Art and creativity build identity, self-esteem, purpose, connection and impact. They are an essential tool for improved well-being, mental-health and social change. Through inspiring conversations with artists, scientists and experts, Agathe Westad investigates How and Why art can change our lives. Get moved, inspired and energized. Get ready to look at art, and yourself, differently.
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The path of self discovery and self improvement. A practical approach based on universal principles present in all great traditions, specifically focused on the yoga teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. A spiritual path to realizing your fullest potential in joy, harmony, and wisdom.
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Music & Writing to Express and Process Trauma | John Hopkins researcher and Ellery lead singerTasha Golden.
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Lead singer from the great indie band Ellery, Tasha Golden, is also a scientific researcher at John Hopkins' International Art+ Mind Lab on the subject of Art's impact on Health. Touring the world's stages Tasha encountered many people who'd come to her after shows to share with her previously untold stories of pain and trauma. It stuck with her. W…
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Art at Meta | Meta Open Arts' Josephine Kelliher on art at work for innovation, community and wellness.
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Art and creativity are not what one usually thinks of as core needs in a technology business or larger corporate environments. Well, think again. In a post-pandemic world where employees are less connected and engaged, where competition is fierce, creativity might just become the key differentiator in workplace culture, wellness but also in innovat…
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Look Again, like the FBI | Amy Herman on using art to teach spies, doctors and others to observe, communicate and live better.
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What do the FBI, NYPD, Department of Homeland Security, many US Hospitals, Johnson & Johnson, Planned Parenthood, and a group of nuns have in common? Amy Herman. Amy is a lawyer and art historian turned expert on seeing. For 14 years, she has been providing art-based leadership training to top officers in the United States military, law enforcement…
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Your Brain on Art | UPenn's Anjan Chatterjee on the neuroscience behind artistic experiences
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"It's not obvious how or why art meets a need. We don't eat it, we don't have sex with it. Yet we are drawn to it and we've been making art since the begining of civilization" Today's guest is Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Neurology professor at the University of Pennlysvania. He is a prominent neurologist, former Chief of Neurology at the Pennsylvania Hos…
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Street Symphony | Classical music for the homeless : a story of dignity and human connection.
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✨This is about the healing and humanizing powers of classical music. I spoke with Dustin Seo, a classically trained cellist and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a Los Angeles based non-profit that brings classical music to homeless communities to build connection and human dignity. ❤️ Street Symphony was founded in 2011 by Vijay Gupta, A high…
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Spraying Joy | Street artist Jason Naylor on the role of Positivity on city walls and in daily lives.
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When you see amazing street art, how do you feel? what do you think? what difference does it make to you? I spoke with acclaimed street artist Jason Naylor in his Studio. His works are all over New York City walls, and far beyond: colorful and uplifting designs with a touch of punk. Jason's distinctive touch is an explicit intent to spread messages…
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The Value of Taste | Cultivating your "Aesthetic Intelligence" for business and personal growth.
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What is taste and why does it matter? 👩Columbia Business School professor and former LVMH Chairman Pauline Brown talks to me about the need and value of cultivating "aesthetic intelligence" aka Taste in business and beyond. 💄🟧 This is a small departure for a pure "art form" topic but I thought that the subejct of taste and how it's built, what appe…
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A new way to talk about art | Build empathy and self-knowledge at the museum.
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☝️This episode is for anyone who ever found themselves in a museum thinking “I don’t get this, this has nothing to do with me” . 🟧 I spoke to the amazing Sam Ramos, from the Art Institute of Chicago, who is well known for his unique emotion-driven approach to talking about art. � Sam’s job is Director of Innovation and Creativity. His goal is to th…
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Shakespeare behind Bars | Criminals acting Shakespeare. A poignant tale of humanity and redemption.
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Soul-stirring story alert! 😮 Shakespeare Behind Bars turns high-security prison inmates into Shakespearian actors. Curt L. Tofteland, program founder, tells the story of the power of language and acting to bring out humanity, compassion and redemption. Shakespeare Behind Bars was the subject of a documentary that premiered at Sundance Film Festival…
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Ukraine Illustrated | Ukrainian illustrator Anna Sarvira on the role of art in wartime.
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In wartime, what good is art? In the midst of the brutal Russian invasion destroying Ukraine, Ukrainian Illustrator Anna Sarvira talks about the role of art as a weapon for release, education and resistance. This is a special episode. Like most people I’ve been feeling sad, scared, and angry about the war in Ukraine and the unnecessary loss, destru…
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Ordinary Art ? | Sheri Parks on everyday art as secret weapon to close social, racial and gender gaps
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❓Can art help bridge culture, race and social gaps? 💯 🔊Sheri Parks talks about the pervasiveness and power of "everyday art" specifically in poorer African-Amercian communities, its function as tool for emotional survival, cultural empathy and social change. 👩🏾🎓📃 Sheri Parks is a noted public intellectual and academic currently at the Maryland Ins…
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"Art Heals" | Tim A Shaw on bringing awesome art to mental health units.
