide to connect with universal energy. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the belief is that by entering the mandala and proceeding towards its center, you are guided through the cosmic process of transforming the universe from one of suffering into one of joy and happiness.

Workshop Schedule:

- Philosophy, dotting instruction, & applying our first layer of paint

- Gentle asana practice

- Applying our second layer of paint

- Restorative asanas with sound medicine

$40 includes all supplies: circular stone, dotting tools, paint, and a surface on which to paint.

Participation is limited to 15 people, thank you.

At The Yoga Place on Wise Ave. NW (not Yoga Central).