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Artist Cary Fagan Reflects on Transformation through Meditation, Creation, Cultural Exchange

HOUSTON, December 14, 2020 — On November 17, Asia Society Texas welcomed artist Cary Fagan for a sculptural meditation performance piece titled Deerwasawolf x Chairs Are People. Through his conversation with curator Bridget Bray, his performance, and responses to audience questions, Houston-based Fagan touched on themes of creation, transformation, and cultural exchange.

“Japan allows you to think loudly in silence”

Fagan developed his initial series of experimental sculptures and public performances Chairs Are People while in residency at Arts Itoya in Japan. He traveled to Japan at a point of exhaustion, seeking the space to rediscover his own capabilities and potential. Through slow and thoughtful explorations of the city, language, and culture that surrounded him, Fagan found

Mindfulness meditation may decrease impact of migraine

Migraine is a neurological disease that can be severely debilitating and is the second leading cause of disability worldwide. Unfortunately, many patients with migraine discontinue medications due to ineffectiveness or side effects. Many patients still use opioids despite recommendations against them for headache treatment. However, in a recent clinical trial from Wake Forest Baptist Health, researchers showed that mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) may provide benefit to people with migraine.

“Mindfulness-based stress reduction is a mind-body treatment that teaches moment-by-moment awareness through mindfulness meditation and yoga,” said Rebecca Erwin Wells, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine, part of Wake Forest Baptist Health. “Mindfulness can also teach new ways to respond to stress, a commonly reported migraine trigger.”

According to an article published by JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers studied whether MBSR improved migraine outcomes, pain perception and measures of emotional well-being compared

chiangmai life architects builds bamboo ‘meditation cathedral & sunset sala’ in thailand

chiangmai life architects introduces the bamboo meditation cathedral & sunset sala, located on top of a hill in northern chiangmai, thailand. enjoying vast views of the unique mountainous surroundings, the project has been designed to integrate harmoniously within the environment, looking like it emerged from the ground.

bamboo meditation cathedral
all images courtesy of chiangmai life architects

at first, the client requested a gathering space where she and her family could enjoy the sunset together. therefore, chiangmai life architects started the project with the design of the ‘sunset sala’. being an active member of the buddhist community, the client then commissioned the creation of a structure that facilitates spiritual practice. consequently, the meditation cathedral was added to the project, along with bathrooms and a small M&E mushroom.

the design seeks to emulate the mountain range and the rolling hills, with the buildings molding into the scenery as if they grew

Water Cooler: How meditation changes the brain

Meditation made its way from spiritual practice to a secular, pop culture-fueled lifestyle trend, but despite all its evolution and appropriation, many psychologists and researchers still think it can have a substantial and beneficial impact on the human brain.

One primary challenge to observing meditation within psychological trials and studies is that it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what meditation means given its long history and varied cross-cultural uses.

The earliest written documentation of meditation is from 1500 B.C.E., found in the Vedas, a body of religious texts and Hindu scripture of ancient India. It later spread to other Asian countries. Judaism and Islam had meditation practices that grew in prominence around the Middle Ages. Eastern and Western Christians also had their own versions. Meditation became a popular topic among Western intellectuals during the 18th century and by the mid-to-late 19th century, transcendentalists began to popularize aspects of Hindu

Midas Manifestation Reviews: Real Wealth Meditation Secrets?

Homewood, IL – ( NewMediaWire ) – December 11, 2020 – Midas Manifestation is a 118 page illustrated ebook program that uses audio guidance and various frequencies to activate the user’s ability to create a better life. With promises of success and change, users only need to commit to regular meditation to take down the metaphorical blocks in their life.

What is Midas Manifestation?

Anyone that brings up the idea of manifestation is almost instantly discredited since so many people have been taught to believe only what they can physically put their hands on. Interestingly, if the manifestation is done correctly, that’s exactly what the user gets – something that they can tangibly feel the evidence of. Manifestation has been a concept that cultures have embraced worldwide for centuries, finding the impossible hidden within the world’s unarguable facts.

Take the universe, for example. There is so much more than

David Lynch Wants to Make Meditation Free for 300 Million Americans

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the mounting collective stress and trauma in the nation was the impetus for Meditate America, a new campaign led by the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace bringing free meditation to at-risk populations.

When asked what inspired the cause, David Lynch unambiguously replied, “Take a look at America today.”

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Meditate America launches December 3 with a free virtual benefit concert streamed on YouTube featuring pre-recorded performances by Elvis Costello, Angelique Kidjo, Kesha, Sting, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and others, including live talks with media personalities, and an interview with Hugh Jackman and Katy Perry on meditation and motherhood. The fundraising event will draw awareness and support for the initiative that aims to make meditation free to anyone in America who needs it.

Meditation chambers by Office Of Things wash workers in colourful light

Fuschia, violet and indigo lighting envelops users of these meditation chambers that multidisciplinary studio Office Of Things has designed specifically for workspaces.

a man sitting in a dark room: Meditation chambers feature in Office of Things' Immersive Spaces Series

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Meditation chambers feature in Office of Things’ Immersive Spaces Series

The chambers come as part of the Immersive Spaces Series, an ongoing research project by Office of Things which explores how employees can benefit from having calming rooms of refuge within their places of work.

So far, a total of five chambers have been created, all of which are installed in YouTube or Google offices across San Francisco’s Bay Area.

The first chamber was fitted in an office in 2017 and since then the studio has taken on user feedback and tinkered with lighting and sound components to foster ultra-comforting, “womb-like” spaces.

Iconic ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag gets refashioned as a meditation on migration

At first glance, the photos look like something out of a fashion magazine — glamorous models wearing beautiful, structured clothes with towering, elaborate head wraps and hats on their heads.

But look closer, and you might notice something else: These clothes are made of plastic bags.

Specifically, they’re made from a plaid, woven plastic bag iconic in West Africa and worldwide. Regionally, they’re known as the “Ghana Must Go” bag. In his photography project “Anyi N’Aga” — or “We Are Going” in Igbo, one of the languages of Nigeria, New York-based Nigerian photographer Obinna Obioma transforms these bags into a powerful narrative about migration.

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“I remember my family and I would use the bags to pack up stuff and travel back to the village to see my grandparents. As I got older and I moved to the UK, we also used

The Lotus Room Adapting to the New Normal by Introducing Virtual Meditation