SOURCE ART MEDITATION


You are a creative. You are an artist, a dancer, a designer, a coach, a storyteller, a craftsperson, or a writer and a good part of what you do is create meaning or help others create or find meaning. 

But there's a disconnect and you don't seem to be conveying your value and reaching your community. You might be finding it difficult to express the depth of your source art, its singular meaning, its heartfelt beauty. Maybe you have creative blocks, feel unsure about your work, are overwhelmed by the business side of it.

You want to know how to find your own voice in a global outpouring of artisanship. You want to know how to really reach people, authentically and deeply.


In business and art, the true currency is relationship. Without the value of connection, nothing we could say or do would ever convince another person to invest in our work. When we infuse meaning into our work, the customer/viewer feels it and begins to feel akin to us. This creates relevancy and relationship.

  • What if you could directly experience the process by which the mind responds to the world and creates pictures, thoughts, words, and meaning?
  • What if you could catch that tiger by the tail? 
  • What if you could access what comes before the words, before the archetypes? 
  • What if you could watch how meaning is born?


Stilling the mind, listening, breaking down its processes into distinct images and words has the affect of freeing the mind to create source art, without bias, without walls.

For the last 20 years, I have been fortunate to study with a distinct and remarkable lineage of Tibetan-born teachers, and one of the methods they have passed on for accessing how deep mind creates meaning, story, and the individual voice is Mahamudra.

Seven years ago, I developed two methods of teaching Mahamudra to creative people: one through sitting meditation and the other through a group movement and improvisation workshop. The sitting meditations are now available as 11 guided meditation audio mp3s worded for modern creatives, artists, performers, writers, coaches.

Email me at rabbithorns@gmail.com so we can talk about what you'd like to accomplish in your Source Art explorations. The series costs $75US. Once you sign up, you will receive audios by email once a week for 11 weeks. 


We have to go deep inside the mind.


Mahamudra leads the mind to ask and find:

  • How do thoughts arise? From where? 
  • How do you turn those into beliefs? Can you change your beliefs? 
  • Can you move the pictures and thoughts that arise in the mind or are you driven by them? 
  • Are you your feelings or are you something else? 
  • What if you could directly experience the quiet mind where thoughts and feelings arise and float across the sky of mind like clouds? 
  • What would you do if you were free from the tyranny of believing your thoughts and feelings? 
  • How creative would you be if you could access the subtle song of the mind - color and shape, sound and tempo, story and meaning - without bias? 
  • What if you could be a small child in a white room and a handful of colors and sounds and no preconceptions, moved only by overwhelming joy? 
Use these meditations to deepen your own process or to help others reframe their self-images, dreams, and aspirations.

We use Tibetan meditation from 
authentic scriptures.

These meditations come directly from ancient texts including Light of Crystal Clarity by HH1PL Lobsang Chukyi Gyeltsen and Lady of the Ganges by Master Tilopa who wrote it exclusively for his student Naropa after whom the famous university Naropa Institute in Colorado is named.


You can experience the mechanics and mystery of the movement of the creative mind.

This is a series that deepens your experience of mind and meaning each time you do it. Mahamudra was developed by accomplished men and women sages as an accessible practice that opens us up to our deepest mind level by level, layer by layer,


Mahamudra is a lifetime practice for many accomplished yogis and tantric practitioners because the mind is deep and joyful learning is inexhaustible. 

Both Buddhism and science tell us we are mistaking individual and unrelated pictures and thoughts for stories simply because we do not see the spaces between them as they occur. These habitual stories motivate us to react to life rather than engage co-creatively. By directly experiencing mental movement, we can protect our source art from habit. We can choose from a broader palette of story and meaning and create value with wider appeal.

When we disconnect from habitual reaction, we engage our co-creativity and sense of intimate inter-relationship.

Who is this series designed for?
  • creative entrepreneurs
  • artists, craftspeople, artisans
  • writers & storytellers
  • creatives with blocks (e.g. writer's block)
  • business people 
This technique is perfect for both meditators and non-meditators. It's guided, direct, and contains no esoteric or spiritual fluff. The language is modern and applicable to our everyday lives in the 21st century. 

You may think you don't know how to meditate, but you do it every day.

Meditation is NOT about emptying your mind. There is no way you can ever empty your mind. The mind is always moving, apprehending and responding to mental and physical input. Meditation is simply placing the mind's attention to an object - an idea, a feeling, a memory - and staying with it. 

Have you ever watched a movie and when it was over suddenly realized you had completely forgotten you were in a room with other people? That's the focus of meditation. We do it every day when we worry or replay a situation over and over in our heads. We simply haven't trained ourselves to place the mind on an object that helps us rather than entertains us or even annoys us. 

Source Art Meditation is tasty! It's sexy! It is carefully designed to help you discover the joy of creating. 

When you sign up for the Source Art Meditation series, you will receive 11 weekly emails, each with an mp3 audio file. The first audio is an introduction to the series and a preliminary meditation.

The next 10 are guided Mahamudra meditations designed to
  1. bring you deep into the still mind to see how the mind creates images and words,  
  2. explore the links between these images and the "me", and
  3. experience directly how this interplay gives birth to meaning and story.
Are you ready to play with the source art 
of your creative mind?


email me: rabbithorns@gmail.com

 Allison Dey Malacaria

I am a creative designer, maker, and fiber artist. My lifetime has been filled with making for myself, friends, and family mostly through hand sewing.

At 17, I read a book of the Buddha's teachings and considered them the closest ideas to how I believed the world worked. In my mid-30s, I was introduced to Tibetan teachers and began studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism in the Gelugpa lineage of the Dalai Lama. My main teacher is Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Tharchin (1921-2004). In 2004, my teachers asked me to begin teaching Buddhist scripture and meditation. Since 2010, I have taught mahamudra meditation and practice, including Source Art Meditation and Mahamudra in Motion (a movement workshop) in 6 cities in 3 countries. I have done a number of short group and solitary retreats and have also accomplished 4 month-long solitary meditation retreats.

Before moving to Australia, I founded and managed the Three Jewels Buddhist Community Center in Tucson, Arizona (2006-2009), where I also developed and ran the children's dharma program. And from 2009 - 2011, I served as a full-time resident volunteer staff member and instructor at a Buddhist retreat center.

My goal in teaching Mahamudra Source Art Meditation is to provide artists and creatives a readily accessible method for directly experiencing the creative mind, deconstructing habitual patterning and story-making, and constructing new meanings and original art from deep source images of the still mind.