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Stories and Insights from Michele Faia

Michele Faia’s Blog

Welcome to my blog. Wow, there are so many stories to tell! Having always been a person who has never been at a loss for words, this is exciting. No one can tell me to sit down and be quiet! I always liked “show and tell” and I don’t think you will be bored. So watch here.

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12
Jun

BEACH MANDALA WASHES AWAY

The Final Project: At the end of our last mandala class for the spring, The Delight of Watercolor Mandalas, some of the class met at the beach to create a beach mandala. We all brought flowers, leaves and natural objects to create an impermanent mandala which would be washed away by the tide. The Flower...
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24
Feb

MY MANDALA & THE BRUGES MADONNA

  We saw The Monuments Men movie the other night and loved it, especially the story about the safe return of the stolen Bruges Madonna to the Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium at the end of World War II. What a story! What an influence that Madonna had on me. (And I do...
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08
Jan

THE DRAGONFLY MESSAGE

Magic and Messages Everywhere My husband and I took a recent trip to LA to see some art and said, “Let’s have a magical trip and look for magic and messages everywhere!” When we arrived we parked next to a car with a Flower of Life symbol on its back window. Several of us in...
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17
Oct

ADD YOUR CIRCLES TO OUR CIRCLES

  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 They were originally made with the intention of projecting love, light, peace and healing to the friends and families of New Town, Connecticut.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...
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05
Aug

GRAND SEXTILE BEACH MANDALA

“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...
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22
Jul

OUR MANDALAS IN THE GRAND PLANETARY ALIGNMENT

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...
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08
Jul

Zelda the Jay and the Peanut Mandala

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...
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03
Jul

BIG FLOWER MANDALA & LITTLE SEEDS

    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....
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07
May

HOW TO MAKE A CIRCLE OF LOVE

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...
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