I have a house full of self-help books and meditation tapes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The regrets and meditations, however, did not spread as far as Aaron Burr. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This must be one of the trails the monks used for their walking meditations. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Emma’s pensive meditations, as she walked home, were not interrupted; but on entering the parlour, she found those who must rouse her. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I bet if I did, he’d suggest meditation or come out with some Zen koan to counteract it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She understands why Dr. Mann kept suggesting yoga and meditation. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She’s like me; I know that her synapses must be on rapid fire, but my mom’s practiced meditation for years. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Deep in meditation he ran his forefinger between his long, crooked toes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then something else drew her from her meditations about her son and her problems, both of which were really the same thing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would pull down the shades of the room so that there would be only the bright light and the books and the feeling of meditation. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

During this meditation a heavy surge was taking him, in fact, straight on the rocks. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there they sat under the trees, lost in meditation or engaged in spirited talk. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had this meditation track playing, the word om hummed over and over. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The clatter from the forge had roused him from his morning meditation; his robe hung askew over his bony knees. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The kids would sit and meditate just like him, then brag to each other how they would show him their meditation when he got home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote letters to the following persons after meditation this morning. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The audience sat still, many with their eyes downcast, as if in meditation. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It might have looked in hideous meditation from Notre Dame, his contemporary church. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha had already long taken part in the learned men’s conversations, had engaged in debate with Govinda and had practiced the art of contemplation and meditation with him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he did feel it Previously, when in deepest meditation, he was still his father’s son, he was a Brahmin of high standing, a religious man. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were posters of various Hindu gods on the wall, many in states of meditation. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I paused then, in my meditation, to pray that Papa would never find out that Papa-Nnukwu had visited and that I had shared a room with him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rain always recommended meditation for stress and confusion. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The monks couldn't know that Pong's practice of paying attention to mangoes and watching out for the swing of a guard's baton had prepared him to sit in long hours of quiet meditation. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When the customary time for the practice of meditation had passed, Govinda rose. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is. And my mother burns sandalwood incense. She says it’s good for meditation and the spirits like it too.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He travelled the way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind of all images. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad tells me a few more times, between my holiday shifts at Pagoda and his new meditation routine, that he thinks I’m cool. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

As she stood thus, deep in meditation, the captives were led in. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed frozen, looking downward almost in meditation. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We lay silently, wrapped in our individual meditations. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the sky, broke off for a moment to look at us, and then went back to his meditation. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Making that meditation sound with her eyes closed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The words jolted me out of deep meditation. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for her morning meditation sessions, Alex is sure his mom would have throttled an aide by now. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This is meant to be a time of silent meditation for her, but she’s not in the mood for that. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

These included using our breathing, visualization, meditation, and even counting or going over times tables. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pontellier’s mind was quite at rest concerning the present material needs of her children, and she could not see the use of anticipating and making winter night garments the subject of her summer meditations. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a boy I was occupied with the gods and sacrifices, as a youth with asceticism, with thinking and meditation. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dallben interrupted his meditations to be present at the feast; though soon after the festivities, he withdrew to his chamber and was not seen for some time. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The chaplain relished the privacy and isolation of his verdant surroundings and the reverie and meditation that living there fostered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The phrase subtly alludes to another meditation on unrealized genius, “Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,” from Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It has become absolutely impossible for any kind of meditation whatsoever,” he said, with a severe glance at Taran. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It had filled with colleagues and students and meditation teachers and therapists and nurses and a cappella groups. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her Southern nasal accent sliced my meditation and I looked deep into my thoughts. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sisters were assembled for their morning meditation—an hour of silence, followed by singing, followed by a quick sparring session. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was not allowed much time for meditation: a monitor, a great rough girl, presently came up, exclaiming in a strong Cumberland accent— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He walked the meditation paths in the forest until they were worn to rock. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He slipped off his sandals and walked up the steps, then paused, knowing that he shouldn't disturb his teacher in the middle of his meditation. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A room for peace, a room for meditation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would frown at me for reading prayers and meditations when they preferred to gossip. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I knew not why, but even these meditations on my strengths filled me with sensations of exhaustion and discomfort. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Try the sports deck for meditation tomorrow morning before breakfast but do not lose consciousness. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He soon stirred; my eye was instantly drawn to his movements; he only took out a morocco pocket-book, thence produced a letter, which he read in silence, folded it, put it back, relapsed into meditation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter had let it be known when she first arrived that she was a holy woman engaged in meditation and prayer, and under a vow never to speak to a man. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She’s all into meditation and raw vegan food, I suppose as a way to cope with how much she hates cleaning meat out of people’s teeth for a living. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They said it was a period of rest and meditation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, his walks had no destination: To him they were akin to meditation—a chance to think without thinking—and he rambled about even during the bitterly cold winters. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This spectacle of another’s suffering and sacrifice rapt my thoughts from exclusive meditation on my own. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pontellier's mind was quite at rest concerning the present material needs of her children, and she could not see the use of anticipating and making winter night garment’ the subject of her summer meditations. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ayorthaians think before they speak, and often conclude, after lengthy meditation, that nothing need be said. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was falling into meditation on my guardian’s greatness, when Wemmick remarked:— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She’s taciturn, but so am I. Is she waiting for me to start something, reveal myself, or is she a believer, engrossed in inner meditation? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he applied his mind to his early morning meditations. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I were spending a month alone," Hannah said yesterday, "I would start a meditation practice. It's clinically proven to lower blood pressure and boost brain activity. It even helps your immune system." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t your meditation yoga class, Driana, with lattes after on the Upper East Side.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time, she made me do this guided meditation where I had to imagine myself walking in the woods and tell her what I saw. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

These were the hours for rest and meditation. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted to forget about the vision, and return to his meditation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This play is a huge meditation on the ego run wild.” Ethan Hawke Dives into ‘Macbeth’ With Zeal 2013-11-25T13:11:02Z

And here and there, a few luscious, vibrating tufts were visible above the scrum, a reminder that headbanging is meditation, too. Agalloch, on Tour With ‘The Serpent & the Sphere’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Gazing out, lost in gormless meditation, has always been one of my favourite activities and, one particularly fabulous morning, when London just demanded to be stared at, I realised I’d stopped. Switch it off and give yourself a digital break 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Five decades later, Ismaily has become one of music’s most in-demand collaborators, flitting like a mischievous butterfly through genres as diverse as honeyed folk, rambunctious free jazz and spectral meditations sung in Urdu. How Shahzad Ismaily Became Musicians’ Favorite Musician 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Lambert flips between two chief modes of operation on Platinum: smart, strong meditations on women’s lives and problems, and wistful, wise reflection. REVIEW: Miranda Lambert Strikes Gold on Platinum 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

It is a meditation on time, memory, the poignancy of married love and the inexplicable mystery of death — and very scary. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

But in the gorgeously, meticulously orchestrated "Care For Me," with its diary-like meditations on struggle and survival, Saba leads with empathy. Top 10 albums of 2018 in hip hop and R&B 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

First up on the docket is a panel discussion of female reporters covering the Trump White House, then a sound bath meditation. Is ‘The Wing’ too hopelessly Manhattan for the working women of Washington? 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Scottish writer Ali Smith is on the shortlist for the fourth time, this year with “Autumn,” a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive. Two first-time authors make Man Booker Prize shortlist 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

It leads to the oblivion of the “Swimming Pools” full of liquor and a 12-minute meditation on the elusiveness of redemption in “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst.” Album review: Kendrick Lamar, 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' 2012-10-22T04:19:00Z

Power of prayer: Wings of Desire, the meditation on mankind’s loneliness, despair, hope, joy and transcendence. Mayan Apocalypse Film Festival – 21 Films for Our Final 21 Days 2012-11-30T17:20:31Z

With a click of her necklace, Barbie uses lights and sounds to guide kids through five meditation practices. The ultimate holiday gift guide for 2020

Mr. McIntyre’s work, a muscular meditation on the lives of Basque immigrants, stood out in the four-hour marathon of mostly traditional performance. Boise and Trey McIntyre Project in a Deep Passion 2010-08-13T19:05:00Z

Still, Ms. Beiser’s performance was riveting and thoroughly wedded to the idiom, just as her earlier rock-outs and reverential meditations had been. Review: Maya Beiser Offers a Concert of Both Rock and Reverence 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

The Sea Inside – equal parts memoir, travelogue and nature meditation – is perhaps Hoare's most lyrical book. Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z

The result is a visually unremarkable yet unfailingly generous meditation on commerce versus art, on the tug of television versus the thrill of a live audience. Review: In Henry Jaglom’s ‘Ovation,’ the Action Is Backstage 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

What Genesis is offering is a profound meditation on the ancient Israelites' knowledge of their own guilt and culpability, combined with their profound trust in God. The Book of Genesis, part 7: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 2011-01-24T10:00:04Z

The first thing I do after I wake up is a morning meditation. N.F.L. Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez Is Serious About His Beauty Sleep 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

Carrió often created the images late in the day, treating each “like a meditation exercise.” T Magazine: Seizing the Day 2013-04-18T19:14:51Z

And a dance meditation that’s also a contender for best documentary. The Carpetbagger: ?A Separation? and ?In Darkness? on Oscar Foreign Shortlist 2012-01-19T00:00:11Z

Though new age artists have released music for meditation on cassette and CD for decades, now tech companies have become happy to financially support musical experimentation that meshes with their own goals. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

“No-one grew up being told that meditation was super bad for you. Everyone grew up hearing fasting was dangerous and super-difficult.” The Silicon Valley execs who don't eat for days: 'It's not dieting, it's biohacking' 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a strange gesture: The essay purports to be about aesthetics and racial justice in writing, only to mutate into a meditation on charity. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Surviving a marriage requires self-care, time alone, time away, meditation, escape, selfishness. Marriage Requires Amnesia 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

This meditation is centered loosely on two young philosophy students, a man and a woman, and a mysterious teacher, Mr. Davidson, who also seems to be a sort of secret agent. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

The sunlit meditation hall at the Shambhala Center in downtown Manhattan is usually reserved for serious Buddhist practice — austere contemplation, the silent cultivation of wisdom, deliberate reflection on the world’s fundamental impermanence. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Interspersed among these are photographs of Ms. Smith’s handwritten “covid manifestoes,” terse meditations on current political and social circumstances. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Lee consults health experts and spiritual leaders, practices meditation, studies Buddhism and tries positive affirmations. Review: Om is where the heart is 2013-01-24T19:09:08Z

"The experience of posing seems somewhere between transcendental meditation and a visit to the barber's." A sitter's experience with painter Lucian Freud throws open the whole world of portraiture 2010-12-22T22:06:08Z

At heart, “Last Days in the Desert” is a meditation on patrilineal authority, with two sets of fathers and sons. Review: In ‘Last Days in the Desert,’ Ewan McGregor Is a Conflicted Jesus 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

“They help focus me very quickly, almost like a meditation. It especially helps if you’re working on a couple of things.” From House Of Cards to Moonlight, why Mahershala Ali is having a moment 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

“It’s like an instant drop-in,” she said, and also “allows you to extend your breath even longer than regular meditation breath.” Improve Your Bedtime Routine With These Five Luxurious Tips 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

A clear highlight was “Amelia,” a plangent, airy meditation on freedom and flight. Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

Participants surrender all their devices and are taught yoga, meditation and healthy cooking. Teaching People to Live Without Digital Devices 2012-12-15T00:01:50Z

James Brown: a meditation on irrepressible self-confidence, long starved by years of deprivation and insult in Jim Crow South Carolina. How Chadwick Boseman Embodies Black Male Dignity 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Ullmann’s previous novel, “The Cold Song,” used similar techniques to turn a crime story into a meditation on cause, effect and responsibility. Exploring the Personal Legacy of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Jennifer Senior called McKenzie’s latest novel “a screwball comedy with a dash of mental illness; a conventional tale of family pathos; a sendup of Big Pharma; a meditation on consumption, marriage, the nature of work.” Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

A meditation on Galician mythology accompanies the lush landscapes. ‘Red Moon Tide’ Review: A Village Paralyzed in Grief 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

I started doing a movement meditation practice after that, and that’s led to a little bit of club dancing in the last couple of years. Pros, Sure. But Reborn as Party Animals on the Dance Floor. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Exercise options include group classes like Zumba, cycling and boot camp; yoga and meditation provide relaxation. New Year’s Day Offers Plenty of Free Chances at a Clean Slate 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The combination of different elements gives “America Pastime” greater heft, making it a compelling meditation on how people relate both to each other and to our physical world. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

But "Blue Spotted Tail," a meditation on death and eternity as the singer stares into the night sky, best captured the Foxes' unique mix of fatalism and wonder. Fleet Foxes enchant an ecstatic Moore Theatre crowd 2011-05-03T18:38:06Z

When Mr. Young began the book, he imagined a “slim meditation on the idea of what a hoax is.” In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

But as a haphazard assemblage of skits, vignettes, monologues, metafiction and a meditation experienced while sprawled across brightly colored and awesomely comfortable pool floats, it struggles under the weight of its own ambitions. Review: ‘(Not) Water’ Offers Too Much to Drink In 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Because you make music, and you play it, and there's the music meditation where we're all in this wonderful place together, like a symbiosis and connectivity . "I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles": Amanda Shires on her new album and owning her strength 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

So how does each Dixon Place audience alter “Quantum Joy,” Victor Morales’s cheerful and unfocused meditation on the unreliable nature of reality? Review: In ‘Quantum Joy,’ Observing the Unreliable Nature of Reality 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Harvey’s mysterious 14-minute work is like an aural depiction of breathing and meditation. Review: Susanna Malkki Makes an Immediate Impression 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

When it’s time for airplane mode and she can’t distract herself with conversation, the tour manager uses the flight meditations on the Headspace app. Fear of flying? Here are 8 ways to overcome it 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

And in the fifth movement, Stutzmann was fractionally less inspired when breaking the Ten Commandments than in her earlier meditation on Nietzsche. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle ? review 2011-02-24T08:53:46Z

The property enjoys stunning views of the Pacific ocean, with outdoor areas for sitting, meditation and yoga. Celebrity rehab 2010-04-30T11:54:00Z

A reader of the letters sees him variously seeking comfort from meditation, a “healer” and psychoanalysis, but he sustained himself chiefly with his own tough, self-accepting integrity. In James Merrill’s Letters, a Workshop and a Stage for the Poet’s Wit 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Some stories that emerged in rehearsal were too raw to put onstage, so “Winterreise” became a kind of meditation on exile and arrival, built around a journey more than around a plot. Turning Traumatic Arrivals Into Art: Exiles Form a Theater Troupe 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

This is poetry rooted in actual rituals involving nature, crystals, meditation and interactions with strangers. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Rendered in a style that injects an unexpected element of abstraction into slick, Pop-flavored photorealism, the pictures use food and commercial packaging as a springboard into deeper meditations on desire, temptation, and memory. Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager's large-scale paintings are on view in Los Angeles 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

It is the depth and truthfulness of his meditation on the way we translate experience, even as it happens, into embers of memory. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

At the restaurant, though, Mr. Cooper was centered, neutral, calm — and not just because he was experimenting, as many of his peers are these days, with meditation. Bradley Cooper Gets Ready for ‘The Elephant Man’ on Broadway 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

“It evolves into a meditation on the war on terror, the European refugee crisis, and corruption in the developing world without ever releasing its tight focus on Dadaab.” The 10 most important books of 2016 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

And Denise Riley was awarded the prize for best single poem for A Part Song, a meditation on the loss of her son in 2008. Poet Graham wins Forward Prize 2012-10-01T22:33:08Z

She emphasized that the event, which begins at 11 a.m. on Friday and will run through the night, is not “anti-anything” and will include poetry readings, a drumming circle, meditation, dancing and more. What to Do Instead of Watching Trump’s Inauguration 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

“On the Black Hill,” only about 250 pages, will nonetheless, he insists, be “a sustained meditation on the concept of Cyclical, as opposed to Linear, Time.” The Wanderer 2011-02-25T17:39:26Z

"It may push me into doing some meditation, which is probably very good for me, so it changed my life in a very positive way." Audience in tears at Abramovic show 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

A meditation on the northern lights detours into musings on Proust and Pascal. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Through meditation, which he still does every day, “something opened up in me.” Josh Radnor Is ‘Existentially Restless.’ And That’s O.K. 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Even “Cow,” Andrea Arnold’s austere and upsetting documentary about the life of a British dairy cow, is, in large part, a meditation on motherhood. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

As Leon’s life tunnels toward its inevitable conclusion, “The Distance Home” becomes a meditation on the violence of American ambition — and a powerful call for self-examination. If the Bleak South Dakota Plains Don’t Break Them, Their Family Just Might 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

And, now that Young mentions it, the meditation retreats I’ve done do seem, in memory, far longer than a few days each. Want to live twice as long? Meditation might help | Oliver Burkeman 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

But with this new play, a sweet and satiric meditation on the beautiful folly of idealism, he establishes himself as a writer and artist of serious consequence. | 'The Walk Across America for Mother Earth': Protesters Armed With Wigs and Sequins 2011-01-21T03:01:21Z

And I found myself thinking of the delightful fragmented meditations of Ms. Ruhl’s book “100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write.” Review: Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

She set aside the novel and wrote “Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions,” a meditation on the children’s stories and the circumstances that brought them to the United States. Valeria Luiselli, At Home in Two Worlds 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

And, inspired by the contemplative quality of Turrell, her team has invited monks from a nearby Zen Buddhist monastery to host their weekly meditations for the community on site. Catskill Art Space Opens With James Turrell and a Lofty Vision 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Duncan's poem quickly moves from Pindar to other artists and writers, and is, in part at least, a meditation on art and its role in our attention to the world, to history and to love. Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z

Vision in a Cornfield is a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit that brings these perspectives together in a quirky meditation on the spiritual aspect of abandoned automobiles within a contemporary framework. New Exhibition: Vision in a Cornfield at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit 2012-09-07T18:01:50Z

Ashbery’s writing has always been suffused with nostalgia for the world of his childhood, meditations on the experience of growing up and moments of disguised autobiography. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

But that show, which the Pulitzers called “a meditation on universal human fears and insecurities,” is not headed directly to Broadway. Black Plays Are Knocking on Broadway’s Door. Will It Open? 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

The band found deep drone meditations in slower songs, and fury in its fast ones. Review: Pearl Jam’s Full-Throttle Marathon at Madison Square Garden 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Sony Music said it would expand its mental health support for employees, including grief counseling and a group meditation session this week, as well as promising to match employee donations to social justice organizations. #BlackoutTuesday: A Music Industry Protest Becomes a Social Media Moment 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

A lively meditation on mortality and time, “The Last Match” takes place in the minds of two players during a hard-fought United States Open semifinal. They Can Act. But Can They Serve? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

While living at the farm she began practicing meditation, she said, "trying to breathe and not get caught up in the need to just fulfill my yearning and move on." Kimbra feels life reverberate in 'The Golden Echo' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

More companies are offering sabbaticals; free plane tickets for vacations; meditation rooms; exercise or therapy breaks; paid time off to volunteer; and extended paid family leave. Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

I still climb and ski and surf and run for my personal well-being and meditation. "Free Solo" filmmakers recreated Thai soccer team cave rescue: "A massive and chaotic operation" 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Hatoum meant the work as a meditation on urban architecture and the surveillance methods used to police it, themes that began to preoccupy her after she moved to London in 1975 from Lebanon. Mona Hatoum and the 6ft cheese-grater 2010-12-12T21:46:00Z

The Doctors Dangers of hair dye; an implant for chronic back pain; meditation; prolonging life. Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Dwight Howard: In the Moment' on Epix 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Having a degree of focus whilst being in a state — it’s a form of meditation. All Seal Needs Is Love 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

In Anna Ziegler’s play, a meditation on mortality, an all-American on the verge of retirement and a younger Russian challenger face each other across a U.S. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Her 2008 memoir is a sly and lucid meditation on what her passions and priorities were as she was pushing 90. Critics' Picks: Diana Athill's memoir; 'Fire it Up'; 'New Voices 13' 2012-08-08T23:23:04Z

The project is unabashedly about stuff, but it is also a meditation on bigger themes. At the Dumbo Arts Festival, a Dumpster Full of Memories 2011-09-22T21:31:36Z

Scent is deep in the meditation practice as well. Alicia Keys Figures Out Her Skin 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Shara Worden, lead singer of My Brightest Diamond, is the vocalist, recorded in a close perspective, while the other work on the disc, Depart, offers a very different kind meditation on death. Lang: Death Speaks; Depart – review 2013-06-06T20:15:02Z

Read up on mindfulness and meditation, and start and end each day with a deliberate choice to list three things she is grateful for and spend time quietly thinking about each one. Perspective | Ask Amy: Four-year obsession with politics gives wife negative outlook 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Until then, this “extended meditation” on a scene from “King Lear” is punctuated by an occasional quip or concept that keeps it watchable, despite other gratuitous episodes that arise. | 'Storm Still': ?King Lear? Inspires a Riff on the Endurance of Time 2011-02-27T23:00:47Z

Let’s call this a meditation on a select few notable dance experiences, for it’s far from a comprehensive overview of all the creativity going on in this pandemic year. Perspective | Best of dance 2021: Paul Taylor live at the Kennedy Center, Ashwini Ramaswamy and Jacob Jonas’s short films 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Then she writes an account of her visit to the same town, the history and background of the place and a meditation on how Hugo's poetry reflected it — or didn't. A road-tripping re-examination of the poems of Richard Hugo 2010-06-04T20:01:00Z

