Shambhala Art Programs

Part 1, 2 and 3 do not need to be taken sequentially.

Part 1: Coming To Your Senses
To be creative we must first perceive our world as it is. In Part I we explore how we perceive and how our thoughts influence what we perceive.

Part 2: Sign and Symbol
Art can point out one's true nature in a way that is beyond concepts. In Part II, we explore the nature of signs and symbols to discover how clarity of mind inspires creativity.

Part 3: The Creative Process
How do we go from nothing -- a white page -- to a first stroke, then another stroke, and a third one which expresses something about who we are, how we feel, what we want to say. How do we go from stillness to movement?

Part 4: The Power of Display
By exploring the five elements and their nature, we learn about ourselves and our means of expression and how we manage to communicate who we are beyond attachment to self.

Part 5: Art in Every Day Life
The experience of the four fold process of creativity: pacifying, enriching , magnetizing or emphasizing, and destroying. These four actions indicate how to work with difficulties in the creative process and how to transform negativity and obstacles into openness and compassion.

See which Shambhala Art programs are coming up this season.

Shambhala Art: Awakening the Sacred

Shambhala Art is art that springs from clear perception and pure expression. To artist or non-artist, the creative process often seems mysterious and magical. How do we give a physical reality to some ephemeral inspiration or abstract truth? How do we create forms that communicate some essential nature beyond the limits of their container?

The Shambhala Art program's purpose is to explore the creative process and what we call art. It is about the source of inspiration, how the creative process manifests and finally how what we create communicates that inspiration.