The Human Mandala Project began as a way to bring people together to explore collaborative yogic posture as a way to create art. The inspiration came after I attended a Principle Based Partner Yoga workshop with Elysabeth Williamson. I was amazed at how our bodies can create such intricate, dynamic shapes. As the process began to take form, I began to see some of the universally sacred geometries in the shapes that we were creating.
This is coupled with the belief that our human intention is very powerful. It has been said that the power of our thoughts and beliefs can and does actually create the world around us, bringing into existence happiness and bliss as well as pain and sadness. By using the power of intention, we can chose what we want our experience to look like.
By creating these forms with our human bodies, we draw upon the resonant peace that emits from our planet and is meant for healing all things. By allowing ourselves to be in that meditative state while resonating with that peace, we can assist the planet in recycling old, stagnant energy to make way for bright, new flows. When we join together to create something that is “greater than the whole” we allow the energy of that new “being” to enter into the consciousness of the Earth and the human race to heal the wounds that we have manifested.
At the same time we allow space for the movement of old energy patterns, we also transmit a powerful signal out to the rest of the universe. Using the earth as an amplifier and the geometry as the language, our message of love and change echos throughout the cosmos for all to hear, including those on this planet.
The idea is to travel to locations where great pain, destruction or atrocity has occurred, and to help heal the residing energies there by allowing the humandala’s power to facilitate the release and reset of the patterns stuck there. This happens by bringing together a core group of “intention mediators” with the local people of the area. The mediators are practiced meditators and energy directors. These people are like the battery of the mandala, holding the space for and guiding along the energetic transformation. We combine them with local people who have been affected by the destructive event. These people are like the wires of the mandala, allowing the energies to resonate through them, breaking up any old patterns that may be allowing them to identify with the tragedy. Once these two energies mingle together, it creates a strong resonant current that travels through all dimensions of time and space to break up and recycle all old and unneeded energies back to the universe.
The forms are then photographed for reflection and sharing. By spreading this project, we are allowing the counteraction and transmutation of all of the emotion felt by those people that indirectly witness tragedy and help to hold it in the the field. Through meditating on the images, we can tune into the frequency that they resonate and continue to live that vibration always. I also believe that the more people that witness human collaboration and see that we are all the same, that we are all one, the more that we will come to see our fellow brothers and sisters as family. We are one human family. One human organism.
