Vijali hamilton biography inspired

Vijali Hamilton, a visionary sculptor, poet, musician, performance artist, and author is the originator of the World Wheel, Global Peace Through the Arts.

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Vijali carving in the Ecuadorean Andes

Vijali Hamilton is a visionary artist, sculptor, poet, musician, author, and teacher. With an artist’s valuable insight, she urges us to find our own voice as she takes us to the far corners of the world, embracing the planet and its people as one family.

Praise for World Wheel:

“As we travel with Vijali Hamilton, we come to understand the transformative power of moral imagination and wisdom of the heart.

The Second World Wheel Project is dedicated to the children of our world. She is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

In 1986, she founded her first World Wheel Project, a seven-year spiritual and artistic pilgrimage during which she circled the globe creating monumental stone sculptures and community-based performances in twelve countries.

And now Vijali has started on a second World Wheel through the southern hemisphere, starting in the Andes of Ecuador.

Vijali felt she needed to extend her living prayer for peace to others. One feels the understanding and love that develops between Vijali and the group during this process. This takes a commitment of time, of real thought, and of energy to act.

by Laila Castle, On Turning 60 by Cathleen Roundtree, Goddess by Jalaja Bonheim, The Cultural Creatives by Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson and Mandala: Journey to the Center by Bailey Cunningham.

vijali hamilton

Artist, Sculptor, World Activist

> Click to read a Message from Vijali from Africa

> Click to visit Vijali's Web Site and Watch World Wheel Journeys:One Woman's Quest for World Peace

Vijali Hamilton takes us on an extraordinary pilgrimage to communities across the world in her journey through “The World Wheel.” She opens to us and shares her world as an artist-sculptor-actress who travels from one country to another seeking new friends who learn about each other by word of mouth.

When she arrives in a new country and her visit is accepted by the host group, she asks of those people three questions:

• Where do you come from?

• How could you solve it?

Then, working together with that community, they explore each question. Vijali's collaborative creative approach in each community made these artful and spiritual events into expressive forums for voicing their resident’s hopes and their fears. Vijali lectures extensively and has given retreats for many years in the creative process of moving from the introspection of meditation and journal writing into art forms.

Vijali’s work and life have been represented in numerous books, some of which include: Once and Future Goddess by Elinor Gadon, Reweaving the World and The Reflowering of the Goddess by Gloria Orenstein, The Feminine Face of God by Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins, Sculpting with the Environment by Baile Oakes, Skydancing Earthwalker: Women’s Pilgrimages to Sacred Places ed.

Early in her life, Vijali spent ten years as a monastic member of the Vedanta Society convent in Santa Barbara. Various visual art and dramatic art forms are created to express each intrinsic heartfelt solution. In each country she made a new family of friends, a world family, filling a void in her own life.

Her voyage is a journey of making peace, through healing, and creating through participating in an adventure of truthfully examining ones root problems and dreaming, through art, a way of solving, of transforming and healing those problems.

Please share her adventures as we hear from her!

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