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Please enjoy my images! They are available for purchase (see website address below, or contact me via this site's email). Personal Soul Mandalas are available by commission and are shown only with the owners' permission.

I get a lot of questions about the Soul Mandalas in particular, so please allow me to explain my process.

I am a Reiki Master/Teacher. For those of you who are not familiar with Reiki, it is a form of hands-on energy healing. However, another aspect of Reiki is long-distance healing. The practitioner traces the energy of the client, then focuses on that person and their energy to impart healing.

I've taken this basic premise and altered it somewhat. I trace the energy of the person, move into their soul energy, and allow that soul to direct my creative process.

I begin with brush strokes in Illustrator. I then move the strokes into Photoshop. After isolating one stroke, I place it, then copy and rotate the copy repeatedly to create one layer of strokes. This is duplicated and flipped, then all are flattened together. The process continues with each round of strokes until the frame is completed.

Once the frame is in place, each round of color is added. Again, this is done row by row (or as close as these images come to having 'rows'!). Finally the dimensional elements, bursts, and background are added.

The resulting image is a reflection of the client's soul energy. I hope this helps to explain my process and why the Soul Mandala images are similar yet unique - just like our souls!

For the time being (until I have completed my own website development), you may find some of my mandalas as well as my line of spiritual greeting cards at:

life lites Inspirational Greeting Cards and Mandalas at PathFinder

also, please check out the following websites for wonderful information about Manadalas and working with them!


Clare Goodwin's Mandala Page

Clare Goodwin - Intuitive Counseling and Therapy

Gifts of the Mandala

I am also a writer. A few of my essays, poems, and stories are available for review in my blogs here, with many more available by request.