by Julie Gibbons | June 3, 2026 | Community
Creative practice is beneficial: there’s plenty of science behind it. Creative practice combined with community is doubly good. Okay, perhaps my vague estimation isn’t numerically precise—numbers aren’t my thing. But when it came to devoting May to... 
by Julie Gibbons | December 1, 2025 | Community, Member Spotlight
I’ve lived for 40 plus years in a small town, Buxton, on the edge of the Peak District in England. Buxton has a rich history dating back to beyond Roman times and I’m close to woodland, hills, dales, caves and rivers. I love to walk and wander and wonder... 
by Julie Gibbons | July 15, 2025 | Community, Mandala Practice
The water was cool as the sun blazed in just-passed midsummer glory from an azure sky. We’d been ruminating on healing ancestral trauma. But it wasn’t a painful conversation, and compassion palpably occupied the spare seats around our wee group. Stepping into the... 
by Julie Gibbons | February 27, 2024 | Community, Tree Sisters
No one is more surprised that the community is one of the most active features of Mandala Magic School membership than myself. When we’re working with deeply personal material, which is usually the case with mandala art journaling, it is often a solitary... 
by Julie Gibbons | September 18, 2023 | Community, Tree Sisters
Making TREE MAGIC is an ever-popular event with Mandala Magicians. It’s where we come together and look to the wisdom of trees, using our limited understanding of their biology and we spend time listening. Our relationship with trees must not only be about what... 
by Julie Gibbons | July 12, 2023 | Community, Membership Benefits
The Midsummer Mandala you might expect probably won’t be a self portrait, I know. Meeting on the Feast of St John, or Midsummer’s Day in Europe, members of the Mandala Magic School set about creating a Midsummer Mandala from our signature ALIGNMENT...