The Art And Therapeutic Nature Of Patterns
Workshops, Courses & Retreats Exploring The Oneness Of Things
Australia, International and Online Learning with Stephanie June Ellis
~ Sacred Geometry ~
Draw & Build Immersion
Mandalas Of The World
Cosmic Polyhedra
The Golden Number & Celestial Spiral
27th ~ 30th December
The Stables Bellingen, NSW
~ Open to the novice and experienced geometer ~
Experience geometry as a universal language and a meditative and contemplative practice. Throughout this four day course, students will explore recurring patterns in nature
through geometry in Sacred & Traditional Art around the world
using traditional tools, a compass and a straight edge.
Photos ~ Top left ~ Student artwork @kaditombak ~ Top right ~ Stephanie June Ellis ~ Bottom Right ~ 2023 SG Class in Bellingen
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~ Students are welcome to take the full course, weekend or day workshops ~
~ Investment ~
Full Course ~ $625 save $40
Weekend Course ~ $385
Day Pass ~ $140
A 10% discount is offered to those who have completed the
Sacred Geometry Online or In person Foundations & Development Course
Course investment includes the use of specialist materials and equipment
In depth presentations sharing Stephanies 16 years of research around the world.
Online tutorials for home practice with lifetime access.
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Day One ~ Friday 27th December
Mandalas Of The World
Available as a day pass
~Includes ~
30 minute presentation & discussion
Class includes 6 hours online tutorials
x 2 Archival Watercolour 220gsm Paper
Use of handmade Earth Pigments
Morning Class ~ 1000 ~ 13:00
Borobudur Mandala, Central Java Indonesia
~ Draw the largest Mandala Of The World ~
Walk up and around with compass and ruler,
the ancient steps of Borobudur Temple.
A spectacular 9th century three-dimensional Mandala.
(Budur) comes from Javanese term bhudhara ("mountain").
Mountains and high places are the abode of ancestral spirits or hyangs.
Class will be complimented with slides discussing a brief synthesis on the outstanding universal value this Ancient Monument has to offer the world.
Afternoon Class 1400 ~ 1700
Gayatri Yantra Drawing
The Yantra a geometric design acting as a highly efficient tool
for contemplation, concentration and meditation.
Stephanie will guide participants through drawingThe Gayatri Yantra with the traditional tools of a compass and straight edge in order to find a focal point concentrating the mind on a single, simple object ceasing tones mental chatter.
Class will commence with a presentation on Yantras
and the Vastu Shastra System, followed by The Geometric Construction .
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Day Two & Three
Saturday & Sunday 28/29 Feb
~ Cosmic Polyhedra ~
Draw and Build The Fundamentals Of Dimension
Available as a weekend course
Participants will draw and build with paper and bamboo sticks
The Platonic Solids in their original and stellated form.
Theorised upon by Plato, these five geometric constructions
and their combinations contain every fundamental law to material existence.
He associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid.
Earth was associated with the cube, air with the octahedron, water with the icosahedron,
and fire with the tetrahedron. Of the fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, Plato remarked, that
"God used it for arranging the constellations on the whole heaven"
Stephanie will present and discuss where to find these forms In Nature and Ancient Architecture connecting one to the mythos & symbolic nature of humankind.
~ Course Includes ~
40 minute presentation & discussion
6 hours online tutorials
Bamboo Sticks & Six sheets of Archival Watercolour Paper for building polyhedra
Use of handmade Earth Pigments
Credits for the Sacred Geometry Foundations & Development Teacher Training
Day Four ~ Monday 30th December
The Golden Fractal & Celestial Spiral
Available as a day pass
Learn how to draw and understand The Fractal Structure
of a Pentagon and why the spiral connects with its golden proportions.
~ Class Includes ~
30 minute presentation on the roots of the famous Fibonacci numbers
3 hour online class accessible anytime
How to incorporate the Golden aesthetic in Art,
Photographic and Interior compositions.
The Kiss Of Venus Proportions.
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