A relaxed, meditative state of mind couldn't hurt, either.
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" She played a recording of a meditative "piano miniature.
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Making one directional marks repetitively is very meditative for me.
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It's also a meditative portrait of a distinctly modern Japan.
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This is deep and meditative music that lurches and rolls.
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This is a spectacular, but also quiescent and meditative, installation.
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But it is sometimes as frustrating as it is meditative.
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During our call, she makes even introductory chatter feel meditative.
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For Hafif, painting was a meditative act, a clarifying ritual.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Quiet. Slow. Still. Meditative.
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Lin is a quiet, meditative woman with thin, square glasses.
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"It's meditative and adventurous at the same time," said Miller.
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But the music moves at an unusually deliberate, meditative pace.
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Keanu Reeves was a meditative boyfriend in "Generation Um…" (2013).
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Abaddon takes a meditative approach to creating her complex designs.
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He had the soothing voice of a meditative wise man.
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Our favorite Travel articles are entertaining, unexpected, lavish, enlightening, meditative.
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Try a meditative relaxation strategy, suggests the National Sleep Foundation.
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There is a meditative quality to being on a bicycle.
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It was a nice meditative break from the daily news.
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Fans often describe the videos as meditative, or even therapeutic.
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Instead they immerse you in his disposition: poised, meditative, bold.
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Just three AAA batteries stand between you and meditative bliss.
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Despite a meditative presentation, the content of Ji's paintings is heavy.
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You do look quite serene and meditative on the album cover.Yeah.
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A lot of patience, but they're both meditative in a way.
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Marler says this is designed to evoke a traditional meditative environment.
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The process of drawing such utterly creepy images is actually meditative.
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By contrast, Gusto's office has the air of a meditative retreat.
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Its tonal register ranges from meditative lyricism to self-lacerating humor.
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She's going to take us on a meditative journey, she says.
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Intimate and meditative, it's a portrait of a dancer's daily work.
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This meditative set will, fittingly, take place in a Brooklyn church.
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I still prefer meditative videos of people simply walking through cities.
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White noise can block disruptive sounds and support a meditative state.
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Her 2019 graphic novel, Creation, is a dreamy, sprawling, meditative work.
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There's otherwise little to interrupt the meditative beauty of Halard's pictures.
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"It's my meditative space," Mr. de Give said the other day.
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Mr. O'Neil, a surfer, presents his meditative, breezy, yet rebellious pieces.
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If this approach appeals to you, it can be surprisingly meditative.
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Urgent, meditative, pensive, propulsive—pretty perfect for the game in question, really.
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"I tried to convey meditative atmosphere of a mountain lake," Khvasko says.
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There's a mysterious, meditative picture-book quality to several of these segments.
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"The blades clicking all together is so meditative for me," she said.
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It's more that the act of play is effortless and almost meditative.
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For her, painting was a meditative act, a clarifying ritual of sorts.
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Scheidt honed his style on this album: meditative, yet still ungodly heavy.
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Clearly, she felt that a meditative approach to her anguish was sufficient.
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I'd call the game meditative, if I were one of those people.
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The dark paintings offer "a more meditative type of experience," he said.
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The film has a meditative quality that the actors found deeply moving.
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As a child, Stanley was quiet and meditative, influenced by Quaker teachings.
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Maybe spend some time knitting or doing something else wholesome and meditative.
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The painting is "completely meditative: It's a picture of introspection," he explained.
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"Knitting is a comforting and meditative way to channel all those anxieties."
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"We're not saying that you should ignore the meditative side," he says.
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I like to think of it as meditative and full of promise.
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Its original pieces range from tangled melodic webs to coolly meditative exhalations.
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With Cleo at its center, Roma's story takes on a meditative tone.
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It can be meditative or unsettling, but it's always a head-trip.
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Can you talk how meditative states and relaxation continue to influence your work?
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Jones adopts a jokingly meditative state when asked about Hemsworth's time on set.
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There should be a leisurely, yet intense quality to meditative masturbation, says Wagner.
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Re-reading a favorite book can be meditative and sharpen your mental focus.
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Working in gouache and oil paint, Lubin's compositions exude a quiet, meditative elegance.
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This meditative state of partial attention should not be confused with distracted driving.
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" To get through that, he went into a "meditative, almost zombie-like mode.
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But Hold the Dark is Saulnier's most enigmatic and meditative film to date.
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It's meditative sounds to help you fall asleep like rainfall and white noise.
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Stetson's music is deeply meditative and entrenched in the world of minimalism, too.
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No, today we will be engaging with the meditative nature of baking itself.
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Everything is a very meditative, philosophical, gently goofy game about… states of being.
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My most recent work has really been very contemplative, and meditative I guess.
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But what made the original show remarkable is just how meditative everything was.
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"It's very far out, very meditative and very blissful," Ms. Frankel, 66, said.
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Ms. Light went to a "meditative yoga ladies' camp" to consider it further.
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Instead, Mr. Bryars created a meditative space where mood took precedence over clarity.
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The remainder of the year brings a very passive, meditative vibe for Aries.
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It's opposite to that quiet, contemplative, meditative thing that works for some people.
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This necessary compression robbed the work of some of its mystical, meditative dimensions.
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It felt so meditative and cool to see that whole game by myself.
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On this week's Modern Love podcast, Terry Crews reads Mr. Halpin's meditative essay.
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Some feel that swimming's solitary, meditative quality is the best thing about it.
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There are other styles of rope that people describe as being more meditative.
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Coupled with large speakers, this made for an immersive experience, discombobulating yet meditative.
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For the later, either drugs or meditative practice may or may not be helpful.
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Her narration is frequent and often meditative, making it feel like a cinematic diary.
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But, if you can find the right view, it can also be meditative too.
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Rumi also practiced a meditative, whirling dance during his time in the 13th century.
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The meditative quality of "Environments" belies an unsettling and uncertain future for its subject.
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We were then guided out of the meditative portion by some ripping sludge chords.
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"It was more meditative, more minimal, less structure-oriented, less pop-structured," she says.
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Much like mindful breathing, this meditative mantra is meant to help calm your mind.
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I'd felt like we were in a meditative trance, exchanging energy back and forth.
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But there is a meditative quality to his tennis and very little wasted energy.
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Meditative passages better suit his command of spacious musical landscapes, both interior and exterior.
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It's at once restless and meditative; and, true to the entire work, engrossingly ambiguous.
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His music has the power to make you think deeply and almost feels meditative.
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While initially fear-inducing, the morning had proven to be shockingly meditative, even calming.
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The drawings certainly were meditative, lifting me upwards and away to waft towards freedom.
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At home, he likes to put on the meditative loops of Philip Glass operas.
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But they work in different styles — Kreimendahl's is visceral, Kaufman's meditative, Mr. Barbagallo's impish.
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Our stress levels were dangerously high, and Vivian suggested we engage in meditative copulation.
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In Moving Parts, disjointed pieces get organized to create a zen, meditative animated experience.
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"My work explores the spatial and meditative relationships found within repeat patterns," says Hunt.
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Had I been in it longer, I could see finding a more meditative state.
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In one shot, a man strikes a meditative pose alone in a green field.
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But Baldi won't hone in on that; he focuses again on something more meditative.
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Whether it's through meditative bondage, orgasmic yoga or masturbating with crystal wands, the goal is to get in touch with your sexuality on a deeper level that, as Donaghue explains, harkens back to the idea that sex can be sacred, meditative and healing.
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"We're giving people four opportunities to have a meditative experience seeing their work in depth."
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They're more about mental mastery than teamwork and camaraderie, shot in a quiet meditative fashion.
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To complicate them with illusion and games enables full, meditative immersion into these mini-universes.
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He had a laid-back, meditative style, a mellow brand of cool that Chappelle shared.
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What really strikes me about the session was that it felt so meditative and soothing.
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I only wish this video was in real time to fully capture the meditative steps.
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"For artists, the city's geographical spread fosters a maverick sensibility and meditative space," he says.
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But also another thing is Eastern consciousness and this kind of meditative quality of music.
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We talked to him about Moh Lhean, its meditative qualities, and his sources of anxiety.
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It's a really important, meditative time for me — for creativity and reflection, almost like painting.
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Scientists have shown that fractal patterns are not only aesthetically pleasing, but have meditative power.
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The rhythms of web-slinging have a pleasingly meditative quality, but they are also productive.
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Even Allure pointed out in August that beauty tutorials can induce a relaxed, meditative state.
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In another, the researchers taught some participants CBT and Qigong, the Chinese meditative physical exercise.
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Have An Art SessionScores of articles have covered the meditative benefits of adult coloring books.
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There's some evidence that meditative practice and mindfulness meditation makes you into a sweeter person.
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Ideally that will lead to a greater focus on developing support systems alongside meditative practices.
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Stay there and relax as artist Andrea Young helps you sink into a meditative state.
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The repetitive movements became meditative, and the activity levels of my mind came to rest.
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Regardless of your interpretation, whether it be morbid or meditative, "Computer 1.0" welcomes your projections.
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The meditative portraits from that sunny, carefree day have resulted in her latest series, Identidad.
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With the Philharmonic, Lauren Snouffer was effervescent in coloratura numbers and gleaming in meditative arias.
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The trailer for "Roma," the new movie by Alfonso Cuarón ("Gravity"), is meditative and lovely.
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For her, the act of moving forward manifests in this cathartic, meditative manipulation of paper.
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The installation's centerpiece is a meditative short film of a relay site and its surroundings.
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But as the musicologist Emma Hornby has pointed out, it also created a meditative space.
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Ms. McBride fell hard for deer hunting, which has become a meditative practice for her.
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So that's another thing: I definitely can look into that painting in a meditative way.
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Somewhat reclusive, he is known for producing austere, meditative buildings and often works with concrete.
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Far: Lone Sails is a lonesome experience, but it's also kind of a meditative one.
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A meditative, mysterious song about time, transformation and connection, fervently sung over folky acoustic guitars.
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Still and meditative, her landscapes feel spontaneous and immediate and intimate, not studied or monumental.
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Assorted sounds of natural life add a soothing, meditative feel to the already tranquil piece.
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The meditative site will introduce three new buildings to house the chapel's social justice program.
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Overall, it's a meditative ride, and elegantly animates graphite drawings without losing that handmade touch.
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The meditative repetitiveness of these symbols, which represent each of their respective communities, emanate organically.
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It would be a kind of meditative, soulful surrender to the totality of art's psychic effects.
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The slow and meditative process of photography enables me to recognize, understand, and overcome these roadblocks.
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The meditative and distractive quality of training drills gave me enough time to steady my mind.
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Novel thoughts about your spiritual beliefs come with the new moon in meditative Pisces this week.
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The challenge and newness of coordinating my body took so much focus that it became meditative.
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A runner who enters into a meditative state, with breaths synced to footfalls, is doing yoga.
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Their fifth record, "Wonderful Wonderful", which was released on September 22nd, is a meditative, polished affair.
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We recommend listening to peaceful, meditative music that can help you feel more tranquil and serene.
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And it starts out that way, with solitary treks through the woods that feel almost meditative.
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D'Angelo sang a meditative version of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend," backed by the Roots.
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Softly, she guided the 15 or so students through stretching and strengthening moves, and meditative breathing.
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Hoyland did not make calm or meditative paintings; they certainly didn't induce calm in this viewer.
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Just looking at its relaxed, meditative state would put even the most stressed human at peace.
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A traditional Chinese folk melody, the meditative "Wild Geese Descend on a Sandbank," scores the film.
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Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive" is, for long stretches, a meditative movie unconcerned with bombastic action sequences.
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" It is, for her, an "explorative, meditative, moving, beautiful, transcendent experience that brings us all closer.
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The show is meditative and slow, with the entire first season covering only a few days.
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A clue to the meanings of these stealthy, meditative works might lie in this recurring oval.
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His latest full-length Strands—released October 28 on Kranky—carries on in this meditative tradition.
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She has come to this spare, meditative place to put the final touches on her album.
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Meditative guitars lead into billowing, multitudinous vocal harmonies sustaining the song's title above an orchestral backdrop.
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Harold Budd's compositions are often sparse and meditative, contemplating a handful of notes reverberating into silence.
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But on "Home Boy" he converts blithe charm into a knowing, almost meditative brand of humor.
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At the new Amanyangyun near Shanghai, guests can learn the meditative crafts of calligraphy and painting.
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Bordeira, though, is where you want to be if you'd like a relaxing, meditative beach experience.
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Four-hour "durational" performances and an eight-hour, overnight "sleep concert" favored drones and meditative music.
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There are cozy pet beds arranged beneath a desk, and the music is meditative and relaxing.
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Most mornings, Ms. Torres takes long walks around a running track, a form of meditative exercise.
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Ms. Arutyunova shot on film rather than digitally, which she said made the process more meditative.
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The series is definitive of her raw style: at once quiet and meditative, sensual and arresting.
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The effect is immediately meditative — a state I have never been able to achieve on land.
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There are cozy pet beds arranged beneath a desk, and the music is meditative and relaxing.
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A wide variety of rhythmic and harmonic combinations emerged from the meditative hum of this ensemble.
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"I really love to print in the darkroom, with music playing; it's very meditative," he said.
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After that slow, meditative entrance, the team's dizzying choreography is all high kicks and lightening spins.
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Get lost in the meditative flow of mundane tasks, like dusting your mirror or cleansing your crystals.
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Breathing techniques might also be involved, and the whole process is supposed to be meditative and calming.
