Soul Art

Soul art is the painting of geometric shapes which represent you and key people in your life with whom you have shared many lives. To this picture you add the relationships between you and the life lessons you are learning. It is a personal development tool for a deeper understanding of yourself and your eternal family.

Tibetan Monks: create a sand mandala in London

Tibetan Monks UK Peace Tour

The purpose of the Lelung Dharma Trust’s Shide-Peace project is to promote peace throughout the world. In order to raise awareness of this mission, the Lelung Dharma Trust has brought a group of Tibetan monks from the Drepung Monastery in South India to the UK. While they are here they are performing a number of sacred activities. One of these is the creating of a sand mandala which I was privilege to witness in St. James’s church in Piccadilly, London.

Buddhism is of interest to me as it promotes a way of living for greater peace and happiness. It considers human behaviour and how we might individually improve our personal behaviour to make the world a better place. It is not about someone else doing something but each of us individually taking responsibility for our own behaviour and in so doing contribute to the whole. read more

By Dougp, ago

Soul Map: 7 steps to understanding you and your life

Examples of Student Soul Maps

Need a soul map?

For Alison Wem, that realisation came in the early hours as, newly widowed with children and a demanding job, she confronted her anguish – and found a space of calmness and route to strength, love and guidance.

Follow 7 easy-to-do steps to create your soul map, a route to your ‘inner you’– your sub-conscious mind, higher self or soul, depending on your beliefs.  Gain insight into who you are and where your life is going. Identify who is on this journey with you and how you are helping each other with learning life lessons. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Weekend workshop

Weekend workshop for calmness and relaxation

Wondering what to do next weekend?  Come to a Your Soul Family workshop and paint a soul map which represents you and your life.  Already painted one based on a template?  Come and try our exercises to design your own template.  Feel the calmness come in as you paint.

Life is a journey of discovery.  Your Soul Family helps you to review where you are in your life, identify the life lessons you may be learning and who is helping you with them.

Workshop includes a guided meditation, exercises to help understand you and your family, materials for painting and a reflection on your soul map.  No artistic skills are required.  Beautiful surroundings on a barge moored on the Thames, 10 minutes walk from Clapham Junction. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Create Your Soul Map Quick Reference Guide

Creating Your Soul Map Quick Reference Guide

A quick reference guide, providing the steps on how to create your own soul map has been published.  A beautiful cover has been designed by Jessica Bell to go with the easy to follow stages and steps to create your very own soul map.

A soul map is a visual representation of you and your life.  Each one is a geometric picture; an example is the Your Soul Family logo.  The outer circle of the soul map represents the circle of life. You are the circle in the middle.  The other circles represent people who are important to you in your life.  You are all interacting with one another in your soul family.  The lines between members of your family represent either a life lesson you are helping each other to learn or a special relationship. Examples of a life lesson might be learning to listen or to be patient. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Celtic cross template is here!

Celtic Cross template is here!

Download our latest template to be published.  This template has two powerful symbols, the circle and the cross. The outer circle of life is re-emphasised by the inner circles and symbolises the endless path of knowledge. The cross represents the physical world and resides within these circles. The arms of the cross signify the North, South, East and West.

Remember your soul family includes more than blood family.  Its members also include anyone important to you – blood family, adopted family, in-laws, friends, colleagues. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Circles template is here!

Circles template is here!

Download our latest template to be published.  Islam inspired and based on the layout of a mosque, it represents the transition between Earth and Heaven and has many family members clustered at its heart.  Remember your soul family includes more than blood family.  Its members also include anyone important to you – blood family, adopted family, in-laws, friends, colleagues.

Treat yourself to some ‘me’ time and paint the template to make it your own soul map.  As you colour feel the relaxation and calmness come in.  In today’s world that feeling is such a wonderful tonic. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Your soul map: 2 ways to design your soul map

Some people like to take their template and jump straight in with colouring.  Others like to consider the template and where the important people in their life should sit within it before they start to colour.  The choice of approach is yours.

If you decide to take the time to consider the layout of your soul map, the questions you might want to ask yourself are;

  • Who are the important people in my life?
  • Where would I place an individual on my soul map?
  • What are the relationships between individuals?
  • Do they have an important relationship with me?
  • Is a life lesson being learnt?
  • Who is helping with the life lesson?
  • Is there a natural grouping of individuals e.g. grandfather and grandson, cousins who always gather together at family functions? If so place them together in your soul map.

Often life lessons show themselves as repeated challenges.  For me my life lesson was about defining and maintaining my personal boundaries.  Before I realised this I had a series of very challenging managers, each getting progressively worse.  I really wondered what I had done to deserve them.  When I realised that they were helping me to learn a life lesson, I approached the situation differently and managed it much better.  My next two managers were wonderful so I must have gone someway to learning my lesson. read more

By Alison Wem, ago