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Mandala Fridays — Session NotesMandala Fridays
The Journey So Far
Four sessions. Four revelations.
One continuous thread guiding you toward the deepest truth about yourself.
A 30-minute weekly journey into the ancient wisdom,
sacred meaning, and healing power of Mandalas.
Every Friday evening, a small group gathers online.
Not to follow a tutorial. Not to replicate a pattern. But to feel something ancient — and to begin seeing themselves in it.
This document is a detailed companion to the first three sessions — for everyone who was there, and for everyone who is finding this journey for the first time.
Session 1
The Architecture of Mandala — With Dhyana Sloka
Session 1 Poster — The Architecture of Mandala with Dhyana Sloka
We began with one of the most powerful stories in Hindu tradition — Samudra Manthan, the great churning of the cosmic ocean.
The Devas and Asuras churn the ocean together. And as they churn, things keep emerging — jewels, a divine elephant, the goddess Lakshmi, the deadly poison Halahala, and finally — Amrit, the nectar of immortality. Not everything that comes up is easy. Not everything is beautiful. But the churning does not stop. Because what is waiting at the end of the process is nectar.
Every time you sit down to draw, you are churning. Different things keep coming up — patience, frustration, focus, surprise, beauty, stillness. Each one is part of the process. You do not stop. You keep creating. And in that continuous act of creation, you begin to find your own nectar — your own insights, your own identity, your own inner world rising to the surface.
And ultimately — this entire journey is witnessed as an art form. What you create holds everything that came up during the churning. Every stroke, every pattern, every circle drawn is a reflection of you. The mandala you make does not just look beautiful. It looks like you.
Mandala and sacred geometry art is not just decoration. It is a language. A learnt language. And like any language, it opens up a world you could not access before you knew it. This series is your entry into that language — so you can use it as a tool, go on this journey, and experience what emerges from within you.
We then chanted the Dhyana Sloka together — not as ritual, but as resonance. To feel what it means to begin a creative journey with intention and awareness.
✦ Flower of Life Mandala Breath
The session closed with the Flower of Life Mandala Breath — a guided breathwork experience created from the geometry of the Flower of Life itself. As the pattern opens petal by petal on screen, you breathe with it.
Nine seconds. One complete breath. One living flower. A small taste of what it feels like to be inside the mandala — not just looking at it.
What might be waiting to emerge from within you — if you keep churning?
Session 2
The Mandala Is the Poorna Mantra — The Mathematics of Wholeness
Session 2 — Poornamadam Poornamidam
One ancient verse. One geometric truth. One revelation that changes how you draw — forever.
Poornamadam Poornamidam Poornat Poornamudachyate
Poornasya Poornamadaya Poornameva Vashishyate
That is whole. This is whole. From wholeness, wholeness comes.
Even when wholeness is taken from wholeness — wholeness remains.
This session unfolded across four teachings:
✦ Flower of Life Mandala Breath
The Flower of Life Mandala Breath held a different quality in this session. When you know that every breath is already whole — the breathing changes. The inhale does not feel like reaching for something. The exhale does not feel like losing something. Both are complete.
Where in your life have you been waiting to feel complete — when the Bindu inside you has always been whole?
Session 3
Tattva Srishti — The Five Elements Hidden in Every Mandala
Session 3 Poster — Tattva Srishti · Pancha Bhutas
Tattva Srishti — Creation Through the Five Essences.
The Pancha Bhutas — Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space — are not just elements of nature. They are the five original building blocks of everything in existence. The body you live in. The emotions you feel. The thoughts you think. The art you make.
And in this session, we discovered something that stopped everyone:
| Square | Earth — grounded, stable, rooted |
| Wavy line | Water — flowing, adaptive, feeling |
| Triangle | Fire — sharp, transformative, rising |
| Arc | Air — light, expansive, free |
| Empty circle | Space — Akasha — the silence that holds everything |
Each person in this session was invited to notice which element they reach for most naturally in their drawing. That instinct is not random. It is your nature speaking through your hand.
✦ Flower of Life Mandala Breath — Through the Five Elements
The breathwork took on an elemental dimension in this session — experienced through the lens of the Pancha Bhutas.
Three counts each. The elements breathed through you.
Attendees asked for a written pointer sheet to carry these insights into the week — and it was sent to the group after the session.
Which element are you — and what is your mandala telling you about yourself?
Session 4
Svabhava — Drawing Mandala: Science and Human Physiology
Session 4 Poster — Svabhava: The Biology of Mandala Drawing
Many people say, after a mandala session — "I feel calm. I don't know why, but something feels different." That feeling has a name: Svabhava — Sva (self) and Bhava (nature). Your essential nature, expressed through your body's own response to drawing.
Long before anyone had an MRI machine, our ancestors already knew that drawing a mandala changes you. This session walked through what is actually happening — in the brain, the breath, the body — when you sit down to draw.
Both sides of your brain wake up together. One side loves order — counting, following steps, precision. The other loves creativity — feeling where a line should curve, enjoying beauty. Mandala drawing activates both at once. That is rare, and it is why the experience feels so complete.
Your body shifts into rest mode. When you draw slowly and with care, your heart rate drops, your breathing slows, and the stress hormone cortisol begins to fall — naturally, without effort. This is not something you do. It is something your body already knows how to do.
Time disappears. Psychologists call this "flow" — fully absorbed, not bored, not anxious, just present. You look up and an hour has passed. That is not distraction. That is deep rest.
Your brain sees order — and lets go. The brain is constantly scanning for patterns, constantly on alert in a messy world. But when it watches something ordered and beautiful grow from a single dot, it receives a signal: order is here, it's safe to relax now.
The circle itself makes you feel safe. The psychologist Carl Jung noticed that people under stress often start drawing circles, without being told to. No corners, no sharp edges — just wholeness. Sitting inside a circle and creating, something in you settles.
This session also connected to a much older map. The Bhagavad Gita describes an eight-step path moving from the outer world inward — Yama and Niyama (how you relate to the world), Asana and Pranayama (your posture and breath), Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana (drawing the senses inward, into focus, into meditation), and at the very centre — Samadhi, stillness.
Chitta-Vritti-Nirodha
The stilling of the ripples of the mind — the Gita's eight-step path inward, drawn as concentric circles around a single centre.
✦ Flower of Life Mandala Breath
You don't have to try to relax. Just follow the pattern as it opens petal by petal on screen, and let your Svabhava do what it already knows how to do.
If your body already knows how to find stillness — what has been standing between you and that stillness, until now?
The Thread That Runs Through Every Session
About the Flower of Life Mandala Breath
Every Mandala Fridays session is carefully crafted as a complete experience — not just a teaching, but a journey. Each session carries one story, one insight, one lived experience, and one question that stays with you.
At the heart of every session is the Flower of Life Mandala Breath — a breathwork practice created from one of the oldest sacred geometry patterns known to humanity. Found in the Temple of Osiris in Egypt, in Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, and in ancient Indian temple carvings, the Flower of Life is a pattern of overlapping circles, each born from the centre of the last — endlessly creating, endlessly whole.
The Flower of Life Mandala Breath app was created from this geometry — so that you don't just see the pattern, you breathe it. You become it.
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Friday, 19th June 2026 · 8:00 – 8:30 PM · Live Online
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