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The paintings are meditative and serene, but share a political message with Heap of Birds's other work.
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Their meditative capacity lies in their dynamic presentation, showing both micro and macro perspectives on the world.
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You learn how to cope with them (meditative breathing, reminding myself that the feeling will pass, Xanax).
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Only Ive could make a phrase like "known for its strength and corrosive resistance" feel somehow meditative.
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"Slayer A.D.," directed by the aforementioned Allerdyce, albeit melodramatic at times, took on a beautiful, meditative tone.
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One practice called meditative bondage has nothing to do with sex, violence, misogyny, or whips and chains.
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But he's patient with me, enduring these questions of semantics and answering each after a meditative pause.
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A master of meditative minimalism, the Korean artist's new paintings are more frenetically energized than ever before.
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"I get a lot of balance and meditative peace out of being physical and exercise," Phillippe says.
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But there is a sense of escape and a meditative nature to watching the scenery go by.
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Maybe you start your day with writing a diary and a meditative walk while listening to music.
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Once past them, the show assumes a quieter, more meditative mood and becomes more personal and eccentric.
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Its rhythms are meditative and soothing, and the tradition of a weaving circle foments community and creativity.
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As Fred Moten has remarked in his afterword to the book, the works resemble meditative Tantra art.
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Incorporating these types of sounds, the team attempted to create a meditative antidote to infobesity, called constantupdate.
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This therapy—which also incorporates mindfulness, meditative breathing and relaxation techniques—is meant to be practiced daily.
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The writing came very naturally out of the mood of the track for me; Melodic, hypnotic, meditative.
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AFTER AN EMOTIONAL TOUR of Johannesburg and Soweto, a meditative train ride was just what I needed.
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It slows down your brain waves and gets you in a meditative state where healing can occur.
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Ms. Pirici is a collagist, braiding together movement, collective memories and text to create a meditative whole.
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When I first sat down on the piece, in a meditative pose, a museum docent walked by.
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The stage became a hypnotic carnival of snake charming dancers and aerial silk artists in meditative poses.
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Meanwhile, this small, exquisitely disorienting black hole of a meditative space dwarfed the massiveness of MASS MoCA.
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Mr. Lloyd, who is 80, plays vigorous, streaking solos before steering the group toward a meditative coda.
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But the 12th century witnessed the beginning of a shift to meditative practices emphasizing introspection and feelings.
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The self appears fragmented, in daily life and in meditative states, but subjectivity does not break down.
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While I pack my lunch, I listen to meditative music and it gets me ready for sleep.
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For a book, it's more meditative and controlled, and I feel like I can return to it.
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I find it to be super meditative and I love doing something creative to end the day.
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J.P. Julie Byrne's voice is low, breathy, peaceful and pillowy, ideal for the meditative ballads she writes.
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On good days, feeling meditative, I conceptualize being on maintenance as inhabiting the incantatory zone of "OM."
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The complicated, endlessly cycling rhythms, though, are distinct to the genre and create a soothing, meditative ambience.
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As with calligraphy, the final work carries an energy that betrays the artist's slow and meditative process.
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This sonic cycle, from spooky church-organ hum to cataclysmic eruption and back, begins to feel meditative.
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They deliver a hypnotic power in repetition; at times, they are like mantras, edging on the meditative.
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That trust and chemistry translates to the deep, almost meditative state Moore experiences during Bing & Ruth's live shows.
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Zimmer considers the tantric designs a source of inspiration, sharing that her painting process holds many meditative properties.
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Another thing that keeps Copeland grounded is having a meditative practice, which for her, is taking ballet class.
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The series touches on ideas about worship and godhood, and is alternatingly abstract, meditative, and really, really bloody.
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It's a good day to tackle some of your more meditative chores, like gardening or cleaning your paintbrushes.
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I did "morning pages," the routine of three daily pages of meditative writing popularized in The Artist's Way.
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The practice dates back thousands of yearsand is traditionally seen as a meditative exercise and vehicle for contemplation.
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Hold the Dark is comparatively slow, sometimes to the point of feeling meditative and melancholy about its action.
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After that, Carlos and I started doing daily sessions of [meditative practice] Qigong and [martial art] san-soo.
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Her music, minimal orchestral compositions and wordless phrases looped and filtered through various effects, have a meditative quality.
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I also left it with a new appreciation for what makes this beguiling and meditative drama so special.
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Because my mornings are, well, mine, I'm able to devote them to the quiet, meditative activities I love.
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It actually feels quite meditative and I realise that what I'm really doing is making the bread mindfully.
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It became like a form of OCD that I'd waste hours on—not meditative prayer, but anxious fiddling.
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An Ant And An Atom, who I'm touring with, a drone, post-rock, really meditative kind of act.
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That meditative quality is, in part, what has kept Krause going back into the field for 50 years.
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Here the dancers create a world of their own: quietly rigorous, sensuous in its constant flow and meditative.
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Inside Cuddle Up to Me are a half dozen cuddling rooms with themes ranging from tropical to meditative.
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Hader favors meditative compositions filmed on wide lenses, shots in the mode of Wim Wenders and Alfonso Cuarón.
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A perfect offering of meditative background music, the stream promises a few special guests and synthy surprises galore.
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Hood is at her meditative best while wandering around Ikea, trying to assemble a new life after divorce.
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People are milling about around me, and there is a meditative buzz of chatter reverberating off the walls.
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Unfortunately, in the second half of the book, Onuzo sacrifices meditative sketches of the city to narrative momentum.
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I do this for about an hour or so until I've lulled myself into a semi-meditative state.
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And it can be done by anyone, too, whether you're a beginner or a full-on meditative pro.
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The trailer for the Oscar contender "Roma," the new movie by Alfonso Cuarón ("Gravity"), is meditative and lovely.
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Blessed used a meditative practice to get himself into a state of thoughtlessness, a kind of mental flatline.
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The spiral tightens and disperses; the performers find brief moments of meditative pause between rushes of extended action.
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There's a meditative quietude about Miller's paintings, one appropriate to a handful of objects resting on a surface.
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But its bucolic rhythms still allow for children to play outside unattended and make driving a meditative experience.
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Album Review Four years after his son's fatal accident, the Australian musician has made an eerie, meditative album.
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He cajoles me into doing my second class of the day by picking a simple meditative/stretch one.
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After just six minutes of scrubbing, the meditative dishwashers reported feeling 27% less nervous and 25% more inspired.
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Others prefer to go it alone, feeling that swimming's solitary, meditative quality is the best thing about it.
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Do you enjoy meditative walks, exhilarating bike rides, performing stunts on a skateboard, or other forms of wayfaring?
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Try jotting your thoughts on a piece of paper or using meditative breathing exercises to get to sleep.
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So much of the meditative and aesthetic communion we seek in nature finds expression in these miniature coliseums.
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Recirquel Company Budapest may be a circus company, but its meditative, evening-length production is no circus spectacle.
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The sounds—a tough and meditative blues—understandably found ready ears far outside its birthplace in Northern Mali.
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In the Q&A, Kelly said that flotation was a "more contemporary, effective way" to access a meditative state.
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Deep meditative states are possible today, Cancer, but it's just as possible you could fall hard for some bullshit.
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Instead, his first soundscape seemed to creep through the ceiling, a heavy, wooden thump with a constant, meditative drone.
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It grew strangely melodic and just as meditative as the preceding films, echoing from somewhere within the room's center.
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"Rantanen's work is slow art, meditative, created in the midst of nature at a slow pace," says the statement.
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The lost art of mourning braiding is beautifully dramatized in Circling the Center, a meditative performance by Nene Humphrey.
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Another company developed DEEP, a unique meditative VR game where the user explores a strange and beautiful underwater world.
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The simple act of taking a meditative, deep breathing has been shown to help reduce stress and promote relaxation.
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Above, discover "How to Handwash like a Rockstar," in which Mayer shares the secrets behind his "meditative" handwashing methodology.
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He hopes the installation will serve as a demonstration of how technology can be utilized as a meditative tool.
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I know it sounds silly, but it's very meditative to catch your breath and think about what you're doing.
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"I get a lot of balance and meditative peace out of being physical and exercise," Phillippe has told PEOPLE.
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All these meditative and scientific factors really boil down to two things: fight-or-flight vs. rest-and-digest.
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It's their quietest, most meditative album, and Ms. Feek's voice is just a touch weaker than at its peak.
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Lunney says that Liminal Scope is an abstract way to recapture presence, a meditative experience that keeps viewers engaged.
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Walking through is meant to simulate the meditative quality of a forest, but with a Lisa Frank color palette.
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There is something deliberate and meditative about his process, his willingness to move slowly as he fills the paper.
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Expansive and meditative, the songs expound upon the electric jazz framework ushered in by albums like Davis' Bitches Brew.
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During a meditative segment, subtle soothing vibrations spread across my body to the sound of chimes and lapping waves.
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Images of kinbaku can certainly be triggering to viewers, especially those unaware of the meditative aspects of the practice.
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Chitoku says that he doesn't necessarily find the act of rock balancing to be meditative, or super stressful, either.
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Mr. Cohen's best-known song may well be "Hallelujah," a majestic, meditative ballad infused with both religiosity and earthiness.
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From those sounds he created expansive, meditative tracks that hover between the physical and the metaphysical. Kranky. Sept. 28.
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PARELES Laraaji has been making meditative music since the 1970s, centered on the shimmering resonances of his electric zither.
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The class is constantly at odds with itself, simultaneously peaceful and high-energy, meditative and pulsating, spiritual and earthy.
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It makes me wonder if even the most supposedly terrifying of games actually feature their share of meditative qualities.
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At times, it can feel obvious, but the meditative nature of the dance saves it from becoming too didactic.
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Advocates of puzzles cite their meditative, anxiety-reducing effects; they have also been shown to keep practitioners mentally sharp.
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Find yourself a seat in the meditative environs and drink tea and munch on snacks to your heart's content.
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We open with a glimpse of Jamie's everyday life, complete with an amorous landlady and a meditative printmaking montage.
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It rests more on a kind of meditative introspection — somewhat in the spirit of what Western philosophers call phenomenology.
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Recent projects include a short meditative film, "Peach on the Water," which features humans, extraterrestrials and a glowing orb.
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Pusha-T stands out amid the meditative, louche koans of Playboi Carti or the creaky whine of Lil Baby.
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Like Mr. Young and Ms. Zazeela's collaborative installations, Mr. Gibson's live performances tend to involve dreamy, meditative visual accompaniment.
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On "The Boogie Man Song," he sang with meditative jazz sensibility, and on "The Panties," with seductive soul cool.
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First Reformed is a meditative thriller that asks what moral obligation we have to save the world we've broken.
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Streaming Movie Review This unsettling expose about the founder of Bikram yoga is the opposite of a meditative reprieve.
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It's a soothing, almost meditative vision as well as a seductive dream of nature as a balm and refuge.
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The viewer then becomes the anthropologist while piecing together the elements that form Baum's playful, lyrical, and meditative work.
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The goal is to get into a deep meditative state aided by the sounds as a method of de-stressing.
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For the listener rather than performer, "The Gaits" sound-walk app on the High Line offers a meditative winter stroll.
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But Dating Around, a meditative show that follows six people going on five first dates, isn't a typical dating show.
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Lights furiously blinking onto your eyelids doesn't seem like it is a healthy, sustainable meditative practice, but I'm no expert.
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We each buy a round and head out on the earlier side, since the meditative "sssshhhhh"-ing makes us sleepy.
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" To get the look of Kardashian's meditative space for yourself, pick up her "five key ingredients to a good backyard.
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Rickie Lee Jones led the audience in a singalong of "All the Young Dudes" that was simultaneously meditative and celebratory.
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Agnes Martin's minimal, meditative abstractions are just such works, which truly must be seen in person to be fully grasped.
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And the act of drawing them is a slow, meditative art experience I look forward to with every new one.
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That much green amidst the concrete is stunning, and the smell of pine needles, mulch, and clean air is meditative.
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All these small changes added up to make unwinding at the end of the day a calming, almost meditative, routine.
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"One can even enter meditative states during a shower, driving, riding a bicycle, jogging, painting, coloring, or hiking," she says.
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With eastern sutras and meditative processes, it's a continuous thing; you're not looking for a dissertation, or demanding a result.
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Because of this, veteran puzzlers may find 1,000 Colours to be one of the most meditative puzzles they've ever completed.
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You'll have to solve some environmental puzzles along the way, but generally the game puts you in a meditative mindstate.
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Alto's Adventure was one of 2015's best video games, a meditative snow ride dressed as a snowboard stunt fest.
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The Moon enters dreamy Pisces today—it's time for you to slow down and get into a relaxed, meditative state.
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The visuals we provide are merely another way of prompting thought patterns and meditative journeys through linking imagery with music.
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Her left hand holds a note on the upright bass, her serene and meditative expression lit by a soft glow.
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"Meditation allows deep feelings to come to the surface," says Dr. Blum, who also likes yoga for its meditative benefits.
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They're meant to be a sort reset button for your energy, and they can even help you set meditative intentions.
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JULIE SATOW MEDITATIVE MORNING Sundays are the only day that I sleep in, which means like 230 or 210:28.
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And "I Could Use a Love Song," her most conventional country number, is phenomenal, a meditative plaint with clear passion.
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It's a dreamy, meditative day for you, Aries, with the Moon in the very last sign of the zodiac, Pisces.
