Welcome to the Mandala Medicine Movement, a collaborative and inclusive way we paint large Mandalas on the street and parks in our communities. We want to do this with you! Our method ignites creativity, fosters community identity, and celebrates unity. Our journey began in the autumn of 1993 in the heart of the Ojai Valley in Southern California, where we started painting large mandalas in the main intersection of town, in the middle of the night, the night before our Ojai D

Susan Evergreen Hericks, Ph.D., and River Sauvageau invited Journey Week participants to take part in creating a community mandala at the Ladera campus on September 27, 2024. ​ Angela Borda: As a child, I learned about mandalas in the context of Tibetan monks spending months making elaborate designs with colored sand, as a form of prayer or memorial, and then at the end, undoing the mandala, as an acknowledgement of the impermanence of all things. So let’s start with the basi

By Carin Rich. 10/12/25 Morning unfurled her saffron shawl in Ojai, where paint met prayer and color became breath. At the Libbey fountain, the circle was born again, spirits of wind whispering through pigment, ancestors stirring in the blue between breaths. Brushstrokes became wings. Children ran past like bright intentions, their laughter folding into silence, the kind that speaks in symbols. By afternoon, the compass was complete, a wheel of gratitude turning in the sun. A