Beautiful Sand Mandala -- created and released at Closure Ceremony for the Richmond Hill Inn

Using colored sand Mandala Facilitator, Martha Kiger created the basic form of a mandala for the Community Goodbye and Closure Ceremony for the Richmond Hill Inn yesterday.  Everyone who came through was invited to add to mandala by "painting" a symbol or design with the sand.

Master Percussionist, Layne Redmond drummed as people took turns brushing the sands of the mandala into a pile in the middle, integrating all the symbols, memories and intentions.


Then everyone was invited to take some of the sand and carry out it into the gardens or up to the site of the burned Pearson Mansion.

The sand mandala was a perfect symbolic ritual for this Big Moment in our community.

Julia and I topped it off with a White Dove Release for the Past, the Present and the Future.  The doves that fly in our dove releases are actually part of the Riverside community.  They live in Woodfin at Julia's home, just across the river from the land that we'll all soon be calling Oshun Mountain Sanctuary!