
Pam England
- Sep 18, 2017
CHAKANA MANDALA: Hummingbird
Welcome to Pam’s Art Studio This Week Early this morning I felt like a caged bird (... a hummingbird can't survive in a cage). I focused my attention on painting Hummingbird and chanting the mantra "Amata." Painting a tiny bird with tiny brushes gave me ample time to contemplate Hummingbird's Medicine: enjoying the sweet nectar of life. The cage door in my mind and heart opened and my spirits gradually lifted. Hummingbird Spirit reminds us to seek and sip the sweet nectar of

Pam England
- Sep 16, 2017
Chakana Mandala: Jaguar Spirit, Medicine of Integration
September 6, 2017 Welcome to Pam’s Art Studio This Week Last week, I worked in the South: painting the Serpent symbolically helped me to shed emotional layers from the dead past. This week Jaguar leapt onto the canvas taking me on an inward journey West. West is where body and spirit part, explains Alberto Villolda, author of Dance of the Four Winds, “When one dies consciously, one leaves behind the vessel and identifies with that which the vessel holds.” Death can become the

Pam England
- Sep 6, 2017
Chakana Mandala: Begin in the South
From Pam's Art Studio: I like to paint when I wake up in the pre-dawn hours. When I do something that nourishes my soul, not only is it a lovely way to greet the sun as it comes up, it is also a prayer. This week I gradually and carefully squared the circle in the center (still needs a little tweaking). straightened lines, applied stronger color in the large spaces, and continued to work the white pathways, which takes me on an inner journey to a very quiet place within. I do