Relax and draw

Manisha Lee started teaching the Zentangle style of drawing with HKFYG’s Living Life Academy (LLA) in around 2015. It’s an easy-to-learn, relaxing way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns but it has unexpected benefits too.

Although the style requires a few basic skills, the patterns it an insomniac and he was able to sleep after the second class.” makes can be quite diverse and complicated. “Only the creator Zentangle convinced her of the benefits of positive problems when they sign up for classes. “If they develop a daily task and keep practicing, they usually find it provides emotional support and people who are psychologically troubled in particular can find a way to relax, suffer less and discover self-healing. One of my students was of the drawing can be its judge. The criteria are not really She would like to teach drawing in other media as well, aesthetic but they are very personal: your Zentangle drawings pastels for example. Combined with further studies in art, should help you to feel calm and give you relief from stress.” she thinks this could be merged into mindfulness. “One day, I would like to try watercolours Manisha discovered the or calligraphy as well.” Zentangle style when a close relative of hers died and she Only the creator of the Manisha seeks inspiration needed an outlet for her grief. drawing can be its judge. from other countries and “Because I had a background cultures, Malaysia and Taiwan, in art and psychology, I for example. “The world understood that this could help me express how I felt.” is changing and we individuals have to keep studying to thinking. “There is no clear line between black and It is also good to learn something that doesn’t relate to your white, good and bad. Many people like to judge work and the LLA courses and opportunities fill that need. everything but I think that’s narrow-minded. There are “Look at me. I did surveying at university and then did a lot no standards except the ones that you, the creator, sets.” of other new courses. Regardless of the cost of such courses Many of Manisha’s students at LLA are facing important outcome is that they broaden my mind.”

keep up with change and improve on what we know.” their benefit is far greater than what you actually learn. The

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