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Shot in collaboration with photographer and filmmaker Christopher Honeywell, the music video cooly compliments the meditative nature of the track.
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Adopting slower, gossamer piano and swelling strings, the track is perfect for delving into meditative thoughts on your daily commute.
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"I knew I wanted it to be meditative and a bit meandering, not so linear and action oriented," he explains.
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The Getty's outdoor screening is a chance to see this meditative film with sweeping vistas of LA in the background.
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The VR films at Tribeca let you ride a dragon, swim with dolphins, and float through a meditative psychedelic seascape.
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Now, a moving and meditative documentary is drawing back the curtain on the drama inherent in the musical's origin story.
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I didn't mind at all — in fact, I found it made for pleasant sailing and a relaxing, almost meditative experience.
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Instead, the meditative piece highlighted mending as an action, as a process of attention, and as a state of mind.
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The result was crisp and meditative — and is, of course, the recipe for another version of the cocktail—the Cardinale.
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What remains are about a dozen of the oratorio's more meditative and lyrical numbers that dramatically streamline the Nativity story.
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The track is a meditative and gorgeous single in the vain of past works and demonstrates a return to form.
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We all clap when the whistle blows, and then we enter the shared and strangely meditative flow of the game.
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One afternoon, while lost in the meditative quality of riding my bike, I felt a swell of emotion overcome me.
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Elizabeth DeCoursey, owner of Antidote Apothecary and Tea Bar in Brooklyn, says she typically uses weed as a meditative aid.
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And then what was palpitation-inducing becomes something more meditative, and the difficulty spike curves off into a manageable climb.
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I would venture that in most meditative states some subjectivity remains, as representative of the biological interests of the individual.
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That's what Justin Bieber is attempting on "Changes," his "sinuous, meditative and largely impressive" new album, our music critic writes.
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Amos's work may be labor-intensive, yet it conveys neither labor nor the consumption of time, but a meditative joy.
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Perhaps it says something about me that I love Watchmen's crime drama-adjacent mystery more than its more meditative aspects.
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While new age music has become a cliche in the wellness world, there isn't a singular definition of meditative music.
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This sort of puzzle is more meditative than stressful for me to solve, and when that happens it's much appreciated.
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You do have very skillful meditators who are bad people, and exploit people with the help of their meditative prowess.
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Its power lies in giving readers a quiet, meditative and empathetic space to explore how two characters deal with trauma.
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In the meditative short film "The Last Punchcutter," by Giorgio Affanni and Gabriele Chiapparini, we watch Branchino create a punch.
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The experience is similar to falling asleep, as physical reality recedes from consciousness and the viewer enters a meditative state.
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So let's say everyone was just real chill and meditative and lived in the moment because immortality is a given.
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Instead, the rhythm of the journey (or the knitting bee) becomes its own background noise, something calming and occasionally meditative.
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Its five words are repeated over four stanzas in a minor key, which gives it an air of meditative solemnity.
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My mind enters a mildly meditative state, and I can feel my muscles, especially those in my back and shoulders, relax.
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A practice most people know of thanks to famous practitioner, singer Sting, tantra is a meditative approach to sex and healing.
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January is a month that will be both motivating and meditative, so no need to rush head-first into resolution-making.
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Today they debut a handheld camera visual treatment for the meditative and echoing "You See?" off of their 2016 EP Okey.
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It did take time to clarify the butter and brush all the phyllo sheets, but it was meditative work, not tricky.
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Brooklyn Community Services used $250 in Neediest funds to buy Ms. Nickolan materials so that she could continue her meditative craft.
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Workouts are meditative for me, and I actually like being alone with my thoughts, and not having to deal with people.
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Jonas grew up in Los Angeles to an alcoholic father, who left when the boy was 14, and a meditative mother.
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But the Virginia-based 27-year-old's self-titled album is slower and more meditative than anything that he's previously released.
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Instead, in short, meditative chapters that mimic her subjects' fractured experiences, she captures the feelings of people drawn into the convulsions.
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The pace of life picks up in May with news, texts, and noisy neighbors shocking you out of your meditative pace.
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After his virtuosic blending of poetry into the comic form I'm curious to see him branch into more meditative indie comics.
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Natural Wonders When you are ready to dip back into real life, two meditative memoirs offer rich forms of literary escapism.
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But their meditative pace is a calculated response to the fast tempo and quick editing often found in today's music videos.
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This is the part you have to set in mentally and really be able to get into an almost meditative space.
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Finally he came out of his meditative state and said, 'I'm going to tell each of you what your trip is.
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Echoey guitar lines cycle around and around, creating a meditative framework, yet Ms. Williamson's words and voice are anything but serene.
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It is clear to me that this ancient meditative practice helps free the mind to have richer experiences of the present.
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Pairing ominous, sweeping synths with meditative running water sounds and bird chirps, the producer transforms "Tomboy" into a surreal sonic experience.
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Playful vibes gleam from some tracks on the album, other times the beat ride low towards the dancefloor's more meditative underbelly.
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Talk about how you get people to accept that, because America does not seem like the most meditative culture at all.
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As this meditative, underrated Damon Lindelof show about grief and survivor's guilt demonstrates, two percent of the population is a LOT.
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The lyrics "When I was a child" recur like a lullaby, coaxing viewers into a meditative, perhaps nostalgic for childhood, place.
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There is a purely meditative aspect to being a great sports photographer and a feeling of being solely in the moment.
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Making the dough is kind of a long, annoying process, but it was meditative and I liked that it was tedious.
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Photography fans may associate her "Equivalent I" (2019) with Alfred Stieglitz's meditative Equivalents series, but it's not clouds that Brandon captures.
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It's the only time of the entire day I'm in the house by myself, so I try to do something meditative.
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When the performer enters a clinically meditative state, excerpts from Plato's Timaeus, Theaetetus, and The Republic are transmitted through the headphones.
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In meditative essays, Rush looks at how we are confronting climate change and the psychic and literary toll it is taking.
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Over a weekend in April, I joined 13 other participants for a series of yoga classes, therapeutic workshops and meditative sessions.
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Puzzles, handcrafts, coloring and other meditative activities have long been thought to decrease feelings of anxiety and increase mental well-being.
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This mind-bending puzzler turns MC Escher's famous stairs illusion painting into an interactive puzzle, delivering meditative satisfaction at every turn.
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Paterson's work demands consistency, routine, punctuation and safety (no speedy action-flick escapades here), which create a kind of meditative flow.
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We can enjoy the meditative mood, but understanding its underpinnings would require more than this idyll of silence and stillness provides.
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Pros: Gorgeous appearance, meditative whooshing sounds, and simulation of open-water rowing sensations Cons: Expensive, included monitor is fine but limited
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Nothing Much Happens Described as a "soft landing spot for your mind," Kathryn Nicolai tells much shorter and more meditative stories.
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Anything that frees your brain from the karate-chop syntax of newsfeed and social media is in part a meditative act.
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He turns down the sound, listens to a podcast, and induces a meditative state by killing wave after wave of enemies.
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Sarah Amos's work may be labor-intensive, yet it conveys neither labor nor the consumption of time, but a meditative joy.
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It's meditative and generous, a snapshot of a mundane experience and a rumination on the meaning of living in a community.
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On that song, the two-minute marvel "Gucci Gang," he achieves an almost meditative state through repetition of the title phrase.
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Those colors, though striking, are muted: staining them into absorbent raw canvas quiets them down, adding to the paintings' meditative presence.
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"Mediation is a large part of my life and I wanted Pathless Woods to feel like a meditative experience," said Patterson.
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He led festival-goers through the meditative practice he had used to concentrate his hope on a release while in prison.
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For now, though, he stood alone in the spotlight, his slight frame cast in harsh silhouette and face fixed in meditative concern.
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As well as the subgenres identified by the curators, these paintings can be roughly divided into two broader categories: meditative and narrative.
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The adjective most frequently applied to Steve Gunn's guitar playing is "meditative," but that doesn't quite capture the purposeful intensity of it.
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And thanks to Crunchyroll, I can watch absurd anime like Toriko and lovely, meditative shows like Polar Bear Cafe wherever I want.
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A few drops of Dr. Barbara Sturm Calming Serum, a little face massage, and my mind goes to another, more meditative place.
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In both, you can float in silence or with some meditative music playing; in complete darkness or with a small night light.
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In Western meditative practices—not all of it, but certainly some—people go, Please, God, Jesus, restore my mother's health or something.
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During the former, she recommends tapping into your intuition, which might mean your gut instincts or something more meditative and faith-based.
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But past any meditative benefits, a five-minute session delivers a visible hydration boost to our skin on and around the mouth.
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Goat yoga is the latest trend for yogis looking for their meditative fix, but Khloé Kardashian and Kevin Hart have their doubts.
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So far, we've heard the meditative title track, the Nils Frahm-featuring "Bergschrund," and "Nobody Speak," a brilliant Run The Jewels collaboration.
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Through this process, you could see Indigo deeply relax and even sway a little as she stood there in a meditative state.
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The use of ropes and the support of another person in meditative bondage helps urge oneself into sitting quiet for a bit.
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And the mental benefits of open-water swimming border on the transcendent: meditative pacing, deep breathing and being one with the environment.
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They then ran their stories through a causality assessment process to figure out what experiences stemmed directly from the subjects' meditative practices.
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The repetitive and stationary aspects allowed me to enter a meditative state that was different from the grueling and seemingly endless runs.
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There are those who treat running like a sort of religion — one to be practiced in silence to achieve a meditative state.
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With Theta, Flatsitter wanted to take a different approach, getting people to enter into a calm, relaxed and meditative state of mind.
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Live, the band's music is both demanding and meditative, spurs one to bust a move and may result in temporary hearing loss.
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This Requiem is prevailingly gentle and meditative, more Brahmsian than Verdian in mood, but by no means toothless or lacking in drama.
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At any rate, a ship full of amateur adventurers hits an iceberg, pumping some search-and-rescue adrenaline into this meditative romance.
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My favorite thing to do at night is to turn off the lights in my room and settle into this meditative activity.
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"All of the artists in the show are creating art with intention, creating in a meditative state and creating intuitively," she says.
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I wanted the work to embody that, but to also oscillate between that and a meditative stillness resulting from a tactile process.
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After setting up our mats and getting into a meditative pose, I was encouraged not to overdo it in my first class.
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Settle in for 10 delightful minutes of nothing but delicious sloshing sounds, and allow these sudsy waves to be your meditative salve.
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But the women behind Twig — avid crafters whose first business venture involved "subversive greeting cards" — elevate the hobby to a meditative art.
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In his artist books, with the parking lot seen from the air, critics and curators embrace his meditative, yet playful, bland aesthetic.
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One science writer, having duly attended to the technical data, described her own encounter with "The Hive" in terms of meditative communion.
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Beat the heat by arriving in the morning and taking a meditative stroll amid a soundtrack of birds, roosters, chants and bells.
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What it is: Another meditative explorer, Abzu lets you swim through a beautiful underwater world with little to no goals or end.
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The song is spare and meditative, with nods to Randy Newman's taut melancholy, LCD Soundsystem's middle-age weariness and Haim's sweet urgency.
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Throughout her meditative memoir, which spans one year of pregnancy and early parenthood, Erdrich chafes very little under the demands of motherhood.
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They stood at the edge of the pines, deciding on a path they had named the Robert Frost, after the meditative poet.
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At Mali Market, recently moved to make space for new construction, four men hammered out a meditative rhythm using giant wooden mallets.
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If you're serious about incorporating meditative journaling into your daily routine, the three exercises below will help get your creative juices flowing.
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The club wasn't so much about producing great art as it was about finding a meditative, observational moment in a busy city.
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She seemed to enter a meditative state as she worked from the interior regions of Mr. Gladwell's thicket to its wild borderlands.
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Optimising your rail network and watching passengers shuttle about your city is an easygoing, meditative experience, providing a quiet sense of accomplishment.
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"I think their appeal has a lot to do with the slow meditative mindfulness of the making," Proud says of the garments.
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Anyone familiar with Fahler's work would recognize his use of steel, plaster, and dyed hydrosol, which composed a figure in meditative repose.
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I inquired: it was a device called BrainTap, that supposedly helped you get into "meditative states" that are otherwise difficult to achieve.
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The artist's "modern ambient sound" uses "traditional meditative tunes with modern vaporwave aesthetics" to achieve "deeper mental states," his Spotify description reads.
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The meditative gameplay from his previous works, like Rez and Tetris Effect, seems to have made its way into this new title.
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"Pat's 'Waterfall' paintings have this performative, gestural, meditative activity," said Thom Collins, executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
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Mr. Pederson, who says ideas often come to him from an "Alien Platonic Realm," created the forms while in a meditative state.
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Guay's process is a mixture of planning and a meditative, rhythmic labor that he thinks of as the antithesis of mass production.
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For me, the act of painting is not just a means to a product; it is also a meditative process of communication.
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Umbilical cord intact, the baby floats inside of a cosmic, star-filled womb, gently hovering around the space to a serene, meditative soundtrack.
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Similarly, every fashion piece was also an intentional choice that reflects the meditative mood of black pride and the celebration of melanins popping.
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But I believe that there's a meditative magic to combining the slow pace of plant growth and the rapid clip of the internet.
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It just heightens the game's meditative, otherworldly style, letting you really feel your character rushing through surreal landscapes fighting squid-like voxel enemies.
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Many people already use pranayama, the meditative breathing exercises found in several varieties of yoga, in order to enter a calm emotional state.