The elementary tasks the artist details for gallery-goers are meant to encourage “positive envisioning, meditation and non-religious prayer,” according to a gallery note. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores how castoff materials can be a venue to enlightenment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

It may, as its etymology suggests, become a place of meditation and reflection. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

So if “Media vita” was written near the end of Sheppard’s life — as it may well have been — this profound meditation in the face of death might be the pandemic piece par excellence. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Constructed as a series of short stories, Delusion is in part a meditation on the art of storytelling, and the way humans use language to create the world around them. Delusion 2010-04-15T21:40:00Z

More recent research, according to her, tends to deal with “the teaching of mindfulness, meditation and other techniques that help people in work settings to calm down their minds and refocus their attention.” Can Wellness Heal the Workplace? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

“Parsifal” is Wagner’s metaphysical meditation on the knights of the Holy Grail, the goblet supposedly used at the Last Supper and which later caught Jesus’s blood on the cross. Watch the Met Opera Stage a Sea of Blood 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

A gong sounds softly and a session of sitting meditation begins. Mindfulness therapy comes at a high price for some, say experts 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

The first five episodes of “Baskets” are, satisfyingly, a combination of all of those moods—pathetic, absurd, jerk-comedy with weirdly compelling meditation on the fundamental nature of being a comedian. Zach Galifianakis’ sad-clown comedy “Baskets” isn’t funny — but its oddball charm works in mysterious ways 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Observations” begins with short addresses to animals—“To an Intramural Rat,” “To a Chameleon”—and builds to complex, allusive meditations on art and the natural world, such as “A Grave” and “Marriage.” The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

These appear to be profiles but are actually guided meditations on hero worship in countries where hope comes only in the form of leaders-turned-demigods. New & Noteworthy, From Seth Rogen to an Elephant in Belfast 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

They form striking meditations on dignified, hardscrabble perseverance, a bit like updates on Arshile Gorky’s well-known painting, “The Artist and His Mother.” Art in Review: DEFINITIONS: Shalva Alkhanaidze, Natela Grigalashvili, Guram Tsibakhashvili 2011-09-29T21:51:41Z

In another sense, they remind of us of the strange status of fiction, which is, of course, merely a notation, a variation and a meditation dependent upon and continuous from facts. Nostalgia by Jonathan Buckley – review 2013-03-15T18:34:01Z

This book is less a scholarly study of Nietzsche than a meditation on the relation between hiking and philosophy. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

But Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties," a meditation on time and family, leaves a lasting impression. Who will win at the Tony Awards? AP predicts 2013-06-07T13:04:09Z

A rendition of the constellation-referencing song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” becomes a stirring meditation on history, holiday and hope. Review | ‘A Civil War Christmas’ at 1st Stage is overstuffed, feel-good holiday fare 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

It prompts a meditation on what it means to be wealthy. For $805 a night at the Trump Hotel, you deserve what you get 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

It seems more dedicated to machination than to meditation, more focused on struggle than on serenity. Spare Times for Children for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

This Bay Area company, formed in 1971 — the name stands for Oberlin Dance Collective, in recognition of its early roots at Oberlin College in Ohio — presents a meditation on performance and decay. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Being a man of many languages, Mr. Brook considered other names for his latest piece, a meditation on the life of the experimental Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold and on the raison d’être of theater itself. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

I am also currently leafing through a stack of meditation books that I bought at a meditation studio I like. Krysten Ritter: By the Book 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

She also sees them as meditations on identity: "How do you see yourself, how do you inhabit who you are — that's always an ongoing question, probably for anybody, but for women in particular." Seattle choreographer Pat Graney revamps her 'Faith Triptych' at On the Boards 2010-10-13T23:22:00Z

“Who doesn’t need a hug before another pandemic winter?” she said, as she waited for the sound bath and meditation to begin. Can Parties Help Us Heal? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

While raising her kids in the 1980s, she suffered from “persistent emotional pain” and tried everything to treat it: decades of psychotherapy, yoga, meditation, neurofeedback, self-help workshops. Welcome to the trip of your life: the rise of underground LSD guides 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Yet these aren’t all the essential elements of “Disclaimer” — a lesson, a confession, a political meditation, a toy theater show and a murder mystery created by Tara Ahmadinejad, who also plays Nargis. Songs of Separation, and Lessons in Persian Cooking 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Political humor, always a strong suit of Siguenza's, is mixed in with Shakespearean rants, including Falstaff's famous meditation on the nature of honor. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The world premiere of “Dreaming of Rob Ford,” Mr. Daisey’s meditation on the exploits of Toronto’s mayor, will open the festival, which runs from May 21 to June 1. ArtsBeat: Mike Daisey Will Present ‘Dreaming of Rob Ford’ Onstage in Toronto Festival 2014-04-11T17:25:00Z

Moments after a guru prayed for “new ideas,” a meditation chime tinkled and a flicker of a smile broke through Don’s trance. Shifting From ‘Mad Men’ to Strong Women in a Series Finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

His works are meditations on community and change, demolition and construction. Review: Painter chases Seattle's buildup, tearing down 2010-05-20T21:13:00Z

As we were leaving, Partington mentioned a book which had helped her – Eva Hoffman's meditation on the aftermath of the Holocaust, After Such Knowledge. Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z

Vanhoenacker has written a chronicle of his aviation career, and an elegant meditation on how flying can lift the soul. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mountain People With a Bad Reputation A nagging junior high memory prompts a perilous trek to the back of beyond in “Ikland,” Cevin Soling and David Hilbert’s offbeat meditation on human nature and academic hubris. Movie Review: ‘Ikland’ Documents a Visit to a Vilified Tribe 2012-06-14T23:54:20Z

"Straw Dogs" is an artful provocation — a meditation on masculinity and societal mores in the guise of an explosive thriller. 'Straw Dogs': Remake crackles with tension 2011-09-15T19:20:10Z

Do we need another Brontë bio, given the dozen or so captivating meditations that have followed Elizabeth Gaskell’s brilliant and gossipy pioneer study, published in 1857 ? Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Before I knew it, I was writing a fictional meditation on beauty—a disapproval of it, but also a celebration of it. The Looks You’re Born With and the Looks You’re Given 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Nauman is represented here by his work Days, a meditation on time, comparable with the works of composer Steve Reich. Cy Twombly's late works alongside Turner and Monet – the week in art 2012-06-15T11:47:02Z

The meditation teacher — a queer, H.I.V.-positive survivor of now two cruel pandemics — is alive and grateful for each breath. Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Blood drawn, I made my way home, and the following morning tried my hand at devotional reading and meditation. 'I was weak, despairing, confused': did writing a novel make me ill? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

I was hoping through different anecdotes and historical accounts and philosophical meditations, that people would have an idea of, at least my experience about race. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

I know that I've read a good amount about you outside of food, about how important meditation is for you both professionally in the kitchen as well as personally or in leisure time. "I am an artisan": Chef Eric Ripert on meditation, demystifying seafood and his next chapters 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

This backstory certainly isn't obvious from listening to Neil Young's song, which is a loose, weary meditation on searching for meaning in life and the self. Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Wall Street Journal peeks inside three houses with yoga and meditation rooms. Links We Love - What We’re Reading This Week - August 14, 2015 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The Telegraph described Marsh's Don No Harm as "an elegant series of meditations at the closing of a long career". Brain surgery book up for Costa prize 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

The work is a meditation on grace, and what constitutes grace, and the grace of acknowledging tragedy. Review | Talking to myself: Two ways of looking at Carrie Mae Weems’s new work 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

It is a fascinating meditation on art and the creative process. Willem Dafoe on painting Van Gogh’s shoes: “It’s his attempt to paint the soul of something” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

“Life of the Party” is also a meditation on Gatwood’s obsession with the true crime genre and her long-running fear of male violence. Olivia Gatwood, a Poet With a YouTube Following, Branches Out 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

She’s also helped produce a wide range of experimental work unlike anything else being presented in Seattle — for instance, a site-specific meditation on schizophrenia and homelessness that Ezra Dickinson staged at Seattle’s Greyhound bus station. Tonya Lockyer: ‘powerhouse personality’ turns Velocity around 2013-07-04T11:51:19Z

And it’s unconventional, too: a preface and a set of five interrelated meditations on memory, history, books, beloved objects, and the process of the evolution of a human being over a series of decades. A rich portrait of Penelope Lively’s long and eventful life 2014-02-05T22:02:42Z

In the long, late-night “Josephine Baker: A Portrait,” Bullock sang the famous African American’s Parisian show tunes as dark meditations and protest songs. Worlds meet and worlds beyond at Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Liv is so cynical and such a city person, and her doctor tells her when she's pregnant that she seems stressed out, maybe she could try a meditation app? "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

The private meditation sometimes bordered on the hermetic. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z

I've practiced yoga and meditation for years in the past, but it hasn't improved this habit. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Retirement brings time enough at last, but not relaxation 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

A meditation on immortality, it turned out to be a real clunker. Abroad: The Arts Become Monaco?s Newest Luxury Goods 2010-10-13T14:32:00Z

The intimate piece, “a group meditation on masculinity, insecurity and longing,” reveals the magnetic pull between the disaffected and those who claim to know what they want. Gibney Dance’s DoublePlus Series Opens 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Some people are very drawn to meditation, but no tool fits every hand, and I don't find it to be a useful tool. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Now that's gone, of course... but there's a certain kind of… it's like going into a trance almost, or I should say a 'meditation' of some kind. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z

They share meditations prompted by a single word, such as joy, with passing realizations like “it’s harder to feel unapologetic joy as you experience life.” Classical Music Podcasts Begin to Flourish, at Last 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Ridloff, though, had an epiphany while jogging, a hobby she considers a form of meditation. Lauren Ridloff on playing the MCU’s first deaf superhero 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

When I tell people about my inertia aversion, they always say the same thing: “Have you tried meditation?” ‘No tricks. No mantras. I just want to learn how to do nothing’: my quest to stay still 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

He has just finished writing a book on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who mentored the Beatles and introduced the West to transcendental meditation. Marijuana and Yoga Pairing Up in Classes 2012-12-05T17:57:21Z

Again, he includes meditation, and “OM” features seated women on the already crowded stage. Savion Glover Dances in ‘OM’ at the Joyce Theater 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Eyongakpa sees his installation as a healing space, Huberman said, intersecting with the body’s natural vibrations in the manner of sound baths or singing bowl meditations. ‘Drum Listens to Heart’: Images, Words and Sculptures, Bound by a Beat 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

I give in to the chaos more readily, which is a revelation, and certainly more effective at thrusting me into the moment than any amount of meditation and mindfulness. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

Lyrically, the songs are mature meditations about marital strife that skirt maudlin clichés. The Lone Bellow Releases a New Album 2013-01-21T22:28:54Z

After years of meditation with the masters in India, he has produced nine albums in eight years. Music Match: If You Like Ravi Shankar, Listen to Harry Manx 2012-12-18T20:47:07Z

Produced by Beth Morrison Projects and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, “Place” is billed as a meditation on gentrification and wider issues of privilege and inequality. Review: In ‘Place,’ a Composer Questions His Comfort, and Power 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

That text concerns a man’s meditation on illness; this dance explores group dynamics of love and loss. Dance Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

A: My parents became Quakers so I was introduced to that meditation, the belief that human beings come before flags and nation-states, and nonviolence was my foundation. Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she’s cool 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

He lived alone in a house in the woods in Lagunitas, Calif., and he had a wide range of interests that included Plato, bluegrass music, the New Testament and Vipassana meditation. The Writer Anne Lamott Gets to the Happily-Ever-After Part 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

“We wanted to bring people in and out of a space of meditation,” Skye said. Music, Science and Healing Intersect in an A.I. Opera 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

After the death of a friend, Mr. Levit created an album-length meditation on how music continues beyond itself, through transcriptions, recreations, variations. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

This is where the novel elevates, becoming more than just a story but rather a meditation on everything the narrative provokes. Haruki Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki' paints haunting picture 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

But with those I am always without fail asleep before the end of the meditation and. Laura Donnelly’s Week: ‘Dora the Explorer’ and a Poetry Prescription 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

For him art-making seems to have been a form of existential busywork, part child’s play, part labor, part meditation. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

We’d do 40 minutes of exercise and meditation to a mix of new age flute music and Michael Jackson. Experience: my yoga class turned out to be a cult 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The film is really a meditation on failure. Actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, on his love letter to Texas 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

But I decided that sharing a tent with a stranger wasn’t the best way to start a meditation retreat. On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Apparently, his mouth fell open, his tongue dropped out and the grieving family retreated to the hospital’s meditation room – only to be called back a little later to find Morrie alive and joking. The 100-year-old couple – still married, still going strong 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

A walk along the beach also reveals numerous signs for yoga and meditation retreats. Isla Holbox, a Mexican island that retains its distinct small-town vibe 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a dystopian meditation on time, space travel and a willful computer ruled the box office in 1968. The hard-charging space program: Breakthroughs, breakups and breakneck 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Watch for deeply-researched philosophical histories, biographies that bring well-known stories to light and meditations on art and new ways to live. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Samson said Kermode was best known for his influential book, "The Sense of an Ending" - a witty meditation on the relationship between fiction and crisis. Literary critic Frank Kermode dies in England 2010-08-18T19:23:00Z

The result is a hypnotic meditation on the basics of composition, proportion and tone. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Amid the potentially bewildering tangle of emotional tides and intellectual meditations that flow through the quick succession of scenes, the audience must keep in mind the three primary story lines that tie the piece together. Another Nick Payne mind-bender: A wonder-filled West Coast premiere of 'Incognito' 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

“Let’s meet at the ‘V,’ ” dogwalkers say—the place of meditations, workouts, weddings. Will Los Angeles Lose a Beloved Piece of Public Art? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Iyengar created his own brand of yoga, called Iyengar yoga, and established studios in 72 countries where yoga practitioners are taught ways to improve breathing, concentration and meditation. Obituary: B.K.S. Iyengar, 95; was known worldwide as creator of Iyengar yoga

Before the pandemic, she integrated daily deep visualization and shamanic meditation. The Megan Fox renaissance is here. It’s long overdue. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

With its lower legs missing, the body assumes a kind of meditation pose. ‘Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

His celebrity patrons, including his close friend Oprah Winfrey, often request spaces for silence and reflection, including craft corners, reading nooks, and yoga, prayer and meditation rooms. Craft corners, yoga rooms and more: How the self-care craze has seeped into home design 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Yet this slight volume of meditations on love and loss is always eloquent, by turn poetic, philosophical and autobiographical. Mohamed El Bachiri: ‘Terrorists killed my wife: this is my jihad for love’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

“Before, we were frowned upon if we went to the gym every day or practiced yoga and meditation.” Where a votre sante meets namaste: Wellness culture comes to Paris 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Studies have shown that meditation can help children feel calmer and learn more effectively, and the bite-size bedtime stories of “Peace Out” are a gentle place to begin. 7 Podcasts for Stir-Crazy Kids 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

But it is a meditation on whether magic cake can be eaten happily or whether it would go stale when exposed to the bitter air of a more realistic treatment. Lev Grossman's 'The Magician's Land' closes the book 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

His meditations about Facebook’s impact on advertising and the broader media landscape are similarly glancing and predictable. Books of The Times: ?The Facebook Effect? by David Kirkpatrick 2010-06-07T22:33:00Z

But in my experience, masters of meditation and miracles are not so easy to be around. | Personal Journeys: A Cross-Country Drive With a Guru 2012-05-20T05:44:06Z

But a bigger influence on the course than meditation itself are the ideas behind it – primarily that as you develop your ability to be more present, you expand your capacity to love. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

But where is a savage indictment of hypocrisy and forced social convention, Deloume Road is a more delicate meditation on the cyclical nature of history, and the strength of communities. Debut fiction 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

So now she seems to be approaching her singing as if it were some kind of meditation. Review | Enter the ordinary, everyday acid-visions of Kacey Musgraves 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

"It was great to be in rooms without people, like a meditation of sorts," she says. Annie Leibovitz: 'Creativity is like a big baby that needs to be nourished' 2012-06-02T23:05:39Z

It is a searing inquiry into loss and a melancholy meditation on mortality and time. Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z

But even with the strict diet and the meditation, Mr. Djokovic is far from nirvana. Novak Djokovic Is No. 1, Like It or Not 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

It suffuses “Skyfaring”, which is less a memoir than an enthusiast’s meditation on the life of a pilot. Starry, starry night 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

If the film at times seems only a tender profile of a quiet and quirky individual, it is also a meditation of a private life at its end. Movie Review: ‘In No Great Hurry,’ a Documentary About Saul Leiter 2014-01-02T22:50:41Z

Miss Grit’s self-produced second EP, “Impostor,” is a confident and searching meditation on that psychological scourge Impostor Syndrome and her outsider status as a Korean-American growing up in the Midwest. Cardi B’s Gleefully Relentless ‘Up,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

These a cappella meditations, interweaving plainchant and polyphony, sober canon and rhythmic surprise, take the listener as near extraterrestrial as you can get sitting in a concert hall. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z

Eventually, one man leads the audience in a guided meditation, asking us to focus on our breath. Review: Rom-Com as Ritual in ‘The Art of Luv (Part 5)’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

“Relax and be alert; maintain a continuous practice of being mindful even when you aren’t in the meditation hall; and slow down,” he said. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Jonas Wood contributes meditations on shades of orange in jaunty arrangements of triangles that evoke Christmas trees. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

Since then, Sad Girls Club meet-ups have taken the form of a poetry slam, an art therapy project and now a meditation session. The club helping women of color finally talk about depression 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

He tried meditation and psychotherapy and “visualization” therapy and hypnotism, but nothing restored him to who he had been just two years before. Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z

Mr. Gilbert drew a suave, finely concentrated sound from the orchestra both here and in the introspective “Métaboles,” a meditation on a simple idea seen from changing perspectives. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Honors Dutilleux at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-27T20:50:47Z

The meditation here is on a collective’s ethical choices and the ways a group can be enlisted as a force for evil. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Commercial tanks have cropped up all over the country, promising an easier path to meditation and a new experience for people looking for another way to inner peace. Suffer from anxiety? Try a sensory deprivation tank 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, meditation is no longer the order of the day. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z

Jazz is the owner’s meditation, and it becomes ours. 'My best travel discovery of 2016' 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

But a lengthy meditation by a famous person on their own public image is only interesting if that public figure is doing real reflection. Review: Netflix's' Chelsea Does' is a Narcissistic New Low 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

The lush 25-acre property acts like a destination spa with packages that address weight loss, fitness and meditation, and daily activities such as cooking or sculpture classes. DiCaprio Just the Latest Celebrity to Join the Hotel Business 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

The opera then ends with a long choral meditation, with singers spread throughout the auditorium, conducted by McCorkle from the stage. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

Instead, it’s a kind of meditation on how an image can root itself in one American family. A 50-year-old mystery: Who’s that wading in the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

These 50-plus pieces include meditations on culture and politics, a reflection on the success of Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and appreciations for fellow writers such as Lucy Maud Montgomery and Alice Munro. Newly Published, From a Nixon Insider to Margaret Atwood 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

In this etching the figure of Fame slouches beneath a weed-strewn bust, in an unusually ambivalent meditation on artistic celebrity. Art in Review: GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE 2012-06-28T19:45:37Z

The HBO series that began as a sendup of elementary school pickup line drama and turned into a thoughtful meditation on domestic abuse featured an enviable lineup of Hollywood stars. Everything You Need to Know About the 2017 Emmy Awards 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

"The womb is sterile," Eula Biss observes toward the end of "On Immunity: An Inoculation," her meditation on the risks and rewards of vaccination, "and so birth is the original inoculation." Eula Biss' 'On Immunity' is a beautiful shot of insight 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

For the remainder of the ritual, mystical meditations were regularly punctured by zingers. Croissants with Cthulhu 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

He explained that of all the meditations he’s tried in his life, tea was “trying to accomplish the least.” The Topanga Tea Ceremony 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

In fact, this show is an insightful meditation on the roiling significance of red, whose many associations include blood, passion, love, courage, joy, anger, violence. Louise Bourgeois, Celebrated Sculptor, Unsung Painter 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

I crashed until nearly lunchtime, missing breakfast and my early morning meditation. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

For high and persistent anxiety, Dr. Danovitch recommended relaxation exercises, breathing practices and meditation. How to cope with COVID-19 anxiety two years after monumental lockdown 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

So begins Tennyson’s haunting poem “Tithonus,” a meditation on death as part of the natural order of things. Review | The surprising comfort of a new book about death 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Kid has arrived in Bellona intent on becoming a poet; her words may be prophetic, or perhaps just scrambled meditations in a city equally scrambled by madness, lust and violence. 'Bellona, Destroyer of Cities': The Feral Dwellers of ?Dhalgren? at the Kitchen 2010-04-06T21:23:00Z

Indeed, brain imaging studies of Buddhists who use meditation exercises to contemplate compassion on a daily basis show increased activation of the amygdala and other parts of the brain's empathy circuit. Barack Obama and the 'empathy deficit' 2013-01-04T16:30:11Z

Those in Washington are invited to a group meditation beginning at 10 a.m. on the steps of the National Archives Building. What to Do Instead of Watching Trump’s Inauguration 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

“City Noir” is a symphonic meditation on what he calls “the dark, eerie chiaroscuro” of Hollywood noir films and the anxious energy of postwar Los Angeles. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

"Freedom is a scary thing – not many people really want it," muses Laurie Anderson in her beautiful meditation on the Statue of Liberty. Readers recommend: songs about works of art – results 2013-02-01T09:56:00Z

But the creators imparted an imaginative, even mythic dimension to their characters’ meditations. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

