let the creation lead us<\/strong> where it may. The\u00a0mandala to the right intertwines both techniques.<\/p>\nThe creator of this mandala took an organic approach to drawing her mandala. After completing it, she made several unexpected associations. The golden center\u00a0shape seemed lion-like, a fierce protector, while the figure it surrounded was embryonic, a newborn dancing outward from the sea.<\/p>\n
She titled her mandala of centering strength “Becoming Whole Again<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we continue this summer to explore the art of the mandala \u2013 creating within a circle \u2013 our practices begin to intertwine. Our first workshop addressed how to release anxiety through the process of intuitive mandala drawing, which we featured in our \u201cMandalas for Centering Strength\u201d post. During\u00a0the workshop,\u00a0we discussed the importance of recognizing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,6,7,12,23],"tags":[28,13,14,35,63,40,64,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healingicons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}