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Director Drew Xanthopoulos' film The Sensitives, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week, is a more meditative take on the subject.
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Do you spend the rest of your life in a Zen-like state of meditative calm before passing away politely in your 90s?
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The artist said he does not plan beforehand, instead allowing inspiration to strike as he enters a meditative state in the crystalline water.
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This week Tashi Norbu is offering a series of events in Laramie, Wyoming, including meditative tattoos and a workshop on painting the Buddha.
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Different realms offer different experiences: some offer exploration, competition, or meditative experiences; another he likens to a sort of petting zoo for kids.
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Walking the misty morning streets of Shanghai in 21960, she observed an old Chinese man performing slow, meditative movements in an open field.
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An ambient soundtrack combines a shaman's meditative healing chant with clicking, the voice of a nurse, and the noise of an MRI machine.
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The results of his meditative state are apparent in two untitled paintings from 1965 and circa 606373 on view in the first gallery.
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So, whether you're a professional dog walker, never drive, or love to take meditative walks, these are the apps you should download next.
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Millions of people who weren't raised in a meditative tradition are using apps, books, and classes and going on retreat to learn meditation.
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However, the installation's meditative purpose was interrupted by a harsh reminder of the neighborhood's rapid gentrification, after temporary construction scaffolding peeked into view.
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With the help of fellow documentary cinematographer Nels Bangerter, she shaped this "Trauma Cut" into a quieter, more meditative reflection on her art.
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I'm more of a minimalist, and I like situations that are more meditative, but I felt like, how can I resist a narrative?
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The second room contains only one work, the calmest and most meditative of the group, made all the more so by its isolation.
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Dressed in elegant gray-on-gray, she speaks softly of her black-on-black abstraction by Ad Reinhardt, most meditative of Abstract Expressionists.
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Not in the meditative mind but in bustling bodies in shared space, in the transactions our physical selves are marked and marred by.
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Inviting viewers into a meditative state, T.V. Clock is a quietly monumental work through which to contemplate the cultural implications of electronic media.
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Springsteen sustains a croon, backed by a pedal steel guitar, a cottony bass line and a string section; there's a meditative instrumental outro.
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In fact, lots of words and phrases are buzzing in my head when I walk into the gallery: tragedic, universal, melancholic, essential, meditative.
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To gain a better understanding of how mindful breathing and other meditative techniques can help, it's best to practice them before your trip.
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After his meditative ambling, Mr. Ford would board an F train and ride it back and forth for the remainder of the night.
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But that meditative space is, above all, functional, its graceful form shaped by the realities of budget and available materials (or lack thereof).
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In the catchy, multilayered "1 Night," meditative gongs overlap a stop-start vocal line from Charli XCX as she depicts a complicated situation.
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You would know how at one moment it is absurdly caffeinated, sounding like complete chaos, and at another almost silent, meditative and calm.
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"It's been really beautiful to think in these meditative terms about how poems are useful in our everyday life," Ms. Smith told me.
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In an upstairs bedroom, an aesthetician, Cynthia Marie Franco, does facials; yoga classes and meditative sound baths are offered regularly in another room.
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One is a loud, constantly evolving yet somehow meditative feedback drone; the other is a handful of laconic, minor-key motifs on lute.
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For many, it became an obsession, watching their mountains in meditative states or hoping to view some of the floating rock's deeper secrets.
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Another group was taught mindfulness through the meditative method of paying close attention to the moment and focusing on breathing and other sensations.
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The exhibition aims to evoke a meditative "sensorial" experience for visitors, Randy Fernando, one of the designers of the experience, said by email.
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There was also a great satisfaction in the slow, meditative process of gluing each and every rhinestone to the surface of the painting.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BERLIN — An eerie sound reverberates throughout the quiet halls once more, a meditative, yet disturbing aural backdrop.
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A short, detailed, meditative puzzler, this game took me through four-panel landscapes in a way that left me feeling emotional and uplifted.
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Such a disposition has a naturally meditative effect, but it also has the benefit of training your ear on Phillips' increasingly moving lyrics.
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The sticker pack comes from LandShark Games, whose Zen Koi game is a meditative carp collection quest to grow and breed the beautiful fish.
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"With 'Still Awake' I wanted to create a meditative experience that moves slowly, drawing the viewer in and allowing them to explore," he explains.
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A Buddhist meditation center in Colorado hosts a three-day "meditative running" retreat, where practitioners learn to be present and mindful while they run.
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It was a meditative moment and a beautiful shift in perception that helped me move from despair to hope and realign with the Universe.
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January 25th's game is more meditative, as you control a train as it passes through the changing landscape of the Australian bush and desert.
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The historic hacienda (which dates back to the 1830s) is surrounded by lush hammock-strung gardens, an outdoor fire ring, and a meditative labyrinth.
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I've been running a lot, which is one of my favorite things to do because it really clears my head and is very meditative.
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The Names (1982), a dazzling, elaborate, meditative thriller centered on the nature of language and political terrorism in the Middle East, broke things open.
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In case you've been in a meditative trance for the last two years, In Goop Health is the physical manifestation of Paltrow's lifestyle empire.
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The game, though it was often a gorgeous and meditative experience about exploring the vastness of the universe, overpromised and underdelivered, leaving fans disappointed.
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We are the only customers here in the tea shop, and the smells and meditative sounds give it the feeling of a private spa.
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That said, there's something undeniably relaxing and meditative about soaring through this virtual cosmos, even with the occasional stress of survival game meter management.
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Forget toned muscles and the wise, meditative state that is commonly associated with the dedicated long distance runner, we're in it for the shoes.
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Unfortunately, while the Moth Club's small, albeit eclectic, space is a perfect match for wedding-style festivities, it is less so for meditative wanderings.
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Though the sources of the sounds are often identified in the track titles, like "CHORDS for guitar," its meditative pace has a lulling effect.
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Everything is so contextual that one person's traumatic meditative experience might be another person's vital step on the path to enlightenment, or just chillness.
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It's a cliché that music like this can be meditative, but Beautiful You's returns to familiar sounds and phrases can almost feel mantra-esque.
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Once they are in it, they are taking their time, staying in front of the pond and the dancing soul, having a meditative moment!
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But when Mr. DeJohnette digs into a groove, as on "The Dervish Trance" or "Exotic Isles," he finds a meditative space of his own.
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The mix of documentary film, live performance and call to activism worked unexpectedly well, maintaining a delicate balance between didactic drive and meditative awe.
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The movie, which has the look and feel of a magnificently illustrated historical novel, proceeds at a deliberate, meditative pace that rewards patient attention.
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Like Eugène Atget's photographs of antique architecture in fin-de-siècle Paris, these have a mournful, meditative quality, a poetry of silence and loss.
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Climate change is the kind of horror that has few jump-scares: Instead, like a long and meditative film, our planet slides into chaos.
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In "Untitled No. 2" (right) a redwood-lined road stretches, with no apparent endpoint — a meditative view of a traveler's solitary journey through nature.
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These are accompanied by voice-over narration that is witty and meditative, and that pushes against the constraints of the "making of" documentary template.
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This screening includes one of his New York Portrait studies, made in the 1980s as a silent, meditative journey through the city's built environment.
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She latched onto Ms. Coltrane's music, with its meditative and astral dimensions, while in high school, around the time she learned of Ms. Ashby.
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I think there's a collective need right now for an activity that's meditative, tangible, and, above all, does not involve looking at the internet.
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I often used it as a meditative strategy (usually to come down from a fight with whatever boyfriend I was antagonizing at the time).
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I can't stand what it did to what I love, which is house music, which was meditative, psychedelic — it took you on a journey.
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How about someone like Thundercat, who just released an album that ticks all the "future" criteria—identity driven, depressive-yet-escapist, meditative but hopeful.
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"It shows young people's need for meditative spaces where they can practice patience," Lacy Austin, the director of community programs at the center, said.
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It's meditative and generous to its subjects, a snapshot of a mundane experience and a rumination on the meaning of living in a community.
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After viewing a brightly-colored abstract landscape by Hans Hoffman, facilitators led participants in a meditative breathing exercise; later they created clay coil pots.
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When I reviewed Mitchell's concerts at the Park Avenue Armory in 219, I marveled at his solo-saxophone heroics and meditative chamber music designs.
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But when it is undertaken with the care it deserves, the meditative mantras of Muslim surahs takes us outside the friction of everyday life.
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Like "Scenario: Script to Perform," Ms. Walsh's last work, this one casts an oddly meditative spell, even when it seems to be going nowhere.
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It's in these small, meditative details that DONTNOD shows just how quietly revolutionary their game is, taking risky swings that somehow almost always land.
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It was a place I could think and look, a meditative space where I felt tucked into a fold of art inside the museum.
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If a woman posts a picture of the sparkling sunrise over her morning yoga session, she's publicly delivering on her commitment to meditative stretching.
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It&aposs extremely relaxing, it&aposs a meditative experience, you know, it&aposs just... I really, really like driving Rollses for just this reason.
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Similar to bullet journaling, it emphasizes the importance of physically writing things down — as a meditative way to process and observe your spending habits.
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I combined it with a meditative essay about celebrity sex tapes, but for it to make sense we had to show him having sex.
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Her practice of such belief is meditative, and becomes reflected in her diction: She speaks of endurance, overcoming, soul-sustenance for the long term.
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She practices Sufi whirling, a twirling style of dance associated with Persian dervishes that involves extended stretches of vigorous spinning in a meditative trance.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO "Human," an electronic instrumental by the Swedish composer Tomas Nordmark, has a meditative, nearly ambient foundation: sustained, consonant tones like distant horns.
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This is one of the game's ostensible lessons—that you can fall asleep at the wheel and submerge yourself into a meditative work regime.
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One of Israel's top contemporary troupes, Vertigo is celebrated for its theatrical flair and meditative athleticism, both of which will be on display here.
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Featuring narrated excerpts from Mr. Douglass's speeches, the film eschews action for quiet images that conjure a meditative state, interrupted by flashes of violence.
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The slow and meditative nature of the craft would become a nightly ritual as I meticulously placed thousands of beads—one at a time.
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I've been in Japan for the last 72 hours and no one has inasmuch raised a voice above a steady meditative keel until now.
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It puts me in this very meditative state, where I don't have many thoughts, but the thoughts that I do have feel very potent.
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And of course, during the 1990s Phil Jackson made the Chicago Bulls do all kinds of weird meditative shit and that worked out pretty well.
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Resonant environments like vast, synthetic prairie lands blanket $uccessor, as do icy surfaces and shimmering, metallic timbres; it's a meditative, cinematic and uncannily beautiful record.
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There's an art to rowing on a machine, and once you figure out the form it can feel as meditative as cruising through actual water.
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Laughter breaks the meditative silence: Giggling that starts among the women leaps across the aisle to the men — black-suited, black-hatted, overcome with mirth.
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It made for a pretty relaxing experience considering I had no choice but to spend the following 20 minutes sitting in a speechless, meditative state.
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Taken together, these repeated but ever-so-slightly different pictures can feel meditative and revelatory, indicative of one artist's attention to minute changes in reality.
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There's occasionally churning percussion, but even those moments feel contemplative; he has a knack for making movement feel internal, a meditative sort of dance music.
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For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) is an object lesson in the meditative power of sparse, texturally focused music.
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Trained in the tradition of Thai Forest Buddhism and dhamma, the teachings of the Buddha, he viewed the act of painting as a meditative process.
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The film comes from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who you might know from the similarly strange, eerie, and meditative Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
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As a musician, playing the same chord, up and down, over three hours is, as I suspected, pretty boring, but also, Reynolds said, occasionally meditative.
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In addition to open-air yoga pavilions, guests at the resort can enjoy hydrotherapy pools (below), massages, or a meditative walk through the rice fields.
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It's an experimental record that often sounds like a meditative one, or vice versa, and it often seems better on paper than through the speakers.
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And as the Waypoint crew expressed in their recent podcast episode on Death Stranding, it's a reason to keep playing this meditative (ok, slow) game.
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His later, more meditative collections included "Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse" (1999), "While We've Still Got Feet" (2005) and "Happy Life" (2011).
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Its mix of meditative mood music and in-your-face pop is, at best, a valiant experiment; at worst, it's a polished but listless attempt.
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The meditative spaces and down-to-earth people of the Midwest were central to Wallace's writing, as he pushed back the ironic for the heartfelt.
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The song is a somber and meditative reflection on what it feels like to age and gain a clearer understanding of one's faults and flaws.
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Her debut album G.O.D, (which stands for Good Opening Drug) is a heady mix of meditative electronics and sexual vocal samples, due out in 2019.
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When it all comes together, and the music and the visuals and the pieces are all moving faster and faster, Tetris Effect becomes truly meditative.
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It's a beautiful, meditative, and jarring film, a sketch of a country where Revereza does not feel welcome as it grapples with its own identity.
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On the one hand, I felt as if this audio feedback really did help me free my mind and reach my most meditative state yet.
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So yeah, in that way, it's much like an iOS game: as addictive as it is meditative, shallow fun with a dash of something more.
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It was the same far-out vibe of Laurel Canyon's singer/songwriter scene of the 1970s infused with raga, Indian meditative practices, and ecstatic chanting.
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And Mr. Blake's latest, "The Colour in Anything" (Republic), is familiarly meditative and aching; he's an austere singer who finds swing in minimal electronic compositions.
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His example backs up my suspicion that nail-biting pairs best not with tension and anxiety but with the moody, concentric revolutions of meditative thought.
