I spent most of 1991 in the then Living Waters Centre in the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, Australia. It was run by Ahrara Bhakti.
I was an ‘intensive’ for four weeks in February-March. Then I did the Training and the Advanced Training. The trainings spanned breathwork, dreamwork, Jungian sandplay and Voice Dialogue. The most important part of the training was the huge amount of personal sessions we did.
The pictures we drew after sessions were referred to as ‘mandalas’ (Sanskrit for ‘circle’). We drew a round circle then drew our after-session pictures.
My mandalas changed in nature when Ahrara explained in June 1991 that we were not to draw visions from our head but to let our ‘subconscious’ do the drawing. From then on, I would just pick up a pastel that I was attracted to and let my hand to what it wanted to do.
The final change for the mandalas happened in 1995 when I started using artist pastels.
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