The Meta Experience provides integrative wellness services through the visual and healing arts. We believe that each being has the ability to find light and wholeness in their lives and we work to expose others to this through the creative arts, holistic services, and educational classes. Our hope is that each individual we serve is able to experience the transformational power of healing.

The Meta Experience was founded by fine artist and holistic practitioner Helina Metaferia (a.k.a. Meta Artist) as a way of inspiring people through the practices that enlightened her own life.

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HAPPENINGS:

• The Meta Experience is a featured facilitator for a 7-day Divine Energy for Couples Retreat in Jamaica in July. Helina will lead participants in yoga, massage, reiki, and meditation workshops in a holistic wellness opportunity for couples.

• Helina Metaferia leads youth mural artists as lead instructor and coordinator of a 100-foot mural project at Parkview Recreation Center in Washington, DC. The program is through The Latin American Youth Center's Art & Media House with grant funding by the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities.

• Helina Metaferia is creating a mural for People Animal's Love Club at Stanton Elementary in Washington, DC. Look for the completed mural this summer.

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EXCERPT FROM HELINA'S BLOG:

The Namaste Principal: Relationships as a Path to the Divine
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010

As a practitioner of yoga, I have commonly used the sanskrit greeting namaste, meaning "the God in me sees the God in you." Although I have always figured it to be a profound reminder of enlightened consciousness, I rarely thought to look at the person that I was greeting as a reflection of higher power. Similarly, it was hard for me to imagine myself as the divine. The flowery language felt appropriate in a yoga context, but had little application to my daily life....

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META ART:

Every week we focus on a piece of artwork. This week's art is a mural titled The Great African Migration by Helina Metaferia.

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I created this mural in the summer of 2008 as part of The Georgia Avenue Mural Project. The project consisted of five murals along the Georgia Avenue corridor in Washington, DC by five international artists. The murals were to represent the cultural and social diversity of the city. It was coordinated by mural artist Joel Bergner with funding from the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities.

I chose to focus on portraying the African diaspora immigrant population in the nation's capitol. As a first generation Ethiopian American, I felt that this painting spoke of my own families story and the growing wave of new African-Americans. I painted this during Barack Obama's election, when there was plenty of dialogue around what it means to be Black and of recent African descent in America. I hope to capture one aspect of this narrative through this mural.

The central woman in the painting represents the Black diaspora, with her many necklaces from around the African continent. A stream of Black people form the shape of the double helix DNA strands from the capitol building. Their new homes and streets of Washington, DC form the background.

-- Helina Metaferia

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