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Still, it wasn't as good as my initial control session, but I'm not giving up on the potential usefulness of BDSM sense-play as meditative.
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Studies focused on the benefits of adult coloring books often reveal mandalas are the most effective designs for relaxation and induction of a meditative state.
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I have rooms for reading particular kinds of books: a sitting room with a purple velvet lounge chair for more meditative, spiritual books and poetry.
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I found closing my eyes and listening to the whisper of ocean waves and the rush of wind through trees to be relaxing and meditative.
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My thoughts will probably be going a little crazy in the first hours but I want to slip into a meditative state as I swim.
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A leading ensemble in Germany's Krautrock movement, Can also drew upon the cyclical sounds of American minimalism but had no time for its meditative ambitions.
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Long Branch, N.J. Sun-bleached sand and rhythmic waves can have a meditative effect at Long Branch, Asbury Park's unsung neighbor on the Jersey Shore.
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"Hard 2 Face Reality" begins as a meditative croon by Poo Bear, the singer-songwriter who's been a behind-the-scenes force for Justin Bieber.
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Combined with the Model 3's electrified quiet — acceleration is a whiz and a whoosh, not a roar — the overall effect is calming and meditative.
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In its final moments, the piece took on the feeling of a meditative exhalation, suggesting prior touchstones like "Music for 18 Musicians," without seeming derivative.
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Mixing poetic writing, stirring theatrical design, and a meditative grimness, it accomplishes feats of tone and presentation that I've never seen a game accomplish before.
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Of course, the deciding factor between an almost meditative experience and one filled with frustration is often the quality of the lawn mower you have.
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Perdriolle will also feature meditative, pencil-on-paper drawings by the singer Paban Das Baul, a mystic minstrel from the Indian state of West Bengal.
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IZMIR, Turkey — City workers shoveled dirt over the two coffins, one at a time, as an imam, in plaintive and meditative tones, sang prayers in Arabic.
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Step into the kitchen with a friend or loved one, and you'll surely find yourselves in a beautiful, shared moment, one that can be almost meditative.
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If you don't have to think about where you're going, for how long, or how fast, then you're free to be more meditative about your run.
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For Sinclair, who said his most meditative moments are when he's riding his bike around New York, that's the perfect reflection of life in the city.
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From the first line of the French writer Maylis de Kerangal's layered, meditative novel, we know that 19-year-old Simon Limbres will lose his heart.
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But there's no doubting the panache of an album that includes four minutes of unadulterated wash cycle, persuasively framing the exchange in terms of meditative bliss.
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The experience of entering a three-dimensional tarot deck is akin to viewing 's solo exhibition at , both in its meditative quality and the title alone, .
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Being out in the middle of still, expansive Lake Eyre is meditative, he explains, and he aims to have that feeling come through in his art.
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From such a violent history emerges a quiet and meditative group show, offering a sense of displaced individuals struggling to reconstruct their histories of a place.
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Brain waves can be turned into music, light shows, and meditative visuals—and that's just the surface of a brand new medium beginning to be scratched.
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Even if you can't step outside into your own calming garden paradise, you can still benefit from the meditative practice of focusing on tending your plot.
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And sometimes, that smallest part is the whole game, as in the case of Viridi, a meditative, free-to-play title that's all about tending succulents.
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Shrug Island, coming soon to Steam, is slow and meditative, open to interpretation as its characters— the shape-shifting humanoid "shrugs"—change the landscape around them.
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These are long, meditative and largely plotless works that test the endurance and excellence of soloists and chorus singers, as well as the conductor and orchestra.
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Her meditative lyrics contemplate issues of family, heritage and faith; at her heavily interactive concerts, even non-Spanish speakers often find themselves driven to sing along.
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You can listen to one of their music meditations while listening to a non-musical text video from a different YouTuber and customize your meditative experience.
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Blanco, who is primarily a poet, viewed the quarantine as an opportunity for introspection and serenity, resulting in artworks of meditative beauty produced under unlikely circumstances.
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In these columns, letters soliciting advice become springboards for a kind of meditative, roaming personal essay that is as much about the columnist as the correspondent.
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"The claims that we're turning off large parts of your brain and that it's a high-level meditative state generally unattainable elsewhere — all true," he says.
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Incorporate the air element (your element) into your magick, perhaps by reading up on various styles of meditative breathing techniques, or by working with sacred smoke.
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Additionally, spellcraft requires meditative rituals that require you to look inward and concentrate on what you want to manifest, which is therapeutic in its own right.
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Over the course of eight releases (including splits with like-minded artists), Allison has touched on ambient noise, absurdist cut-and-paste, meditative electronics, and more.
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I have no clue how much time has passed during this meditative journey, but now Maywa brings us back to reality—somewhere I've been all along.
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They are deep in it—the prayer, the meditative bliss, the private interior place of sacred calm that's easier to access when you close your eyes.
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It's also something that is echoed in printmaking, this very physical process that is time-consuming and methodical, a meditative sense of immersion in a task.
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"I use breathing techniques to bring people into a meditative state, which is fearless, present, and open, to help them welcome the experience," he explains afterward.
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This song — from Mr. Johnson's album "Gotta Be Me," one of the year's sleeper country gems — is meditative, a little stoic, convincingly plain and plainly convincing.
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I was prepared to surprise myself with an amazing ability to hold a plank — maybe I&aposd even learn to like planking and find it meditative!
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But Ms. Evans ("Dance Nation") wisely keeps the performances from her five cast members at a meditative simmer that never boils over into declamation and melodrama.
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At turns meditative and psychedelic, the short begins with the nun being visited by birds, who become lenses through which we understand her life of piety.
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It's a calming, meditative virtual buddy that helps give you an excuse to take a brief break from work to check in periodically out of curiosity.
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And certain strands of her more recent work have a meditative, existentialist cast — a reminder of Ms. Piper's initial hopes for the transcendent potential of abstraction.
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Somehow, within that action-packed life, Allien remains grounded and reflective—and now, she's releasing what was perhaps her most introspective, meditative work to date, LISm.
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There is a hushed, meditative reverence to the Wooster Group's show "Early Shaker Spirituals," a mesmeric combination of traditional music and dance, based on a recording.
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They have an automatic yet meditative quality and the unconscious physical energy of handwriting, attesting not just to the specialness of touch but to its inevitability.
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Yet the act of creating is also meditative, a kind of quiet rebellion against the chaos of the world and the uncertainty in his own life.
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On benches arranged throughout the gallery, Plensa has placed larger wooden busts of women's heads with closed eyes and calm demeanors that indicate quiet, meditative states.
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This display of works from nine mostly emerging artists, organized by, and including, Michael Childress, may be the quietest, most meditative group show of the summer.
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The group's signature piece was Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time," an alternately meditative and ecstatic work in eight movements lasting nearly 50 minutes.
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Early in this meditative book, the author interrogates the assumption that the flâneur—the aimless city ambler, observing all and observed by none—is necessarily male.
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Allowing the mind to wander and feel free, in an almost meditative state, that really rejuvenates the concept muscles most effectively for me at this time.
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On Monday, the Raekallios launched a mobile app called "HaliPuu – Forest in Your Pocket" on Google Play, which includes broadcasts, short meditative clips, videos, and stories.
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"For me, it's about taking the time out to just concentrate on yourself, which is a rare thing, and being quite meditative about it," she says.
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Dan Pinchbeck's 2012 commercial release of Dear Esther, a meditative game set on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, is sometimes called the first walking sim.
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For me, at least, Graham's book is deeply emotional — played out with lyrical images that, taken as a whole, create a meditative portrait of his mother.
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While some parts of Waterborne are difficult to hear, most of it is meditative, creating a space where participants can explore topics, which may normally be taboo.
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But after unfollowing 50 people—only about 1,150 to go—I can say that at least the meditative process of considering my connections sparked a little joy.
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A Spanish body artist whose favorite canvas is her own skin, Mazapàn captures her meditative designs in stunningly personal photographs that have been exhibited around the world.
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There are so many different modalities and ways of moving now that are really meditative and healthy and great at keeping you outside and active and focused.
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With that in mind, the band traverses miles of musical landscape on Bhavachakra—it's bleak, meditative and dark music, cloaked in a dank shroud of heavy metal.
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The beauty of the game is its gorgeous animations and overall design, which are combined with a mesmerizing soundtrack to make gameplay more of a meditative experience.
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But the sketching for me is almost like a meditative process where I just want to not think too much and see where my intuitions lead me.
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The film is more meditative than explicitly informative, and while its subjects frequently talk about each other, it presents them without outside judgment or talking-head commentary.
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"Put your mind in a meditative state and just focus on your breathing," Lumpini advises, as she preps the needles and mixes her iconic acid-bright shades.
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If you bring your full attention the sensation of caramelized onion, bacon, beef, and cheddar hitting your tongue at once, then you're probably more meditative than most.
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Set to Sufjan, the scenes have a more meditative quality (what doesn't?), and the whole package it's sure to make you misty eyed, so, yeah, enjoy that!
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The objects you can interact with are inconsistent, the level pacing is erratic, and the whole thing meanders in a way that is less meditative than frustrating.
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Nicolai's electronica, mixed with this physical, bodily music and its deeply spiritual connection to nature, yielded an alternately swelling and receding, meditative, at times guttural, sonic environment.
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Ojai could make better use of local talent: Southern California has its own distinctive community of composers and allied artists, who sway between uproarious and meditative modes.
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Mr. Voss and Mr. Anderson were helped by a number of counselors and treatments, including a Native American spiritual healer and a meditative technique called power breathing.
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A meditative heir to Nietzsche's aphorisms, Rilke's "Book of Hours" and the verses of Sufi mysticism, "Night" is an intricate thread of reflections on pain and beauty.
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If you prefer to fill your weekends with less raging club nights and more yoga meditative sessions, Botany's new album Deepak Verbera comes at the perfect time.
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"It's kind of a meditative process and I think it's also like envisioning what you want out of life," Hudson said of writing in her bullet journal.
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"I set my timer on my phone, and I close my eyes, and I monitor my breathing, and I get into a meditative position," he told me.
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Serpent Music, his debut on the experimental-leaning label PAN, shows Bowie's softer, more meditative side, while remaining just as strange and idiosyncratic as his previous work.
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"I think that what binds us is that we both have a pretty serious meditative side, but we're both working in New York City," Mr. Nichtern said.
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First comes this meditative Wagner opera, in François Girard's evocative production, with a stellar cast that includes Klaus Florian Vogt, Evelyn Herlitzius, Peter Mattei and René Pape.
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But you gradually sort of work your way into — I don't know if you'd call it a meditative state of mind, but such profound calm about it.
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Even if you're not religious, the vespers sung here every evening at 216 offer a meditative bridge to day's end (and a nice antidote to jet-lag).
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They're both also surprisingly meditative: There's something about the pace and sounds of the game that evokes the same nostalgia as hearing one of your favorite songs.
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At the time, she was the mother of young children (two boys and a girl, who are now grown), and she took comfort in the meditative iteration.
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Read collectively, her memoirs form a shimmering, meditative, highly erudite "Sex and the Single Girl," by way of a thousand-acre English country estate and Oxford University.
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Compagnie CNDC-Angers, based in France and run by Robert Swinston, a longtime Cunningham dancer and assistant, will perform "Suite for Five," a meditative work from 1956.
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The DIY device fractured the monastery images into rotations of jittery color and text, which play their meditative repetitions on two screens in one of the galleries.
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It would take years of meditative, ascetic practice for an individual to fully overcome this — to truly and directly see only what is in front of her.
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It's an extraordinarily relaxing experience, and by the time you've completed a run from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, you might have entered a kind of meditative state.
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And I do a lot of stretching, which is in keeping with a lot of what I do on my Sundays because it's meditative and somewhat nondramatic.
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If only to protect the meditative solitude of the bathroom act, your roommate should stop this habit, never mind the fact that it is just plain gross.
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In this sensorial, meditative performance, Ms. Orihara and her Japanese collaborators contrast the human body with technology and encourage audience members to ponder the meaning of life.
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Among its offerings were an eight-hour overnight "sleep concert" played by the meditative composer Laraaji for a mostly somnolent audience, hearing the music through their dreams.
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Because of the enormous popularity of the surreal and meditative blockbuster MYST, the adventure game genre—with its digital journeys, brain-teasers, and immersive worlds—was booming.
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The lineup included well-known performers: Yungchen Lhamo, a Tibetan singer whose meditative songs and Buddhist sentiments were Globalfest's brief moment of serenity on a boisterous night.
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But for Frank, pattern held a meditative power that went way beyond the blankness of monochrome (what he viewed as the visual equivalent of a dead end).
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After a twin pregnancy where she used visualization and meditation techniques to connect with her children and ease abdominal pains, sex also became a more meditative act.
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That record was a sharp left turn, trading in the meditative calm of his early works for something boisterous and aggressive—art pop for the spiritually inclined.
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As a tribute to the Italian Surrealist, the French video editor Julien Herman has created a meditative short complete with sound components befitting de Chirico's desolate scenes.
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Levin punctures the veil of idyllic nostalgia in the same way that the Language Poets attacked the artifice of the "I" in poems with a meditative structure.
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"I think there's a meditative quality to some of his earlier performances, particularly Doomed, where he's lying under a sheet of glass for three days," says Dewey.
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Advice after Neptune Retrograde: With Neptune changing directions, it's a perfect time to approach your to-do list with mindfulness—editing your closet can be a meditative experience!