They started with a lengthy song of meditation, making use of sounds rather than words, which developed into an extraordinary, trance-like and soulful scat work-out. Darbar festival 2010-04-07T21:00:00Z

KB: It’s crazy to me that meditation is viewed as hokey. For Arianna Huffington and Kobe Bryant: First, Success. Then Sleep. 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Patients wake up at 6:30 a.m. and begin the day with meditation. Where’s Harvey? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Like the three earlier books in this series, this novel is a meditation on human decency and the capacity for redemption. 15 Books to Watch For in September 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

As Malik expands his range, the movie does too, eventually becoming a brilliant meditation on human possibility, its best and worst. The Oscars: Movies Worth Another Look 2011-01-01T01:32:00Z

The title of this week's poem, "The Shortness of Life", reminds us that Quarles was concerned to work themes suitable for religious meditation into his poetry. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z

Half of the group was asked to perform a breathing-focused meditation. Study shows how mindfulness could make some people more selfish 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Victoria places rose oil in each person’s hand to be brought into the sea as a gift, followed by an active meditation focusing on the healing force of the ocean. Hot tubs, saunas and seaweed soaks on Ireland’s west coast 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

In the same vein, film critics tell us that this film represents "an excellent post-modern meditation on animal rights and human complicity in the continuing fulfilment/failure of same". Rise of the Planet of the Apes ? 'Human, all too human' 2011-08-19T12:55:33Z

Das discovered meditation and yoga in the late '60s through a connection with other seekers like Ram Das. Some en-chanting evening: Krishna Das at Seattle's Moore Theatre 2010-03-22T20:22:00Z

They’re good for each other, shifting their usual proportions of drama and meditation. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z

And then “Untitled” is over, a small-scale meditation on making art, the way one idea morphs into another, certainties are relinquished, fear partly conquered. Dance Review: Texts (and Gyrations) on the Art of Movement 2011-03-18T22:08:29Z

This time around, it looks as if meditation and spiritual work will be competing with any possible World Cup viewing. Robin Williams in rehab program to 'fine-tune' his sobriety 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

They are documents, but resonate like meditations, deep drives into form, light, presence and absence. Simryn Gill's spare and stunning photographs of decay 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Walking meditation was also helpful for the aches and pains. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

A quick glance at the librettos suggested a lineup of a political fanatic, a religious nut, two slightly neurotic beauties, a slutty broad and a taciturn man who practices Zen meditation. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z

I went alone to Kopan Buddhist monastery, near Kathmandu, for two weeks to learn meditation and mindfulness but once there found myself among a hundred like-minded people from all over the world. 10 life-changing retreats worldwide: readers’ travel tips 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

But she has spent the past year using therapy, meditation and self-help to address the boundary between “old Elna” and “new Elna”. ‘I just want to cut it off’: the weight-loss patients who no longer fit their skin 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s a mishmash of genres: memoir, meditations, poetry, cultural critique, biography and medical material. Wresting Insight, and Poetry, From Pain 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The result is an intriguing meditation not only on the line between human and machine but on the nature of authorship and creativity itself. Computer-generated art that meditates on authorship and creativity 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Relationships with his mother and his ex-wife, the absence of his father and the toxic effects of celebrity all received new meditations by the blockbuster rapper. Grammys 2015: Eminem takes best rap album honors 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Apart from meditation, floatation tanks, music, and dance, these ways also include sex, religion, and epilepsy – three things with quite a bit in common. Emptiness doesn't have to mean nothingness: it could mean happiness 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

The outdoor, travertine marble labyrinth is the same design as the one at Chartres Cathedral in France; the gardens feature a lily pond, 16 water fountains and several nooks for quiet contemplation and meditation. Station to station: What to do and see along L.A.’s Expo Line 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

If there is a reference point, perhaps it's Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America; a similarly poetic, visionary and unclassifiable meditation on the natural world. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z

That said, the book is more than just a mystery: It’s a meditation on academia, womanhood and the power of storytelling. Review | Long unsolved, a Harvard murder case gets a fresh look in ‘We Keep the Dead Close’ 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

There is, of course, the additional consideration of the ends to which mindfulness and meditation are being applied in these scenarios. Abusing the Buddha: How the U.S. Army and Google co-opt mindfulness 2014-03-17T06:59:00Z

Banished under Communism, the pilgrims are now free to perform dances, prayers, meditations and exercises which they say help create peace and harmony in the world and enhance physical and mental health. Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

I keep meaning to take up meditation properly but can’t find the time. James O’Brien: ‘A former EDL member said my show saved his life’ 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z

Pressure from a fellow billionaire who has since rebranded himself as a meditation adherent and yogi had nothing to do with it, she said. 5 films to watch that proclaim Black Women's Lives Matter too 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

“When Breath Becomes Air” is his meditation on the reversal of roles when a doctor becomes a patient. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Shofet said that the decision to host the event at a nightclub — rather than at, say, a meditation center — was intentional. Can Parties Help Us Heal? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Ron introduced meditation to our sessions, claiming it would help me relax. The sex-talking therapist I went to as a teen: “Do you want to learn how to be a woman, not a scared little girl?” 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

I didn’t book the gig, but that probably owes less to meditation and more to the fact that I can’t belt above middle G! ‘Rent’ in Pictures, in Advance of ‘Rent’ on TV 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The Somadome is a cocoonlike pod that physically envelops an individual and is promoted as relieving stress through LED color therapy, meditation and energy healing. Resort and Hotel News: Pods for Meditation; Jazz in New York 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

He was also wrapping up his NYU thesis film The Broken Tower, a black-and-white meditation on poet Hart Crane, while his first solo art exhibition, The Dangerous Book Four Boys, opened in Berlin. James Franco finally finds his place in Hollywood with The Disaster Artist 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

He has a meditation teacher he refers to as “Meditation Bob,” who teaches the supposedly most important people. Without Dave: Life After “Late Show with David Letterman” 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The free, public programs include meditation and the opportunity to receive Amma's darshan — a blessing in the form of an embrace. Amma, 'The Hugging Saint,' in Bellevue May 31-June 3 2012-05-29T20:30:06Z

Featuring up to five days of battery life, the slim and comfortable tracker has helpful wellness tools like stress management and sleep scores, guided meditations, and reminders to move throughout the day. 15 Valentine's Day gifts beyond chocolate, roses and wine 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

In addition to several visualization and meditation exercises, he offers ways for parents to open lines of communication with their kids about the subject. Review | 4 new books offer advice on raising decent humans in our topsy-turvy world 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The Avengers is kid stuff compared with this meditation on mortal loss and heroic frailty. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z

At its deepest, “The Blue Guitar” is a meditation on the creative instinct and the means by which people attach meaning to their lives. ‘The Blue Guitar’ review: An artist’s heartbreaking crisis 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Each day followed the same pattern — sitting meditations alternating with walking meditations, each lasting 45 or 60 minutes at a time, for a total of somewhere between six and seven hours of meditation a day. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Thin and bald, with round-framed glasses, Mr. Laib resembles a Buddhist monk for whom gathering pollen is a form of meditation. Art Review: Wolfgang Laib’s ‘Pollen From Hazelnut,’ at MoMA 2013-01-31T22:54:04Z

Ms. Keys led a guided meditation before performing a 75-minute set that included older hits like “Empire State of Mind” and “Girl on Fire,” with songs from her upcoming album, “Keys.” Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn Party at Art Basel 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Imbibe it via box set and you can watch the thing expand in real time, from a drama about a mob boss in therapy to a genuinely poetic meditation on life and death. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Her meditation practice keeps her centered, on the tour bus and off. What Janelle Monáe Can’t Travel Without 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

To be published in America by Grove Atlantic in March 2015. Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk A bird’s-eye view of love and loss, this meditation on nature, raptors, grief and the strange life of T.H. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Inspired by the visual artist Rossella Vasta’s installation of 100 ceramic plates arranged on a table to symbolize a united humanity, the work, as Ms. Buglisi sees it, is a moving meditation. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a respite, a meditation, a way for me to incorporate some color into my wardrobe. Is the Best Pedicure in New York Worth $85? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Behavior modification, sleep-inducing drugs, artificial light, meditation, absinthe and orthodontia: these are all avenues she considered. Books of The Times: Patricia Morrisroe vs. Insomnia in ?Wide Awake? 2010-06-27T21:20:00Z

That’s to say it creates an exalted, austere public space, at once like the prow of a ship and a retreat for meditation. Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park to Open 2012-09-12T22:25:05Z

Cadney says silent meditation has helped to improve both his mental and physical health. Ssshhh! How the cult of quiet can change your life 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Volans's 22-minute piece is, he says, "a meditation on the sea and the role of ships and their cargoes in our history", which "hovers in a state of unfulfilled anticipation from beginning to end". This week's new live music 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

“I keep a pen in hand, and that’s my meditation for the day.” He Puts Bill Maher on TV, and Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy on Stage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

It didn’t take long for him to join the staff as a full-time editor, and the further his “me-centric” meditations spread across the Internet, the more critical backlash erupted. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z

The effort is the central part of a philanthropic campaign to raise money to benefit the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes the use of transcendental meditation in public schools and for military veterans. Ringo Starr's 74th birthday rocks peace, love and fundraising 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

The Hush is described as "a meditation on what sound can do to the memory". Josephine and I; Barnum; The Hush – review 2013-07-27T23:05:20Z

That love affair produced paintings such as “The Hay Wain,” his most famous picture, and “The Cornfield,” a late masterpiece — work that Plumly calls a “meditation on the pastoral.” Review | Poet Stanley Plumly takes a lyrical look at John Constable and J.M.W. Turner 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Her recent writings include a personal meditation on her life in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Laura Skandera Trombley is named new president of Huntington Library 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

First came a trademark ode to the four pieces of the tailored gray suit; next, a meditation on proportion and the power of the missing piece, layering austere tunics with mismatched sleeves atop maxi skirts. New York Fashion Week Returns. Here’s the Cliffs Notes Version. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

This year's contender, The Sense of an Ending, is sufficiently short to be described in one review as a "novella," and tells the story of Tony in a meditation on memory and regret. Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat 2011-10-17T14:41:11Z

The evening includes asana yoga, a vegetarian dinner, music and meditation. The Buzz: A-List Guide to the Inauguration Parties 2013-01-16T21:51:40Z

Divided into three parts — A prayer for the 9/11 dead, a meditation on Martin Luther King Jr. and a eulogy for James Baldwin — this book is a must. The 10 books to read in February 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

After glasses of Gambellara were served, he led the group through 10 minutes of silent meditation, then encouraged attendees to “be present as we sip the wine.” | The Godfather of Hipster American Dining Serves Up a Fresh Dish: Enlightenment 2014-01-30T23:25:01Z

In addition to yoga and meditation, he underwent psychoanalysis, took psychedelic drugs, practiced painting, and followed the Arica School of Knowledge, founded in northern Chile by Oscar Ichazo. Stumbling Upon Greatness: Discovering Sergio Larrain 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Lillian’s wide-ranging meditations are reason enough to read this charming novel, but it’s also like taking a street-level tour through six decades of New York. Review: New Novels by Kris D’Agostino, Kathleen Rooney and Others 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Room to Book: A Spa Lifestyle room on the sixth floor, ideal for the stressed, with air-purification systems, yoga mats for in-room meditation and yoga classes, spa cuisine menus, and dumbbell racks. 2010-01-12T14:30:00Z

For about half of its 60 minutes it seems to be a multimedia meditation on “Hamlet” and the British actors who have triumphed in the role. In Solo Shows, Lip-Syncing ‘Hamlet’ and Investigating Home Movies 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Christopher Nicholson’s elegiac, beautifully restrained novel, a meditation on aging, marriage and loss, fictionalizes a well-known period in Thomas Hardy’s life. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

By All Means developed as a remarkable meditation which suggested that Webern's tone rows and Tudor harmonies may not be as far removed as they seem. Ensemble 10/10, Collon - review 2011-04-08T18:07:03Z

The movie’s first two-thirds are fairly faithful, but a daring final act, a more deliberate and affirming meditation on art and life, transmutes the tragic ending into something more wistful. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Cramming fantasy and mysticism, faith and history into a single riverboat journey, this dirgelike meditation on China’s painful economic rebirth dispenses with narrative in favor of semiotics. Review: In ‘Crosscurrent,’ a Melancholy Journey Along the Yangtze 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hildebrand, who also founded a now-defunct meditation studio, will also email customers at all hours, which might seem at odds with wellness. Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Leggings That Cost $300? 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Next, Emily Fletcher, a meditation guide, took the mike and commanded people to close their eyes and plug their right nostril with their thumb, exhale with the left, then alternate. Happy Hour Without the Booze 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

She fillets it with ease and relish — revealing the paucity of research supporting the usefulness of everything from annual physical exams to meditation — and dismantles nostrums about the innate balance and wisdom of the body. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

But the story is about far more: the dissolution of his romantic relationship; depression and other private sorrows; and, ultimately, how meditation and writing inform one another. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

I turned the bedroom into a meditation room. Ilana Glazer Is Moved by ‘Slave Play’ and Chanel Miller 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje’s novel “Anil’s Ghost,” whose protagonist, like Attila, sifts through the aftermath of war, “Happiness” is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. Review | ‘Happiness’: An exquisite novel about how chance and love connect us 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Not so much a travelogue as a travel meditation, it favors lush prose, colorful digressions, inconsistencies of approach and no small portion of eccentricity. 'The Old Ways': Walking as a way of 'feeling, knowing and being' 2012-10-28T14:01:04Z

The book was a successful, melancholy meditation on America’s lost manufacturing base, the erosion of a shared sense of national purpose, and one middle-class man left adrift. North to Alaska in Dave Eggers' new 'Heroes of the Frontier' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s because those places resonate with soul-filling experiences of inspiration, meditation, worship, and sacrament. Garden Paradises Featured in a New Book 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Beiser describes it as a meditation on the “journey of the soul as it separates from the body.” At the Kennedy Center, moments of sunlight are glorious but fleeting in ‘The Day’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

The show, which also includes the work of monochromatic painters such as Max Hendler, is as much a meditation on light itself as it is about how the sculptures interact with the light. Descanso Gardens' 'Elemental' exhibition looks at art in different light 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Above all, this beautifully photographed documentary is a poetic meditation on refined sensory perception. Movie Review: ‘Planet of Snail,’ a South Korean Documentary 2012-07-24T22:08:39Z

This free-associating, chalk-drawing animation piece is an ever-changing meditation on genetic manipulation, hybrid species, and life and artificial life from the microscopic to the mythic. Local Sightings Film Festival highlights 2011-09-27T00:03:06Z

Can you add a soul workout of some kind — a volunteer gig or a faith-based commitment or a yoga/meditation practice? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Burned out? It’s perfectly fine to take a break. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Each class began with a meditation exercise, intended to sharpen our awareness of our surroundings. Feng Shui Lessons From a Design Master Who Has Your Back 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

He ends his new album, “Golden Sings That Have Been Sung,” with a secular meditation called “Age Old Tale.” Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

To restore your emotional equilibrium: Be adamant about taking time every day to relax your body and mind with meditation, yoga or deep-breathing exercises. Distressed by recent turmoil? New book offers coping tips based on your ‘reactor type.’ 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Rate includes daily healthy meals, beverages and snacks; unlimited hiking, mountain biking, fitness classes, yoga, meditation and more; and airport transfers or free valet parking. Travel deals: Hotel Week NYC savings and discounted Eurail passes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

On another, it’s a poetic meditation on the human struggle to make sense of a cruel and indifferent universe. Review: In ‘Bluebird,’ Momentary Distraction Sets Off a Chain of Misery 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

It does not offer a sustained meditation on heartbreak or death. Rockwell Paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 2010-07-01T16:28:00Z

Offill’s slender and cannily paced novel, her second, assembles fragments, observations, meditations and different points of view to chart the course of a troubled marriage. Book Review Podcast: 10 Best Books of 2014 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

This heroic sentence is followed by more meditations on war and literature and another pair of references to Joyce, followed by another passage on Hemingway’s own literary ambitions. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

And then there's Love's Recovery," Saliers' brilliant—even spiritual at times—meditation on our awkward pathways towards forgiveness and reconciliation. " We've reached the point in the stay-at-home life when only the Indigo Girls LP will do 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

The picture is a complex meditation on cultural identity and self-image, rendered in a colorful, hard-edged mode that melds 1960s Pop art with classical Arab and Persian illustration. In the galleries: Rooted in nature but not always natural 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely funny portrait of an egomaniac and his nebbish best friend. Review | Poking fun at the male ego — and academia — in one cheeky little novel 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Molly Drake … melancholy meditations on the fragility of happiness. Nick Drake: in search of his mother, Molly 2013-03-22T07:00:10Z

The siblings are sharply drawn and distinct, their ties weighted with rivalry, guilt and betrayal, the novel operating partly as a meditation on the vagaries of birth order. What Happens to Siblings Who Survive a House of Horrors? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

He can become overwhelmed by his own thoughts, he said, so Mr. Zachery introduced a guided meditation, occupying Mr. Badgley’s mind so that his body could move more freely. Penn Badgley Flexes New Dance Moves 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Sonic meditations by Pauline Oliveros welcome the Saturday and Sunday mornings. Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Each work in the show is a conversation piece of the meatiest variety: a provocation, an act of resistance, a meditation on what is troubling its maker's soul. Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

SPILLMAN: Writing on planes, receiving 20,000 submissions per year, meditation on long bike rides, multiple nonprofit boards, reviewing, interviewing other authors on stages and at bookstores, two very different teenagers. “A guy in my MFA program once described my stories as ‘cutesy’”: 5 authors on the worst words critics have used to describe their work 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

“As soon as I sat down in that meditation hall I thought: this is where I am supposed to be.” Ssshhh! How the cult of quiet can change your life 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Narrating a train journey he had taken from the Bangladesh frontier to Calcutta, during which he saw an old man die, it became a meditation on borders and in-between spaces, life and death. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

Last year, Re:Mind became London’s first meditation studio – where for £22 a time, dedicated “calmers” guide you through sessions of “energising breathwork”, or encourage you to “focus on good intentions”. Mind, body and soul: the rise of the holistic wellness makeover 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

You will come for the kind of humor promised in the title and the well-earned R rating, but stay for the nuanced meditations on theology and faith. ‘Sausage Party’ Is an Animated Sex Comedy About Food ... and God 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

What calms you: good books, movies, music, dance, exercise, friends, comedy, yoga, meditation, good deeds? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The in-law and politics — oh, this can’t be good 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

But “Fight Club 2” will be, in part, a meditation on fatherhood and middle-age. In 'Fight Club 2,' Chuck Palahniuk will wrestle with fatherhood 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

The vignette moves from shock to anger to empathy, a meditation on resilience. Neko Case, Mavis Staples captivating at Hideout 2013-09-07T05:25:00Z

We learn about archery, which Aritomo practices as a form of meditation. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - review 2012-08-24T21:55:01Z

The repetitive, tactile nature of the work of plant care becomes a meditation. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

After all that edifying meditation and yoga, we were more than ready to dig in to breakfast by 8:30. Who knew nirvana was tucked away in Virginia’s back roads?

