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A classically trained yogini and artist, she leads
mandala workshops that facilitate mental healing, spiritual awakening, and
expression of our “authentic Luminous Self” (or soul). Her innovative method
merges the understanding of Western materialistic science, with the Eastern
spiritual science of consciousness, as well as sacred art, meditation, and
transpersonal psychology. By using meditative techniques from cross-cultural
mystical traditions, her students learn to focus spiritual energies to express
inspired creative states to awaken and reflect the Luminous Self.
Alex’s
paintings have appeared in a number of venues, including Newsweek
magazine; the Discovery Channel; the album art of music groups such as Tool,
Beastie Boys, and Nirvana; and are chronicled in: Transfigurations,
Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey, and the philosophical text, The
Mission of Art. Allyson
Grey's paintings
have been exhibited widely in solo and group
exhibitions in cities across the U.S., including at the Stux Gallery and O.K.
Harris Gallery in New York City and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Her artwork is part of many corporate and
private collections, and includes commissions of permanent public works such as
a 24-foot mural at the First
Bank of Lowell, Massachusetts and a large scare oil painting installation in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has
taught at the Boston Museum School, at Tufts University, and at Omega Insitute
in New York. Allyson
describes her work as “a journey, each painting leading to ideas about the
next.”
CoSM provides a public exhibition of the Sacred Mirrors and the most outstanding works of mystical art by Alex Grey. The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is a 501(c)(3) organization, supported solely by charitable donations from the community and is located upstairs from Spirit New York.
Pieter
Weltevrede, illustrator of The
Birth of the Ganga, The Monkeys and the Mango Tree, Ayurvedic Massage, and Chakras,
is a trained
social scientist with an advanced degree. He has studied the tantric practice of
yantra painting with Harish Johari, Master Chandra Bal, and Suresh Johari.
He has been recognized and support by the Dutch government as a Master Artist and has displayed his works at many exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. Weltevrede is an associated artist of the Sanatan Society, an international networking association of students of the late Harish Johari, joining efforts to promote his teachings of Hindu philosophy, yoga, tantra, worship, painting, and love.
Paul
Heussenstamm
is a well-known teacher, lecturer, and fourth-generation artist who helps people
“discover their soul” through his mandala paintings and “Art as a
Spiritual Path” workshops. He teaches out of his studio (the “Mandala
Studio”) in Laguna Beach, California, and in areas across the world. In
his workshops, participants (regardless of experience) learn to open their
natural creativity through art, music, meditation, and ritual, and discover
their personal symbols for transformation, healing, growth, and artistic
development. The
resulting mandalas are “maps of the psyche” or pathways to the soul,
allowing for deeper understandings and new experiences. He describes the soul as
“a circle with a unique combination of color and intensity.
We are all circles on the great mandala, and by changing the intensity of
the color, we clarify the fullness of each circle.”
Bryant Holsenbeck
has an environmentally-conscious approach to creating mixed media sculptures, by using only recycled materials. A
modern “hunter-gatherer”, she collects man-made items that have been
discarded, such as paper, bottle caps, credit cards, pencils, chopsticks,
buttons, computer components, and even car parts. The resulting “eco-art” is
both beautiful and educational, as it “addresses the whole message of
recycling,” by showing the amount of waste people can produce. Like
traditional mandalas, her impermanent (glue-less) designs are disassembled after
being viewed.
The author of several books, Dr. Houston was the protégé of the late anthropologist Margaret Mead, who instructed her in the works of organizations and power structures in many different cultures. With the late mythologist Joseph Campbell, Jean Houston frequently co-led seminars and workshops aimed at understanding interrelationships between ancient myths and modern societies. Additionally, she
and her associates have created the International
Institute for Social Artistry
which will be implementing training programs in social artistry in many
countries and in association with the United Nations Development Program.
Gaia Star World Artists Bonnie Bell and David Todd have developed a technique of creating mandalas by combining nature with technology. They believe that the living essence of the Earth can be seen and felt by looking closely into the patterns in natural objects, such as rocks, flowers, or feathers. They photograph and scan these elements, and then, “using the computer as a painter uses a brush,” they layer and amplify them into beautiful, detailed images. The exquisite mandalas that are the result embody the whole Earth (Gaia) and Spirit (“Star-presence”), and are therefore called GaiaStar Mandalas.