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The space set-up is nurturing, calm, and even meditative, with yellow fluorescent light and the artist's signature denim pillow thrones completing an environment close to alternative reality.
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A new video by National Geographic tells the story of Sara Mapelli, the Bee Queen, who covers herself in thousands of bees and performs a slow, meditative dance.
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While soft shades of fuchsia, light pink, and orange render a sense of visual jubilance, Picasso's subjects, often depicted off-duty, appear pensive, meditative, and at times dispirited.
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Though Tunis says the act of coloring in itself is meditative and relaxing, the type of therapy encouraged by Body Love: A Fat Activism Colouring Book runs deeper.
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Broom's prose flows so easily it's almost meditative — you'll look up from the book after what feels like five minutes and realize you've been reading for an hour.
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On a morning stroll through Winterfell — I find that it's meditative, and really helps with all my anxiety-induced sciatica — I paused to look at the grain count.
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" Orr began with guided visualisation, to put me into a meditative state where I could calm my mind and gain clarity as I journeyed to the "astral plane.
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In fact, what's interesting is how much the game embraces purpose and completion rather than meditative wandering — without ever ordering players to do more than walk between levels.
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Detailed in a nearly 15-minute video posted last month, and resurfaced yesterday by Gizmodo, Odd Tinkering's Game Boy restoration project is a meditative experience for Nintendo fans.
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Yoga is the ideal workout for introverts because it's quiet, meditative, and requires very little interaction with other humans — but going to a crowded studio is another story.
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The clips are meditative, mostly drawn from official state documentation, but they leave you with a sense of confusion since the subject of the adoration is never seen.
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Unlike American bathing, which tends to be quicker and more focused on the colors, glitter, or scents of a bath bomb, a Japanese bath is a meditative practice.
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Planet of the Apes movement choreographer and actor Terry Notary says playing an ape takes strong legs and an ability to reach a kind of effortless, meditative state.
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Staring into Morissette's Instagram is like gazing out over the ocean or watching a prism cast rainbows on a wall: It is meditative, ruminant and a little numbing.
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Related: Nighttime Is Beautiful in a Series of Moody City Snapshots The Darkness of Night Is this Photographer's Creative Solace A Meditative Photo Series Shows Tokyo's Loneliest Moments
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Unlike the "main" Hitman games, which I find fairly stressful, GO is more meditative—it only moves when you do, and instant restarts mean failures need never linger.
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Ways and Means is no exception, a thoughtfully organized exhibition that shoots for the wow factor time and again without skirting the more meditative aspects of process art.
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So when the work, which opened at the Chocolate Factory on Tuesday, began in silence and dim light, I settled in for a meditative experience, a slow reveal.
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Wordsworth's description of "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is sometimes cited as shorthand for what poets refer to as the lyric "I," the poet's vehicle for private, meditative reflection.
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The meditative aspects of the work are balanced on top of each other to form a singular object that feels like it could come apart at any moment.
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A meditative video piece by the veteran filmmaker James Benning suggests karmic links between the 1960s bombings of Vietnam by the United States and today's California wild fires.
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While McNamee very much took into account the psychological element of nature simulations in Outside Interactive's software development, it was never intended to help enable a meditative state.
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It was a meditative experience when I first listened to it at a sea resort with just steady waves of the ocean and peaceful fresh breeze accompanying it.
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In this sensorial, meditative performance, Ms. Orihara and her Japanese collaborators contrast the human body with technology and encourage audience members to ponder the meaning of life.inthebox-nyc.com
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Animal Magnetism Innovation and fact blend seamlessly in Barbara Gowdy's complex, meditative and deeply sad novel "The White Bone," told entirely from the point of view of elephants.
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From the moment she put a line in the water, Catie was learning to appreciate the pleasures (and weather the frustrations) of the most meditative of outdoor endeavors.
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Each page contains one joke, often no more than a sentence long, accompanied by a generic photo of nature or wildlife or something vaguely meditative and all-American.
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The rest of the album follows in equally crushing suit, although the other tracks are more meditative, tending to settle on one mood and take time unpacking it.
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Yet only a few people knew that the album would be Bowie's swansong and that it was in fact a meditative finale to a nearly half-century career.
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"I tend to prefer to be on the trails, near the waterfalls, and under the trees as opposed to the more sanctioned, overly curated meditative experiences," he says.
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For all its conceptual and methodological complexity, "Nature Boy (L's of Hollywood Sign)" is simply gorgeous to experience: languorous, meditative, and enveloping, the perfect soundtrack to accompany Essays.
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It uses the motion of the phone, as measured by the accelerometer, to try and put you into a relaxed and meditative state for about 20 minutes per day.
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It's this embrace of the phone as an object necessary to this particular meditative practice — and not just a window to an on-screen guide — that sets it apart.
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To poke fun at the meditative, conceptual paintings of On Kawara, Murakami put a golden star inscribed with his birthday — "2/1" — on a large piece of blue curtain.
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There's a chance you'll feel like you're being pulled in opposing directions this week, but, rest assured, these dark nights can help us prepare to enter a meditative mindset.
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According to Science Daily, Sudarshan Kriya is a series of breathing exercises that alternate between quick and slow breaths, designed to bring people to a more restful, meditative state.
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Or perhaps it's best we start with Kanye West, who reemerged this week on Twitter with a meditative shortform treatise on human existence and the nobility of creative production.
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The power is in the reproduction of images, in the echoing of the forms, and the meditative quality of objects that shift contexts from daily use to rarefied galleries.
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This yoga room and dance studio features a floor-to-ceiling mirrored wall with a bar, as well as a meditative circular wall light and subtle recessed overhead lighting.
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If the focus for this room is yoga, home buyers might want to also include a meditative fountain, which can run several thousand dollars for a midsize water feature.
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The steps become an incantatory part of the lines, as though the achievement of "Step 15: Profit" is as simple as reciting the meditative cadences found in this poem.
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While lots of runners claim that simply running can be meditative, if you can tap into the mindfulness aspect of it, then the benefits can be even more pronounced.
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However, this sort of mental recalibration doesn't happen overnight; it's an ongoing meditative practice — hence my new prescription still sitting in its pharmacy bag, neglected, near the front door.
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The piece acts as an aural map of the Mediterranean, creating a meditative atmosphere and encouraging visitors to recognize the ecological peril of Venice and its surrounding land/seascapes.
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So Maddie Horowitz, Ben Ely, George Bargoud, Sean Macgahan, and Joe Frasier's Zen Volt machine monitors a user's brain waves to ensure they're calm and in a meditative state.
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The gameplay and puzzle design act as something of a distraction, but not a frustration, while the game's painted vistas and ambient music lull you to be almost meditative.
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A stray pack of bagels threatens to disrupt the perfection, but the eye quickly moves back to the flow of perfectly presented products, giving the photograph a meditative quality.
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We're excited to share the title track on THUMP today, which finds Aaron Leitko and Mike Petillo pairing a discomfortingly isolated techno kick with a harmonically crystalline, meditative atmosphere.
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The New York University Game Center professor also makes more meditative and strictly academic games, like the Borges-inspired Intimate, Infinite or an Emily Dickinson experiment titled Much Madness.
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The serene, unpeopled places in Leinkauf's footage ooze a tranquil, meditative vibe; neatly geometric, their architectural forms and the play of light upon their surfaces create uncluttered, abstract images.
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"It is a mystery why it has become so popular in Russia right now," the Rossiya reporter said, unaware of the meditative glee that a fidget spinner can bring.
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Sarah Davachi's resonant circular ambient drone tones filled the space wall-to-wall, creating an immersive bath of sound that was seductively meditative, akin to a Tibetan singing bowl.
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These works hang together in one of the CAC's oddly angled galleries — a narrow space that evokes a chapel-like ambience, appropriate for the meditative viewing these works demand.
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This could be the promising setup for a Trek that's meditative, character-driven and kind of meta — an attempt to redefine the franchise as it celebrates its 50th birthday.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Filmmaker Phillip Youmans' debut feature Burning Cane is a meditative yet gritty look at the Black Baptist church in the rural US south.
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I wrote about this at length, but the Apple Watch really does a better job of calming me down than anything else I've tried — including meditative and breathing exercises.
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The result is a soundscape that feels as if it's growing organically, like the movement of pixelated murals on the phone screen, rendering the commute a psychedelic, meditative experience.
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Ryan Lundeby, 2100, an Army Ranger with five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, took in the scene from his table, seemingly meditative beneath his shaved head and long beard.
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Ms. Gould had won a Peabody Award for her 2008 documentary, "Between the Folds," a meditative chronicle of the work of several remarkable origami artists, Mr. Joisel among them.
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Instead of smooth, meditative motion, the mind is glued to developing blisters, chafing, and the threat of one earbud leaping out of your ear and into a storm drain.
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This image has always been quiet and meditative for me and today I see it as a fitting memorial to the first American astronauts and spacecraft lost in flight.
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It's both breathtaking and meditative, and whether you're feeling the weight of romantic longing or post-break-up sadness, this film will legitimize these feelings and render them beautiful.
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A fusion of metallic prints and projected videos depicting meditative ceremonies incorporating quartz crystals and laser light, Crystals and Lasers functioned as a spiritual retreat of sorts for visitors.
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Avey Tare's vocals are phased out and layered, oscillating between fanatical joy and meditative chants; somewhere in the cut is Panda Bear, using a simple floor tom and samplers.
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There's something Zen and meditative about the head space a sniper needs to get into in order to hit a shot a distance of a half mile or more.
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Where Farocki's works are meditative, Steyerl's are bold and loud — which would make for an interesting juxtaposition if the selected works didn't feel so at odds with each other.
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Although Bransford's new interpretations of these "staves" appear simple, with just a few graphite lines and shapes accented with watercolors, each is a meditative use of art as magic.
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For those so inclined (like me), this was nutritive music, sometimes raucous and driving, sometimes atmospheric, meditative, and beatific, and all shades in between; sometimes brooding and sometimes jubilant.
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Wearing maroon jeans, hooded sweatshirt and a baseball cap, Mr. Henry was almost in a meditative state, staring at the screen while answering questions about his upbringing and career.
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"It's possible that a lot of therapies might be effective, including meditative breathing and relaxation techniques, that don't help once the train is out of the station," he said.
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A guitarist by turns meditative and acerbic, Harrison recently released "Angel Band," the third in a series of albums devoted to works from the American folk and country songbooks.
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A fusion of metallic prints and projected videos depicting meditative ceremonies incorporating quartz crystals and laser light, Crystals and Lasers functioned as a spiritual retreat of sorts for visitors.
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At this show, he played the pugnacious and proud "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," and also "American Soldier," a meditative embrace of patriotic dedication.
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If poetry is more your speed, you can't go wrong with Matthew Zapruder's meditative Father's Day, a collection of poems that explore parenting with equal parts wonder and grace.
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And after an outburst, Alejandro Cerrudo's "Silent Ghost" slowly and steadily quiets to become a meditative journey into tenderness that pauses along the way to contemplate love and loss.
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It might be the most meditative and emblematic entry into the new doomer canon, a book whose protagonist essentially has Franzen's essay running on a loop in her head.
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Crowds line up around the block to enter her rooms, one person at a time; absorb their illusionistic, sometimes meditative effects; and step out, usually after the requisite selfie.
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The quality of water, the quality of the sea — if you were going to be sitting for hours looking at the sea, it's going to have a meditative quality.
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I enjoy the meditative state I often fall into while doing physical labor, so a day in the mountains of Vermont seems like a guilt-free and productive vacation.
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Both A.K.A. Serial Killer and Also Known As Jihadi use a slow, meditative tempo to dig below the surface and invite us to contemplate the realities underpinning political violence.
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Rezaire's digital photo collages of herself as the archetypal maiden, meditative dance video, and pink ob-gyn chair complete with stirrups offer a timeless vision of the divine feminine.
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Release date: March 228 What makes it great: It's an eerie, meditative ghost story that glides between worlds, from high fashion and wealth to the search for the supernatural.
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Another, equally beautiful video illustrates a gradual, meditative process, albeit one more benign: in Alana Iturralde's Baoding Balls, a hand rotates the titular objects in its palm, clinking them together.
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I once found myself at a kundalini yoga class surrounded by women in white turbans because I was looking for some kind of meditative practice to soothe my intrusive thoughts.
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The Relaxing If you're looking for something more low key than obstacle courses and crawling through the mud, there are plenty of yoga retreats and meditative fitness options in 2016.
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Plugging in your earbuds and focusing on a podcast can actually be a pretty meditative practice, and it can even be a spiritual experience if you choose the right podcast.
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With several months left to go until Game of Thrones returns, the archives of drone videos also offer a meditative respite from the blood and carnage of the actual show.
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She uses the same meditative skills she once employed on penis-shaped cakes or sewing up dead coyotes as she does working as a food stylist now in Los Angeles.
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It's just that ultra-short, asymmetrical, glittery cocktail dresses and Western-style ankle boots, compared to the meditative, almost conservativeness of Philo's revolutionary Celine, feels like a completely different book.
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And in fact, research on mindfulness and other meditative practices suggest that, yes, the brain is like a muscle in that its ability to focus can be strengthened with practice.
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A foldout poster included in the book couples Rotem's meditative essay on the letters with the images, offering another way of viewing the often overlooked history of language and form.
