Details | Meditation helps us build a relationship to a place of inner quietude. To contribute to a sense of calm in this uncertain time, we are offering free 30-minute online meditations three times each week led by DC-based meditation teachers. These free sessions are appropriate for all levels of practitioners and include a variety of mindfulness practices. Sessions on Fridays include inspiration from art in the museum collections. All are welcome! No previous experience is required. Meet our meditation teachers: Aparna Sadananda and Philip Bender. To celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, the focus artwork for this session will be a Persian painting. Join the sessions here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YscuGprjIjQbviGSRDT8R4YRes8_sN6g. Image: Tuhfat al-ahrar (Gift of the free) by Jami (d. 1492), calligraphy by Baba Mirak al-Katib al-Tashkandi, probably Uzbekistan, Bukhara, Uzbek period, 1558 (AH 996), ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, Purchase—Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S1986.40 |
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