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You thought amazing contemporary art belonged to galleries and penthouses? Think again. Tim A Shaw, the founder of UK based charity Hospital Rooms challenges the idea of what and who art is for. Hospital Room commission world-class artists to make extraordinary artworks for mental health units. They turn drab and depressing places into beautiful en…
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"Everyone is a dancer" | Kate Wallich on making dance a universal pain-killer.
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I wanted to talk about dance in a way anyone can relate to. Even if you’ve never thought of yourself as a dancer, in some way you probably are. Who's never moved to the sound of music? Kate Wallich, founder of Dance Church, is a dancer, a choreographer and director and a business woman who’s turned a Sunday dance class into a VC-backed, multi-milli…
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A visualization for planetary peace and harmony
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Guided Meditation Starter 11 min (Darshana)
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A brief guided meditation starter that you can use if you are new to meditation. You can stop when the recording ends or continue in silence for as long as you are comfortable.
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Wk 2 Point Between the Eyebrows Practice 4 min
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Meditation exercise to increase concentration at the point between the eyebrows.
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Life is a school.The constant battle between good and evil in our own minds has a purpose and is intended to help us eventually realize our own divinity. Near death experiences. The spiritual nature and purpose of life. The direct experience of God in prayer and meditation. An important learning experience about prayer and attitude gained through t…
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If you want your prayers to be answered and if you want this relationship. And you want it to be intimate and direct and personal. It is there for you, but God has to be number one. God isn't playing games. It's gotta be number one. You've got to learn to want that and enjoy that more than anything else in my opinion, otherwise it won't come. And s…
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Excerpt from the talk: And what if that relationship between us and everything that there is, what if it’s a choice? What if we really do have free will? And the choice is not about how your life ends up and all that kind of thing, because there’s all this action and reaction that’s happening all over the place that’s outside of our control. Stupid…
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To get the benefits of meditation that we hear about, like being more free of anxiety, being more positive, being more calm, more clear, more focused and also maybe a lot of things having to do with physical health, does not require a lot of depth in meditation. What it requires is a steady practice, doing something like watching the breath every d…
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And so we learn with the things that we love, we learn to accept them with all levels of their realities, whether they feel good or bad or they are harmful or not, right? We start to have a deeper relationship with things when we can accept the whole picture, not just what we want and that relationship can be very freeing because only then do we st…
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Forgiveness is the opposite of weakness. The more we can accept what is, the more energy we will reclaim to become more aware, more free and more wise.Bởi Turiya Moore
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Guided Meditation 24 Min by Turiya Moore
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Recorded at Free Monday Night Guided Meditation and Lecture on July 24, 2017.Bởi Turiya Moore
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If the world wasn’t practically tearing itself apart with ego and materialism and selfishness and greed, nobody would be meditating. The benefit of meditating is way better than anything that this world can offer. I don’t like to use the word all the time, but it comes out of me all the time – you can have a direct relationship with God. That’s rea…
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Most of us have been fooled most of our lives. What we seek will not be found in things or in others. True happiness is not complex, it's simple. Why is it that we put so much energy into things that are not important to achieving our own most cherished goals? When does true happiness happen? Recorded at Free Monday Night Guided Meditation and Lect…
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Whatever your purpose is in life, whatever it is that that you really think is important, I would say don't be fooled! Don't be fooled by other things. If other things get in the way of what you really want to become or be doing with your life, don't be fooled by what everybody says and what everybody does and what seems normal. Just be a complete …
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Life is a school. Life is a playground and a school, it’s the same thing. And it has a purpose and we come here to learn and we come here to learn who we are and eventually we come here to learn it because what drives us is that we want to be happy. And we want freedom, we want to be able to ride the bike as fast as we can and feel like we’re just …
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Science Of Happiness Talk and Meditation
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Yoga science offers two directions for happiness and fulfillment. Both are important and needed to balance each other. Look at a young child, one that hasn’t learnt to mask his feelings yet and when he’s happy and enthusiastic, he has an erect spine and he even wants to jump, right? and then if he’s got something really weighing down on him and he’…
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Meditation and Healing Prayer for Planet 28 min
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A guided meditation with silence that ends with healing visualization for planetary peace and harmony. http://meditationunlimited.com/guided-meditations/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/meditation-unlimited/id1217046512Bởi Turiya Moore
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A short starter for meditation that you can use to get started and allows you to continue in silence as long as you wish.Bởi Turiya Moore
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A 14 minute guided meditation for beginners with Turiya Moore, recorded at Meditation Unlimited in Torrance, CA on May 15, 2017.
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“Good health is more than a state of not being ill. It is a radiant state of inner wellbeing. Physical illnesses may be cured by medicines. No medicine however can induce that state of boundless energy which comes when every cell in the body cooperates with the mind willingly, joyfully in all that it seeks to do. Such radiant wellbeing comes after …
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