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And there are people who say that it needs to be about fighting, but if it's embraced as a meditative or healing art there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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That's probably obvious to anyone who's seen the master of meditative minimalism's work, which easily encompasses the metaphysics of everyone from Socrates to Plato, Buddha to Confucius, Descartes to Hegel.
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It comes to a head above the meditative chess board of the film's antagonist: I went most of my life without thinking about film as a visual or temporal medium.
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There is a very relaxing and meditative side to MDMA that you don't focus on, unless you happen to be lying in a field instead of dancing like a demon.
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Its best episodes, like the first-season daydream in which Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Richie (Raúl Castillo) explore their nascent relationship, were praised because they felt so meditative and organic.
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While it may be a classic sign of a story well told, that yearning also arises from the sense of irresolution that permeates Sneed's fiercely meditative and unnerving short fiction.
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The track gently revolves around a melange of Navarro's soothing trumpet arpeggios and loops of Houston's meditative singing, as well as downtempo clicks and clacks provided by Karp and Marston.
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Whether it's the classic themes for The Legend of Zelda or the Super Mario series, the company has always managed to turn bleeps and bloops into a meditative, joyful atmosphere.
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"We do not believe in fortune telling, but feel the tarot is a powerful meditative and spiritual object for self reflection and understanding," an Uusi representative tells The Creators Project.
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In a way, "Good Grief" is a quieter, more meditative equivalent to the Broadway-bound "Be More Chill," the hard-charging, smash musical about the dangers of high school popularity.
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The meditative mood of the production, which has been stylishly staged (with a debt to the "empty space" gospel of Peter Brook) by Saheem Ali, is established from the outset.
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This fall, Mr. Levit followed a three-disc album of variations by Bach, Beethoven and Rzewski with "Life," a meditative yet sweeping response to the death of his best friend.
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Many people already find repetitive chores like washing the dishes, sweeping the floor, or chopping vegetables to be a kind of meditative practice, their own way of quieting the mind.
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Lugano seems to be catching the wave of multi-function nightspots where happening restaurants segue into meditative whiskey bars before becoming speakeasy-style clubs that rock until the small hours.
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Extended drones, chantlike repeating phrases, tolling chords, spacious reverberation: Those are meditative sounds, defying fracture or interruption, tuning out the momentary and the trivial, invoking concentration, absorption, ritual and rapture.
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There, the chef Junghyun Park (formerly of Jungsik) offers a refined 211-course meal as beautiful and precise — meditative, even — as the ceramic and glass dishware upon which it's served.
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Pared to the bone and more suggestive than declarative, David Ebeltoft's screenplay interrupts these long, meditative stretches with flashbacks to the fates of Ann's husband (Shane West) and infant daughter.
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Meditative techniques focused not just on relaxing at home and getting ready to sleep, but also while walking, riding an airplane, stressing out over an emergency, or even eating mindfully.
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The Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner produced a quietly meditative work in 1985 that pointed toward the mysterious quality of existence, the inability to fully understand our own natures.
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Sprawling, meditative and unsettled, "Don Carlos" eventually fell out of favor, and when it returned to the repertoire in the mid-20th century, it was sung almost exclusively in Italian.
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It is a meditative session designed to simulate the experience of labor for men, guiding them through the process until they have squawked a baby straight out of their imagination.
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Incorporating enigmatic imagery that evokes the decorative reliefs of ancient cultures, this psychedelic, audiovisual installation continues Webster's exploration into technology and the mental effects of meditative and abstract sensory experiences.
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Noticing the birds around you naturally puts you in a more meditative-like state, says Marla Morrisey, founder of the Mindful Birding project, which encourages ethical guidelines for birding festivals.
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That app was a blissful and meditative experience of its own, relying on mind-bending graphic design, cryptic narrative elements, and abstract and atmospheric sound design to create an otherworldly experience.
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It's also a largely Swedish production, directed by the Danish director Janus Metz, and so, perhaps inevitably, it feels unlike most sports films made under American auspices — mostly quiet, almost meditative.
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She also thinks the simple, meditative act of creating something by hand to help a vulnerable little animal is a soothing prospect for people in an age of technology and aggression.
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The 11-minute track "Frost" is from its new album "Pyroclasts," and its anchoring, meditative electric-guitar drone is beset by dissonant sustained notes, looming overtones and gusts of white noise.
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Of the two, Jeffrey Baxter, administrator for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, considers Darke's version to be the more meditative take, but believes that Holst's syllabic touch amplifies Rossetti's stark prose.
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With its meditative pace and intricate widescreen compositions, it's a movie whose very existence is a feature-length argument for why some things really are best experienced on a big screen.
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In turns introspective, meditative, and melodic, all while maintaining his standard rap chops, Tyler uses this record to edge away from some of his more shock-value lyrics of past efforts.
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In this excerpt from our discussion, which is edited for length and clarity, we dig deep into Harari's meditative practice and how it helps him see the stories humanity tells itself.
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I devoted myself to working out ways to regulate my breath during the test, developing a system where I would take a meditative break after half an hour of answering questions.
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Jaconette says she was surprised by the effect of experiencing the voicemails all together — how it's almost meditative to hear other women finally giving a voice to familiar struggles and frustrations.
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If you live in New York City and you're looking for a meditative getaway, you might want to consider the drone show happening this weekend at Hudson, New York's Basilica Hudson.
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At this point, the series doesn't appear to break the expectations of its genre, though it certainly leaves a lot more room for quiet, meditative stretches than said genre usually demands.
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For about three seconds that feel like three meditative hours of this video, we're given a look at a slug glommed onto a branch in the middle of an idyllic forest.
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Image: Fabien Normand As well as tying in the interactive elements, another challenge the team faced was how to balance the dynamism of interactivity with the meditative focus of Feldman's music.
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The dry, almost clinical tone could scarcely be more different from the meditative mood the Supreme Court struck the last time it stood up for abortion rights, in Planned Parenthood v.
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The new feature is less an exhaustive review of the history of the technology that has transformed modern society, then a sort of meditative look at its past, present and future.
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There's plenty of competition for Headspace, including Calm and Aura Health, as well as your Apple Watch periodically telling you to breathe (whether that's meditative or not is sort of subjective).
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As he's gotten older, his lyrics have become less confrontational, more meditative; he wants the fascist scum eradicated, too, but his approach differs from Dawn Ray'd's scorched earth NSBM-smashing tactics.
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Studies have shown that "structured coloring of a reasonably complex geometric pattern," such as a symmetrical mandala pattern or coloring book, can lead to a meditative state that helps reduce anxiety.
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Ambient music is often referred to as "meditative," but this stuff truly feels like the fractured headspace you enter after spending a long time trying to fixate on nothing in particular.
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Tabita Rezaire's "Premium Connect" (2017) is a meditative collage in motion, delving into computing systems, African divination, and plant communication in its quest for a more spiritual mode of human connection.
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It was made in a bedroom, with headphones, and you can sense some of that smallness in the meditative, uncomplicated unfolding of tracks like the 12 and a half minute opener.
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" He added that it can be "meditative" with "an almost Zen-like winter stillness where all you hear is your breath and the sound of the skis sliding on the snow.
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A perfect visual compliment to the track's meditative nature, the video features a variety of shapeshifting trees, whose leaves gently fall, rise, and twirly in syncopation with the tracks evolving crescendos.
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Even if you don't end up coming, fooling around with yourself often has the meditative effects of connecting your mind and body, increasing your confidence, and grounding you for the day.
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It is a meditative state that allows her to ponder how innocent innovations can transform into destructive technologies, as well as the nature of individuality and the limits of human understanding.
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Also, I've been long-term fascinated with the contradictions over what it means to operate a weapon, that in order to do it effectively you need to be calm, almost meditative.
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LOS ANGELES — Leonard Cohen, the singer-songwriter who profoundly influenced multiple generations with his cerebral and darkly meditative songs, has died, his record label confirmed on his Facebook page Thursday night.
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The device of the omniscient fetus is one that McEwan takes up with a comic flair more darkly mischievous than McEwan fans, accustomed to his usually melancholic-meditative tone, might expect.
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A light on the front of the headband turns red when your brain is intensely focused, yellow if you're in a relaxed state and blue if you're in a meditative state.
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Her most imminent manifestation, though, is hosting a sound bath, in which friends are invited to bathe in the meditative hum of gongs, an experience she likens to an internal massage.
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"Chanel" moves at the pace of a swinging funeral, a meditative march, and Mr. Ocean sings and quick-talks his way through, touching on liquid wealth, beautiful partners and police hypocrisy.
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Ms. Oliveros was a beloved maverick, an electronic-music pioneer who turned to an earthy brand of conceptualism focused on meditative listening, improvisation and text-based "scores" that anyone could follow.
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Nine interlocking triangles — a symbol often used within meditative practices — are presented in angular gold necklaces and earrings, which feature hand-cut stones such as orange garnet and soft pink tourmaline.
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And yet, for those willing to get lost in its spiritual haze, there is a uniquely un-2019 pleasure to be found: a meditative bewilderment that just might cede to enlightenment.
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Through his timid, meditative work with instruments, noises, human voices, and various everyday sounds (such as water drops) Julius acquired international recognition as a pioneer in the field of audio art.
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Lin aims to teach (and hopefully change behavior), while Vu and Oliver's gong creates a space for a meditative reflection on the state of biodiversity and the role of technology therein.
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Each is a meditative experience with a book, and the inclusion of the model of typewriter used by the author, and a setting that resonates with the texts, deepens that connection.
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There's something meditative about doing nothing but sitting and focusing, eyes closed, imagination firing on all cylinders; it raises the zen state of lower wakefulness achieved by moviegoers to the Nth degree.
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While the rest of the group recites an incantation to welcome the Goddess into the circle, the "vessel" is expected to enter a meditative state so intense that it's almost a trance.
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There have been plenty of zombie films that focus more on the aftermath than on the outbreak itself, but The Night Eats the World stands out as relentlessly inward-facing and meditative.
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The sound of singing bowls is hard to describe, I wouldn't call it "pretty" in a classical sense, but the vibrations are storied to have healing properties and enhance the meditative state.
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But because there is so little to go on, it becomes kind of meditative; all your energy and concentration are focused on trying to figure out something that has no real solution.
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She runs into their tiny house, picks up a found can of teal house paint and begins to draw tiny blue trees on the wall, humming to herself in a meditative state.
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This Atlanta rapper's debut mixtape is so zonked out it may yet pioneer new meditative techniques in listening to rap, inhabiting a passive hedonism that's riveting once it seeps into your bones.
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The app faces competition, at least obliquely, from a plethora of small copycats, and streaming music services like Spotify, SoundCloud and Pandora, where users can find a fair amount of meditative sounds.
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There's a meditative mindlessness inherent in the motion of skating; it's a physical art enacted through fast-twitch muscle memory over mere milliseconds, and Kruger's platitudes can seem to interrupt that experience.
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Old Joy felt like a missing piece from Reichardt's early work—it's a quiet, meditative film in which two disconnected childhood friends go on an overnight camping trip in the Cascade Mountains.
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But her meditative music carries that same ancestral power, and her ethereal voice demands attention and space that we must grant her in order to collectively move forward, even just a bit.
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Working through Faulkner's layered and allusive prose, line by line at a snail's pace in a few snatched moments at the end of the day, is a meditative, joyous and colorful experience.
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Each part is shimmery and colorful if you zero in on it, but the way they're overlaid becomes swirling and seasick, a meditative headtrip on the top deck of a small ship.
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Steve Hauschildt, "Strands" I have an enduring soft spot for Steve Hauschildt's meditative, distinct electronic music, and "Strands" — the title track from a new album Hauschildt's releasing this October — is typically mesmerizing.
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He started improvising, going into an almost meditative state, he said, creating a sprawling four hours of score that he spent the past year writing and recording with top Hollywood studio musicians.
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But the quieter innovation on this album is how, thanks to the more-meditative production, "SremmLife 2" is at times a commentary on and an updating of decades of Southern club rap.
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"I do think of the work as meditative, even a type of mandala, but as an abstract artist, I want the viewer to bring their own perceptions to the work," writes Arm.
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At once haunting and meditative, "Mass," like the majority of Baillie's work, is an assemblage of found and filmed footage flowing into each other, thanks to his exquisite use of multiple exposures.
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In meditative movements like the Adagio of the G Minor Sonata, Ms. Hahn takes an unabashedly Romantic approach, with slow tempos that allow her to spin out the melody in shiny ribbons.
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You might just find yourself falling to sleep more easily after a coloring session or even feeling refreshed after a near-meditative session that revives you for the rest of the day.
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They have to be good and plotty — meditative character studies are all well and good, but I never find them quite distracting enough at times when I really need to be distracted.
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Opening with a meditative section of Bach's Trio Sonata in G — Mr. Brown could set more dances to Bach, and I wouldn't complain — the tone is measured and formal, but never stiff.
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One minister incorporated meditative song into her service, and another interspersed prayers and hymns with sermons from Martin Luther King Jr. During one all-nighter, Mr. Stegeman even brought along a harpist.
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They've shot people in their homes all over the world, from Nicky Haslam in his London flat and Lin Tianmiao's home in Beijing to the artist Lia Chavez's meditative Long Island cottage.
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It's also not everyone's cup of tea, so a meditative-esque activity can be a helpful stand-in, and isn't as intimidating as just sitting and doing nothing might feel right now.
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They must stand all day, yes, but they must also achieve a meditative state, one that allows them to properly fold dozens of identical tortelli as passersby stare: fingers moving, minds wandering.
