Making a Mandala in Nature is the topic of today’s video. Many of us have seen pictures on Facebook or other online sources of beautiful mandalas made out of natural materials in nature settings. Today, with this short, but thorough video mandalanomadess shows us step by step how to create these mandalas. Here is what mandalanomadess says about the video:
“Learn how to make a nature mandala with this 5 step process. Get inspired, get outside and get creative making your own mandalas out of natural materials. Requirements needed: a love for nature, a resourceful mindset, creative spontaneity and a desire to let go into the present moment with the flexibility to endure many hours of squatting and kneeling over the earth.”
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How to Make a Mandala in Nature with Natural Materials
According to TED.com: ” ‘A forest is much more than what you see,’ says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.”
“A professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences in Vancouver, Suzanne Simard studies the surprising and delicate complexity in nature. Her main focus is on the below-ground fungal networks that connect trees and facilitate underground inter-tree communication and interaction. Her team’s analysis revealed that the fungi networks move water, carbon and nutrients such as nitrogen between and among trees as well as across species. The research has demonstrated that these complex, symbiotic networks in our forests — at the hub of which stand what she calls the “mother trees” — mimic our own neural and social networks. This groundbreaking work on symbiotic plant communication has far-reaching implications in both the forestry and agricultural industries, in particular concerning sustainable stewardship of forests and the plant’s resistance to pathogens. She works primarily in forests, but also grasslands, wetlands, tundra and alpine ecosystems.”
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For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
Today Donna Wolfe from Naztazia shows you how to crochet a flower of life chain shawl. This is what she says about this video:
“This is a more advanced pattern, so please also download the written free pattern on Donna’s website: http://naztazia.com. It also forms a lovely star stitch pattern that you can use for a shawl, wrap, scarf, hoodie, tunic, sweater and more!”
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