Let’s Love Color Again! And they did! For six weeks sixteen women immersed themselves deeply into each color and explored the many, many gifts of color including healing and energy. See a few of the mandalas here. As one student once said, “These are amazing and they all swim together!”    Read More

                                              WE TAUGHT KIDS MANDALAS We asked them, what does your “inner sun” (or the light within yourself) look like, and this is what they did. My husband and I teamed up at...Read More

In this 6-week class we explored creating mandalas of the love, energy and guidance from our spirit guides or the “angels” among us—human, animal or divine—those who have helped us on our journey, or, who we have helped. We painted mandalas of the help which surrounds us, the everyday “angels” who are close to us,...Read More

These are few of the mandalas from my book Awakened By The Flowers: Channeled Messages and Watercolor Mandalas. They are being exhibited now at the Community Center in Capitola, California, so if you are unable to go to the exhibit, you can see them here, each with an excerpt from the book. The basic message...Read More

The Story about Jan Johnson Jan was a Montessori teacher and my granddaughter’s teacher for 3 years. She asked me to teach a mandala class to her 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students. Then, with no real instruction herself, other than what she observed in the classroom with the students, Jan went home and tried...Read More

The Story of Sara Kritikos Sara’s mother was taking my class and asked me if she could bring her daughter to class so she wouldn’t have to be alone. Sara had had encephalitis at birth and carried the scars physically and developmentally. I suggested that perhaps she would be interested in trying mandalas and her...Read More

The Story about Wendy Hawkins Wendy was a regular at Lane Cara Shaw’s drop-in classes, and took a class or two from me as well. She was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis as a baby, requiring her to have numerous surgeries through the years. Her body caused her so much pain and suffering. She found...Read More

The Story of Lane Cara Shaw Petite, British Lane Cara Shaw attended my mandala class when she was a young 83. After her first session, she was hooked! Following the 6-week class, she began teaching a weekly drop-in class herself, teaching the mandala as a tool for self-healing and encouraging and teaching others to teach....Read More

In this 6-week class our intention was to explore the step-by-step growth and blossoming of a lotus flower, as symbolic of the Self. In each class we would try a new sacred geometry design. On day- one we would make a mandala representing one, or the beginning, the point of energy where all begins. The...Read More

  Circles abound in my life. Maybe it’s just because I notice them, now that I paint mandalas, teach mandalas and generally my whole existence is about the Circle. On the left is a potholder my grandmother made for me out of scraps of yarn. She was always busy making something, and all of us...Read More