Alex
Stark is an internationally recognized consultant, advisor,
and teacher on issues of creativity, efficiency, and healing. A graduate of the
Yale University of Architecture, he is a practitioner of Feng Shui and oriental
geomancy and astrology. As such, he advises on issues of designs and placement
for homes, businesses, health care facilities, industry, land development, and
government, as well as on personal and institutional transformation. A native of Peru, he is also a student of
shamanism, an ancient tradition that is based on reverence to the Earth and
reciprocity between all living beings. For thousands of years shamanism has
developed techniques for seeing into the deeper truth hidden within the worlds
of matter and idea. It therefore is a powerful tool for creating balance,
integration, and health.
Neil
Tetkowski creates art that communicates beyond cultural barriers and has led
many public art performances, lectures, and workshops throughout the world. He
is the founder and director of the Common Ground World Project, an international
non-governmental organization (officially endorsed by the United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs) that uses the arts and education to focus attention
on global environmental concerns.
Artist and architect Pierre Wittmann has created a system of using the powerful healing energy of light and colors. He has embraced the belief that all living and material things are “connected to the source of cosmic energy” and radiate an unseen aura of colored light and energy. He has incorporated this belief into his artwork, by constructing mandala designs made from pillars of colored light beams in public and private places. Simply walking through these invisible designs can have a powerful effect on a person. These mandalas, made from invisible light and projected into any area (indoors or outdoors), are part of a new form of “extra-sensory art”.
A student of Vedic Astrology and an experienced teacher of many subjects, Mavis is one of only a few persons living in the US, with over two decades of training in this sacred art, combined with a devotion to teach others. Her sadhana consists of painting yantras and deities and helping others through this transformational art form. She is also a childbirth educator and works as a doula, specializing in post-partum care.
Margaret (Peggy) Nash Rubin is Founding Director of the Center for Sacred Theatre in Ashland, Oregon. Primary activities of the Center include the creation of workshops in Living Life as Sacred Theatre, and Sacred Studies of the Divine Feminine. She is also the principal teaching associate of Jean Houston, Ph.D. in her worldwide multicultural transformational work and in her schools of spiritual studies, as well as a member of the core faculty of the School for Social Artistry. For fourteen years, Peggy was the Public Information and Education Director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Trish Broersma has been a designer of books and award-winning publications for over 30 years. She believes that communication - the art of stepping back and forth across boundaries that separate us - is critical to building a better world, and her Macintosh is a portal for entering and building the web that connects us all. You can view her portfolio at www.greenhorsegraphics.com and www.incahootsdesign.com.
Master Mantak Chia was born in Bangkok, Thailand and was recognized very early for having great potential for spiritual development. He was initiated into meditation practices by Buddhist monks at the age of 6. While studying in Hong Kong, he learned Tai Chi Chuan, Aikido, and Kundalini Yoga from a variety of teachers. His pursuit of Taoist teachings lead him to meet the White Cloud Hermit, a Taoist Master originally from Central China, living at that time in the mountains not far from Hong Kong.
The Universal Tao system is a practical system of self-cultivation and spiritual development, in which students learn to take personal responsibility for their own physical, emotional, and spiritual well being. Taught by over 1000 Certified Instructors and Practitioners on every continent, the Universal Tao provides access to a uniquely modern integration of traditional theory, method and practice.
