Da Vinci School

Learn how geometry connects everything

Since 2016, we have taught students all over the world how to draw the pattern behind every flower, atom and galaxy.

Free taster workshop · Sun 29 Nov Find your way in
Find your way in

Which one are you?

Teacher training graduates with flower garlands
I teach yoga, retreats or healing
Open your next retreat with a morning of drawing. Your group builds the Flower of Life by hand and sees the pattern behind the practice.
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Architecture students in Jaipur cheering after the workshop
I design or build
Proportion, symmetry and the golden ratio, drawn until you see them in every plan. We have taught it at an architecture college in Jaipur.
Start with The Blueprint →
Dr. Be with children holding up their drawings
I raise or teach children
Give a child a compass and maths becomes something they can hold. Seven worlds of questions from nature, art and science, made for families.
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Dr. Be giving her Atomic Geometry talk at Ozora Festival
I work in science, tech or business
Science, code and good business all run on pattern recognition and logic. Draw the patterns by hand and train the eye for structure. The first world is free.
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Why by hand, why now

AI gives you answers. Drawing teaches you to embody them.

A compass, a ruler and one point. Every shape grows from the one before, so you feel why it holds together. That way of seeing goes with you into a lesson, a building, a business, a conversation.
Pattern recognitionSpot the same few shapes in flowers, atoms, music and buildings.
Whole-systems thinkingSee how the parts belong to one whole, in nature and in your work.
Made by handSlow and precise. What you build yourself, you keep.
Dr. Be introduces the Da Vinci School curriculum

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Pattern recognition

One pattern, everywhere.

The same few shapes run through plants, cells, music and the stars. Once you have drawn them, you start to see them.
NatureThe golden spiral
LifeThe double helix
SoundA string and its harmonics
PhysicsTwo waves crossing
BodyLeonardo's proportions
ArtA fractal growing
The path

From one point to the five solids.

Every course builds on the one before.
Step 1 · See the pattern

Hello Geometry

The gentle way in. Seven worlds from nature to the cosmos, in an app on any device. The first world is free.

Self-paced · start any time
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Step 2 · Draw the code

The Blueprint

From the point to Metatron's Cube. Draw the code every form is built on, step by step, live with Dr. Be.

Live · 4 Sundays from 6 Dec · 11am CET (10am UK)
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Step 3 · Into three dimensions

Platonic Solids

The five shapes Plato saw in fire, earth, air and water, drawn in 2D and folded in 3D.

Live · 4 Sundays from 24 Jan · 11am CET (10am UK)
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Step 4 · Pass it on

Teacher Training

Teach geometry in your own way, with weekly group sessions and monthly 1:1 coaching.

Certification · 4 months · 6 places
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Every month there is also a free live Dialogue. See all dates →

Pine trees and green hills around a retreat venue
Retreats

Geometry by the sea, in the mountains, under the trees.

We have taught at yoga retreats, festivals and healing centres in nine countries. A day of drawing with compass and ruler, building the solids by hand and finding the pattern in the place around you.
A group sitting in a circle outdoors around a large paper tetrahedron
Outdoor workshop · 2020
Seven painted geometric mandalas laid out on wood
Aljezur, Portugal · 2023
A retreat group posing on a terrace with mountains behind
Mountain retreat · 2019
A folded paper star tetrahedron on a wooden deck
Portugal · 2018
Bring geometry to your retreat See where we have been →
Since 2016

Nine countries. One pattern.

Dr. Be at the great pyramid of Chichén ItzáChichén Itzá, Mexico2023 · Read the story Architecture students in JaipurArchitecture college, Jaipur2018 · Read the story Dr. Be on stage at Ozora FestivalOzora Festival, Hungary2023 · Read the story Teacher training graduation in GoaGraduation, Goa2020 · Read the story Children with their Vesica Piscis drawingsProject week, Germany2023 · Read the story
A course group holding up their drawingsKoh Phangan, Thailand2022 · Read the story A course group on a terrace with their mandalasNepal2019 · Read the story
A course group in BaliBali, IndonesiaWorkshop
A group with their mandalasMandala workshop2018
Dr. Be teachingDr. Be teachingWorkshop

IndiaNepalUnited KingdomPortugalGermanyIndonesiaSouth KoreaThailandMexico

In their words

What our students say

“I was MIND BLOWN. I could suddenly connect the dots between subjects that always fascinated me: art, music, science, yoga and nature.”
Barbara Miranda · Architect

Masterclass · Koh Phangan, Thailand

Chris · 4D Yoga Retreat, Aljezur, Portugal

Workshop · Goa, India

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Dr. Be, founder of the Da Vinci School
The founder

Dr. Be

Molecular biologist · Author · Founder

Dr. Be spent a decade in academic research. She saw what science was missing: a way to understand life as a whole system. Twelve years of research into geometry followed, and with them two books and the Da Vinci School.

She teaches with the rigour of a scientist and the warmth of a practitioner, through drawing, movement and reflection.

Author of Hello Geometry and The Geometric Universe.

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Ready to see the pattern?

Bring a compass, a ruler and a pencil. In two hours you draw the Flower of Life and see why it appears in temples, cells and snowflakes.
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