Zendalas or how to understand balance in life

Ioana Justina Iuga, MDiv., Dipl.Soc.Sc., CNSLR, ITTM certified clinician, holds a Master of Divinity in Buddhist Studies, and a Diploma in Social Science and Counseling Skills. She is a certified counselor while holding certificates in ADHD: Everyday strategies for elementary students; Medical Neuroscience; Living with Dementia: Impact on Individuals, Caregivers, Communities, and Societies; The clinical psychology of children and young adults; Morality of everyday life. Ioana is also an ITTM (Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model) certified clinician. She has a long history of volunteering in the USA with Children’s Cancer Association, Sisters of the Road, Central City Concern, and in Romania, where she has volunteered with the National Institute of Neurology and Neurovascular Diseases in Bucharest. As a human being, she is socially proactive, fun, loving, highly independent, sometimes stubborn, intuitive with a wild imagination, and she speaks cat-neze 🙂

This is a class of art therapy where you will learn to create zendalas. While many people today know what a mandala is, very few know of zendalas and their role within a successful therapeutic approach. You will be briefly introduced to the notion of mandalas (in case you don’t already know what they are) as a transition to the main focus of this class, that is zendalas: what they are and how we can use them to balance and enrich our lives.

The class will focus on the process of making zendalas and on how this process applies to creating balanced relaxation in our lives.

We will not focus on the aesthetic and psychological fundamentals of making zendalas or on the technique of their creation. Drawing a zendala usually happens naturally and the artistic process of making it is a byproduct of an idea fueled by intuition & emotion. We draw zendalas as a valuable means to learn to relax when we understand that life is a mixture of events and it is up to us to balance them harmoniously. 

This is the main idea of the class: to relax and create so that the impact of our zendala becomes beneficial in our comprehension that nothing is under full control and there is beauty in apparent chaos as well. Sounds complicated? Well, it’s not. It’s mostly lots of colors and fun.

Making zendalas is so much funnier (and more meaningful) if you do it with friends. So, please feel free to bring your friends in, and let’s roll zendalas together!

You will need lots of colors for this event!

NOTE: On IIA Lotus Flower Counseling we make it our mission to offer high-quality workshops at low prices. In order to align with this mission, the workshops are designed to address multiple attendees. The number of students for each class is chosen so that it does not impact the quality of the service. Please be mindful that if the number of students is not met, the class will be rescheduled! Thank you for your understanding and please help us spread the word about KarmaSutta Counseling!

MINIMUM NUMBER OF ATTENDEES FOR THIS WORKSHOP: 10