Melissa Forbes:
Yantra Art
Central to Melissa Forbes' book No Teaching Yoga: The Authentic Guide, are the Miracle Combinations, eight new yoga practices gleaned from her years of study and personal reflection, adorned with Melissa's intricate and jewel-like paintings of yantras in a Vedic square integrated with the Mayan teaching of Light Language (sacred geometry).
Traditionally the yantra symbols are used in Eastern mysticism to balance the mind or focus it on spiritual concepts. The act of wearing, drawing, or concentrating on a yantra is said to have spiritual or magical benefits. Sacred geometric symbols used for meditation and healing, representing various aspects of the universe. The following yantra paintings are gouache on paper. We invite you to experience these wonderful symbols!
Durga in sanskrit means "Invincible." She is all forms of the Divine Mother or the Divine Mother herself. She represents the Divine Forces to destroy disharmony and establish harmony.
Ganesha is the remover of obstacles. When learning how to construct and paint a yantra we begin with Ganesha.
Worship of Shri or Sri Yantra has been popular in India from ancient times. As a diagram, the Shri Yantra is eye catching and powerful. It is constructed with an intersection of nine triangles. Four of these triangles are pointing upward and five downward. This is the most dynamic of all yantras representing the cosmos. The Shri yantra is constructed on that which the human organism is constructed. The body has nine chakras so the shri yantra also has nine chakras.
Bagla Mukhi represents "power to Bridle" is the sanskrit translation. The Strong ONE is
resting in the Vedic Square vibrates to the number nine and Mars. This image also integrates Light Language, Mayan Sacred Geometry.
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