Art, Self and Spirituality: Seeing And Creating through the Chakras with Art and Meditation Teacher Bryan Melillo, Begins November 9
8 Week Class Taught online via Zoom
Sundays, November 9 - December 28, 2025
1 - 3 pm ET (NYC time) (last class might run longer to accommodate final projects)
$175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot attend live
Join meditation teacher, practitioner, and art professor Bryan Melillo (Parsons, RISD) for a transformative class designed to help you explore and visually express your inner images and intuitions.
Through guided meditations and feeling exercises, students will delve beyond the visual realm to uncover their unique inner landscapes. This journey will be facilitated by a series of breath and visualization techniques rooted in the Vedic traditions, aimed at fostering a connection between the causal and subtle-emotional bodies. In particular, this class will focus on mining and excavating the chakras, exploring the stored psychological and emotional nuances that—from an Eastern perspective—dictate who we are. Participants will be guided into expanding their awareness into a profound space beyond mind, where the unknown can be felt and perceived, creating an opportunity for new insights and expressions of previously forgotten experiences.
The class will utilize traditional art mediums of your choice—as well as color, form, abstraction, or representation—as tools to illuminate what has been obscured. This approach encourages presence, vitality, and a sense of wonder in aesthetic expression while promoting potential healing. The class will combine class discussions, exercises, meditations, and studio time, all of which will culminate in a project shared during our final class.
Artists studied in this course will include Hilma af Klint, Hilla Rebay, Agnes Pelton, Adolph Gottlieb, as well as tantra color field paintings and Tibetan thangkas.
Bryan Melillo has studied meditation in the Jñana and Bhakti yoga traditions for the last 25 years. Experiencing a classically identifiable Kundalini experience in 1997, his path eventually led to Tiruvannamalai, India, where he has studied with the same teacher since 2001. Here, he began learning (and eventually teaching) a variety of breathing (pranayama) and mantra-based meditation techniques. His exposure to many esoteric practices opened him to insights around the great Eastern traditions on the death and dying process. Bryan completed an End of Life Doula certification training with the goal of integrating eastern understandings of death with the growing Western end of life care and the death with dignity movement. Bryan is a professor at NYC’s Parsons School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design where he teaches painting, mask making and design. He maintains an active studio art practice.
8 Week Class Taught online via Zoom
Sundays, November 9 - December 28, 2025
1 - 3 pm ET (NYC time) (last class might run longer to accommodate final projects)
$175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot attend live
Join meditation teacher, practitioner, and art professor Bryan Melillo (Parsons, RISD) for a transformative class designed to help you explore and visually express your inner images and intuitions.
Through guided meditations and feeling exercises, students will delve beyond the visual realm to uncover their unique inner landscapes. This journey will be facilitated by a series of breath and visualization techniques rooted in the Vedic traditions, aimed at fostering a connection between the causal and subtle-emotional bodies. In particular, this class will focus on mining and excavating the chakras, exploring the stored psychological and emotional nuances that—from an Eastern perspective—dictate who we are. Participants will be guided into expanding their awareness into a profound space beyond mind, where the unknown can be felt and perceived, creating an opportunity for new insights and expressions of previously forgotten experiences.
The class will utilize traditional art mediums of your choice—as well as color, form, abstraction, or representation—as tools to illuminate what has been obscured. This approach encourages presence, vitality, and a sense of wonder in aesthetic expression while promoting potential healing. The class will combine class discussions, exercises, meditations, and studio time, all of which will culminate in a project shared during our final class.
Artists studied in this course will include Hilma af Klint, Hilla Rebay, Agnes Pelton, Adolph Gottlieb, as well as tantra color field paintings and Tibetan thangkas.
Bryan Melillo has studied meditation in the Jñana and Bhakti yoga traditions for the last 25 years. Experiencing a classically identifiable Kundalini experience in 1997, his path eventually led to Tiruvannamalai, India, where he has studied with the same teacher since 2001. Here, he began learning (and eventually teaching) a variety of breathing (pranayama) and mantra-based meditation techniques. His exposure to many esoteric practices opened him to insights around the great Eastern traditions on the death and dying process. Bryan completed an End of Life Doula certification training with the goal of integrating eastern understandings of death with the growing Western end of life care and the death with dignity movement. Bryan is a professor at NYC’s Parsons School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design where he teaches painting, mask making and design. He maintains an active studio art practice.
8 Week Class Taught online via Zoom
Sundays, November 9 - December 28, 2025
1 - 3 pm ET (NYC time) (last class might run longer to accommodate final projects)
$175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot attend live
Join meditation teacher, practitioner, and art professor Bryan Melillo (Parsons, RISD) for a transformative class designed to help you explore and visually express your inner images and intuitions.
Through guided meditations and feeling exercises, students will delve beyond the visual realm to uncover their unique inner landscapes. This journey will be facilitated by a series of breath and visualization techniques rooted in the Vedic traditions, aimed at fostering a connection between the causal and subtle-emotional bodies. In particular, this class will focus on mining and excavating the chakras, exploring the stored psychological and emotional nuances that—from an Eastern perspective—dictate who we are. Participants will be guided into expanding their awareness into a profound space beyond mind, where the unknown can be felt and perceived, creating an opportunity for new insights and expressions of previously forgotten experiences.
The class will utilize traditional art mediums of your choice—as well as color, form, abstraction, or representation—as tools to illuminate what has been obscured. This approach encourages presence, vitality, and a sense of wonder in aesthetic expression while promoting potential healing. The class will combine class discussions, exercises, meditations, and studio time, all of which will culminate in a project shared during our final class.
Artists studied in this course will include Hilma af Klint, Hilla Rebay, Agnes Pelton, Adolph Gottlieb, as well as tantra color field paintings and Tibetan thangkas.
Bryan Melillo has studied meditation in the Jñana and Bhakti yoga traditions for the last 25 years. Experiencing a classically identifiable Kundalini experience in 1997, his path eventually led to Tiruvannamalai, India, where he has studied with the same teacher since 2001. Here, he began learning (and eventually teaching) a variety of breathing (pranayama) and mantra-based meditation techniques. His exposure to many esoteric practices opened him to insights around the great Eastern traditions on the death and dying process. Bryan completed an End of Life Doula certification training with the goal of integrating eastern understandings of death with the growing Western end of life care and the death with dignity movement. Bryan is a professor at NYC’s Parsons School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design where he teaches painting, mask making and design. He maintains an active studio art practice.