The Gyuto
Tantric University
is
one of the most outstanding monasteries of Tibet and it is the place for
studying Buddhist philosophy, Tantric meditations, and ritual arts. The Gyuto
monastery and the monks are well known in Tibet and were always admired by the
Tibetan community, because of their services to their people. Traditional
Tibetan tantric monks are believed to be healers through their ritual
performance activities. One of the main disciples of Lama Tsongkhapa, Jetsun
Kunga Dhondup, founded the Gyuto monastery in 1474 in Eastern Tibet. Between 1474 and 1959, the Gyuto monks made their home in Lhasa’s Ramoche Temple. In 1959, the Ramoche Temple was severely damaged by Chinese communists and their sympathizers following their violent occupation of Tibet. The Gyuto monks and many Tibetans had to flee to India, where the Gyuto monastery was reestablished. Despite many difficulties in the new settlement they still managed to practice and educate over 400 monks, mostly young refugees from Tibet. The Gyuto monastery is currently located in Sidhbari, near Dharmasala (the home of his Holiness the Dalai Lama).
If
you are interested in sponsoring a monk or making a donation, please contact
Venerable Thupten Donyo at the Center at (408) 926-9430 or email to info@gyutocenter.org,
and he will be more than happy to give you more information about the monastery,
or the monks. The
Gyuto Vajrayana Center is
a non-profit organization [501(c)3] and all donations are tax-deductible.
People of all backgrounds are welcome to join the World Peace Prayer Society. Membership is free; all that is asked is to take the prayer "May Peace Prevail on Earth" into your heart and make it part of your life. For more info or to join the World Peace Prayer Society: click here
In 1986 the group moved into its current location at Levittown Hall in Hicksville, NY. Today, the Eyes of Learning is dedicated to providing members, and the public at large, a broad-based exposure to a variety of philosophies. It does this by offering quality instruction in a diverse base of subjects (being very careful not to endorse any one belief over another) including: feng shui, ESP, UFOs, reincarnation, angels, astral travel, tarot, aromatherapy, astrology, channeling, reiki, crystals, alternative healing, mediumship, spirit guides, numerology, mental telepathy, meditation, primordial sound, tai chi, and more!
Co-op America publishes the National Green Pages, the only nationwide directory of screened, socially, and environmentally responsible businesses coast to coast. In it, you can find practical products that meet your everyday needs from food to clothing to housewares. Fishrock.Studio's most recent software instrument, KALEIDICA™
is used to create a dramatic new type of kaleidoscopic and symmetrical art.
KALEIDICA art can be displayed as high resolution print art, recorded and played
back instantly as animated art, or performed as real-time light-show art with
music, dance, poetry, and other performance media. With KALEIDICA you can make
sacred mandalas, star patterns, intricate mazes, magic circles, mirror imagery,
and ancient magical diagrams called yantras. KALEIDICA can be enjoyed by
children just learning to use the computer, live light show performers, and
advanced graphic artists who work in print and animation media. It can also
create inspirational imagery for meditation, prayer, and guided visualization.
Windows and Macintosh compatible.
Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children 18 years and younger suffering from long-term medical hair loss. They use donated hair to create high quality hair prosthetics in order to restore self-esteem and confidence in these children - enabling them to face the world and their peers. Over 2,000 hair donations are received through the mail each week (80% of which come from children). For more information on how to make a donation: click here To view photos taken at our own Locks of Love hair donations: click here
Omega is not aligned with any particular healing method or spiritual tradition. Their programs feature all of the world's wisdom traditions and are committed to offering people an opportunity to explore their own path to better health, personal growth, and inner peace.
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health was founded by Yogi Amrit Desai in 1966 as the Yoga Society of Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization providing yoga classes and training for yoga teachers. The name of the Society was later changed to Kripalu Yoga Fellowship, the nonprofit and charitable organization that still operates Kripalu Center. Today Kripalu Center is an institution where people can come to discover what it means to be fully human and fully alive through a nonsectarian and non-dogmatic approach to yoga. Its mission is to promote the art and science of yoga as a foundation for a revitalized society.
Mount Madonna Center is a conference and retreat center located on 355 acres of mountain-top redwood forest and grassland overlooking Monterey Bay, between Santa Cruz and Monterey, in Northern California. The Center is a community designed to nurture the creative arts and the health sciences within a context of personal and spiritual growth, inspired by Baba Hari-Dass and sponsored by the Hanuman Fellowship, a group whose talents and interests are unified by the common practice of Yoga. They offer a supportive community atmosphere for relaxation, reflection, and a wide variety of learning experiences. |
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