Unwind with Singapore Art Museum June/July 2020: Art & Meditation

What a strange time this is for the world, as we all live under some sort of lockdown conditions.

I want to announce a new collaboration with Singapore Art Museum (SAM) in their pursue of combining art and meditation with an offering for the community.

I’ve always enjoyed art and aim to visit a gallery each time I am in a new city to understand how they have curated and honored their local artists through different times. When they approached me to collaborate with them a few different aspects of the project, I told them I was really excited and honored to do so.

Firstly, I think it’s a rather bold and great direction that the museum is taking. SAM is aiming to inculcate not just the benefits of meditation but also a holistic experience towards art and neuroscience that is uniquely Singaporean and uniquely SAM.

The nature of art is aimed towards the contemplation of your mind and how better to enhance this with a formal meditation practice. Over the next 4 weeks I will be teaching Yoga Nidra meditation to help you get into a deeper meditative state. This is combined with the experience of a different SAM collection art piece to anchor in different themes of reflection and visualisation as the weeks progress. The dates are as follows:

Week 1: 17th of June 2020 – Facebook event: https://bit.ly/2UzgJ0d

Week 2: 24th of June 2020 – Facebook event: https://bit.ly/2Uv9PJe

Week 3: 1st of July 2020 – Facebook event: https://bit.ly/2As6sw3

Week 4: 8th of July 2020 – Facebook event: https://bit.ly/30we1fC

This has coincided well with Phase 1 and in preparation towards Phase 2 of reopening in Singapore as we get to further prepare ourselves for more interaction with the world and to get our cognitive and mental function ready with each progressive week. Each meditation session is completely FREE and will last between 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Please come by and enjoy the meditation, bring your yoga mat, your eye pillow and an open mind to the session.

Further on there will online lectures and blog posts that explain how meditation works in your mind, body and how it affects the way we appreciate art. Stay tuned!

With Om,

Russell Chan