I also read, which I find is a form of meditation and contributes to my word inventory for my writing. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Gary Gulman on Comedy and Depression 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

“People Get Ready” is an experience beyond hearing music in a club or viewing a dance; it is a moving meditation that suggests dreams — each song is a miniperformance — that then dissipate. Dance Review: Song-and-Dance Man Shows His Two Sides 2011-04-01T22:57:44Z

“A Public Reading” is a meditation on the human desire to aspire to the status of a god, and the corrupting influence of this wish on the spirit and the flesh. Theater Review: ‘Public Reading About Death of Walt Disney,’ at Soho Rep 2013-05-10T17:23:50Z

It’s a wearying read at times: Every day a new fixation on a man, and every day a meditation on how Cohen will shed that stubborn body fat. Andy Cohen's Memoir Is the Frankest Book About Gay Life In Years 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, the heartrending thing about Inside Llewyn Davis is its meditation on career success and career failure, and the unknowable moment when the one turns into the other. Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis - first look review 2013-05-18T22:10:24Z

During the ordeal, Johnson said that he tapped into “meditation and prayer” to stay calm. Chicago restaurant manager suspended for throwing chair at black teen: 'I'm not trying to be racist' 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

She followed that with an oddball meditation on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” an ambitious aesthetic smackdown with the biggest gun of English literature. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z

The song opened her full-length debut album, “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides,” which spanned harsh, aggressive electronics and ethereal meditation, with lyrics touching on identity, artifice and yearning. Sophie, Who Pushed the Boundaries of Pop Music, Dies at 34 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

Jenny Douglas runs the Brooklyn Cottage, another townhouse-based organization, centered on meditation and the arts. A New Cadre of Experts Helps Women Navigate Their Divorces 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

In his new book The Science Of Enlightenment, the meditation teacher Shinzen Young claims that if you meditate for a few minutes a day, you’ll double your lifespan. Want to live twice as long? Meditation might help | Oliver Burkeman 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

And that is certainly true with his latest drama, "Men," that like his other films, provides a surrealistic meditation on gender and power. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

He brings the timeline up-to-date with the birth of the "hipster meditator", a postmodern Buddhist influenced by all three Buddhist traditions, as well as the science on the neurological effect of meditation and consumerism. Manchester's FutureEverything conference ? day one 2012-05-18T08:00:00Z

This isn't so much a play as a theatrical séance, a meditation on the meaning of her life through modern considerations of gender and race scarcely thinkable in Shakespeare's time. Toni Morrison's ghostly 'Desdemona' blends words and music in lyrical revision of Shakespeare 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The ceremony, which began with a guided meditation, included memories of Mr. Frum’s mother. Dancing His Way Into Her Heart 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Astonishingly, it even turns into a testimony to the efficacy of Buddhist meditation as a path toward tranquility — what George describes as greeting “the next moment of your life with no trace of the last.” Shhh — Nancy Pearl, America’s librarian, has written her first novel 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Emory describes each of these “collaborative duets” in words before sharing footage of a “movement meditation memorial” created in each patient’s honor. Ailey, Balanchine and a Lesson in Mourning 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Taken together, their stories offer a meditation on collective memory, universal history and the role of society’s outsiders. Paperback Row 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Yoga, meditation or other relaxation techniques may help. Seven ways to improve your memory 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

The 17th century is a period when religious meditation receded in the living culture of Europe, even if religious wars did not. Exhibition Review: 17th Century Art: The Landscape Comes of Age 2011-06-03T12:00:43Z

I do martial arts, specifically action meditation and resistance training. An Artist for the Dystopian Age 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Two other tree groupings are of note: On one side of the Pavilions, a meditation room named the Viewing Gallery invites study of the landscape beyond the glass wall. Glenstone’s landcaping as mindful as its artwork 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

And two large-scale collage prints by Kahlil Robert Irving, incorporating crushed street trash, are meditations on the social and visual textures of blackness, with subtleties no digital medium is likely capture. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Many religions encourage meditation and silence to achieve mindfulness. Sounds of silence 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Chen’s own company presents “Incense,” a meditation on faith and hope. Dance Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The film, both agree, changed profoundly in the ensuing years, becoming as much a meditation on middle-aged regret as a speculative glimpse into a space-age future. Brad Pitt is ready to kick masculinity to the curb: ‘We have to redefine it’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The basic premise of “In Tune” is that anyone can get into meditation: all that is required is a commitment to mindfulness and concentration. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

And in a notebook entry from 1926, there is a three-page meditation on death and suicide — 35 years before he took his own life. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

“The Bright Hour” is a stunning work, a heart-rending meditation on life — not just how to appreciate it while you’re living it, but how to embrace its end, too. A dying mother’s memoir is this year’s ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Presented as part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s World Nomads festival, “The Ulysses Syndrome” is a movement meditation based on cantos written by Tsvi about the time he lived in Tunisia. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer and His Father, Tsvi, Dance at Gould Hall 2013-05-10T20:53:02Z

It’s more a meditation on pseudo-science: action scenes are intercut with clips of animals from nature documentaries and shots of stars swirling through space. Scarlett Johansson, Lucy and the Future of the Female Action Star 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Also on our to-be-read pile: a fast-paced new thriller, a meditation on quitting cigarettes, and a new novel from the Man Booker International Prize winner Han Kang. Six New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Their American history isn't untold, but rather a meditation on what could have – and, in their view, should – have, happened. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z

The Koneko Cat Cafe on the Lower East Side offered guided meditation … with cats. Yoga? Weaving? Vigils? The Search for Postelection Calm 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

A charming meditation on a question the author — an entomologist — gets asked all the time: What good are bugs anyway? 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

What it has instead is an intimate portrait of a father-son relationship and a meditation on the harm that can result from good intentions executed poorly. Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti on Baseball and Parenthood 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

In another gallery, a purple painting by Davis — inspired by the notion of the swing state — sits across from González-Torres’ meditation on the forbidden Palestinian flag. A show toying with unexpected ideas of color rises at the Underground Museum 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

“We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,” the poem opens, then builds into a meditation on how people fight to make space for their dreams despite privation and difficult circumstance. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

I started practicing self-care when I was a young model through nutrition, exercise, meditation and mindset. Mom, 64, says she gets mistaken for daughter’s sister: 'People react to my age with astonishment' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

The doctors injected the men with an endotoxin, which usually elicits flu-like symptoms, while they practised Hof’s meditation and breathing techniques. Can the cold make you stronger? 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Two doors down at the Golden Theater is Mr. Mamet’s latest box-office flop: The premiere of “The Anarchist,” his 70-minute meditation on crime and punishment, which opened on Sunday night to scathing reviews. David Mamet Has Flop and Hit on One Broadway Block 2012-12-06T03:28:12Z

Her book becomes a nifty twofer, a meditation on how four men and one woman experienced death both in vivo, so to speak, and in their art. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

There are several types of temples in Bagan: the solid ones known as stupas or pagodas, which are like monuments; buildings with interior spaces for meditation; and some large enough to serve as monasteries. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

These works were designed for spiritual meditation, which explains the minimalist style and muted colors. Why wait in line for Florence’s Duomo when Fra Angelico’s frescoes are nearby? 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The movie, a meditation on life set against the background of a Midwestern family in the 1950s that also stars Sean Penn, arrives in select U.S. movie theaters on Friday. Jessica Chastain off to roaring start in Hollywood 2011-05-27T10:07:05Z

Sorting through his belongings was what really started my meditation on loss, and memory, and the way our memories start to fade. Lisa Joy on ‘Reminiscence,’ ‘Westworld’ and the Lure of Techno-Noir 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

"I looked at why I used food as a coping mechanism. Mindful meditation was really important for me -- just taking a few moments to practice breathing," Dustin explained. Couple lost a staggering 432 pounds to become parents after struggling to conceive for seven years 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

That’s how the formal game, which is also a perceptual meditation, works: colors gain visual and emotional value from other colors — complementary, contrasting — around them. Josef Albers’s Science and Soul of Seeing 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

And last month, the 40-year-old mother of four released her second book: “I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life,” a charming meditation that draws on her years studying readers’ habits. Review | What should you read next? For thousands, the person to ask is Anne Bogel. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Linklater said recently during an interview to discuss his play "The Vandal," a moody meditation on death currently playing at The Flea Theater. Jesse Tyler Ferguson to star onstage in NYC 2013-02-12T19:03:09Z

The human mind is undeniably a suitable subject for scientific study, and one purpose of meditation is careful observation of one’s own mind. Your brain as laboratory: The science of meditation 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

The complex of buildings — lodging, meditation halls, restaurant — originally opened as a transcendental meditation community in 1999 but was abandoned several years later, the casualty of a family dispute. dIn North Carolina, the Art of Living Retreat is a balancing act of rest and activities 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

In one of the exhibition’s most beautiful paintings the serene, long-haired bodhisattva Manjusri, a spiritual benefactor drawn in flowing lines, sits in meditation next to a comically ferocious, recumbent lion. Art Review: Spiritual Seeker With a Taste For the Satirical 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z

As much as it improvised atop its structures, the group burrowed into them, building tension and momentum from within, turning them into meditations or shaping them into galvanizing crescendos that crested in a standing ovation. Finding the Joy at South by Southwest: 12 Notable Acts 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Later, he encouraged the queen to shut her eyes between shots and focus on her breathing as if she were in a meditation class. Artists discuss how they turned the queen into an icon. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Or treat yourself to a few meditation classes at your local yoga studio. Social Q’s: Social Questions 2012-06-15T19:26:41Z

That style — karesansui means dry landscape — was meant to serve as an aid to meditation from within a temple. 6 Great Gardens to Visit in Florida 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Can you relate that to meditation or to non-aggression, which is the foundation of Buddhism. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

This book is a richly marbled meditation not only on the lives of several remarkable women but also on the art of biography itself. Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z

Mindfulness is a nonjudgmental expansive awareness of one's experiences, often cultivated through meditation. Mindfulness meditation can make some Americans more selfish and less generous 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

He preached a liberal, mellower type of Islam, with an emphasis on meditation and inclusiveness. Daisy Khan, an Eloquent Face of Islam 2010-11-15T19:12:00Z

At heart it’s a provocative and empathetic meditation on cinema, human tragedy, collective memory and how we each relate to grief, pain and loss. Casting JonBenét director on our obsession with the murder of a child pageant queen 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

And Europe Will Be Stunned … might be Israeli artist Bartana's masterpiece: a deeply provocative meditation on Jewish identity that levels political punches with surreal wit. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

Earlier this year, Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker prize for her novel “Flights,” a meditation on travel and motion, which was translated from the Polish. The 2018 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

In this relaxed, recumbent atmosphere, preparing to dance looks more like meditation. Dance Place’s Deborah Riley, moving on: ‘It’s been my family’ 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Students will enter the arts center from the building’s corners, which are planted with different landscapes, including a small amphitheater and a meditation garden. A Panorama of Design 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

With Alice Coltrane-like harp runs, meditation bowls, rave stabs and Doppler effect dub wobbles, he creates music full of surprises that is always melodic. Caribou: Swim 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z

Clarke's portentous scifi meditation, which appeared in 1968, imagined that leaps in human development are influenced by a mysterious alien race who send odd monoliths to encourage new ideas in human beings. John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles 2012-06-01T21:55:10Z

The common thread of masculine uniforms and standard-issue workwear, always present in his work, was enhanced by a meditation on breaking common molds. London Men’s Wear Shows Reflect on Race and Masculinity 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

“It’s like we mimic the relaxed state by breathing more slowly,” says Klia Bassing, a mindfulness meditation instructor and founder of Visit Yourself at Work, a stress-reduction program based in the District. At the Phillips Collection, viewing art through mindful meditation

A lot of the books and the conversation around mindfulness and meditation are, "I can be more productive later," and this is not about that. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Less than a minute later, she returns to the question: “Therapy, meditation, weed.” Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

There, she led workshops that included yoga, meditation and visualization exercises. An Avant-Garde Theater Artist Gets Her Due 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

After a week, I attended a meditation orientation at the Washington Mindfulness Community. Which works better: A meditation app or in-person instruction? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

He approaches meditation with humor in the poem "Notes on the Sacred Art of Log-Sitting," which instructs: "When you get up bow nine times to the log." Jim Harrison on spirits, bad poetry and the wonder of nature 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Not just a book about a novelist in action, it's also a meditation on writing itself and on the curious intersections between the imagined world and the real one. 'The Nobodies Album': Trying to set right the stories of her life 2010-07-08T20:34:00Z

I’m a believer in any method of mind expansion whether facilitated by meditation, religious experience or drug use. Sean Parker Brings Facebook-Style Skills to New York Social Scene 2011-12-17T12:39:01Z

That’s because “West By God” succeeds not only as an unofficial West Virginia tourism campaign but also as a humorous, heartfelt meditation on the nature of home. Brandon McCoy’s ‘West By God’ stands tall at the divide of rural and urban America 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

With that question, the film morphs into a fascinatingly explicit meditation on death. Cannes 2013: Seduced and Abandoned - first look review 2013-05-19T14:37:26Z

This leads him into an intriguing—and, given the politics of the moment, excitingly risky—meditation on the “dead-end game” of comparative suffering: almost everybody, after all, has got it bad. Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K. Confront a Changing World 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

At the end of the semester, I lead them through a loving-kindness meditation. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

He takes up meditation and yoga, which a teacher tells him will “still the fluctuations.” A New York City Childhood Leads to Anxiety and Jokes in ‘What’s So Funny?’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Soon there will be a clothing boutique, an urban farm and herb garden tended by schoolchildren, and a meditation area with a reflecting pool. An Outdoor Outpost of Tulum, in Hudson Square 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

After the yoga, there is a 25-minute guided meditation, in which we lie on the floor. Spectrum colour yoga and meditation – like being stuck inside a traffic light 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Observing humans in the distance, the white rose presents a little spiritual meditation: Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XIII 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

She said meditation heightened her awareness, particularly of rising anger and the need to control it which "is a great help when you have to cope with what most politicians have to cope with". Aung San Suu Kyi picks Beatles and Tom Jones on Desert Island Discs 2013-01-27T14:12:00Z

This is a well-wrought book, one part memoir, one part gorgeous evocation of the natural world and one part literary meditation on the difficult legacy of T.H. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

For her first runway show, in September 2017, Findikoglu presented her collection — a meditation on religion that featured costumed characters including a pope and a nun — in an Anglican church in central London. Meet the Young Designers Making Catholic-Inspired Fashion 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

The minimalist yoga and meditation studio is in the back of the shop, where Katie Hughes offers Vinyasa and Chakra yoga, mat Pilates, and meditation, as well as beginner classes for kids. Five Places to Visit in Greenville, S.C. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

His neat, spirited rendition of the work didn’t stint the mellower second movement, in which successive solos — the bassoonist Judith LeClair, the clarinetist Anthony McGill, the trombonist Colin Williams — advanced an atmosphere of doleful meditation. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Gaye’s meditation on social ills, itself inspired by an incident of police brutality and violence during a protest by antiwar activists, has maintained its urgent relevance more than 40 years after its release. John Legend teases Marvin Gaye show, talks Ferguson unrest 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

After nearly an hour of working her body over, Ben’s hand slide between Becky’s legs and he begins walking her through a guided meditation on her ideal man. The sexual healers next door 2013-01-27T00:00:00Z

For others, those early hours are cherished, filled with self-improving activities such as exercise and meditation. The secret lives of extreme larks: what do people who rise at 4am do with their mornings? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

If you know Simone’s song “Four Women” then you can see where Ham’s meditation is headed. Review | ‘Nina Simone’ raises a fist at Arena Stage 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

A full 10 days of constant meditation created a barrier between the worrying and me. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Traveling through it is almost like a meditation exercise, trying to stay permanently in tune with it, calm and in control. Global Athlete: Trekking Beyond Limits in Antarctica 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

She manages to squeeze in a meditation on the lasting influence of Hollywood High alongside a critique of the “ghastly” 1950s costumes and the disappointing spread from craft services. Review | The resurgence of Eve Babitz continues with ‘I Used to Be Charming’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

He's like, "I'm not happy because of meditation. I'm happy, because I'm warm." Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Those with chronic pain will need interventions, which may include professional physiotherapy but also relaxation exercises, meditation and mindfulness. Epidemic of untreatable back and neck pain costs billions, study finds 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The piece’s repetition can make “In C” a kind of meditation, but not in this version. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

He also uses music and sound to control the pace, to slow time, as if cinema were a form of enforced meditation. Movie Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:00:08Z

Above all, Cwynar’s film, which is titled “Rose Gold,” is a meditation on color. An Artist’s Meditation on Color Reveals a Secret History of Film 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

"Time Recyling," in general, is a meditation on the nature of time as we experience it in the 21st century, especially the way the Internet abolishes our sense of past and present. Dudamel live from Salzburg with the Vienna Phil 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Like Agee and his collaborator, the photographer Walker Evans, Sharlet finds a powerful alchemy in writing and looking, and his snapshots inspire a series of micro-narratives — a mix of documentary, memoir and meditation. Strangers’ Things: A Journalist Finds Grace in Other People’s Stories 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

After all that bingeing on Love Is Blind and Selling Sunset last year, Netflix now provides a similarly aspirational refresh, with a new series of guided meditations. Headspace Guide to Meditation: can Netflix deliver enlightenment in 20 minutes? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

She also regularly underscores her points by citing Lowell’s poems, concluding her book with an extended tribute to “For the Union Dead,” that majestic meditation on history, race and valor. Review | Kay Redfield Jamison puts Robert Lowell on the couch in an exhilarating biography 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Dallman's advice is to "deliberately increase training of our cognitive, executive prefrontal brains to overcome emotional, habitual responses, using techniques like mindfulness and meditation". Mindfulness or cake? The battle against stress and comfort-eating 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Patients are given an eye mask and headphones to play spoken word meditations and instrumental music by Deuter, a German new age instrumentalist, that blends Eastern and Western musical elements. A Ketamine Clinic Treads the Line Between Health Care and a ‘Spa Day for Your Brain’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Instead, “Wow. . . That’s Crazy” is a meditation on life’s joys and rigors. A decade after his debut, Wale is finally feeling comfortable with himself. Mostly. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

For the last few years, the company has been releasing podcasts to supplement its popular library of audio meditations, and this Q. and A. show is one of the latest offerings. 6 Podcasts to Help You Take an Actual Break This Summer 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

“As a person he seemed to be always changing and moving towards one deep interest after another, whether music, meditation, movies or the restoration of the gardens at Friar Park.” Television: ?George Harrison: Living in the Material World,? on HBO 2011-09-23T12:00:00Z

But the film, which is seeking U.S. distribution, is also a larger meditation on existence and how we quantify it, particularly for men on a downward spiral. Oren Moverman hopes 'Time Out of Mind' spotlights homelessness 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

It added new treatment rooms to its spa and created a “curated wellness component,” including yoga, hypnotherapy and guided meditation. The Wilder Side of Carmel 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

More than just autobiography, “Nothing Lasts” is a meditation on memory itself. Seth, Poet of the Ordinary, in ‘Nothing Lasts’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

There will also be weekly retreats focused on meditation, hiking and massage sessions, combined with a delicious menu created by her sister Gioconda. | Fortress of Solitude 2014-02-05T22:58:48Z

Twenty-seven of these old-fashioned drawings, hanging in a grid, constitute a mesmerizing meditation on that deadly post-internet idea, “content generation.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Still, it was preferable to the somber meditation on male body issues from Laura Brienza, “War Zones,” that employed metaphors of combat to explore anorexia. Theater: A Fringe Too Tame? Too Bad 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z

The poet on Monday, Tom Sleigh, offered charming quirks of his own in meditations from a subway platform that, among other conceits, analogized the resident rats to the birds surrounding St. Francis of Assisi. Music Review: Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra?s Bach at One - Review 2012-01-03T23:20:10Z

I recently ended a seven-day silent, technology-free meditation retreat in the hills of Northern California. Your phone can't save you now: On Buddhism, technology and the alleged supremacy of the mind 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

I have known this particular guru for about 14 years; he is a yogi, a brilliant meditation master and an award-winning filmmaker from the Kingdom of Bhutan. | Personal Journeys: A Cross-Country Drive With a Guru 2012-05-20T05:44:06Z

You may recall Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup as a meditation on illusion and decadence; or, to put it in Zagatese: "'Forget Austin Powers,' baby, 'this is the real swinging London'." Zag-At the Movies: "Real People" Pick Their "Best Films" 2010-10-21T16:10:00Z

Back in Chile following the European tour, Larrain spent a year in a rural commune, practicing meditation, giving away his possessions, but also — inspired by Cavalli — reviving his ambition to become a photographer. Stumbling Upon Greatness: Discovering Sergio Larrain 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

They built a giant dam, an airport, an electricity station and a meditation centre that could hold 10,000 people. The free-love cult that terrorised America … now available on Netflix 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

I had a bath, and then I listened to a meditation app for sleep. Laura Donnelly’s Week: ‘Dora the Explorer’ and a Poetry Prescription 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive officer, provoked ridicule in December when he tweeted a thread about his time at a meditation retreat in Myanmar. The Seductiveness of Insta-Nostalgia 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

The dark groove of Watch The Throne's standout track is a saturnine meditation on big themes. This week's new tracks 2012-06-08T23:05:21Z

Scottish writer Ali Smith is on the shortlist for the fourth time, this year with “Autumn,” a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive. Two first-time authors make Man Booker Prize shortlist 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

I liked the idea of these songs being spawned on an oceanfront halfway around the world, of cinematography courses and lectures about meditation. Ray Manzarek was the key to the Doors 2013-05-21T16:59:18Z

His aim was for the vibrations to bring peace and rest and enable meditation. Sound Baths Move From Metaphysical to Mainstream 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

She will revamp the Black Girl in Om website and, this month, stars a six-city tour with the Wing, where she will host sessions focused on meditation and conversation about wellness. Fostering A Community For Healing 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

I believe in this message and this method so much that this song has become one of my rare meditation soundtracks that’s not a binaural beat. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Arborea, a duo from Maine, treated its own songs and traditional staples — “Careless Love,” “Black Is the Color” — as meditations, with whispery vocals and hints of Eastern modality. Critic?s Notebook: Springsteen Gives Keynote at SXSW Festival 2012-03-18T22:27:10Z

He published the book-length meditation “Bowie” in 2014, and wrote an essay for the Stone this week proposing that to see darkness and hopelessness in Bowie’s songs is to miss the point. Popcast: Love, Death and David Bowie 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Over three years, at various residencies, they developed their ideas into a series of vignettes, for which Mr. Heginbotham devised dances, which function almost as movement meditations. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

In an interview Mr. Van Sant described “Promised Land” as a “simple learning film,” an earnest, Capraesque meditation on the conflicting dictates of stewardship, hardship economics and fraying community values. Matt Damon and John Krasinski on ‘Promised Land’ 2012-12-21T20:49:44Z

In Warner Bros' forthcoming Man of Steel, Henry Cavill has been beefing up for the role, and offers us this profound meditation on the significance of donning the fabled costume: "It's extremely cool." Spider-Man's lost lustre 2011-08-05T19:00:00Z

Four- and seven-night retreats include morning and evening yoga sessions that draw from the Bihar School of Yoga, plus theory classes, chanting and evening meditation. The Asia Issue: Happenings in Asia 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z

The 30-minute work, presented as part of National Sawdust’s annual Ferus Festival of new work, began with Mr. Ruo leading the audience in a period of meditation — everyone standing, eyes closed, and humming. Review: A ‘Sonic Great Wall’ Breaks Down Musical Barriers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

His career has been a splendid enactment of the cultural contradictions of capitalism, and at the same time a series of deeply personal meditations on love, loss and imagination. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Grand Central Station, zeppelin docking station Topics: , , Transit Museum, Zeppelin, grand central station, For meditations on time, there are few places more frenetic with marking the seconds than Grand Central Terminal. Grand Central Station, zeppelin docking station 2013-05-27T19:00:00Z