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Filmed in black and white, the leisurely, meditative "Roma" follows a turbulent year in the life of a maid working for an upper-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
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Midway through the movie, and with two perfectly centered images, the story shifts to the boy's sister (Taylor Russell), taking this story about family and profound loss into another, more meditative register.
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But like other more recent examples of the city symphony (and like Jia's other work), "I Wish I Knew" has a tone that is more elegiac than excited, more meditative than bustling.
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He told me that he enters a meditative state behind the lens: waiting for the flickering moments of alignment that occur when a view of the landscape shifts from discordance into order.
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"It's changed me in the sense of having this meditative idea of being able to zoom out in my mind and see a bigger picture, to take a longer perspective," he said.
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Waves of pulsing feedback and deafening drum strikes ring out from a gigantic bass drum that would make Tommy Lee quiver in his shorts, and combine to inspire an almost meditative state.
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While his first single "Release" was an anthemic electronic build, Aucoin's latest song "The Middle" showcases his trademark glowing, meditative, keyboard-loving side from his 2011 debut album We're All Dying to Live.
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When I'm on a long trip, especially when I'm sticking to the interstates, there's so much banality and quietude that there's a kind of hypnotism and meditative quality to the experience of driving.
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Whether you take a meditative class that is rejuvenating, or a more cardio-heavy workout that gives you a boost, getting a break before you finish things out might help you avoid crashing.
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It might not sound like your typical, meditative coloring book — but it's also not really supposed to be, says Brian Foo, the 31-year-old data artist and computer scientist behind the project.
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The songs were loud and fast and short, a departure from the narrative-driven rap and soul songs I'd attached myself to, or the silent, more meditative rock music I'd grown to enjoy.
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And there is a meditative quality to watching someone practice their speedrunning, like a martial artist going over moves and combinations in the gym: practicing every minute motion until it's perfect, second nature.
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Categories like Strangely Satisfying, Exotic Travels, Animals, Ambiance and Trippy don't fail in delivering relaxing stimuli, taking a viewer on a meditative journey of well shot footage or creatively thought-out art pieces.
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Wigan has perfected his process into an excruciating artistic procedure; via a meditative technique, he has learned to breathe at specific moments, he also sculpts between heartbeats, controlling the pulse in his fingers.
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And there are perhaps a few too many close-up shots of the dragon making funny faces, as if all involved were worried the kids would feel lost within the film's meditative tone.
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Tales of meditation gone awry, leading to experiences from brief sensory discomfort to breaks even more severe and long lasting than flusterer's have long floated around forums and communities focusing on meditative experiences.
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This year, though, it was hard to find anything to grasp at in the overwhelming program of mumble-horror, internet horror, iPhone movies, and meditative dramas about the nature of relationships and technology.
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When he bought CHOM-FM in Montreal—the first English FM station in Quebec—he used it to play multi-day Beatles marathons, live meditative chanting, and divination sessions with the I Ching.
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"I can't stand what it did to what I love, which is house music, which was meditative, psychedelic — it took you on a journey ... I sometimes cringe at my own festival," he said.
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On the dramatic opposite end of the scale, both in box office outcome and in financial risk, was Mr. Jenkins and "Moonlight," a meditative film with a microscopic budget and no proven stars.
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Plucking, it should be noted, can be meditative, and anyone devoted to the thin brow will need to keep a good set of tweezers on hand for unexpected moments of really good light.
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The simple combination of voices and instruments here prove that less can sometimes be more, and somehow, listening to "Morning View" has a similar effect to looking into a sunset: centring, quiet, meditative.
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I did get better at getting into a meditative state during the video (which was, at the very least, relaxing), but each time, I still felt eager to turn the dude's voice off.
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"We did so many different type of rituals, and I really learned to go into a deeper place, to have a meditative practice that I do once or twice a day," Morazan says.
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Where Farocki's works are meditative, Steyerl's are bold and loud — which would make for an interesting juxtaposition if the selected works by the two artists didn't feel so at odds with each other.
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Three hours of tea pairings and rice cakes later, guest walk away from the meal feeling satisfied, not only in terms of appetite, but also in some sort of kalbi–induced meditative state.
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Each song, in typical doom fashion, offers you a devilish and meditative riff to fall into just long enough for it to get stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
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It's such a meditative idea, a fish tank, but they're a somewhat mystifying responsibility as it always seems that these little fish are on the verge of either starving or dying of gluttony.
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While Mark Rothko is revered for his studies of vibrant color as a locus for meditative contemplation, this was also explored by artists such as Tseng Yu-ho, Isami Doi, and Bumpei Akaji.
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His original article was a lovely, meditative essay on the suicide of Levi Presley, a Las Vegas teenager who jumped off the observation deck of the Stratosphere Tower in the summer of 2002.
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Though their music shared a meditative ethos, Mr. Gorecki, Mr. Tavener and Mr. Pärt were mostly unaffiliated with one another: "Holy minimalism" was a category largely invented by critics and maintained by publicists.
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Then I started writing about movies professionally, giving me full license to indulge in the strangely taboo practice of solo moviegoing — a habit that can be remarkably meditative and fortifying, almost like prayer.
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The tableau is so tranquil that you might not even notice, as you take your seat, that you're already being drawn into the ethereal, meditative otherworld where Satoshi Miyagi's spellbinding "Antigone" will unfold.
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The calming, meditative trance needed to do a Tai Chi series has been shown to greatly reduce anxiety and stress, even lowering levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, in the blood of participants.
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"Pagan" has a meditative, hymnal quality; its songs could work well as background music at a spa, at a dance club for shy people, or as objects of study in a semiotics seminar.
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The first course—inspired by the painting "Rose Meditative," in which a gigantic rose floats against the sky—included a rose, shaped from petals of beet, floating on a cloud of foie gras.
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Indeed, this is a big reason that, according to Buddhism, meditative practices which loosen the grip of feelings can give us a clearer view of the world, can lead in the direction of enlightenment.
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It takes the 1977 original — a rather flat film about a young boy and his animated dragon pal — and turns it into a surprisingly meditative story about finding family and learning to grow up.
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Along with meditative shots from the Institute, such as the herbarium specimens, protective metal containers for seeds, and incubator glasses for germination tests, are portraits of the people who continue and protect this work.
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If you're looking for a game that's slow-moving and a bit meditative, I could maaaybe understand being into this, but it took so long to figure out that it only stressed me out.
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The directors, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, last collaborated on 2014's Goodnight Mommy, a meditative film featuring creepy twin brothers at play in a bucolic world where nothing is quite as it seems.
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Strolling into his workshop for a day of meditative carving, still in his bathrobe and carrying his tea, he would go straight to Adobe Illustrator to map out his designs in many overlapping layers.
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That high-up hum that holds a pretty, meditative, slow melody can be overridden in an instant if Basinski flicks his right hand on the desk and draws the atonal feedback into the mix.
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You're not thinking about it as words; it almost becomes this mantra, this meditative kind of thing, and to be singing a song like that with such a loving group, was just so special.
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While the idea seemed a bit odd and made me skeptical at first, the combined effect of the guttural soundtrack and the gesture of moving both hands in a rhythmic fashion was unexpectedly meditative.
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One of the many satisfactions of this meditative film is seeing Scorsese working once again with some of his oldest collaborators (Harvey Keitel, of "Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver," is also in the cast).
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FORM was organized by the Florida band Hundred Waters, which headlined Saturday night with a set of soft-focus dance-pop much less meditative than what was on offer the rest of the time.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The 25 essays in Brian Blanchfield's Proxies are erudite and intensely personal, deftly traversing the distance between the intellectual and the corporeal, between the meditative and the resolute.
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Mindfulness and meditative practices have been proven as effective methods with kids and teens and assist with focusing and attention, executive functioning, sleep, emotional regulation, stress reduction, aggressive behavior, anxiety, and social skills/behaviors.
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At the center of the meditative experience is the exercise and cultivation of mental autonomy: when the meditator's mind wanders, he notices and arrests that process, gently returning his mental focus to his breath.
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Without a marquee director in the credits, "Jane" rarely comes up in conversations about visually provocative television, but it should: it has an unusual optical density, somehow managing to be simultaneously meditative and manic.
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The other aspect of Coen Gilbert&aposs approach to his personal life and work is meditative, where he is more conscious of living in the present, which leads to more control over his emotions.
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If you're a cord cutter, Sky News has multiple free streams, including on YouTube, and even though it's owned by Fox, the coverage should be British enough to hypnotize you into a meditative state.
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And instead of trying to top that, it drops into a reflective, even meditative place that stands in stark contrast to the shocking bouts of intense violence and the startling practical-effects grindhouse gore.
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One such movement was the Buddhist leader Ledi Sayadaw's colonial-era program of teaching insight meditation to Buddhist laypeople, who had not traditionally engaged in the meditative and other practices typical only of monastics.
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Her research has included interviews with dancers about their desires and disappointments; five of them are featured in this slow-paced, meditative work, in which audience members are free to come and go. performancespacenewyork.
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Over hours and hours of playing, from Luigi Nono's meditative "La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura" on Thursday to Gyorgy Ligeti's riotous Violin Concerto on Sunday, nothing Ms. Kopatchinskaja did was insincere, flighty or unserious.
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Just as The Irishman is atypically meditative for its genre, Scorsese could stand to tell a story that deviates from his recent pattern of following Western European white men into the depths of hell.
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Pentimento and Others is a meditative album in the truest sense, designed to lull the listener into some cosmic relaxation, its looping acoustic guitars and swelling synths always overlapping but never interrupting each other.
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Aside from learning about emerging music technologies, enjoy a number of sonic presentations including Jorge Chikiar's performative installation of AM and FM radios and Caselden Studios intriguing "magnetic soundbath," which promises a meditative experience.
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The gemlike "Self-Portrait on the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States" is as topical on the subject of national identity as any of Rivera's murals, but Kahlo's approach is meditative and confessional.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Minutes before seeing a collection of William Bailey's meditative still-lifes and figure paintings, I heard, yet again, a series of small-minded and reckless comments by Donald Trump.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: Peter DrawsIt appears semi-intentional and a little silly but YouTuber Peter Draws is making a solid attempt at channeling Bob Ross' meditative tone coupled with slightly odd commentary.
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Often overproduced records like those exist seemingly in contrast with the prolific musician's broad discography, which includes the meditative doom of Om, the expansive instrumental rock of Grails, and the hip-hop adjacent Lilacs & Champagne.
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Global climate change is not being caused by a lack of imitative thinking or miniaturized, meditative art, yet most of the works seem pleased with themselves for nodding in the direction of our spectacle society.
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Both born in 1942, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi first came to international attention in the mid-533s for their meticulous and highly meditative work with archival films and found footage from the early 20th century.
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I was on a noisy showroom floor filled with journalists loudly performing on-camera presentations next to me, but according to the headset, my mind seemed to pivot between true meditative state and diversion frequently.
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In contrast, the process of creation is finely drawn, both the physical labor — the grinding of the pigments, the scraping of the palette knife, the boiling of the glue — and the meditative concentration it induces.
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Over Skype in April, Mr. von Oswald called the LP an "aura event," a high-profile and often meditative reunion between two artists, whose relationship stretches back to before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The slow, meditative pace of Manhattan Beach was perhaps meant to mimic this, the entire book a vacation from the frantic everyday onslaught of disconnected information that Egan has usually been so eager to chronicle.
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The gentle EVN feels like a grab bag of meditative genres—flickering drone, swooning new age, LA beat scene-ready boom-bap—but the pieces are united by their feeling of hopefulness and cautious ascension.
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Illuminated casts of the studio walls gild the room in an unusual, meditative light, while a soundscape of dancers learning choreography by modern dance legend Merce Cunningham transfers viewers into the shoes of artists past.
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Repeated studies of source imagery from internet pornography to old masters, in media including ink, watercolor and gouache, achieve an illuminating meditative clarity wholly separate from the virtues (or otherwise) of any given single piece.
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Though it has moments of meditative beauty (especially in a love duet for Mr. Fontana and Ms. Davis), the music tends to trickle, as if the life under such robust consideration were but a rivulet.
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Mr. Michael has taken apart the building blocks of stand-up and refashioned them into a fragmented and meditative psychological drama, a sarcastic club set improbably aiming for the feel of the French new wave.
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After an opening section coasted for a bit on a meditative air, courtesy of pinging bells and hissing high strings, the soft-grained entrance of trumpets signaled a change, without overhauling the moderate, peaceable dynamics.
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Where Mr. Farocki's work pairs images in a thoughtful, more meditative way, Mr. Robak's reflects the full-force scramble for our attention underway every time we glance at the internet or pick up a device.
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" Its near-drone accompanies a minutely examined and revelatory emotional upheaval, a view of a failed romance sung with meditative grace and intimations of heartache, ending with a forever unanswered question: "Could you not see?
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It's interfering with my pre-fashion week prep (which mostly involves meditative breathing in the face of what's to come, and dry cleaning all the clothes I haven't worn while I've been in the woods).
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Some felt that the charms focused their minds in a firefight; the Buddha was a paragon whose mastery of meditative calm in the face of Mara's devilish army would help them avoid fear and panic.
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"In many ways, my series, 'Cosmos,' is a meditative exercise to understand how I fit into this vast spectrum of existence, by forcing the microscopic and macrocosmic together into a singular art object," he said.
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Buddhism has a different way of doing it: via meditative disciplines that are designed to attack subjective biases at the source, yielding a clearer view of both the mind itself and the world beyond it.
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