SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL Saturday, May 31, 2008
ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT
ARTS ROUNDUP
Learn the healing powers
of mandala at workshop
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POWERFUL: Lily Mazurek’s mandala Transmutation. The circular form contains information very personal to the maker. |
The process of making art can be
healing if the result is a mandala. This
circular form, found in cultures
around the world, is meant to contain
information very personal to the
maker, such as past abuse and fractious
relationships or a body in need of healing.
Today, artist Lily Mazurek of Pembroke
Pines is teaching an all-day Mandala
Workshop at Griffin’s Loft, a metaphysical
shop in Davie.
Learning to deal with a diagnosis of
breast cancer in 1996 focused Mazurek on this
powerful form of artwork. “My belief is that
mandalas appear when you most need them,
to bring you back to a state of wholeness,”
she says. “I needed to help myself get
through surgery and radiation I was going
through a huge upheaval…I developed a
process of reaching for imagery out of my
subconscious. Making mandalas helped me
psychologically.”
Now an expert in the field, Mazurek has
led mandala workshops for oncology social
workers, and at churches, universities and
cancer centers. Meditation and creative
visualization are part of the process. The
good thing is that an art background isn’t
necessary to participate. “I have a debriefing
at the end of the session and allow
people to speak,” says the teacher.
For more information on the workshop,
call 954-625-6775.