The commune grew, as did Mr. Baker’s self-delusion and harem of sister wives, until its morning meditations and bizarrely out-there music became too freaky even for people with adoptive names like Om-Ne and Electricity. Movie Review: ‘The Source Family,’ a Documentary on Father Yod 2013-04-30T21:26:22Z

Suddenly all the old thoughts, silenced by meditation, return, "shouting and screaming and stamping their feet". The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z

Mr. Conlon spent three weeks in his native Massachusetts, where he took some time to reflect at a yoga and meditation retreat. A Top Chicago Restaurant Messaged Its Virtue. Then Workers Spoke Up. 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a necessarily cerebral meditation on the nature of physicality. ‘Touch Me Not’ Review: Our Bodies Examined 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Exercise, support and meditation have also given it all a big boost, along with the ongoing experiment of buying stuff and seeing what sticks. Can I spend my way out of my anxiety? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

This literary study of mankind’s transition from hunted to hunter connects the pursuit of prey to the pursuit of knowledge; Calasso’s encyclopedic erudition yields fascinating meditations on mythology and classical antiquity. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

As monologues, as one-acts, as meditations on, as Mr. Gyllenhaal put it, “the terror of loving,” the plays are not obvious Broadway fare. Men Who Aren’t Afraid of Tears 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Beneath the polished surface and enthralling plotlines of Bennett’s second novel, after her much admired “The Mothers,” lies a provocative meditation on the possibilities and limits of self-definition. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

I think the work has changed since then with our embrace of body work, craniosacral therapy, and meditation. Simone Forti’s Experiments Transcribing Bodies in Motion 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

There are encounters with the Tea Party and Christian rockers, meditations on Axl Rose and Michael Jackson and reportage on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and a US reality show. 'Genre snobbery conceals a deeper stupidity' 2012-08-27T14:34:29Z

Out on the Lake Stage in the middle of the lake each morning you can Cillit Bang your third eye and discover your inner Sting at Headspace's meditation sessions. Secret Garden Party 2013: what to look out for 2013-07-25T16:02:32Z

At times these entries convey a startling tenderness and intimacy, as they do in “Mask / Conceal / Carry,” her current exhibition at 52 Walker — a multidimensional meditation on guns. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Mad Men,” a meditation on unhappiness draped in polyester, reinforced the coldness and alienation of being a city dweller. The Surprising Compassion of “High Maintenance” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Anne Carson’s cryptic meditation on Euripides’ “Helen,” directed by Katie Mitchell, reaches the end of its run at the new arts center in Hudson Yards. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

A treatise on the moving image; a parable for the actor's craft; a profound meditation; a playful prank – Holy Motors is all these things and more. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-27T00:06:05Z

She encourages time spent in silence, through meditation or prolonged prayer. ’90s folk superstar Jewel is happy — finally. Now she wants to know: Are you? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

“Drummer’s Corpse” consists of two long pieces, each a troubled meditation. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z

Left on my own, meditation time turns into nap time, so I knew I needed some organization and supervision. So You Think You Can’t Meditate? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

She recommends daily meditation for at least one month before competition. Staging a post-pandemic athletic comeback? Take tips from these successful senior competitors. 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

A knockout concert and an occasional meditation on civics and community, David Byrne’s musical theater experience, choreographed by Annie-B Parson, drops its chain curtain for the final time. 12 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hampton’s reimagined ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” as a pained and beautiful meditation with a lot of extra chords inside it. Critic?s Notebook: Houston?s Jazz Stars, Celebrated in TriBeCa 2011-01-16T22:59:55Z

The tunes moved between near-silence and operatic projection, between desolation and rage, between meditation and rhythmic drive, and between humility and hard-won pride. Benjamin Clementine Performs at Rough Trade 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Finally, in closer The Cow Piece, further material unfolds in a chaotic meditation upon dance, music and death. This week's new dance 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

Apart from its comedic delights, this playfully allusive novel, with its echoes of Joyce and Homer, offers eloquent meditations on family and the fracturing of identity. Reviews: New Books From Steven Millhauser, Per Petterson and More 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

"Love is a Business" swells but never breaks, and doesn't feel like a tease so much as a meditation. Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z

One good question to ask is what kind of practices strike you as intolerably cheesy or self-indulgent: gratitude journals, mindfulness meditation, seeing a therapist? Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Arguably the best among of the nominees, this profound meditation on "What is love?" by Alberto Mielgo is based on his experiences and travels. A guide to watching the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, from cheeky birds to grisly torture 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

I try not to judge myself if I miss a meditation. For Arianna Huffington and Kobe Bryant: First, Success. Then Sleep. 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

She said she grew up with a mother who practiced meditation, surrounded by nature. Art exhibit offers 'urban therapy' for NYers 2011-06-03T10:40:12Z

Although Ms. Frankenthaler rarely discussed the sources of her abstract imagery, it reflected her impressions of landscape, her meditations on personal experience and the pleasures of dealing with paint. Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter, Dies at 83 2011-12-27T15:27:38Z

It’s a deeply human story, a meditation on family pride as much as it is a revealing look into the intricacies of Klingon politics. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Forty minutes into a meditation session with a monk, she and Cacee get the giggles. The Price of Beauty 2010-07-13T07:00:00Z

Created in response to his father’s death, Mr. Scott has called the work “a meditation on loss of memory and physical failings.” Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a fascinating meditation on how identity is a fluid category that can be unmade and rebuilt in a world without photographs, fingerprints, or facial recognition software. Sansa Stark’s own “Game of Thrones”: Don’t call it Stockholm syndrome — she’s a survivor 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

A shared affinity for meditation and a mutual understanding of their similar inner journeys became the unconventional foundation of their work together. When Daniel Giménez Cacho Met the Three Amigos 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

“You know, my job requires a lot of talking. So, if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to use the time before meditation to prepare quietly. Thanks!” It’s Bad Enough That My Mom Died. Now My Dad Is Dating Her Nurse? 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Then there are a lot of meditations on landscape in the book, which are informed by climate change. Jo Shapcott: the book of life 2011-01-27T08:00:06Z

“Songs,” he notes, is also a direct outcome of his and the dancers’ spiritual meditation. Cloud Gate Dance Theatre performs in Seattle March 6-8 2014-02-26T20:26:38Z

“The meditation retreat is one of the fastest-growing trends within the fastest-growing sector in tourism: wellness travel,” said Beth McGroarty, vice president of research, at the Global Wellness Institute, a nonprofit that promotes wellness. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

He continued: “My meditation and focus on looking inward has helped me balance my emotions. The whole process has been overwhelming, but I am working every day to stay level.” Harvey Weinstein believes he can rebuild career if cleared of charges 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

Through Sunday the company will rotate nine works — three of them West Coast premieres, including “Untitled America,” MacArthur fellow and choreographer Kyle Abraham’s meditation on the effects of the prison system on African American families. MLK's speeches translated into dance as Alvin Ailey troupe comes to the Dorothy Chandler 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Like reliquaries in a minimalist chapel, these gleaming, conceptually paradoxical spirit containers invite reverent meditation. Jeff Koons: ‘Jim Beam — J. B. Turner Engine and Six Individual Cars’ 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

His three-part book is essentially an extended meditation on art, with increasingly fragmentary glimpses of the people and events in the composer’s life. With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Over 100 local dancers and participants, including some who lost loved ones that day, don white and enact what has become a public tribute, meditation and prayer around the Lincoln Center plaza’s main fountain. Dance Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

I read his daily letter/blog/meditation on his Center for Action and Contemplation site. On my radar: Wim Wenders’s cultural highlights 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Isolating and recombining frame, gesture and stitch, Gschwandtner spurs an expansive meditation on their enduring value, their enduring beauty. Her quilts are made of 16-mm film. Here's what they reveal, frame by frame 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

A meditation on the interplay of oppositional forces — especially those of light and shadow, and of life and death — “The Other” proved to be de Mille’s final production; she died in 1993 at 88. The Week Ahead: Nov. 13 ? 19 2011-11-11T14:58:50Z

But shortly after he abandoned his movement meditation for a singing-spoken segment, the piece was over. Review: Stephen Petronio Looks to the NYC of His Past for Inspiration 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

For all the cathartic zing of their more extrovert soundtracks, such as Blitz!'s euphoric Zero, these were usually matched by ever lovelier meditations. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito – review 2013-04-13T23:05:09Z

The vegan lifestyle has been hijacked by misinformed hippies in the same way that meditation has been stained by a similar trend of idiocy. New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

His book becomes an insinuating meditation on how British music — and all British literature and art — “accumulates a powerful charge when it deals with a sense of something unrecoupable, a lost estate.” Books of The Times: Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z

Since antiquity, people have spent enormous time and energy trying to do just that, whether through faith, medication, therapy, meditation, or physical activity. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles. Brand 'to behave' for Dalai Lama 2012-06-15T15:30:20Z

The contrast with the newspaper’s black-and-white columns of words invites meditation on alternate versions of reality: one sober, the other exuberantly irrational. Art Review: Picturing a Mind-Blowing World Made of Drugs 2010-10-07T21:19:00Z

This is largely because it becomes an entangling meditation on not merely Nazi atrocities but on the nature of authenticity. Books of The Times: A Grotesque Artifact Starts a Journey From Garage Sale to Buchenwald 2010-09-30T22:21:00Z

And then when I started distilling the film, so it wouldn’t be just a story but more like a meditation, I realized that black and white was perfect for that sort of thing. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The 90-minute class incorporates meditation, deep breathing and gentle beginner poses, rather than an aerobic regimen of sun salutations. Weed yoga, naked yoga, yoga with goats: Have we reached peak namaste? 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

For example, he turned Horace Silver’s piano solo on the medium-tempo blues “Doodlin’” into a meditation on the hidden meaning of doodles, with lines like these: Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Eventually, he says, he wants to open a meditation centre. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z

“Bitwise: A Life in Code,” David Auerbach’s thoughtful meditation on technology and its place in society, is a welcome effort to reclaim the middle ground. Attempting the Impossible: A Thoughtful Meditation on Technology 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

And that’s not always into critical favor; his last two films, the mortality meditation Sea of Trees and fracking drama Promised Land, have drawn mixed-to-poor notices from the press. Gus Van Sant: 'Whatever scene we're filming, we make it as hard as we can' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Aside from one self-portrait and a few pastoral scenes done early in his career, the exhibit reveals his meditations on contemporary urban life. Christopher Martin Hoff show a reminder of talent, loss 2012-08-15T18:57:06Z

Though a new “Snack Chat” was not uploaded on April 13, Cookie Monster did partake in a “monster meditation” that also looked fun. Cooking Monster hosting 'snack chats' during coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

But each writer’s new collection is a bracing meditation on mortality. Books of The Times: Poems on Mortality by C. K. Williams and Cynthia Cruz 2012-12-31T19:22:03Z

It’s part memoir, part home design tips, part meditation on things such as the meaning of Christmas and the Kentucky Derby and lemonade stands and ceramic flea-market soap dishes. Perspective | Reese Witherspoon is selling frilly Southern womanhood, and I’ve been sucked in, y’all 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

In Inkfish's meditation on the women who wait, a US army wife offers tips to those whose husbands are about to be deployed. Three Good Wives | Theatre review 2010-03-19T22:30:00Z

Nassikas describes caring for the bees and harvesting honey and wax as a kind of meditation. Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

“The Violin” aims to be a meditation on lives good, bad and unlived, though its philosophy never convinces. Review: A Priceless Violin, a Cut-Rate Caper 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

More recently, I’d been on a journey of personal development using meditation, dance and performance to increase my self-awareness. I married myself 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

Instead of long meditations on what constitutes a home, she demonstrates the meaning of family through small actions: a snack retrieved from the kitchen, a playful dinner conversation, a gentle touch, a caring admonition. In Contemporary Trinidad, a Widow Rediscovers the Meaning of Home 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

The film’s artificial meditations on mercy, justice and sacrifice, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, just “buttress a spectacle of power” and are a metaphor for the film’s own aspirations. What’s on TV Saturday: Batman, Superman and an ‘S.N.L.’ Star 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

“Places and Names” is a classic meditation on war, how it compels and resists our efforts to order it with meaning. A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

The result is a wrenching meditation on appropriation, cultural genocide and how to best honor one’s ancestry. Review | Woolly Mammoth’s ‘Where We Belong’ speaks the languages of theater and film with equal elegance 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

At Mercereau’s suggestion, the track “Better Now,” a circumspect meditation on hope late in the album, ends with audio of Kelly walking around Maybelle Carter’s mountain bungalow. Ruston Kelly Survived Addiction and Heartbreak. It’s in His ‘Dirt Emo.’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

So he designed a garden around five boulders, representing the Confucian values known as “the Five Constants,” to ground his daily meditation: Justice. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

It's such a California cliche, but I do a little meditation every morning. Claude VonStroke's favourite tracks 2012-11-24T00:05:40Z

His writing is transfixing from page to page, filled with digressive meditations on small talk and social protest, superheroes, terrorism, the art world, and the status of being marginal. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Six videos feature yoga and meditation exercises to improve circulation, mobility and relaxation. Can 18 Hours in the Air Be Bearable? Airlines Bet on Ultra-Long-Haul Flights 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Still others are meditations on disease or death. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

With other meditation practices, he found himself thinking, “I’m going to be a better person if I meditate.” The Topanga Tea Ceremony 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

He learned yoga, got serious with a vigorous vinyasa practice and added meditation. Feel Like You’re in Prison? These Trainers Actually Were 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Though designed as more of a meditation than a competition, it shows what gaming is capable of. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: A Playwright on the Art of Video Games 2012-12-26T13:00:50Z

“It is also, to a lesser extent, self-referential. It’s Edna’s meditation on the creative process, and the cost involved — the cost to the writer, and everyone around the writer.” In ‘Joyce’s Women,’ 2 Great Irish Writers Square Up 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

A certain class of psychoactive drugs was reputed to induce just the kind of experiences he’d been so affected by in meditation. ‘Acid Test’: The case for using psychedelics to treat PTSD, depression

From tarot to meditation, there are plenty of ways we can tap into this energy now, without the risk of being strung up. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Stress management techniques such as yoga and meditation can help lower cortisol levels, which can support your weight-loss efforts. Perspective | What are ‘hormone diets’ — and can they really help you lose weight quickly? 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

In an opening flashback sequence, young Peyangki leads an idyllic life of meditation. ‘Sing Me a Song’ Review: Technology vs. the Contemplative Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Based around a sturdy, drifting piano theme, it's a thoughtful, sad and lyrical meditation on "why the future doesn't look so great". The Unthanks: Last - review 2011-03-10T23:07:00Z

It was a meditation on an era, in which death and life mingled; the work was political but personal, poetic and profound. Neil Greenberg’s “This” 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

And then 20 minutes of meditation that helps me to understand what I want from myself during that day. Angel Blue’s Weekend: Watching ‘Porgy and Bess’ and Keeping the Faith 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Schulz's meditation on error orchestrates anecdote, scholarship and research into fascinating new harmonies, and Romantic Moderns connects painters, writers, cooks and even florists into a wholly original reading of the English response to modernism. First book award shows appetite for serious reading 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z

“This Was the End,” an experimental meditation on Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” at the supercool Long Island City arts space The Chocolate Factory Theater through March 8, begins both mesmerizingly and gratingly. | A Digital Deconstruction of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” 2014-02-24T21:04:36Z

Vipassana is different from mindfulness meditation, which focuses on awareness, or to transcendental meditation, which uses a mantra. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The program included, in part, meditation and spiritual work. Robin Williams' Parkinson's diagnosis revealed by wife Susan Schneider 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

In other words: While meditation can’t mitigate global warming, it can, at the very least, clear your complexion. This Is Your Skin on Stress 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

In this meditation on the merits of being unseen in a culture dominated by self-promoters, Busch explores the comfort and power of invisibility, its place in the natural world and its enduring literary presence. New in Paperback: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘How to Disappear’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

But it fails to offer a rousing confrontation between wife and mistress, or a soul-searching meditation on the way we always disappoint ourselves as youthful idealism turns to plump middle-age. The Breath of Life ? review 2011-02-24T17:41:50Z

The audio version may be only 75 minutes, but Adichie packs in family histories, meditations on nostalgia and commentary on the challenges faced by Black mothers in the United States. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

So, a big thing for me is creating strategies to feel the full scope of the emotional intensity of work — journaling, meditation. Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash on not losing hope on climate change: "I'm still here fighting" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

I now approach cooking as a form of meditation. When Cooking, Invest Time. Or Work. Not Both. 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Frieder — whom the artists call “the Max” — typically begins by asking groups of children, sometimes 100 or more, to sit in a circle, eyes closed, as he plays a meditation drum. For Rohingya Survivors, Art Bears Witness 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ryman is probably known best for his darkly beautiful 1992 novel, “Was,” which is both riff and meditation on “The Wizard of Oz.” Books of The Times: Caitl?n R. Kiernan, Geoff Ryman and Tim Powers Tales - Review 2011-10-23T21:37:18Z

I describe the film as a positive meditation on death through various consciousnesses — Teresa’s, Bodhi’s, and mine, as well as a collective consciousness. How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

And yet his feet plant with purpose, a moving meditation. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

Circling the grounds clockwise were half a dozen frail and elderly Bhutanese, some with hunched backs and canes, chanting the six perfections that lead to enlightenment: generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation and wisdom. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a meditation on death, loneliness, death wish, memory and perseverance, drifting through clouds of guitars and static, voices and reverberation, processionals and elegies. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Hadid’s pictorial and painterly work was a meditation on the tension between sight and insight. Zaha Hadid Was Just Getting Started 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

And it's sort of a meditation on that. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

These four songs, a 45-minute meditation on death with texts from Christian, Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian civilizations, are radical and arresting experiments with time. Music Review: Conjuring Up Wondrous Sounds 2010-11-21T22:44:00Z

At various times, “Brother in Ice” reads like a diary, a travelogue, a collection of philosophical meditations and a series of historical research notes. Review | A mysterious journey to the middle of the Earth — and the center of the self 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

FRI Labyrinths for walking meditations, spiritual healing, prayer, walk at your own pace, 6-9 p.m. Community calendar 2011-12-08T00:22:09Z

The spa will provide treatments, healthy meals and wellness classes including yoga, Pilates and meditation, and the resort features a fitness center, tennis court and indoor pool. Resort and Tour News: Colorado Adventure Lodge; Australia Hiking 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Moviegoers will once again be able to glimpse that grin in “Poetry,” Lee Chang-dong’s intricate meditation on art and empathy, which opens Friday in New York. Film: A Fine Balance: The Quiet Life of a Star Actress 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z

In this posthumous essay collection, readers will find meditations on both the natural and human worlds as well as frequent discussions of the author’s Catholic faith. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

It was the final week of filming for “Between the World and Me,” a television special based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir, a meditation on the history and lived experience of Black people in America. ‘Between the World and Me’: From Page to Stage to Screen 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

This book is a wide-angle and quite dire meditation on our nuclear present; Mr. Rosenbaum is convincingly fearful about where humanity stands. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z

We’re talking meditation — a practice that’s usually done daily and involves sitting quietly for 20 to 30 minutes to calm and observe the mind. If you’ve always wanted to try meditation, use this guide to get started 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

A small third-story loft space, currently used for meditation, is accessible by ladder. House Tour: Orient, N.Y. 2011-04-21T22:00:12Z

The book offers tips on how to approach meditation as a craft, interspersed with disappointingly PG stories of the music business in the eighties and nineties. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

We probably shouldn’t be surprised that Bay’s bijou effort is no art-house meditation. Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain: The Second Time as Farce 2013-04-26T03:30:45Z

The chewiest, knottiest song here is the title track, which concludes the album, a six-minute meditation that feels designed, after a half-hour of reckoning, to be inconclusive. Pinegrove Reckons With the Past and Renovates Its Sound 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

We are also given a preface, an ambulatory and often playful meditation on history and forgetting that begins with the narrator’s visit to the cemetery at the center of a small fishing village. A Literary Catalog of Things Lost to History 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

“I have a personal meditation practice, paid attention to my food, killed my own chickens.” For These Guys, Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lifestyle Guru 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

One of this year's outstanding Welsh productions was Dafydd James's play Llwyth, a poignant meditation on a generation of gay men in Cardiff. National Theatre Wales at one ? too young to master Welsh? 2010-10-20T15:44:00Z

He said there were also free events organized by the festival itself, including “Conquering Performance Anxiety,” a session teaching practical mindfulness, breathing and meditation, and “A Mentally Well Fringe,” a series of therapeutic drop-in sessions. At Edinburgh Fringe, a Spotlight on Mental Health 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

MacLeish offered a deeply-considered meditation on the nature of good and evil, obliquely asking whether the ideals upon which America was founded could endure in the time of Richard Nixon and Vietnam. Bob Dylan’s First Musical Had a Devil of a Time 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

There are some lovely moments in this show – although meditation might be a better word – which melds the stories of mythical women such as Penelope, Scheherazade and Mandodari with the experiences of military wives. Three Good Wives | Theatre review 2010-03-19T22:30:00Z

Together, they presented a meditation on the many layers and complexities of Black campus life that I had not seen before. H.B.C.U.s Have a Spirit All Their Own. Pop Culture Is Paying Attention. 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

Produced with the popular Headspace app, the eight 20-minute episodes are billed as a beginner’s guide to meditation, helping you to start the year “by being kind to your mind”. Headspace Guide to Meditation: can Netflix deliver enlightenment in 20 minutes? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

He writes, with a distinct air of superiority, that he got more out of meditation than they could possibly have been getting from all that substance abuse. In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

