Prayer Bead Workshop

For thousands of years, across every continent, our ancestors have been making beads, and stringing them together for meditative purposes. Commonly known as Mala, Rosary, Zulu Beads, and many other such titles of ethnicity, Prayer Beads are all encompassing of their basic intention. Traditionally, prayer beads have consisted of strings of similarly sized beads, seeds, knots, or even rose petals and beads made from crushed roses, from which we get the word "rosary." The Sanskrit term japa-mala means "muttering chaplet," which refers to prayer beads' function as a means of recording the number of prayers muttered. Since counting prayers was initially so important, each religion embracing the use of prayer beads developed its own symbolic structure to follow.

Instructor: Patty McWilliams
Date: TUESDAY, Nov 11th
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Cost: $70.00 materials included!

Patty McWilliams

Patty McWilliams is a Graduate Student at Governors State University in the Fine Art Department. In her undergraduate work Patty studied Psychology and Fine Art as well as completing a local two year Shamanic Apprenticeship Program. Patty combines the freedom of Art and the 'wisdom of the ancestors'

to assist her in creating experiences for adults and children to embrace their divine creativity to help in releasing what holds them back. Patty's workshops are designed to bridge the energetic connection of health through emotions, by using various methods of visual art as well as meditation.