Original mandala drawing of a horse riding trip in Hawaii. A horse walks along a dirt path with sun and ocean in the background. Original artwork by Anna Loscotoff.

Mandalas

Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning “circle” or “center”. Mandalas can have repeating colors and patterns, or they can be free flowing and creatively yours. Traditionally within the Buddhist and Hindu culture, mandalas were used in meditation, prayer, and spiritual journey. Carl Jung, the founder of analytic psychology, created his first mandala in 1916. He worked with his patients to create mandalas intuitively, as a “safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness” and saw them as a tool towards spiritual health.

I use mandalas for creative, spiritual growth and well as a journalling tool for my life in this individual moment.

Original Mandala by Anna Loscotoff. Drawing of experience with Complex Nocturnal Visual Hallucinations, drawn on Procreate. Image of woman with blonde hair dreaming her arms are too long. She's sitting in blue bed with orange light in background. 2020.

Nocturnal Hallucinations

Digital Art/Procreate

Mandala on white paper. A blazing sun in oranges and yellows radiates in the background. In the front are purple flowers growing.

Growth

Prismacolor Pencils and Ink on Paper

Original mandala drawing of a horse riding trip in Hawaii. A horse walks along a dirt path with sun and ocean in the background.

Journal Entry – Horseback riding in Hawaii

Prismacolor Pencils and Ink on Paper

Mandala on white paper. 3 silhouettes, a mother, father and daughter, ride bikes in front of ocean waves.

Journal Entry – Riding in the Rain

Prismacolor Pencils and Ink on Paper

Mandala on white paper. A little girl dances in the rain as water drops fall on a flat ocean.

Journal Entry – Dancing in the Rain

Ink on Paper

Mandala on white paper. Black and white spiral stair steps.

Spiral Stair

Ink on Paper

Mandala on white paper. A flower with two buds, colored in pinks, oranges and yellows.

Hysterectomy

Prismacolor Pencils and Ink on Paper

mandala on black paper. A landscape. Yellow grain grows at the bottom, with purple hills rising behind. The sun, shrouded in fog as it rolls over the hills.

Grain

Prismacolor Pencils on Paper

Mandala on black paper. A sea turtle in blues, greens, and oranges.

Sea Turtle

Prismacolor Pencils on Paper

Mandala on black paper. Koi fish in yellow, orange, and red.

Koi

Prismacolor Pencils on Paper

Mandala on black paper. Turquoise peacock highlighted in yellow, head in the center with feathers extending out and around.

Peacock

Prismacolor Pencils on Paper

Mandala on black paper. White cloud of breath in a purple circle.

Breath

Prismacolor Pencil on Paper

Mandala on black paper. A green seahorse in a yellow bubble with blue air bubbles floating up.

Seahorse

Prismacolor Pencil on Paper

Mandala on black paper. Rainbow swirls behind two white bars.

Determination

Prismacolor Pencil on Paper

mandala on black paper. A blue background with overlapping triangles, squares, and diamonds in yellow, orange, green and white.

Direction

Prismacolor Pencil on Paper

Mandala on black paper. Blue background with 3 pearl-like bubbles. A ray of orange light on the right side.

Innocence

Prismacolor Pencil on Paper

Mandala on black paper. Design with elongated vertical eye and green light radiating to the sides.

Open

Prismacolor Pencil on Paper