The picture of meditation as science is complete. Your brain as laboratory: The science of meditation 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Taken together, “Give Me Everything You Have,” “Afternoon of a Faun,” and “The Horned Man” form a triptych: a meditation on being falsely accused. In “Afternoon of a Faun,” James Lasdun Mixes Autofiction and Psychological Thriller 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

It is an adventure saga of her ascent of Everest; a vulnerable meditation on her childhood in Peru; and the tale of an immigrant’s journey to the United States. For This Mountaineer, Everest Was a Challenge and a Path to Peace 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

It was possible they were random, therapists told me, and aside from the usual remedies — less caffeine, more meditation, medication if it continues and so on — there wasn’t much to be done. Stressed out? Here are 10 science-backed design tips for bringing serenity to your home. - The Washington Post 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

I chose this specific course, which took place in New Zealand, because despite the trendiness of meditation classes and apps, Vipassana seemed to be about equanimity, discipline and hard work – right up my alley. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

And it’s for a good practice, too: meditation.” Allen Ginsberg celebrated by rock stars at the Ace Hotel in L.A. 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It was a seriously thought through meditation on various social and metaphysical fissures spreading through 21st-century Japanese art and culture. Strong Showing at Museums, While Galleries Seemed Complacent 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z

“Bonnie and Clyde” is the story of two outlaws who are fleeing justice; “Queen & Slim” is a meditation on a system of justice that treats innocent people as outlaws. The Powerful Perspective of “Queen & Slim” 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Carol: We got married in the meditation room. We set up a video camera and asked people to tell us their love stories 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

While the transition to living together was generally smooth, there were instances when their powers of meditation were put to good use. Practicing the Perfections of Meditation, and Love 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

I really like his other books and have attended a couple of meditation retreats he has given. Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Acting in a long run is like meditation for me. Patrick Page, Onetime Green Goblin, on Playing in ‘Cyrano’ 2012-09-23T04:38:14Z

This risotto requires you to stand and stir for 18 minutes, and — according to the recipe developer — that pretty much counts as meditation. 11 easy dinner recipes for when it's been a loooong week 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Interspersed, of course, with these meditations on growing older are the characters’ desperate attempts to remain young, hip and relevant—or failing that, to at least appear like they are. “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

In September, Channel 4 in Britain will start a series of 10-minute meditation videos that he stars in. Up Close: A 10-Minute Mind Clearing 2011-06-22T18:33:27Z

Consider a massage, a yoga class, beginning your day with a 10-minute meditation or engaging in exercise such as a long walk or a scenic jog. How to Travel Safely (and Keep Calm) 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

The musical went on to win the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in drama, and was described by the Pulitzers as “a meditation on universal human fears and insecurities.” ‘A Strange Loop’ Won the Pulitzer. Now It’s Coming to Broadway. 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

But it is also misleading: anyone lulled into expecting a proto-Minimalist meditation would have been startled by the wild, amusingly cacophonous outbursts that drive the piece. Music Review: ?Sudden Music? at a Festival for Composers 2010-06-17T22:19:00Z

A proud autodidact, Pitre has moved among long-form electronic drones, mercurial acoustic improvisations and glistening string meditations, all employing just intonation. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

As I often remind my readers, meditation is not supposed to propel you into a permanent bubble of bliss, but rather to enable you to handle life’s vicissitudes with more equanimity. Dan Harris: The First Time I Rushed My Son to the E.R. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The result is a set of appealingly conversational meditations on the life of the mind. Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a meditation on failure: how keenly people fear it, what they do when confronted with it. Jodie Foster Is Still Afraid of Failure 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

He became a New Age junkie — meditation, the est movement, yoga, Rolfing, health food — happily recommending the virtues of self-awareness therapy. Hippies, radicals, pranksters: Jerry Rubin has a bio and Paul Krassner has our review 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

But then meditation affects different people differently and any long-term benefits may only announce themselves over time. ‘No sex please, we’re meditating’: peace and positivity on a weekend retreat 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Where a good part of “Restropo” was filmed in the heat of battle, “Korengal” is a collective meditation on military life by many of the same men, looking back on their time in Afghanistan. In ‘Korengal,’ U.S. Soldiers Recall Their Time in Afghanistan 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Perhaps Clear Blue Tuesday really can offer a thoughtful meditation on the grieving process in the wake of a shared tragedy. At last, the 9/11 musical 2010-09-08T07:54:00Z

Why the meditation on the past and why was it important for Sarah to think of Beth and look back at the clone she never knew? 'Orphan Black' co-creator answers all your finale questions, teases season 4 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Yet in among the flatulence jokes and unrestrained use of a genuine slap stick were pauses for some sublime, harmonic meditations the expressive equal of anything the northern Italian madrigal tradition has to offer. York Early Music festival 2010-07-12T21:30:00Z

It’s a breathtaking meditation on fandom, aging and impermanence. The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

“Thrive,” for its part, reads a like a clip job of various wellness studies, among which meditation is but a small, unexamined part. Meditation for Strivers 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

Ask Mr. McCarthy, a self-described adventurer, that same question, and he will say, “We met hiking in the Himalayas on a Buddhist meditation retreat.” Partners in Business and Adventure 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year we savored Ros Anderson’s “The Hierarchies,” a delicate, nuanced, somber meditation on what it means to be an artificial being in a world of organic humans. Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

But I took it as a visionary meditation on the human aspiration to reach the moon, even if only through imagination. ‘Dawn,’ and Other Shorts From Sundance Festival 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

My son kept up his daily meditation, which he now practices with his mom — another bonus from this experience. Perspective | A father learns the true reward of taking a free online happiness course with his son 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

The author, a professor of English at Seattle Pacific University, combines selections of Emily Dickinson's poetry with meditations on Dickinson's life and work, as well as the poet's struggles with issues of faith and doubt. Local books: 'The Good Son' in paperback; poetry by Frances McCue 2011-02-14T22:43:20Z

This was Stevenson's first published volume of essays and consists of often satirical meditations on serious subjects. Ten of the best 2011-07-15T21:54:01Z

“The Secret Life of Groceries” is part investigative journalism, part history and part philosophical meditation on how humans transfer meaning to their food choices. Review | Our food shopping habits have human and environmental costs. ‘The Secret Life of Groceries’ adds them up. 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

His religious studies were leading him to believe that the true purpose of music was to quiet the mind, as in Buddhist meditation, and awaken the heart to the glorious reality of the present. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z

In each episode, Hopkins answers questions alongside a rotating cast of Headspace meditation teachers, whose voices will be familiar to users of the app. 6 Podcasts to Help You Take an Actual Break This Summer 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

“We walked in with the intention of a meditation,” she said. Moor Mother’s Musical Galaxy Grows Even Bigger 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Each of the five interconnected movements is a meditation on the luminous, on light as found in the life of Christ. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

For him, music is like meditation, or sometimes, primal scream therapy. How Kevin Durant Became Silicon Valley’s Hottest Start-up 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

It is a frothing, angry, mournful meditation on what is slipping away as America plows on into the 21st century. Eggers’ ‘Fathers’ an angry take on changing world 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

I also tried somatic healing, boxing, Buddhist meditation, Ayahuasca and finally, because it was offered to me for free by a publicist, Botox. 52 Hours at Breakup Boot Camp 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Heather Marg Bracken, a meditation teacher of the couple, led the ceremony incorporating Buddhist traditions. Cynthia Schmitt, Tracie Palmer 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

It is part biography, part uncomfortable comedy and part intellectual meditation about outsourcing our most intimate responsibilities. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Working with a hypnotherapist and a sleep expert, Parker devised a series of meditations and mantras to aid sleep, stress and confidence. Can an app guarantee a good night’s sleep? I tested them to find out 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

More often, these meditations set off the pretentiousness alarm that rests, like a smoke detector, at the top of one’s mind. Sex and Faith Overheat in Jamie Quatro’s ‘Fire Sermon’ 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

You might want to be in a mindful state for that; accordingly, the dance and video artist Wendell Cooper leads a preshow meditation. Dance Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The movie, unwittingly or not, is a troubling meditation on the weight of patriarchal tradition and its negative effect on children. 2011 Films: ?Melancholia,? ?Tree of Life,? ?Moneyball? 2011-12-17T02:03:03Z

To her credit, she blended right in with the company in this courtly meditation on friendship and love, inspired by Emily Dickinson poems. Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

After all, this was a woman who embraced Ayurveda, meditation and co-op shopping long before they became mainstream. Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Embedded within that poetic instruction and the other meditations was a substantial proposition: a total inclusivity, meant to free music from elite specialists and open it up to everyone, regardless of status, experience, or ability. Pauline Oliveros, Composer Who Championed ‘Deep Listening,’ Dies at 84 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

An even more poignant meditation came back in town, when Phyllis Chen performed an enchanting recital of music for toy piano in the courtyard of the Ojai Art Center, the audience full of children. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The volume is a celebration and artifact of the modern African diaspora, with recipes, yes, but also meditations on music, culture, politics, and power. The genius potato salad that converted a potato salad skeptic 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The airline is partnering with the nonprofit Smiling Mind, which offers both web and app-based meditation programs created by a range of psychologists and educators focused on mindfulness. Virgin Australia to offer in-flight meditation for anxious travelers 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

She got a master’s in philosophy, started writing, traveling and teaching yoga and meditation. Lonnae O’Neal: Aging like a Jedi 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Dirty Beaches gives the arriving crowd a false sense of security, beginning with a desert-baked instrumental mélange owing to meditation and relaxation. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

What emerges is a meditation on the power of choice, even in the most humble circumstances. Turning the humble quilt into a powerful symbol of choice

Since the election, I have been urgently seeking direction from dramatists in the way a cardiac patient might turn to nutrition and meditation after a heart attack. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Walking, cooking, reading, swimming, meditation, and watching rubbish on TV. Q&A: Michael Boyd, artistic director of the RSC 2010-07-06T12:42:00Z

It was somehow fitting that my meditations on film festivals and indie theaters would be temporarily squashed by the far noisier publicity campaigns of big studios hawking their future sequels, spinoffs and special-effects extravaganzas. When will Hollywood learn the value of a diverse, well-balanced diet? 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

"There's a spirit that reminds you of a quality of meditation but it's a contemporary and beautiful piece." Production reflects Spoleto's international flavor 2013-06-08T18:29:08Z

This hypothetical book would cover tai chi, Vipassana meditation, the difference between yin and yang, and other matters Carrère finds relevant to his yoga practice. Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

English choral music was originally meant for worship and would be heard in a state of quiet meditation. Nico Muhly on Why Choral Music Is Slow Food for the Soul 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Hannah’s journey is persuasively grim and not without surprises; ultimately, it becomes a meditation on the possibility that a woman can create her identity by controlling the terms of her own disappearance. Misfits, Stalkers and Kiddie Sociopaths: The Latest Thrillers 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a day of meditation and multicultural prayer for which Ms. Blake creates an altar with symbolic foods: brightly hued produce, cornbread, black-eyed peas. Hot Links and Red Drinks: The Rich Food Tradition of Juneteenth 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

The result is less a homage to Bergman than a witty, free-ranging meditation on some of his themes. The New York Film Festival Is Back, and Our Critics Have Favorites 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Moran interwove his tribute with meditations on the ruins of Weeksville — the first, long-forgotten settlement of Brooklyn by African American freedmen — and the relative absence of other African American historical structures. Review | Jason Moran offers sublime tribute to WWI hero and ragtime pioneer James Reese Europe 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

Some of Gaga’s best-ever songs are meditations on celebrity, but that can have a distancing effect, and, aside from the occasional complaint about exes who enjoy the paparazzi, “Chromatica” uses it sparingly. Review | Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ is a collection of sad bangers, a club album at a time when there are no clubs 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

“In a Dark Wood” is not so much a meditation on grief as a tender chronicle of how he slowly built a new life. The perfect pick for a a booze-free book club and other top June memoirs 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

This thoughtful meditation on the evolution of grief over time asks the big questions. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

With Landsman, he learned extra-musical practices that have been crucial to his youthful success: meditation and visualization. A Young Horn Player Could Become ‘a Real Legend’ 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

Her conversations with her landlord, a painter named Agnes, veer from artistic meditations to personal history, and the student’s original area of study takes on a deeper dimension. 8 New Books Coming in December 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

“Kite flying is meditation in its simplest form.” Prashant Bhargava, Filmmaker of ‘Patang (The Kite),’ Dies at 42 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

A set of arid, expansive, Americana-tinted meditations on the natural world, it’s also a proper showcase of the duo’s skill in treating distance and intimacy like timbres and textures. Perspective | 21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Some of these meditations occurred in snapshot moments. Jose Gonzalez rides a vibe of gentle, mesmerizing energy 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Elegantly written and structured, the book is a riveting adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, and a restless, searching meditation on love, friendship and family. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

“If Venice Dies” is more of a meditation on the madness of the free market, consumer culture and mindless urban expansion than it is about a city in a peril. Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

In the theater a deliberately dull performance can function as a challenge, a taunt, an opportunity for meditation. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

To borrow language from his beloved transcendental meditation, it’s where he goes to dive within, where his experience is reborn as art. Review | David Lynch writes a memoir — but reveals only more mysteries 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Mystic Hill is set to open by early 2023, Ms. Padham said, and will feature nature walks and yoga and meditation classes. How Quitting a Job Changed My Work-Life Balance 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

But this is Beckett, after all, and the story turns out to be more of a tragicomic meditation on life and death. Arts, Briefly: Samuel Beckett at 59E59 Theaters 2013-08-05T13:00:00Z

A metalhead seeks other metalheads; a woman wants company for Zen meditation. The Faces Behind Craigslist’s Strictly Platonic Personal Ads 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

And the ghost of Sir Arthur George Jennings, who dies after being pushed off a balcony, reappears after each significant killing, offering meditations on death like some benign reaper. Gang stories 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

It's most prevalent in The Town, where he imbued a potentially two-dimensional supporting role of showy brutality with a meditation on the nature of loyalty. At last action hero 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

“The found after the find,” they sing on “Before Tonight,” “Note’s Campfire’s” transcendent opener, a spiraling meditation on unwanted time. Perspective | The best old albums that we discovered in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Moving smoothly between indoor and outdoor spaces, the new museum builds on the original mission of providing guests with the chance to enjoy nature and art in quiet meditation. Much anticipated Glenstone expansion to open Oct. 4 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, he was trying different remedies for his sleeplessness: meditation, reducing caffeine, exercise. We Love to Be Smushed 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

This month, it plans to start meditation classes in one of the company’s event spaces in Charleston, S.C. The Hard-Knocks Restaurant World Discovers Wellness 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

A magazine assignment steers her to what became a kind of narrative therapy, a meditation on pain as seen by art, literature, philosophy, religion and science. Books of The Times: Melanie Thernstrom?s ?Pain Chronicles?: The Cures and the Myths 2010-08-19T22:42:00Z

At the nonprofit center they began in 2007 in Chelsea, a few blocks from Ms. Numeroff’s house, they teach people to care for the ill and dying using practices such as meditation. For This Couple, It’s Death Till They Part 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The best is the title track, which moves from a meditation on a hard day's work to an exploration of its consequences. New Jason Isbell, old Bernard Fevre resonate on different wavelengths 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

The mystical light pouring through these windows encouraged meditation and prayer. Chartres Cathedral: The age of faith in stone and stained glass 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Soho House’s online offerings include home hair care tutorials, cocktail masterclasses, fine dining recipes, yoga and meditation classes. Private clubs in London cater to nurses and needy during pandemic 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

I start the meditation and breathing and do that for about 30 minutes. This top pediatric allergist swears by meditation and thinks it can fight medical burnout 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Reviews of Mailer's extended meditation on the Egyptian book of the dead were mortifying. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

I have tried meditation and it never took. How Ignacio Mattos, the Chef at Estela, Balances His 14-Hour Days 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

I’d been using yoga, meditation and prayer as modalities to cope with the abuse, but the power to confront what happened came through my sister. What women want: a vivid portrait of female lives around the world 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

Bernstein's First, meanwhile, subtitled "Jeremiah" and written in 1942, is a dark meditation on Jewish spirituality at a time of threat. Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic ? review 2011-01-28T00:29:54Z

Catch up with friends — seek novelty there, going deep into your address book — or adopt a yoga/meditation practice, or other exercise, or try therapy, or ___. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is working from home turning this marriage into a house of cards? 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

In a multibillion-dollar wellness industry, streaming platforms and meditation apps frame ambient as background music — something for detached listening and consumption. Ambient Music Isn’t a Backdrop. It’s an Invitation to Suspend Time. 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The first Gatsby trailer was a meditation on a city and a time, filled with one question: “Who is this Gatsby?” Today’s Movie Trailer: The Latest Look at Gatsby 2013-04-04T15:20:30Z

Check the calendar for special events, such as yoga classes and meditations, plus the annual Flower Piano, where pianos are installed around the garden and free for anyone to play when there aren’t scheduled concerts. Finding peace in San Francisco’s storied Golden Gate Park 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Israel, the meditation expert, is confident that as stress levels in the workplace increase, so will the demand for this kind of programming. Can Wellness Heal the Workplace? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

But as meditations on the limits of both photography and empathy, they’re quite effective. Gillian Wearing Is Spilling Your Secrets 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

If that means retirement, he’s interpreted it in his own special way: dozens of artworks, two albums, a Paris nightclub, an own-brand meditation foundation and, his real high-profile comeback, 18 new episodes of Twin Peaks. Why are so many directors un-retiring? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Her book is in part a meditation on the impossibility of capturing a performance, or series of performances, that happened 80 years ago. The Astaires: Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley – review 2012-07-04T07:00:03Z

That perhaps it’s a lyrical critique of machismo or a meditation on the sensitive inner lives beneath tough-guy exteriors. Review | Atticus Lish’s new novel is about manhood, but don’t expect to find any social commentary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

It is part journal, part meditation on humble and decadent blooms alike that is filled with soulful photography and illustrations. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Boxing to Hollywood Candids 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

A meditation, in prose poems, images and essays, on what it means to be black in our ­racially divided society. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

However, she’s handy with a search engine and learns that her voice delivers snippets from sources as diverse as the Bible, Emily Dickinson, Woody Guthrie, Greek mythology, Marine Corps marching songs and Sanskrit meditation chants. Lydia Millet is not as popular as she should be. This novel will change that. 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Whirling dervish ceremonies were started as a form of meditation by Jalaluddin Rumi, the famous Sufi Muslim mystic and poet, in the 13th century. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

I became a vegetarian, I did deep meditation, I cleansed myself. Marina Abramovic 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

I’d already implemented numerous mental health and sleep strategies: turned off notifications, removed most social media apps from my phone, tried various meditation practices, limited caffeine to early morning hours and more. The Internet wants to keep you ‘doom-scrolling.’ Here’s how to break free. 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

A meditation on war, mortality and greed might not read like a must-have listening pleasure but the record is also a masterful conjuring of hopefulness. Gather ’round the Jim James campfire: “I have this weird apocalyptic vision of once the power goes out” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Herzog turns it into a much grander meditation on loneliness and man’s relationship with nature. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

But, Mr Leibovitz writes, “All that meditation hadn’t freed Cohen of his acute depression, an affliction with which he had wrestled all his life.” Redemption 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

In 1964 Andy Warhol trained a camera on the Empire State Building for about six and a half hours, in a meditation on the nature of monuments, thought and perception. A Fashion Show Epilogue. Or Was It an Elegy? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

The latter is a meditation on pottery as a simultaneously solitary art and an occasion for congregation; Gates, in the voice-over, adopts the intonation of a Sunday preacher. Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

“The values of the monastery — meditation, mindfulness, silence, contemplation and community — are being secularized and redone as resorts,” said Ms. McGroarty. Your Next Trip Might Change Your Life 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

It combines daily reports of her moods with the research she’s done about the history of psychedelics and her extended meditations on drugs and the law. Review: ‘A Really Good Day,’ Ayelet Waldman’s Better Living Through LSD 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Robinson takes the line and turns it into a meditation on his love of an individual fellow-human, which is, in turn, love of life in all its rich variety. Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z

Choreographer Bill T. Jones, his smooth, unlined face a sculptor’s dream, is captured in meditation, eyes closed. Dancers suspended in time and space as you’ve never seen them before 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It is also a meditation on a specific subgenre of American movies, the so-called social thriller, a subject that Peele talks about with wide-ranging thoughtfulness. Review: The Giant Leap Forward of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

Choreographer Bryan Arias’s new work for the Gibney Dance Company, called “One Thousand Million Seconds,” is an abstract meditation on life and happiness. 10 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The best things in “The Scientists” are Mr. Roth’s spiny meditations on sex and ambition and family and love and death. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z

If this show is also a meditation on the corrosive power of fame, then it might end up going to places far darker than Empire. Is Lee Daniels' rags-to-riches R&B drama Star better than Empire? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

“And the moment may be exactly right for a paranoid meditation on the possible end of the human race.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Westworld’ and the Democratic Debate 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

When that show’s first season failed to reach a definitive conclusion about “what really happened” in the case of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee, it became, instead, a meditation on reasonable doubt. Why “In the Dark” May Be the Best Podcast of the Year 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

This novel is, among other things, a meditation on the use and abuse of history, and an inquiry into the extent to which acts of memory may also constitute acts of survival. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Memory as Survival in Chechnya 2013-06-07T17:14:26Z

The company has been working on a number of studies, including one exploring the benefits and effectiveness of “orgasmic meditation”, working with specialist company OneTaste. How do women really know if they are having an orgasm? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

The piece began with all the musicians gathered in a group for a period of meditation. Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Now, he spends a few hours a day in self-care activities like meditation and reiki and is a regular at support groups and therapists’ offices. Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

