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Provide your employees with an in-person or online wellness benefit that fits into the lunch hour! Meditations may be purchased individually or as a regular service as well as tailored to your team’s specific needs. 

 
 

Sample Meditations

Browse a selection of our diverse catalogue of online and in-person meditations, which range in focus from quiet reflection for pure relaxation to highly hands-on and interactive. Most meditations connect the visual arts or poetry with a proven tool for mental and physical wellness.

Tension & Release

Stress release, relaxation Technique, body awareness

 
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Middle Niger civilization, Seated Figure, 13th century, terracotta, 10 x 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 

Together we’ll consider a 13th-century terracotta sculpture from the site Jenne-jeno, the oldest known city in sub-Saharan Africa. Our observations of this tightly curled figure’s compelling composition will frame our own practice, a muscle relaxation technique designed to release tension from the body.

Requirements:

45 minutes. Space for reflection and stillness.

 

Creative outlet, Builds resilience, fights Negativity bias, stress release

Artful Meditation: Creating Your Still Life

 
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Charles Demuth, Green Pears, 1929, Watercolor over graphite, Yale University Art Gallery

 
 

This Artful Meditation introduces a specific practice designed to redirect the brain’s frequent negativity bias. Informed by the neuroscience of positivity, this unique meditation combines art appreciation, mindfulness and creative activity. Participants are encouraged to bring a photographic device to this meditation.

Requirements:

  • 1 hour.

  • Space for reflection and stillness.

  • Camera.

 

artful Meditations

Stargazing & Resilience Making on Faith Ringgold’s “Tar Beach”

 
 
 

1 hour. Experiential processes based on visual art and storytelling provide opportunities for self-reflection, mindfulness and team building.  Cultivates inner-resilience & cultural sensitivity.

Inspired by African-American artist Faith Ringgold’s semi-autobiographical work Tar Beach, this workshop cultivates resilience through storytelling, mindful reflection, and conversation.  Participants are invited to identify and lean into their own stories of support and resilience, a process which studies suggest we use to navigate immense challenges in the workplace and beyond. 

 

Visual Artist Faith Ringgold (Credit: Artist’s website)

 
 

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Artful Meditation: Meaningful Connection

 
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In this meditation, we consider a portrait from photographer Dorothea Lange’s famous migrant worker series and bring mindful attention to the human face—ours and those portrayed in art—as a means for relaxation and connection with others. As usual, this meditation uniquely combines art with discoveries in brain science as well as proven methods for calming the nervous system.

Requirements:

  • 45 minutes.

  • Space for reflection and stillness.

 

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Artful Meditation: Rothko, Color & Emotions

 
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Finding it especially hard to identify how you’re feeling in today’s climate? Consider offering this hands-on meditation in which participants explore their internal landscape/status by considering color. We’ll begin by immersing ourselves in a color-field painting by artist Mark Rothko. Then, during a time of individual reflection, we’ll note what emotions arise for us in response to the artwork and our present moment through a special hands-on activity. Participants will also have an optional opportunity to share with others about their discoveries. self-care and connection!

Requirements:

  • 45 minutes.

  • Space for reflection and stillness.

  • Blank sheet of paper.

  • Colored pencils/markers/crayons.