About Aya

       

 

Sedona Yoga Shala 2015 Bio

Sedona Yoga Festival 2014 Profile

Aya's short bio 2008

Aya and the StarWheel School

Aya's Resume

Sedona Tours

Early Years:

My first real artistic activation occurred in Singapore, where I was working at my first (and last) "career job": Assistant to the Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy. After many years of arduous dedicated student life, I was at last provided with financial security plus free time and was thus able to re-open the doors of my creativity and re-expand my windows of perception. This translated into a series of vividly colored works in various media and culminated in a group exhibit at the French Cultural Center. I realized then that maybe I was an "artist", whereas my academic studies and official career made me a "foreign service agent". At work, I would feel stripped of my basic freedom of speech and life-style, a mere puppet. At home, I would have feasts of writing, drawing, coloring and dancing...

The tension grew within my being until, finally, I decided to quit my "career" in order to pursue a life journey dedicated to the spirit of my Self and the spirit of my Art. Destiny was coming closer and beckoning, benevolently... A new inner smile brushed upon my heart.

A year of free wandering followed: India, Nepal, Afghanistan... all the way back to France where I felt like a complete stranger, unwilling to go back to the prison of a professional job and longing, instead, to explore the new budding worlds glimpsed within my being.

At any point of honestly looking at Who We really Are, life is like starting anew, calling forth unsuspected wonder, joy and energy...

Eventually ending up in Soho, New York, I was thrilled, in this urban art oasis, to explore the many free materials to be found at the doors of small factories. No specific art style yet, just a wild adventure into who I was as an artist... and a process of "sculpting my way through space" that stripped away the outer layers of ego and culture obliterating the light inside.

I was then ready to answer the call of another Mother: California. Moving to the Bay Area, I finally stopped resisting my strong attraction for the spiritual and sacred arts, while still pursuing my personal creations. Recovering spiritual horizons lost since late childhood, the Seeker was home again and rapidly expanding beyond body and personality, in the company of trance channels, psychic readers and spiritual healers.  Destiny was smiling again, widely... and my being was dancing the original Tai Chi.

Over the next few years, I sought the union of Spirit, Art and Culture, sitting and dancing with many variegated teachers. Traveling back and forth between the US and Europe, I became a writer and ambassador of new global cosmic conscious ways, grounded in peace and respect for Life...

Mandalas, as tools for meditation, were certainly pointing to the direction of Oneness. But it was not enough for me to know of the sacred artistic ways of established traditions: I certainly was not inspired to just duplicate them. What I wanted was to keep and honor their spirit while re-creating new forms, colors and symbols that would speak to the people in our contemporary global culture. And so, I just set about deepening my spiritual perception... all the while playing with my compass, markers and grid paper... and unknowingly rediscovering the perennial wisdom of Sacred Geometry.

In 1985, I was settled in Santa Monica canyon when the StarWheel Vision came on the wings of grace. It was in response to a spirit quest and completely focused me on birthing the StarWheel babies... starting a Family...

At the dawn of this millenium, the resonating call within is to birth a live Mandala:
the Purna Vida Eco-Yoga Earth School

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