The film is, if nothing else, an interesting meditation on how a child who grows up without guidance might react to a situation that requires judgment. Movie Review: ‘Kid-Thing’ Finds a Girl in a Grown-Up Test 2013-08-06T23:18:52Z

Before she brought “Fleabag” here, she staged the material that would later become “Crashing,” a flat-share sitcom that is secretly a meditation on repression. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Will Make You Laugh So Hard It Hurts 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

And in line with my meditation stuff is some reading that I’ve been doing of old Indian texts like the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Zachary Quinto’s Weekend: Watching ‘Magnolia’ and Letting the Dogs Out 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

It was the hope expressed in Shapcott's "meditations on mortality", among other qualities, that the Costa judges seem to have responded to. Jo Shapcott: the book of life 2011-01-27T08:00:06Z

For “25,” which in addition to Adele’s trademark heartbreak ballads includes weary meditations on aging, it took just over three days of the sales week to surpass ’N Sync’s record. Adele’s ‘25’ Sells Record-Shattering 3.38 Million Copies 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

When an obsession runs this deep, it’s not likely to be silenced by exercise, meditation or other forms of self-care, nor boiled away by wrath. I Lost a Boyfriend. Then I Lost a Friend. Now I’m Angry. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

But your patience and attention are rewarded by the emotional resonance and intellectual rigor of this meditation on how the politics of division and unity are refracted in the intimate lives of ordinary people. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

This you will slowly come to accept as you practice the art of Zen meditation, I believe. I froze up in the writers’ room 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z

Virus content finally reached Jared Leto’s feed on Tuesday, when he emerged from a 12-day desert silent meditation retreat and tweeted, “Wow.” The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

The film, she wrote, is not so much “a representation of transactions” between dueling women, but a “meditation on the film which is ‘about’ them.” L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Some people find it through yoga, some people get that through meditation, some people might get that through Buddhism or some through sweaty endeavors.” Lululemon’s Kumbaya Capitalism 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

The hippie kindergarten, with its emphasis on yoga and meditation, was no better. My little Einstein 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s very casual, but Varda is so astute and the quality of the film-making is such that it becomes something very beautiful, a meditation on life. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

It is the rare meditation on race in America that includes a parable about an exploding wading bird. Strap in for ‘The Shipment’ as it delivers weird, entertaining ride 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

It’s the highlight of the show, a stylized meditation on glamour and fame that never cuts quite as deep. | Francesco Vezzoli's Temple of Obsession 2011-02-09T19:30:37Z

The book is also a medical melodrama, a family mystery and a meditation on . . . well, meditation. Review | With ‘Double Blind,’ Edward St. Aubyn tasks himself with a formidable challenge 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

One room is dedicated to sleeping; another is reserved for meditation, with lounge chairs surrounding a gurgling circular pool that changes colors in a way that brings to mind an undulating lava lamp. Spas Import an International Menu of Pampering 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

In 1981, Mr. Marshall produced one of his best-known works: “Fog Tropes,” a somber meditation that paired field recordings of foghorns in the San Francisco Bay Area with brass instruments. Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

But I chose to sort of relax about that a third of the way through the first time and look at it as a meditation on people in the middle of a modern plague. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Watchmen has so much going for it, from the immersive detail of its speculative-fiction America to its thorny meditations on the politics of law enforcement. Riddle me not: why I'm sick of TV shows that revel in WTF storytelling | Charles Bramesco 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

It's an inventive, allegorical meditation on obsession, revenge, religion and the limits of human control. Age of the Dragons: Moby-Dick without whales 2011-03-09T08:55:00Z

The final part of the book is taken up with how to stop a galloping mind from bolting; useful if you've never heard of meditation, Buddhism or the countryside, not so great otherwise. Sane New World: Taming the Mind by Ruby Wax – review 2013-07-14T10:00:00Z

But to listen to Molly's quintessentially English postwar blues was to be reminded that melancholy meditations on the fragile nature of human happiness are not the sole domain of sensitive young men with guitars. Nick Drake: in search of his mother, Molly 2013-03-22T07:00:10Z

Much of Khedoori’s work seems a concentrated meditation on similar dichotomies. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Postcarnage interviews allow the stunned reactions of three surviving children to shape a quiet meditation on lives irretrievably altered. Movie Review: ‘Tears of Gaza,’ a Documentary of Human Misery 2012-09-18T21:51:22Z

Nelson’s seventh book is a meditation on her relationship with her partner, the artist Harry Dodge, who is fluidly gendered. Author Maggie Nelson on fielding nosy questions about queer families: “You have to be tough and foxy” 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

These preludes have the feel of preparatory meditations before Ms. Reeves plunges into fresh musical territory. Music Review: Dianne Reeves at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-02-26T21:36:23Z

The windmill has been transformed into a meditation chapel. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

The same New Music Group program featured the premiere of Kate Soper’s “The Ultimate Abstract Poem,” a deeply thoughtful meditation on beauty, communication and humanity, with the composer as haunting vocal soloist. The L.A. Phil's nonstop new music marathon, 'Noon to Midnight' 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

"To the End of the Land" is a powerful meditation. 'To the End of the Land': A mother's grief and a country's corrosive burden 2010-10-06T23:08:00Z

The film ultimately hopes to position itself above such a story, aiming instead for a meditation on faith and forgiveness, but its writing and direction lacks the emotional substance to produce anything legitimately affecting. ‘What Remains’ Review: Murder Thriller Without the Thrills 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

His book is both a manual and meditation, in chapters moving alphabetically from collards to potatoes, on the forces of history that made him the cook that he is. Is It Southern Food, or Soul Food? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

There were spaces for quieter activities, including restorative yoga, meditation, sound healing and Feldenkrais physical therapy. ‘The Ranch’: In Mexico, a spa’s luxury inspires a cultish devotion 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

J. Anthony Granelli: As a musician I find that I’m constantly dealing with my mind, the same kind of stuff that meditation brings up. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

Can you explain the role meditation plays in the course? I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

A few lay flat, eyes closed, as if in meditation. Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns the Armory Into an Aviary 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Fleeing a meditation retreat in a deer park hosted by her New Age masseuse, Sonja realizes that paid touch and urban simulacra of wilderness have worn thin. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

“It was only when I started meditation that my ideas flourished,” he said. Creativity may be key to healthy aging. Here are ways to stay inspired. 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

Wilson builds every episode around teaching some new skill before getting interrupted by a diversion that seems to stumble into a philosophical meditation on a broader theme. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

It’s a screwball comedy with a dash of mental illness; a conventional tale of family pathos; a sendup of Big Pharma; a meditation on consumption, marriage, the nature of work. Review: Facing Marriage and Befriending a Squirrel in ‘The Portable Veblen’ 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

This space between Coltrane and what the audience sees and hears makes the work more of a universal meditation on art. ‘Walking With ’Trane’: A dance ode to the art of John Coltrane 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

“Atom Bomb!,” drawn by Wood, is a moving seven-page meditation on the human consequences of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The Dirty Details of War 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Ian McEwan's novel Solar is an allegory of entropy and the death of the planet, an eco-comedy, a dark meditation on how human failings make it unlikely that we will act on global warming. Ian McEwan, Rachel Whiteread and the frozen north 2010-04-16T10:31:00Z

In the West, we tend to associate Buddhism with meditation. Transcendence in Los Angeles traffic: On gridlock and mindfulness 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

This ceremony was the start of my silent meditation retreat in February at the Insight Meditation Society, a retreat center on 400 wooded acres in Barre, Mass., just 60 miles from Boston. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

When not at prayer, Mr. Baasansuren fulfills more quotidian obligations, including overseeing a school for young monks, a meditation center, and eventually, if all goes according to plan, a community center. Photography: Bringing a Monastery Back to Life 2011-01-19T13:00:03Z

We started early morning meditation with different meditation techniques. 10 life-changing retreats worldwide: readers’ travel tips 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

This week's episode sees them perform Where Have All The Children Gone, an actual meditation on child abduction that will one day form the centrepiece of Apocalypse! Dance Moms, awful but addictive 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z

Many of the poems are meditations on cosmic affairs, like the incomprehensible vastness of space and humanity’s efforts to understand our place in the universe, but the collection is also anchored in the personal. Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

He’s written a symphonic piece with Ben Folds slated for next spring and made large-scale abstract images based on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to serve as audience meditation aids. Uninvited Pigeon invades author Mo Willems’ TV special 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

“People associate meditation with being calm or relaxed, but it’s really just about not getting lost in your thoughts,” he says. The joy audit: how to have more fun in 2020 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

The only genre that he works in now is the one he’s been refining for decades, with its smooth and jagged edges, blessed and beautiful women, soulful meditations and eruptions of violence. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Paula’s suggestion that meditation and positive thinking is all the cure her son needs leads to a waiting room debate about science and alternative medicine. ‘I’m Revolting’ Review: All About the Skin They Live In 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

Yet only a superficial reading of “The Lost Daughter” would describe it as a meditation on the twin tugs of children and career. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Like her equally wondrous “Nights at the Circus,” Carter’s 1991 magical realist comedy is both a cracking picaresque and a meditation on what it means when art and life commingle. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

With a small knot in my belly, I inched forward and approached the small stage where five meditation teachers sat silently. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Chronologically malapportioned, the film races through key developments, such as Baggio’s recovery from an injury or commitment to Buddhist meditation, and more than once abruptly flashes forward several years. ‘Baggio: The Divine Ponytail’ Review: Dribbling Through a Career 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

How a silent meditation retreat helped prepare me for this. Will psychedelic mushroom vacations come to the U. S.? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Dargel created “What Might Have Been,” a breezy meditation on nostalgia and its obsolescence, as part of a Brooklyn Philharmonic fellowship. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z

Festival, childhood games inspire a thoughtful meditation on the spectrum of black female identity. Dance Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

She then wants to observe how Orgasmic Meditation affects performance in cognitive tasks, how it changes reactivity to emotional images and how it compares with regular meditation. How do women really know if they are having an orgasm? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

On another, somewhat more oblique level, Mr. Bendjelloul acknowledged, “Searching for Sugar Man” can also be interpreted as a meditation on the fickle and arbitrary nature of celebrity and fame. A Film Spotlights the Musician Rodriguez 2012-07-20T15:58:26Z

After breakfast and meditation, the student body was divided into three groups and assigned to workshops. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

She encourages cooks to approach peeling chickpeas for hummus as meditation and to notice the way banana leaves intended to wrap a pork shoulder quickly turn shiny as they cross a gas flame. Ruth Reichl Recharges in the Kitchen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

After years of therapy he transitions to several successive forms of meditation, surrounding himself with various communities to support that practice. On the Page and Out Loud, Two Actors Recount Very Different Paths 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

I also have other ways that I feel God functions to do healing and also finding peace, one of which has been meditation. Q&A with Common: Push-ups, Tiffany Haddish and where the rapper finds inspiration and peace 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

While we worked, she told me that art is a form of meditation. dIn North Carolina, the Art of Living Retreat is a balancing act of rest and activities 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Her pandemic project has been “The Storm Before the Calm,” an album of wordless meditation tracks striving for serenity. Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

It actually begins with spoken dialogue, accompanied by what I would basically call Muzak, by a meditation teacher. After Transforming Classics, an Opera Company Tries a Premiere 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

It was still a meditation on grief, but one that opened itself up enough to recognise the moments of absurdity that come with bereavement. Why Damon Lindelof's HBO Watchmen should be a triumph 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

The encounter made for a slightly somber meditation on mortality as we resumed our crawl up into the mountainous areas. Forgoing Sunrise for Sunset on Maui’s Volcano 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Adapted, directed and choreographed by Matthew Earnest, after the Rebecca Solnit book, the play traipses from ancient Athens to modern-day Las Vegas, offering an extended meditation on human locomotion as it goes. | 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking': Matthew Earnest?s ?Wanderlust? at Ice Factory Festival 2010-07-15T23:26:00Z

If Bolin’s book is a lyrical meditation, Tea’s is a good-natured slap. Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

On the first night, they played one of the jewels in their catalog, and did so with a typically immersivie meditation. Grateful Dead in Santa Clara, Night 1: Rainbows, dancing bears and bliss 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

I thought it was a meditation on grief, memory, the brain. Janelle Brown on taboos, motherhood and her novel 'Watch Me Disappear' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

It would be hard to overstate the subtlety of these two meditations on self-centredness, each stimulating new thoughts long after one leaves the gallery and both achieved with the simplest possible means. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

The son of David Nichtern, an accomplished musician and a Buddhist teacher himself, the younger Mr. Nichtern, like his father, teaches in the Shambhala tradition, and also founded the Interdependence Project, a secular meditation group. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Mark Nepo’s meditation nearly put me to sleep, but Elizabeth Gilbert of “Eat, Pray, Love” fame, perked me up with her perkiness immediately. Oprah Winfrey Hits the Road With Her 'Life You Want Weekend' Tour 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Quaker Meeting is much like meditation, except done together. Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z

It was in California that Huxley had a kind of spiritual awakening, joining the Vedanta Society of Southern California, where he learned meditation. Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

It’s taken me some time to embrace meditation. Jovan Adepo Gets Workout Tips From John Krasinski 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Amid the adventures, there are meditations on narrative, on knowledge and on the oceans’ fragile ecosystems. Review: ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,’ With a Message on the Environment 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

In September 2018, participants in a Yom Kippur meditation began to arrive in front of the Turtle Pond in Central Park. A Match Made in Group Meditation 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Clark listens to guided meditations or tango music while she sits in a sauna. Infrared Saunas: Why Some Like It Hotter 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

It emphasizes the traditions of Buddhism, meditation and tai chi, and at its inception it enjoyed a close relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. Falun Gong, banned in China, finds a loud protest voice in the U.S. through Shen Yun dance troupe 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Gentle, wistful and often quite beautiful, Bruce Thierry Cheung’s “Don’t Come Back From the Moon” is a dreamlike meditation on abandoned children and dying locations. ‘Don’t Come Back From the Moon’ Review: When Men Leave, Children Grow Up. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

It’s rare for a hotel to offer both guided meditation sessions and hatchet-throwing classes. Namaste, y’all: Kicking back at a Texas-style New Age resort in Austin 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

She relied on meditation, exercising, nutrition and focusing on her mental health - and even claims that she managed to ease her symptoms without medication. Mom, 64, says she gets mistaken for daughter’s sister: 'People react to my age with astonishment' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

“Sleep” ended with a fade-out, immediately followed by the voice of a Beautyrest staff doctor, guiding the audience through meditation with the phlegmatic voice “Saturday Night Live” actors use to parody NPR. On the Mattress for ‘Sleep,’ an 8-Hour Lullaby 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

It came at a time when audiences had tired of atonal experimentalism, and Mr Isserlis’s glowingly melodious account of Tavener’s meditation on Greek Orthodox themes chimed happily with the popular mood. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

By then I’d decided that taking care of myself and finding a way to live with my child’s death had become my full-time job: therapy, yoga, meditation and Prozac were the tools of the trade. Modern Love: Gifts for the Broken-Hearted 2010-10-15T21:20:00Z

The combination of 10 minutes of theory, 10 minutes of practice and cheery animation makes meditation less daunting – if only because sitting and staring at a screen is so familiar. Headspace Guide to Meditation: can Netflix deliver enlightenment in 20 minutes? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

“The Cheffe” might ultimately be a meditation on the impossibility of combining an artistic life with a family life. Review | In Marie NDiaye’s ‘The Cheffe,’ a genius in the kitchen tries to make it in a man’s world 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

The Sufi poet Rumi wrote meditations on death and the afterlife that would have been entirely comprehensible to Donne. Poster poems: religion 2013-04-12T15:23:10Z

The uncommonly deft combination of dance and verbal theater heightens the impact of what might sound like a cliché: a profound meditation on life and death. ‘Last Ward’ Review: Ashes to Ashes, Dirt to Dirt 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

In the hymnlike electronic meditation “Doomed,” the singer wonders, “Am I vital if my heart is idle? Am I doomed?” Moses Sumney Does Not Sing Love Songs 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

“John’s interpretation is more a meditation on his life.” Dramatizing the Story of a Gay Mid-Century Tattoo Artist Who Was So Much More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

A polite, thoughtful, intense man, Mr. Carter does not necessarily possess the obvious résumé of a playwright who would produce a Sartre-style meditation on history and theology. He Puts Bill Maher on TV, and Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy on Stage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

This section is far more languid, with meditations on azaleas, architecture and “bovarism,” the romantic practice of escaping real life by focusing on impossible dreams. ‘Inheritance From Mother’: A must-read novel about the tangled bonds of motherhood 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

I Will Make You Sad is a sparse meditation on inevitable disappointment, HNC and her music sounding melancholy but all the while aware that she is the one who is going to let someone down. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z

A meditation on fallen soldiers leads to personal reflections, such as one about a grandfather who survived but who, according to family lore, enlisted underage. 'The Missing of the Somme': Geoff Dyer on the lingering losses of WWI 2011-08-31T21:32:07Z

Much of this Biennale is more subdued and less experimental than in years past, more of a nostalgic meditation on life and art than a revelatory peek into the future. Old Patina Encircles Fresh Art in Venice 2011-06-05T21:15:27Z

It wasn’t fit for skating, or surfing, or skiing, but for meditation. Review: Colleen Focuses on Precision With Fingers and Feet 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Fire pits and meditation spaces are also in demand. Four online services that will help fix up your house — no home visit required 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

In the liner notes of his new recording, Mr. Trifonov calls these pieces “existential meditations,” and he has added a second disc to encompass Liszt’s other solo-piano études. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Moore sees magic as a form of meditation, an outlet for his seriously vivid imagination. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

Dawn meditation among a medley of cicada song and jasmine blossom provided a sense of peace I still often think about. 10 life-changing retreats worldwide: readers’ travel tips 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The book wove together science, history, literature, philosophy and case studies and remains one of the best philosophical meditations on the age of biological psychiatry. Should We Still Listen to Prozac? Peter D. Kramer Jumps Back Into the Antidepressant Debate 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

As a meditation on prejudice and senseless persecution, the video is, at best, politically naïve. M.I.A.?s Agitprop Pop 2010-05-26T04:15:00Z

“Bololo Haha” is almost radically spare, a skeletal and punishing meditation replete with gun shots, revving motorcycle engines, ambulance sirens and the hoarse barking of one of the scene’s current stars, MC Bin Laden. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Still, as a meditation on the malaise and political divides afflicting our country, "Social Security" has considerable collective power. Artists re-imagine 'The Game of Life' in satirical exhibition 2011-06-24T21:26:05Z

He had only talked about meditation before, but now he read books on Buddhism and became quieter, going further inside himself. Modern Love: A Pact to Make the Heart Grow Fonder? 2013-08-16T17:21:57Z

The bride’s father is a mindfulness, meditation and spiritual direction consultant. Sarah Perlmeter, Jonah Freelander 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Neither slick nor propulsive, “The Loneliest Whale” gently combines aquatic adventure and bobbing meditation on our own species’s environmental arrogance. ‘The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52’ Review: Sea Hunt 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

"Many of us are still hesitant to go back to the gym or yoga studio and instead are investing in creating home-gyms and/or meditation spaces," she says. These are the most trending home features for 2022 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The show is a meditation on interdependence that shows that “relationships don’t exist in a vacuum,” said Meadhbh McHugh, an Irish playwright who adapted five episodes. In ‘Conversations With Friends,’ It’s Complicated 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

“I went to counseling, meditation groups, did every kind of self-improvement course you could imagine,” Mr. Jones said. How Van Jones Became a Star of the 2016 Campaign 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Beginning on Dec. 6, 1941, and unfolding in 23 days of real-time narration, “Perfidia” is a murder mystery, a subversive historical novel, and a dark meditation on power, politics, race and justice. James Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’: dark doings on the eve of WWII 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

After all, Buddhists caught on to this craving problem thousands of years ago, using meditation to overcome the very urges that they identified as the linchpin of human suffering, long before these dopamine-fuelled times. Constant cravings: is addiction on the rise? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Adding just a touch of humor by sardonic emphasis on a word here and there, he turns this long, logorrheic meditation on the differences among life, literature and the stage into an endearing bedtime story. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z

The drone tones in “Sax Solfa” underlie saxophone lines and loops, darting and rippling keyboards and bursts of gibberish vocal syllables, surfacing like anxieties no meditation can dispel. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Take Control, and 10 More New Songs 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

What follows is a pleasingly lightweight, antic, bed-hopping meditation on identity, in which nobody seems quite sure who anybody else is, including themselves. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z

"It was after this diagnosis that my meditation practice and disciplined self-care became the foundation of how I live my life." Mom, 64, says she gets mistaken for daughter’s sister: 'People react to my age with astonishment' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

It was so different than anything I’d ever experienced in any other form of meditation. Lynn Shelton on Overcoming Her Darkest Moment on Set 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

“Dissolution,” described in a program note as “a personal meditation on misunderstandings, interference and disruptions,” conveyed a sense of directed improvisation. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros and Olivia Block Find the Unconventional 2013-09-15T22:03:58Z

But it contains, in its own way, a meditation on how history can make, and unmake, the meaning of our lives. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Over the past few decades, labyrinths have been repurposed to aid in meditation, healing and inspiration, and have been established at churches, schools, parks, museums and hospitals. Flower bed, patio table ... labyrinth? Winding paths are a new backyard trend. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Yet almost as if by dare or experimental design, three different series are trying to beat the odds, and all of these meditations on love begin Thursday. It’s Ennui Time on ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Married’ 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

What Burleigh has produced is a long, brilliant, original, opinionated and scholarly meditation on morality as it appeared, or failed to appear, during the last global conflict. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z

