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GALLERY
Mandalas
for Healing Purposes and Stress Mangement
The Ariela
Group offers energetic artwork featuring mandalas, with corresponding
seminars and healing modalities, which provide positive influence for
health and balance of mind body and Spirit in the 21st century. Each piece
of art or mandala vibrates at a different frequency to affect different
energy centers in the body.
It is the purpose
of The Ariela Group to share these mandalas and other art on this website
in order to inspire others to step aside and let Spirit speak through
them in a medium other than that used in everyday work or life. Mandalas
are pictures of the soul, and a painter has no expectations when he or
she sits down to paint. It is strictly inspiration-driven, where Spirit
flows through and the results vary considerably.
Although each
mandala or piece of art has been described here by the artist, we invite
you to view the art with your own interpretation.
| Vortex
Bowl |
1998,
by Anne Merkel Monnin |
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This
mandala reflects Meso-american colors, shapes, the idea of a pottery
bowl where one can look into the soul of infinity. Totem animals
and power symbols surround the outer and inner curves of the bowl.
The Kundalini rising is represented by the serpents, with fire energy
surrounding all, and the mandala addresses groundedness, the opening
of energy flow for survival, the will, the heart, and intuitive/
healing powers.
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| In
Full Blossom |
1999,
by Anne Merkel Monnin |
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This
mandala reflects Celtic influence with the knotted border and the
power oak leaves surrounding the spiral flower. Simple, yet powerful,
the symbols speak of change, growth, evolution, blossoming into
wholeness. Higher frequency colors are utilized denoting healing,
communication, evolution, and rhinestone dewdrops hang from the
leaves and petals showing the freshness of it all.
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| Cuztic |
2000,
by Anne Merkel Monnin |
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This
mandala, painted in Todos Santos, Baja, Mexico, reflects the Mexican
influence in its colors, details, and name. Cuztic is the name for
elaborate golden necklaces worn by Aztec kings and leaders. In this
mandala each circle has golden rings, and in the golden color is
a mixture of green, the predominant color of this work, and the
focus
the heart chakra. The chakras are depicted down the
center with the lower physical chakras depicted with fire and the
upper etheric chakras shown as opening lotuses. Lotuses are located
at each corner related to personal transformation, and the Yin/Yang
sign in the center focuses on balance. The color patterns represent
the chakra colors and their inter-relations, and they also form
geometric patterns that can be utilized when applying the therapeutic
EMDR Variation Cuztic Technique which assists clients
to energetically release emotional blockages that can cause physical,
mental, emotional discomfort.
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| Journeying
the Path |
2000,
by Anne Merkel Monnin |
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This
mandala depicts the call to the path of growth, the Sacred Quest,
moving forward in life toward ones dream. The Kokopelli heralds
with his flute the ending of the old life and beginning of the adventure
to the new. There is another mandala painted underneath this one
the old replaced by the new. The observers left side depicts
left brain, rigid structures, Old Paradigm, while the right side
shows the curves and spontaneity of the right brain, fluidity, New
Paradigm thinking
this is the destination, including messages
of dreams to come true, written in Southwestern petroglyphs. There
are jewels embedded along the path among the stones, and these continue
to be discovered each day as we walk along.
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| Radical
Abundance |
2000,
by Anne Merkel Monnin |
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This
mandala sparkles with flowing energy. Balanced Yin and Yang, reflections
from gold, silver, gems, sparkles. The manifestation rays of green,
gold, and violet along with crystal energy pull forth the abundance
from the many dimensions of the Universe flowing through the central
gemmed vortex.
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| Inca
Swastika |
2002,
by Anne Merkel Monnin |
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This
mandala was begun in 1988 and later finished in 2002. Influenced
by the Inca flag as evidenced in Peru, the sacred hindu swastika
symbol was hidden among the chakra colors of the Inca flag. Later
the geometric shapes were added with a focus on integration, balance,
and flow.
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| Shadow
Dance |
2002,
by Anne Merkel Monnin |
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This
mandala was begun in 1999 and later finished in 2002. It has multiple
layers of paint, taken from other mandalas. Although it has no specifically
drawn circles like most mandalas, the shadows outline the circle
of the center around the larger flower. Representing the shadow
side in each of us, it reminds us that even in the part of us that
we try to hide from the world there are beautiful gifts and lessons
that we can only learn by looking into the shadow places. With awareness
comes growth.
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| Resurrection
of the Phoenix |
2002,
by Anne Ingram Merkel |
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This
mandala utilizes things of nature, especially blue and gold macaw
feathers as well as feathers from the barred owl, blue jay, and
mocking bird, and paper layers from a hornets
nest. Before the feathers and face were added the painting looked
like a huge peacock feather, complete with the blue shiny center
(which you can still see when you peer into the eyes of the face).
Since this photo was taken a peacock feather has been added on the
third eye of the face and a bumble bee adorns the left cheek. All
totems used speak of new life, rebirth, re-claiming ones power,
clearly speaking ones truth, and living in joy. Following
the dark night of the soul this mandala represents the
new life of its creator.
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| Autonomy |
2002,
by Anne Ingram Merkel |
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This
mandala reflects two entities, both starting out exactly alike,
each painted with the same paint, colors, brushes, yet turning out
completely different from the other. Close but separate, these two
beautiful entities spin energetically and each can feel the energy
of the other, yet the strict autonomy keeps them separate.
They cannot connect and blend as long as the requirement is separateness.
What causes this requirement? Control, fear, lack of commitment,
self-involvement? Can this ever change so that they might come closer
and softly melt into each other? Not as long as the rigidity is
upheld. The entities are surrounded by heart energy, yet there are
no colors representing the communication chakras, and without communication
the entities remain separate.
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| Twin
Flames |
2002,
by Anne Ingram Merkel |
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This
mandala reflects two entities, Divine Partners, both whole and independent,
yet connected with overlapping energies which, in their own flowing
shapes, create the third entity in the form of a heart
between them. Each entity glows with his and her own cosmic spiral,
and underneath the outer Light is the warmth and strength of the
heart, formed by lines going out from each of their radiating circles.
The main themes here are wholeness, balance, communication, love,
personal power, freedom, Divine Sovereignty, unity. Lovers
dont finally meet somewhere, they are in each other all along.
RUMI (This is a work still in progress.)
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| Sacred
Marriage |
2002,
by Anne Ingram Merkel |
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This
mandala reflects the inner Sacred Marriage of Divine Partners
the self with the Higher Self. It is based on the intersecting of
the two triangles of the upper and lower energies, blending at the
fourth chakra, the heart center. Predominant colors represent heart
energy, balanced yin and yang, blending of the upper and lower chakra
energies, throat and third eye communication energies. The focus
is on balance of all levels and parts of self/Self and speaks to
all of the chakras.
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| Llumination |
2002,
by Alexa Young |
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This
mandala was inspired and designed to represent the energetics of
the game Llumination: The QUEST, as well as the entity Llumination
Unlimited, Inc., which holds the energetics for the Tarot work and
writings of its creator. It has been sketched, painted, and designed
by computer graphics.
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For more information
on mandala painting or drawing workshops, or the specific works pictured
here, please contact us at merakel@arielagroup.com. |