Morning Altars


Book Description

Return to the earth with beautiful photographs and inspirational text. “Morning altars” are colorful mandalas that combine nature, art, and meditation. Incorporating the natural world into the everyday encourages positive well- being, even with the simplest of the earth’s gifts, such as leaves, flowers, berries, feathers, and stones. These stunning pieces of art are a peaceful and creative avenue to express gratitude for nature, to practice mindfulness, and to add meaning to daily life. In this book, Day Schildkret guides readers through the creation of morning altars, a seven- step process that includes wondering and wandering, place meditation, clearing space, creating, gifting, walking away, and sharing his art with others. Since his first morning altar, Schildkret has built hundreds more. His work has been warmly received on social media and he teaches workshops on altar building, all with the intention of sharing the positivity and beauty they have brought to his life.




50 Fantastic Ideas for Forest School


Book Description

The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting. Jamie Victoria Barnes, creator of The Childcare Guru, uses her wealth of knowledge to present an invaluable resource filled with activities that spark creativity and encourage development and learning in a natural environment, perfect for helping young children enjoy a healthy and balanced lifestyle. The benefits of rich outdoor learning experiences are second to none. Outdoor learning offers holistic development for every child and in a fast-paced world heavily focussed on technology, forest schools provide a stimulating and relaxed environment to learn in, away from time pressures and electric devices. 50 Fantastic Ideas for Forest School presents full-colour photographs and easy-to-follow activities from Forest School TV to natural art self-portraits to get young children outside and reconnecting with the natural world, supporting their emotional and spiritual wellbeing. With over 40 books in the 50 Fantastic Ideas series there's something for everyone – whether you're a practitioner looking for new ideas or you want to try out a popular well-loved activity with a new twist. Each book offers a wide range of fun and creative activities to carry out with children aged 0 – 5 years, with lists of resources, step-by-step instructions and information about the benefits for children.




Nature Mandalas Coloring Book


Book Description

This captivating coloring book will take you on a journey through our fascinating natural world. This dazzling adult coloring book from artist Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou fuses traditional mandala patterns with the natural world to produce designs that are full of life and wonder. Wildlife such as deer, tigers, and exotic birds form the centerpiece of many designs, which are surrounded by leaves, flowers, and vines in full-page illustrations that are a joy to color in and display. As you color in these lovingly illustrated mandalas, you’ll be drawn into the beauty of nature and transported to an array of exotic habitats.




Nature Mandalas Coloring Book


Book Description

Mandala symmetry provides the canvas for 30 fanciful designs populated by dragonflies, daisies, seashells, and other motifs from nature and set into arrangements of leaves, vines, trees, and other flora.




Mandala


Book Description

Experience the ultimate journey of self-discovery through mandalas and meditation. Mandala art has been used throughout the world for self-expression, spiritual transformation, and personal growth. Mandala is the ancient Sanskrit word for circle and is seen by Tibetans as a diagram of the cosmos. It is used by native Americans in healing rituals and in Christian cathedrals the labyrinth is a mandalic pattern used as a tool for meditation. An archetypal symbol of wholeness, the mandala was used as a therapeutic art tool by psychologist Carl Jung, who believed creating mandalas helped patients to make the unconscious conscious. Joseph Campbell brought mandalas to the public's attention in The Power of Myth (1988): "In working out a mandala ... you draw a circle and then think of the different impulse systems and value systems in your life.... Making a mandala is a discipline for pulling all those scattered aspects of your life together, finding a center." Mandala: Journey to the Center provides insights into the significance of mandalas and helps you to use them as a path to greater self-awareness. Mandala offers over 400 breathtaking color photographs of mandalas in manifestations from art, architecture, and nature -- from Buddhist paintings to the Pantheon to atomic structures, and explores how the mandala has been used throughout history and is relevant today as a tool for meditation, personal growth, and expression. Mandala features a gallery of worldwide contemporary mandala art accompanied by inspirational stories from the artists who created them, and provides exercises and examples of specific techniques for making one's own mandalas. Exploring the mandala can lead us on a journey to wholeness, helping us discover the center within ourselves and beyond.




Nature Mandalas


Book Description

Powerful spiritual symbols in art and in meditation, these circular patterns celebrate the beauty of nature in a dazzling colouring book from artist Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou. These intricate mandalas fuse lovingly-crafted shapes and symbols with striking wild imagery from across the globe. Visit life under the sea, on land and in the sky, bringing your own choice of colour as you go. Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou previously created Circle of Life, which explored the rhythms and riches of the natural world.




Nature Mandalas Coloring Book


Book Description

Discover 30 vibrantly detailed art activities, offering ready-to-color mandala circles of whimsical animals, printed on high quality extra-thick paper.




Botanical Mandalas


Book Description

Reconnect to Mother Earth and recharge your creativity by combining the healing energy of nature with the meditative process of drawing and painting mandalas. Explore Botanical Mandalas and watch your artistic expression flourish! Full of inspiration for reconnecting with natures beauty to inspire you to create expressive mandala artworks. Includes drawing, painting and mixed-media projects to find endless inspiration for your own botanical mandala journey.




Paths to Wholeness


Book Description

"David Bookbinder is one of those awakened souls whose near-death experience gave him fresh and timeless eyes. He has taken that gift and poured it into 'Paths to Wholeness: Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas,' using innovative photography and heartfelt reflection to surface and praise the mysteries of the inner world." - Mark Nepo, 'The Book of Awakening' Many of us long to be fully present to this amazing existence we were born into, and often we can. But sometimes, we look for help. In 'Paths to Wholeness: Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas,' psychotherapist, writer, and photographer David J. Bookbinder brings his capacity for inspiring personal transformation to his readers. Combining insightful, pragmatic essays in the lineage of Carl Jung and Mark Nepo with 52 award-winning Flower Mandala images inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe and Harold Feinstein, David both shows and tells the tale of a spiritual seeker who, having traversed his own winding path toward awakening, now guides others to find balance, overcome fear and shame, build resilience, and to expand their hearts by listening deeply, inspiring hope, and more fully loving. Keep it by your bedside, thumb through it as you drift off to sleep, knowing you are not alone on your journey to self-actualization.




Easy Mandalas Mini Colouring Book


Book Description

Handy 5.25 x 8 inch (approx. 13 x 20cm) travel size format to fit in your bag 50 mandala designs Single-sided printing Original art Easy difficulty level For adults and older kids If you want to relax by colouring mandalas that aren't too difficult or complex, this book is the perfect choice. It features 50 original mandala art illustrations, with both abstract and themed designs. All the mandalas in this book are designed by hand, and digitally redrawn to create perfect symmetry and flawlessly smooth lines. This is a mini travel-sized colouring book, and its small size lets you carry it around easily, so you can get the benefits of colouring while on the move. IMPORTANT - This is a travel-sized colouring book measuring 5.25x8 inches. The illustrations in this book are the SAME IMAGES as in the full size Easy Mandalas colouring book by the same author. The images have been modified to work in this smaller format, but they will be more challenging to colour than the large versions, due to the smaller overall size. You can preview all the designs in this book on the author's website - for the URL, click the author name, and see the left hand sidebar. The images in this book are printed on one side of the page. However, as with most coloring books, bleed-though may occur with some types of marker. It's recommended that you place a blank sheet of paper under the images you're colouring, and two blotter pages have been provided at the end of the book for this purpose. Note: This title was originally published in March 2016 as Easy Mandalas Mini Colouring Book by Tigerlynx. In this new second edition, the author name has changed.