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MINDFULNESS FRIDAYS - Sound Bath Meditation
MINDFULNESS FRIDAYS - Sound Bath Meditation
Feb 26 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, 2021Catch your breath and sink deeply into the beauty and the power of the museum. Thoughtfully curated mindfulness experiences have been designed to awaken and elevate all of your senses. Each guided meditation will align with a current exhibition.
12-1pm
2-3pm
All programming at the museum will be socially distant and all participants, including facilitators, will be masked.
Special mindfulness workshops – including dance/movement, visual art, and storytelling- that engage with these works in longer and richer ways are forthcoming.
About Melani de Guzman
LA native now settling in the Lenape Territory (otherwise known as New York City), Melani is a Filipinx-American multidisciplinary dance artist, actor, educator, community facilitator, and healer. In 2016 she moved to New York and has worked as a freelance movement artist with choreographers and producers. She’s the founder of ENTRE NOUS, a movement duo with double bassist, Sarah Favinger; performing works and sharing improvised works on reclaiming, rejoicing, and revisiting lineages. Along with being a movement artist, Melani is a teaching artist developing her own therapeutic movement curriculum working with students with special needs.
The heart of her work is rooted in healing, sensual embodiment, and social justice. She integrates her diverse practices and collaborative partnerships into site-specific solo works, dance films, and movement offerings. Melani reclaims her power and truth studying somatic movement practices, mysticism through astrology, and community.
Image courtesy of Melani de Guzman and Sub Urban Photography
Mindfulness Fridays, Program Director Yael Shy
Yael is the CEO of Mindfulness Consulting, LLC and the Founder of MindfulNYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the country and the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017).
She has created powerful, accessible and dynamic mindful experiences for companies, schools, and cultural institutions, including Etsy, Corcoran, Columbia University School of Law, Princeton University, MNDFL, and others, and has been featured on Good Morning America, Fox 5 News, CBS News, and in Time Magazine and the Harvard Business Review. www.yaelshy.com