“mandala art” breaks out against autism and is a window to economic recovery

The “mandala art” has penetrated the West for a long time, but its healing engine with its circles and figures that seek to represent the macrocosm and microcosm -as they saw it in Hinduism and Buddhism- celebrates with revelations that it exhibits the Mandala Fest, the first great exhibition of artists who capture their feelings in a more conceptual and elaborate way by exhibitors who sell commercial items, without neglecting the importance of spirituality and the purification of the soul embodied in t-shirts , bracelets, pillboxes, necklaces or pillows.

This Friday, the Naucalli Park, located in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, opened as the “host” of artists, workshops and sellers of mandalas that welcome -until next October 9- connoisseurs and apprentices in the coloring of the mandalas. circles that India, in the Asian continent, contributes to humanity as a therapy against depression or conditions such as autism.

In the Ágora del Naucalli, Miravay Peralta, a visual artist who graduated from La Salle University in Mexico, opened the curatorship “Vibrar a Colores” to the general public, an exhibition made up of more than 30 works by young and not so young creators of mandalas , in which the creations of Sara Durand stood out, who “mandala art” tore her out of the textile business to which she had dedicated herself for years.

“The circle has infinite possibilities to create it, from painting, weaving, openwork, suggested, explicit and implicit and in all kinds of ways,” Peralta said at the opening of the exhibition.

Sara Durand, 59, warns that she did not know what this mandala was, but when she learned about the compass, she knew circles from their own creation.

In “Vibrar a Colores”, the mandala artist shares that she can now live on this when her paintings such as “Las Traces del Tiempo Infinito” are priced at more than 20,000 pesos.

“That was not the reason, this was for me, when I met the mandala, an escape, because I did not study or did not go to a painting school, this helps in transpersonal psychology. I give workshops, and this has helped children with autism, it is really a great therapy for many people who we can get out of conditions such as depression or anxiety”, says Sara Durand.

On its first day, the Mandala Fest vibrated with visitors of all ages who came to Naucalli Park in search of coloring and coloring circles in the face of adversity, but also for learning and recreation.

Arizane, 39, who underwent neurosurgery five months ago for refractory epilepsy, found this event on Facebook – a social network with which he had no contact before the operation. The call thrilled her and she traveled alone from Pachuca, Hidalgo, to color mandalas. At 39 years old, and as a clinical psychologist, Arizane, brush in hand, says that her contact with her circles keeps her entertained, and meditating on the processes that she has faced in her life.

Her face shines when she colors and she playfully moves her hair to show where the trace of the surgery she underwent “to remove the part of her brain that did not serve her” is.

At another table, a five-year-old girl colors with her mother, who explains that they came to the workshop offered by the Mandala Fest to find out what this is all about, and they have been delighted.

In the Naucalli Park, visitors will have access to seven interactive workshops to paint mandalas in different techniques. All materials included for the participants, in a buffet of colors and textures, in addition to five Master classes to learn more about mandalas, from drawing them from scratch and interpreting them to meditating with them.

The festival includes a bazaar for entrepreneurs and SMEs that offer decoration, jewelry, accessories with mandalas as the theme, as well as materials for painting and stationery.

Tickets for the workshops are on sale at

All tickets include the master classes and selected workshops.

Admission to the art gallery is free.