Meditation
Highlights
Creative thinking, meditative walking and mindfulness through movement
Walking brings many benefits including helping people to ‘clear their heads’ and take time to think, contemplate and meditate. Andrew Stuck at the Museum of Walking has been bringing together the skills of experts in creativity, meditation, mindfulness and yoga practice, and applying these to our own walking practice. Working with Mel Sutton, homeopath, yoga teacher,
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Slow walk listening and the sonic art of breath
Slow walk listening and the sonic art of breath / deep listening® text scores of Pauline Oliveros with Anne Bourne We meet at the dock at Hanlan’s Point and cycle or walk to Gibraltar Point Lighthouse. After extreme slow walk to the south shore, A self guided listening meditation, and collective exploration of two Oliveros
Brooklyn Botanic Garden launches sound walks for meditation
Brooklyn Botanic Garden which has launched a new series of winter nature walks and sound works in the Garden—site-specific original compositions and audio walks for visitors to experience at their own pace. Brooklyn Botanic Garden is showcasing three works from January through May: Gelsey Bell and Joseph White’s “Meander,” Ben Rubin and Brian House’s “Terminal Moraine,” and a reprisal of Michael Gordon’s “loved.”
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The Mourning After: Duration’s Wisdom II
Duration’s Wisdom II is a meditative walking performance on a 20-ft canvas, depicting the final stage of mourning. Using circular, continuous movements, Erika Knerr processed grief, revisiting loss and reflection, performed in Zaragoza, Spain after the Madrid attacks.
Shoes for Departure
Shoes for Departure is part of Marina Abramović’s Transitional Objects series, exploring the use of crystals and minerals in interactive objects as emotional or symbolic transitions. The work connects walking, departure, and psychological journey, reflecting her focus on the body’s limits, transformation, and personal rituals.
Free Range Trials
Free Range Trials is a creative lab showcasing experiments by Kathy McTavish and Cecilia Ramon, exploring culture, land, and agriculture. Ramon's work uses drawings, projections, and earthworks to trace ocean currents and aquatic life, including her installation Oceangrass.
Walking pieces
Empirical Evidence of the Existence of Angels
During lockdown I kept an 11‑day/11‑hour diary of feathers, thoughts and small wonders while beginning addiction recovery and my art practice. Originally 11 watercolour-word pieces, now an audio-visual “anti‑guided meditation” for creative self‑observation.
DOLL CHAIN
To investigate symbols of connection and to question performance art as a form of peaceful protest, IGUANA Collaborative performed DOLL CHAIN in Art in Odd Places: Dress festival, with 6 walkers, wearing identical robes connected at the sleeves. We chose two fabrics named “safety orange” for the robe and “flame” for the pants to explore how high-visibility orange represents protection in contemporary society and elevates a sense of caution or importance around one body.
Geopoetic crossing
Philosopher Frederic Gros highlights walking as a means to slow down and engage deeper perception through rhythm and contemplation. This sound piece, created from landscape sounds, invites listeners to experience a meditative shift in awareness, whether walking or resting.
Articles on WLC
A Walk in Thoreau’s Shoes – The Provincetown Independent
Beginning in the Cape’s dunes, Ben Shattuck’s Six Walks is a meditation on nature in Henry David Thoreau’s footsteps. Desperate to escape recurring nightmares, Shattuck turns Thoreau’s Cape Cod into […] Source: A Walk in Thoreau’s Shoes – The Provincetown Independent
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Articles elsewhere
Alexandra Huddleston, “Traces of Time, walking the Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre in summer” (2022)
“Title: Traces of Time, walking the Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre in summer Author: photography and text by Alexandra Huddleston Link to Downloadable Press Release Traces of Time explores how walking – in particular walking in a park – influences our perception of space and place. Through a close, meditative, and pedestrian observation of […]
Walk 116
Meditation WalkSmoky sunset and the coyotes were singing. Every time I walk to this bluff and sit down overlooking the Oldman River, I appreciate living in this particular place a little bit more. Location: Pavan Park, LethbridgeLength: 3 kmCompanions: Troy, Chris, & RoseDate: 14 September, 2022 [...]
Ritual (woman’s work?)
This is a film of care, a cleansing ritual of body and place. The film is inspired by the part of every day in a convent, anchorage or hermitage when prayer, prostration and chanting is paused for cleaning, sweeping and planting. This backyard ritual s...
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Bordered Miles
To mark International Refugee Day, a walk from Glasgow City Centre to the Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre in Lanarkshire. Arranged by Claudia Zeiske and artist Iman Tajik this 22 mile meditative path exploress the notion of borders as liminal spaces where freedom of movement conflicts with geopolitical boundaries.
• Walking Cinema Workshop
Walking Cinema Workshop is an online event that combines together a pre-recorded lecture, an active walk and a live discussion, which will occur on the Slow Film Festival website on Saturday 31st October at 10:30am. The workshop explores the elusive relationship between walking and cinema, asking whether cinema has the capacity to recreate, simulate or
The sound of Silence – a journey through awareness into consciousness and creativity
A 5 day live meditation challenge culminating in a walking meditation practice at the weekend (Day 6) and a sharing of experiences and a coming together as one ( Day 7). Sign up is essential to be sent the Zoom link to participate. This event will start on Monday 7th September, however, you can join in
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