International Day of Zentangle

Such a fun time yesterday, enjoying Rick & Maria and tanglers from all over the world, as they showed us the new tangle IDOZ. Love the possibilities of this one.

Thank you so much for such a fabulous session. The new tangle is beautiful and sparks so many creative ideas! It was lovely to be on live with you and everyone worldwide. I celebrated by taking the time out later in the day to draw a few different versions of Idoz, and I look forward to teaching it in my classes this week :)

Thank you so much for the wonderful new Tangle, and for your generosity and constant inspiration! I got to Tangle twice yesterday so that made it a perfect day. Here’s to another 20 years!

Thank you so much for creating this special day! and a vehicle for this amazing community- “idoz” is perfect and the best way to celebrate the launch of this inaugural international day.

What a special time with Rick & Maria and all the tanlgers world wide. I got up early so I could be there!! So much fun and a great way to start the day and celebrate as well. This year marks my 10th year doing Zentangle. So an anniversary year for me too. Here’s to many many more for all of us!

“This communication with your tile” ~Rick

Yes!
When Maria was drawing the teardrops and Rick was commenting on the process. I love the multi-communication with voice, tile, pen, ambiance, sight, breathing ♥️ rhythm.
Thank you Zentangle team 💙
Catherine Nava July 15, 16th 2024

I had the best day yesterday! I am an elementary school teacher on summer break so it was a full day of celebrating IDOZ, my birthday, and the kickoff to Holly Jolly July (a 12 day Zentangle-inspired Christmas workshop series)

I woke up at 6:30am to join the live stream for the first annual International Day of Zentangle at 7am! I was overjoyed to have the opportunity to learn with Rick and Maria again- it felt just like I was back in seminar! So thankful for technology to allow us to have that opportunity. The new tangle is so much fun to play with! I did 4 tiles during the session.

After breakfast, my husband and I went for a nice walk around the Stanley park seawall (Vancouver BC Canada), then I got my free birthday drink from Starbucks (an iced peach tea).

After a little nap, at 3pm I joined Sheila Grube and the Holly Jolly July crew to kick off the first day! It was so much fun reuniting virtually with other tanglers on zoom, including CZTs from my seminar year #26! (We are excited to reunite in person at ZenAgain2025)!

After the workshop, my husband, my mom and I went to my favourite beach in West Vancouver BC Canada to have a lovely sushi dinner, gluten free birthday treats and watch the sunset! My mom is a tangler too so I told her all about the live stream and she is excited to try out the new tangle, too! Overall, it was such an amazing day that left me filled with so much appreciation and gratitude for all the love and opportunities I have to be creative! I’m so excited for this coming year and all that it has to offer!

It’s always a great feeling to listen to your words, Rick and Maria, and tangle at the same time.
I appreciated and I’m grateful for the wonderful chance to meet a significant part of the magnificent Zentangle community and create together.
Thank you so much.

Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us. I am an 82 year old from South Africa. I spend time doing my tangles while keeping my 90 year old frail and deaf husband company. Lots of gratitude for the many years we have been gifted together. Relaxing, enjoyable and much appreciated.

I had so much fun tangling along with Rick and Maria…and everyone in the chat. It chatted so fast it was hard to read at times. It felt like Christmas morning and my birthday all at once because of the joy I felt. Learning the new tile was special. The day before, 9 of us CZT’S got together and celebrated with laughter, food, and tangles.

Maria, Rick, Molly, and . It is a strong thread full of positivity that you are rolling out to connect and untangle the whole world. Perhaps it is the first demonstration for positive connection instead of an aggressive uprising against something, with a lot of negativity. Really peaceful with tangled peas. I admire your initiative. Thank you all very much. Warm greetings from Laurette d’Anjou, the Netherlands.”

我是亞洲認證第4期的Linda.
回想在報名認證之前，我完全沒有畫過Zentangle，事後想想也許會認識Zentangle，是父母冥冥中的指引，為了讓我能快點走出父母相繼離世的傷痛。
7年了，我一直很喜歡畫禪繞，畫的時候能夠讓我放鬆丶專注。甚至曾經在速食店連續畫了8小時的禪繞畫，經店員提醒才收筆，但驚訝的是，當下一點也不覺得累，反而有種愉悅且抒壓的感覺，這時候完全明白創辧人推廣禪繞畫的意義。
國際 Zentangle 日對我而言，意味著禪繞讓我和父母之間產生美好回憶的連結。
Zentangle 20週年，我依然會持續推廣禪繞畫，讓更多人認識Zentangle。
最後，感謝創辦人Rick和Maria，也感謝我的父母指引我認識Zentangle的美好。

Linda 2024/07/17

At the moment I‘m in Italy ( I’ from Germany)and first I didn’t get the 2nd Mail with the Information. But finally it worked and I was so grateful to be able to join and to tangle simultaneously with so many Tanglers all over the world. Big thanks to Maria and Rick for this wonderful opportunity given so warmheartedly to all.
Looking foreward to 15th July 2025 😉.
Martina, CZT EU6

Thank you for your video on IDOZ!

I enjoyed tangling with Rick and Maria, and I became really relaxed with a fun.

So happy to be part of the Journey of Zentangle since 2011 and to help share the joy of tangling with my friends and students. Thank you for a fun celebration and a new tangle

I love this new tangle! I was working but managed to stay with the live stream. 🙂 So fun being a part of this community !

Thank you for a lovely day of tangling. I love IDOZ! I know it is a tangle I will use as it is so relaxing for me to draw but still requires my concentration. Perfect! So happy to see you tangling Maria, for your sake and mine.

When I joined a CZT led group at the library in 2017, I could not have know I’d be tangling 7 years later. In my retired years ZT has inspired me, relaxed me, given me a quiet time each day (at times all day) to reflect & enjoy. I certainly could not have known I’d become a CZT (41). Yesterday’s live event remined me of the on-line seminar, I thought that, with 193 attendees was remarkable. Well, IDOZ was awesome with 1000s of around the world on chat. Of course the new IDOZ tangle is a bonus. I’m finishing a few projects at the moment, but want to explore more possibilities of IDOZ. Thank you Rick and Maria for your inspirations and bringing us (tanglers) together.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Zentangle there was a live stream on YouTube. There were over 1,900 people watching and tangling at the same time, incredible! Maria annd Rick introduced a new tangle #Idoz (which is short for International Day Of Zentangle). It started with Rick’s version and happily Maria showed her unique version. I loved to see the two of you. There is so much to add in this tangle. Thank you for all these years, the great community and I am happy and proud to be part of it! Whoop whoop!

I celebrated this wonderful anniversary partaking with you All from our lake house. Quite an accomplishment that so many of us from all over the World share this love of Zentangle that Maria & Rick introduced us to. Love IDOZ & thanks for organizing this HQ!

Hello everyone and especially Maria and Thomas,
I loved tangling together it was heartwarming to be one amongst 3.000 tanglers.
Greetings from the Netherlands

I couldn’t make the live stream. Thank you for making it available afterwards! Congratulations!!

Congratulation for this 20 years, is amazing the zentangle! a very grate gift ! ,Thank you for sharing such wonderful classes and the love and energy you teach, eternally grateful

I spent the day tangling Idoz and a few other tangles. Thank you for the new tangle which I am sure I will use many times. I was so happy to see Maria creating and using her artistic gift to bring us all such beauty! You go girl! HAPPY IDOZ!

The get-together was absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much Rick and Maria for hosting us all to such a fun event.

Your kindness and generosity and love is so much appreciated.