How Thoughts become things

Thank you for the tremendous response to our last post! Many of you are asking where you can order our new personal Sand Mandala kit, as we did not provide a link to an order page.

Right now our Sand Mandala kit is a prototype. We have everything lined up to go into production–and we’re going to need your help to make it happen. But a little background first.

Have you heard the maxim, Thoughts Become Things? Author and teacher Mike Dooley has made it his mission to remind us that there’s a kind of magic in how our thoughts become our beliefs, and our beliefs determine the reality that we experience and what we can accomplish.

It’s also true that in the physical world, everything new that is created first starts with a thought–an idea. We engage our imagination to build enough details that we can write it down or draw it. And then we act and bring it to life.

The idea for our Sand Mandala Kit started when we imagined using the sand techniques we’d developed in our studio to address the creative needs of adults. 

With a beautiful mandala as our inspiration, we researched how mandalas are used across the globe, and thought about how all the materials might come together. We drew mandalas, working through many iterations to capture the design exactly as we wanted it.

We used an Xacto blade to hand-cut our first mandala into a mat board so that we could test the concept. After some adjustments, we had our final design fabricated into a steel die. With the die in hand, we could do test runs, making improvements to each aspect of the kit as we went along. Then we made digital renderings so that we could find the right company to print and manufacture the box.

Now we have a physical prototype of the kit, encased in the beautiful box you see pictured here.

We’re very excited to bring this kit to life and to introduce a peaceful, beautiful, and centering activity to a chaotic world.

But we can’t do it without your support. Creating a new product, made in the USA from responsibly sourced materials, is a costly endeavor, and we need help to make it happen. We ourselves are funding the research, testing, initial materials, prototypes and marketing. But more is needed to produce the kit and make it available to individuals, families, and community groups who want to bring the sand mandala experience into their lives.

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Additional links

Mike Dooley’s Website

Thoughts become things!