Experimenting with the Synthesis of Osho Active Meditations, Art and Human Design

A little over a year ago, I set a boundary with myself: NO MORE DRAWING MANDALAS for at least a month!

I was bored of drawing mandalas. I had been drawing them all the time constantly. It was feeling like a creative copout. I wanted to rely less on familiar patterns in order to strengthen my muscles of aesthetic intuition.

Recently, I’ve been super into Osho active meditations. This began with the dynamic meditation every day for a few weeks, now I’ve been branching out to others. Gibberish is a favorite 😎

(I often find something I like and then stick with it and feel resistance to trying something new when I’m not sure if I’ll like it as much. Sometimes this fixed rhythm authentically serves me and sometimes it limits me. It’s one of the things try to I pay close attention to in my experiment, with both my personality and design Jupiter in gate 5, the gate of fixed rhythms and patterns- in an undefined sacral!)

(I’ve successfully enrolled my housemate in doing an Osho meditation with me twice so far, but mostly I just do them by myself like the weirdo I am, as a single definition Manifestor with a predominance of individual circuitry in my design 🤪)

Anyways- this is the first mandala I’ve drawn in over a year. I created it immediately following the Osho mandala meditation, which is comprised of four 15-minute stages:

1. Run in place, knees high, eyes open, breathe deep and even.
2. Sit down with eyes closed, mouth open. Sway “like a reed blowing in the wind”.
3. Lie down, open your eyes, and rotate them in a clockwise direction.
4. Close eyes and be still

Results: I felt decently centered and focused afterwards, and my calves hurt. Then for the following 5 days my calves were still sore in such a way that I would walk with bent knees. I found this effect to be bothersome.

Conclusion: I probably won’t do the Osho mandala meditation again, but I might incorporate mandalas back into my drawing practice in moderation.