Spirit Maps: Follow the Exquisite Geometry of Art and Nature Back to Your Center

by Joanna Arettam

Book Overview

Spirit Maps brings together two simple and profound ideas to help us find our centers:
Art inspires and transforms us, calms us down in the midst of chaos Chakra meditations focus our attention on the reservoirs of energy within and around us

Inspired by the labyrinths painted on the sidewalk outside her studio in lower Manhattan, Joanna Arettam decided to make a book of art and meditation using the colors of the chakras and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159003001X
• ISBN13: 9781590030011
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Red Wheel
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Stunning artwork

I've known all along about the link between art and meditation and have used it in my own meditative practice for years. It's not as if I'm the first to think of this--these are mandalas after all--but the contemporary nature of this art has an effect that isn't duplicated by those more traditional religious pieces. I especially appreciated the binding (I'm a designer), because the publisher must have realized that this book would be laid open time and time again. It's designed to take that kind of abuse, and doesn't "fold up" on you when the book is open.