Utsavastu, A Celebration of Sacred Spaces

Utsavastu, A Celebration of Sacred Spaces Utsavastu infuses sacred spaces through combining ancient rituals, food and art. Utsavastu is a combination of two words Utsav and Vastu.

Utsav meaning "festival" characterizes the color, gaiety, as well as rituals that accompany along with a festival. Vastu meaning to "dwell", is a science that aims to establish a harmonious and sacred spaces using the energies of the universe. Utsavastu invites you to experience the healing power of Vastu designs. You connect with nature, look inwards and let go of negative energy. Utsavastu infuses sacredness, using ancient ritual patterns and symbols on your yoga mat, entrance of your home and inside your meditation room and yoga studios. This traditional ritual of creating sacred patterns is also known as painted prayers and has been passed down from mother to daughter for over two thousand years. Each morning, before dawn, in Chennai, Southern India, where I grew up, women will rise before dawn every day and use this time as time for themselves ~ for meditation and reflection. It was their quiet time with the universe; free from their hectic schedule that they face during the day, Using ground rice powder, my grandmother and the women of the house would paint intricate ephemeral (using one continuous line) sacred patterns called Kolam in three areas. First on our doorstep or the entrance of the home, second in front of the Tulasi plant that represent Mother Earth and thirdly in side the puja room or prayer room. The kolam patterns on your Sacred Space like your Yoga mats or on the walls range between geometric and mathematical line drawings around a matrix of dots to free form artwork and closed shapes. These patterns and symbols, symbolically prevent negative energy from entering the inside of the shapes, and thus are they prevented from entering your Sacred Spaces like your yoga, home or business. Kolam ritual patterns express thankfulness towards Mother Earth, her growth, abundance, regeneration and the idea of being related to the natural world. I have hand painted for the last several years on on yoga mats the ritual Kolam patterns that infuses the same energy that was drawn by women two thousand years ago. This essence of these painted prayers brings Mindfulness, Exuberance and Celebration of Sacredness through ancient symbols, patterns, color and natural materials into your life.

https://www.chalice-art.com/ & Cincinnati Artists are honoring Judy Chicago The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s...
10/03/2024

https://www.chalice-art.com/ & Cincinnati Artists are
honoring Judy Chicago The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized. The Dinner Party comprises a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table with a total of thirty-nine place settings, each commemorating an important woman from history. The settings consist of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates with raised central motifs that are based on vulvar and butterfly forms and rendered in styles appropriate to the individual women being honored. The names of another 999 women are inscribed in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table. This permanent installation is enhanced by rotating Herstory Gallery exhibitions relating to the 1,038 women honored at the table.
Please come to the opening on October the 11th from 6 to 8pm
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The Chalice Seven highly acclaimed female artists from Cincinnati, Ohio, are collaborating through multimedia work to express a common artistic vision in an exhibition held in one of Over the Rhine's historic industrial buildings.The theme and inspiration for the exhibition is the vessel of the chal...

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