Williamson speaks in a husky alto with a cadence that is part meditation guide and part preacher. Perspective | Marianne Williamson won’t make you feel better about America, but you’ll feel better about yourself 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Days at the residences in Long Beach and Los Angeles begin with a morning meditation and conclude with healthful dinners cooked by staffers. Leaving Gun Towers and Barbed Wire for a Healing House 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

That weekend, I sat in my apartment for hours doing my work in a meditation retreat to cultivate intuition, befriend trauma and get free — or something like that. Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s good to be in nature for the meditation,” he said, “to go far from the world.” Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

I find as much value in a horror remake with a large budget for entrails as I do in one that’s a moody meditation on the transformative power of dance. For the Love (and the Hate) of the Horror Remake 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

You would also benefit from mindfulness activities such as exercise and meditation. Perspective | Ask Amy: Addict inches his way toward recovery 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

In most other cases, however, the goddess is no merely passive object for lubricious meditation. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z

All around, tall buildings loomed, while on the performance stage, 100 cars worked through what felt like a meditation. A 100-Car Army of Sound in Los Angeles 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

When it’s time to make dinner, I enjoy the conceptualizing, I love the cooking, and, when I have time, I luxuriate in the chopping and knife work as a slow, pleasant meditation. For a head start on your weeknight cooking, here’s what to make 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Most nights, thankfully, the meditation app helped me calm down enough to drift off while listening to it. Living with Exploding Head Syndrome: This is what it feels like to hear gunshots in your mind 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

The shorter entry is a meditation on California, the place Didion grew up and long called home. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

To reach a larger audience, Jewel and Dr. Brewer made the program available for free on a separate website that explores meditation and what Jewel calls “mindfulness in motion” or “doing exercises that are practicable.” Jewel Wants You to Be Present 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

My day job requires lots of social interaction, so the meditation is a welcome escape. It’s Bad Enough That My Mom Died. Now My Dad Is Dating Her Nurse? 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Canada, France and even the United States drove her meditations on regional identity, nationalism and its extremes, and the defining and restricting powers of a mother tongue. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z

The first half of “Boy Hood,” his collaboration with Trombone Shorty and PJ Morton, retrofits trap aesthetics for a meditation on the simple joys of childhood in New Orleans. Why the Grammys Couldn’t Resist Jon Batiste 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Instead, he gave me a book he wrote about seeking enlightenment through meditation called, “Seeing Things as They Really Are.” Finding a Warm Welcome in the Elqui Valley 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

The poems, printed beside reproductions of the photos, are bracing meditations on the fragility of life, notions of personhood, and what survives time’s weathering.  Poet Paisley Rekdal should be better known, and 'Imaginary Vessels' may be the collection to do it 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Kyle Abraham’s company A.I.M. occupies the temporary stage from Saturday to Monday with “Dearest Home,” which he calls a meditation on “love, longing and loss.” 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The other was an extended shadowy installation of videos, photographs and audio work of a kind I don’t remember from previous biennials, seamlessly atmospheric, time-suspending meditation on history in-the-now. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

What makes it so intoxicating, though, is that the tango is really an inside job — a hypnotic, dancing meditation. On paying for it: Ten cents a dance (adjusted for inflation) 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

An earlier play of Ms. Keegan’s, “Utility Monster,” a meditation on charity and ethics, was given a staged reading by the Firework Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in February. Marina Keegan’s ‘Independents’ at the Fringe 2012-08-19T03:40:26Z

That was especially true of “Cortez the Killer,” a Zinn-like meditation on how violence shaped the colonization of the Americas. Neil Young, solo in Chicago, builds to a rafter-rattling finale 2011-05-07T13:50:05Z

A year after my hostage experience, meditation, frequent exercise and trauma and talk therapy, along with regular connection time with friends and family are helping me find my new normal. I was a hostage at the 2018 Trader Joe's shooting. Here's what I know now about trauma 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

Halfway through my first attempt at a meditation, as an orange scribble slowly rotates on the screen, the silence is broken by an omniscient voice: “Low battery. Recharge your headset.” Headspace Guide to Meditation: can Netflix deliver enlightenment in 20 minutes? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Although the ashram welcomes drop-ins, the times of some of the yoga and meditation classes in the early morning or late evening make an overnight stay a more appealing option. Who knew nirvana was tucked away in Virginia’s back roads?

Our reviewer, Anne Barnard, calls the book “a classic meditation on war, how it compels and resists our efforts to order it with meaning.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Now 38, Karen still lives with her parents and works as a writer and a meditation teacher. This Life: After a near-death moment, her life took a spiritual turn 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a mordant meditation on capitalist imperialism and mindless consumerism. An H.C. Westermann Retrospective Melds Humor and Provocation 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

“The Book of V.” is a meditation on female power and powerlessness, the stories told about women and the ones we tell about and to ourselves. Multiple Women, Three Centuries, One Far-Reaching New Novel 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Similarly, “Star Wars” may become an endless meditation on adolescence through which different actors precipitate, first as teen-agers, then as parents. The Growing Emptiness of the Star Wars Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Weiner, the Princeton dean, who led the guided meditation, said in an interview that he thinks of the quality created in the room not so much as silence but as sensitivity. Out of Silence, the Music of Meditation 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

For her latest journey, she constructed a 58-minute instrumental piece of “new age ancient futuristic medicine music” for the meditation app Headspace. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

As played on a defiantly anachronistic Yamaha grand piano, both short meditations seemed to anticipate Chopin’s preludes. Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

With its patterns and repetitions, scrutinising its own workings from every possible angle, the novella becomes a highly wrought meditation on ageing, memory and regret. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z

He was practicing a very expensive form of meditation. Justin Hartley of ‘This Is Us’ Meditates on His Rolexes 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The meditations, mantras and yoga moves he invents, however bogus, transform lives, as his followers discover their inner gurus and gain a self-mastery. Movie Review: Vikram Gandhi’s ‘Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet’ 2012-06-19T22:02:15Z

Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book promises to be another complex meditation on the nature of culture and communication, like his previous competition entry Farewell to Language. Peter Bradshaw on the Cannes 2018 lineup: Netflix out, plenty of newcomers in 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

This is a bold approach, but also a savvy one—it arrives at a time when young listeners across demographics are primed for a meditation on black empowerment in the face of injustice. Solange Knowles’s Album of Black Life in America 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

I was wondering if meditation has affected your own relationship to music? Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

Even outside integrative medicine clinics, many doctors now recommend meditation, discuss exercise habits, and emphasize good nutrition to patients. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z

He played just two of his own compositions; one was “Word Order,” a drifting meditation in an elliptical meter, first heard on his second album. Ravi Coltrane and Company Perform at Jazz Standard 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

It’s “Freakonomics” meets the Death Star, if you will, with meditations on the bonds of fathers and sons. A Harvard Professor Goes ‘Star Wars’ Crazy 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Cape; 305 pages; £25 A meditation on the transitory and frustrating essence of light, as studied by poets, painters and scientists, by our obituaries editor. What we wrote... 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

In another, Sunim remembers a meditation retreat where an older monk directed him to sweep the steps. The ‘mega monk’ who wants us to slow down and embrace our imperfections 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

But the revelry belied the grim content of “Mind Warp,” a meditation on the body besieged that Mr. Cowley created while withering from the effects of a mysterious affliction. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

After a long night of agita, debauchery and soiled underwear — sort of Hubert Selby Jr. meets the Billy Joel of “Captain Jack” — several find themselves at an upstate guru’s meditation center. | 'The Hungry Ghosts': Eastern Religion in an Ensemble Drama 2010-10-01T00:03:00Z

He’ll also publish a book, Mass Mantra, which is a do-it-yourself guide to meditation. The Enlightenment Of Russell Simmons 2012-10-18T14:42:42Z

In “he his own mythical beast,” the choreographer David Thomson offers what he calls “a meditation on the mythologies and contradictions of identity, race, gender and the black body in postmodern American culture.” Dance in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The piece is at once an understated narrative and an ethereal meditation. Music Review: The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met 2012-12-24T22:47:20Z

In place of the transporting, narrative quality of the Schubert original, Mr. Martynov focuses on the music’s mechanical underpinnings and spins them into a haunting, hypnotic meditation. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Zankel Hall 2012-02-29T22:59:59Z

“It’s like a form of meditation. The calmer you are, the more you see.” Fashion will survive. But many of the designers at the heart of the industry might not. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

The work is both eulogy and elegy, tone poem and meditation. Sufjan Stevens, a haunting presence at Constitution Hall 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

I'd never been particularly great at meditation, but increasingly the idea of cultivating a space where I could reorient my attention away from my worries made me interested in trying it again. Sit and linger: Living a slower life started with changing how I take my coffee 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

They have created music videos, opera sets and, most recently, a gripping, nonlinear, half-hour meditation on the collection of 19th-century medical curiosities owned by the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. The Week Ahead: Aug. 5 — Aug. 11 2012-08-03T18:25:27Z

Together, the amplifier, the figure and the neon gel into a triple artwork in their own right, a biting meditation on history, memory and defiance. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

This work is meditation, a way of going on. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

At each performance an unrehearsed actor breaks open a sealed envelope and performs Soleimanpour’s script, creating a meditation on intimacy, empathy and exile. 8 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Mindfulness meditation has also helped to reduce substance abuse. Constant cravings: is addiction on the rise? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a gallery show, offering a gauntlet of video installations, each piece demanding meditation. The Urgent, Giddily Imaginative Vision of “Random Acts of Flyness” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

With its echoes of Borges and Calvino, “Budapest” was a mixture of social satire and absurdist comedy as well as a meditation on the mystery and beauty of words. Books Of the Times: ‘Spilt Milk’ by Chico Buarque 2012-12-23T22:01:52Z

The dancers keep their gazes low, with a soft inward-looking focus, like practitioners of meditation or tai chi. Shen Wei Revives ‘Map,’ a Work from 2005 2014-04-11T21:47:13Z

If The Divine Comedy is, finally, a 500-page meditation on love's ceaseless dramas, then James's translation derives its inspiration from his own nearly 50-year association with a great Italian scholar. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z

This year’s Womad devoted two acres to its spa and wellbeing area, and featured 40 vendors and therapists offering everything from meditation with a Buddhist monk to shamanic healing. Wellness: just expensive hype, or worth the cost? 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

Try the National Gallery’s meditations on its YouTube channel, where a soft voice leads the viewer through a meditative slow look at paintings like Van Gogh’s swirling “A Wheatfield, with Cypresses.” My trip to London was canceled, so I took it on YouTube instead 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Jessop is too straight-laced and buttoned down to fully be the center of a play that is essentially a meditation on paranoia. 'Bug' at Redtwist Theatre: Up-close production can't help but crawl under your skin 2011-06-02T13:06:50Z

He earned his New Age nickname thanks to albums such as Inside the Taj Mahal and Inside the Great Pyramid, which he made after studying transcendental meditation alongside the Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul Horn, Jazz flautist, dies at 84 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Annie Ernaux, “Things Seen,” which pretends to be a casual diary about nothing in particular but is in fact a sustained meditation on the relationship between private disequilibrium and public violence. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

It’s relaxing and meditative, something I’m familiar with through attending meditation workshops before this. At Marina Abramovic’s ‘Generator,’ Blindfolds Are Required 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Meditation, if it is anything at its core, because of course there's many kinds of meditation, is an effort to discipline the mind. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

The teacher offered a wooden L-shaped contraption to help prop up my back during the meditation. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

For Lee Mingwei, the Taiwanese-American artist who created “Our Labyrinth,” a performance installation, it is a meditation — a space to clear the mind and body. Dancing With Rice: A Meditative Pas de Deux at the Met 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Now their friend at the golf club is doing the latest meditation, too,” she said. Want a Shaman With That Massage? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

There's even a thoughtful meditation on the existence of God, Doubting Thomas, given a slinky, bluesy backing, and an update of the traditional Nottamun Town, now treated as a contemporary political nightmare. Steve Tilston: The Reckoning ? review 2011-07-21T21:31:01Z

The resort spa is lodged in a 300-year-old wooden house imported from Thailand and spreads over 15,000 square feet indoors and outdoors, with private spa villas, a juice bar and a meditation garden. Festival and Hotel News: Lights in Baltimore, Music in St. Martin 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

There is no dissolving the sense of self, except perhaps through the occasional respite of meditation. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us

It recently launched “A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer,” a musical meditation on illness and free will, which writer Bryony Kimmings developed in a National Theatre workshop in a co-production with Complicite Associates. A theater-lover’s introduction to London’s multiplicity of stages 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The latest collection continued her meditations on contemporary and historical portrayals of the female form, with ornate brocades, embroidery, pearl beading and taffeta on simple fabrics given modern wearability on cocooning, exploded silhouettes. A London Fashion Week Where Beauty Was a Balm 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

A Japanese peace and meditation garden on the newer south side of town. It could happen anywhere 2012-08-07T22:24:00Z

Logic and neuroscience might ground the modern rationale for meditation, but to meditate in order to be happy is counterintuitive. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The film is partly a meditation on grappling with ancient traditions in a modern China, as well as an outline of one man’s regrets. Review: ‘Kaili Blues,’ a Dreamy Trek With Otherworldly Beauty 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

While that celebratory epithalamion, “The Whitsun Weddings,” has been voted the most popular English poem of the previous half-century, I myself would have opted for “Aubade,” Larkin’s last and most terrifying meditation on death. Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth

It's a challenging meditation on form and memory, but performed with such a droll tension that it's also a deliciously entertaining kind of dance theatre. Dance Umbrella – review 2012-10-07T15:21:19Z

Whether Easter means meditations on the Passion or a longing for chocolate, the time for writing it down is now. Poster poems: Easter 2010-03-26T10:58:00Z

So at 33 years old, she stopped — with the help of therapy, meditation and Allen Carr’s “The Easy Way to Control Alcohol.” Meet the woman who wants to make sobriety cool in an alcohol-obsessed culture 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Now I’m practicing only about once a week, for meditation, stretching and community. Skin Deep: A Yoga Devotee Finds a New Guru in a Personal Trainer 2011-11-22T19:35:25Z

An early romance evolves into a relationship that suffers under the strain of Chagall’s obsession with his work, and the play finally transforms into a meditation on grief when Bella dies in 1944. Play About Marc Chagall Wins Edinburgh Theater Prize 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a characteristic moment for this admirably intentioned, sometimes funny, often tedious meditation on the topic of menstruation. Review | A little earnest absurdism about bodily functions goes a long way in the Welders’ ‘LadyM’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Nichols, “Shotgun Stories,” “Take Shelter” and “Mud” are an Arkansas trilogy, a meditation on family, masculinity and environment, especially fertile subjects in the South. Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z

The tiny illustrated book is a gently soul-stirring meditation on the universality of grief, and the healing power of community and nature. 'Have You Seen Marie?' loss and renewal in the search for a runaway cat 2012-10-03T21:53:06Z

He ended his speech by calling for an end to racial oppression and cultural appropriation, including a reference to the Billie Holiday song, “Strange Fruit,” a meditation on racism and lynchings. How Jesse Williams Stole BET Awards With Speech on Racism 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

I don't think of myself as Buddhist, in spite of all the meditation, but I'm attracted to some of the common sense of Buddhism. A life in writing: Tim Parks 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z

July 13, 1798; the precision of the title makes for an apt prelude to Wordsworth's extended meditation on memory, time and place. Poster poems: July 2012-07-13T15:49:08Z

While voluntary meditation is liberating, coercive isolation in imposed silence is known to quite literally drive people crazy. Do 12-step programs lead to cults? 2012-08-28T19:46:00Z

Early episodes included an interview with an acoustic designer and a meditation from the producer Katie Mingle on the golden age of suburban cul-de-sacs. SiriusXM Is Buying ‘99% Invisible,’ and Street Cred in Podcasting 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

The infrequent correspondences between text and dance — or the rare synchronicity of a musical plunk and the turn of a head — ring like bells during meditation. A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The nearly 12-minute short, called “Yours and Mine,” is an ethereal look at the singer’s current meditations on the range of subjects she explored on the album. Beyonce celebrates last year's surprise album with short film 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The monks welcome visitors to join them for scheduled meditations and run summer retreats. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

“The practice of mindfulness and meditation demonstrates the upside of slowing down.” No hotel gym, no problem: 10 gear-free ways to exercise while traveling 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Those serene Buddhist monks who spent tens of thousands of hours in meditation? Review: In ‘Cure,’ Accepting the Mind’s Role in a Body’s Health 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

And then doing some sort of mindfulness meditation therapy, possibly a Zoloft, possibly Prazosin to get the nightmares under control. Author and ex-Marine David Morris on PTSD, 'American Sniper' 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Cage's interest in eastern philosophies was already established, though he was not and would never become a rigorous adherent of the Zen practices of chanting and meditation. As if by chance 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

The trilogy suddenly becomes a meditation on the ties that bind, and also the difference between growing up and growing old. Aural Installations Take Over New Museum 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

O’Brien provides the narration, a meditation on the life of the city in Melville- and Whitman-inspired prose. | A Wunderkind Artist Summons a Barely Bygone New York 2013-05-07T16:33:31Z

On set, if anything, I’ll knit because it’s mechanical, a meditation and doesn’t pull focus from the work. Krysten Ritter: By the Book 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Buckingham introduced “Big Love” as a song whose meaning had shifted over the years, becoming “a meditation on the power and importance of change.” Fleetwood Mac lights up Tacoma Dome | Concert review 2013-05-21T18:11:45Z

The question propels us through a gorgeous, lively meditation on time’s many facets. Mac Barnett Reviews Picture Books About Time and Space 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

In fact it often seems like a meditation on that refusal, edging toward the fantastic and then pulling back to offer credible ways — a bad hangover, a lost memory — to explain its characters’ disorientation. Review: ‘The Dream of My Return,’ by Horacio Castellanos Moya 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Here, DaCosta returned the story to its Chicago roots, using it as scaffolding to create an intriguing, visually stunning meditation on gentrification, generational trauma, and the hype and hypocrisies of the art world. Perspective | Best movies of 2021: Almodóvar just gets better, family films make a comeback 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

There are flute meditation sessions on Instagram and thousands of people participating in dance raves that are broadcast on Twitch. True Tales of Quarantined Socializing 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

The film's most powerful moment is his meditation on the glories of Chartres cathedral, an achievement that doesn't need a dispute about authorship. F for Fake – review 2012-08-23T20:45:01Z

The most surprising fact about the lectures, however, is how they conclude: with a meditation on death. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

It could be the museum’s Tibetan Buddhism Shrine Room, an immersive look at a traditional space for prayer and meditation. Spare Times for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

You might take all of this as a meditation on time, or on minimalism in art and dance. Dance Review: Sarah Michelson?s ?Devotion Study #1? at Whitney Museum 2012-03-07T00:05:18Z

How did you come up with that meditation and decide to use it in that way? "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

There seems a tellingly narrowed spectrum of discussion afoot, contrary to the spaciousness of mind that meditation typically aims to produce. Abusing the Buddha: How the U.S. Army and Google co-opt mindfulness 2014-03-17T06:59:00Z

Calmer seas: Robert Redford plays a sailor known only as Our Man JC Chandor describes All is Lost as a "meditation on mortality" Why Robert Redford lost his voice 2013-12-23T01:10:29Z

It also ventures unflinchingly into those dark and depressing places, with no easy happy endings in sight—a multi-season meditation on what mental illness is, and what it does. The Origin Story of the Depressingly Good “BoJack Horseman” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

"The meditation exercises helped me regain my health and also find this new passion for art and culture," says Freed. Shen Yun dance troupe sheds light on Falun Gong 2010-12-28T00:15:13Z

This fascinating study of the mechanics of visual reflection and perception is also a poignant meditation on how photographic keepsakes speak to each other across a chasm of years and decades. Artist's photos capture cozy worlds within worlds 2010-04-22T21:19:00Z

In the potent “About Her. Me.,” a meditation on moving through the world as a bald, dark-skinned Black woman, she imbues each twist of the hand or scuff of the foot with a quiet vigilance. Review: In ‘An Evening of Hope,’ a Veteran Dancer Gets Personal 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Burning,” a massive, immensely absorbing meditation on America’s racial history, was the first volume in a projected trilogy and an indication of just how thoroughly Iles had recovered. ‘The Bone Tree,’ by Greg Iles: Laced with menace, betrayal and twists 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Though she says she doesn’t get overly nervous before a show, she manages anxiety with meditation and prayer. How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met Debut 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the extended Peloton universe, which besides the spinning classes also includes guided meditations, stretches, strength training and more, the instructors have carved out their own microgenres. This Is Your Brain on Peloton 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Haydn’s “Seven Last Words” is a string quartet originally written for church performance as an Easter meditation, with each movement responding to one of the exclamations Jesus made while being crucified. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z

Or, to propose only one alternative, is it a meditation on ultimate beginnings and endings that frames an autobiographical rendering of middle-class life in postwar Waco, Tex.? Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

A muffled meditation on betrayal and lost innocence, “Savage State” too often neglects to fully establish relationships before coaxing them to crisis. ‘Savage State’ Review: Escape to New York 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

It is hard to feel comfortable within the work, which abandons narrative for abstract meditation and consistency of tone for febrile shifts. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

“There are exceptions to that, though, and some people told me things like their boyfriend enjoyed the Seder because of this meditation, even though he isn’t Jewish.” Why Is This Night Different? (See QR Code.) 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

But here and in the other half of her show, there are also some resonant, Sherman-esque meditations on what it means to maintain a constant state of camera-readiness. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The seven-minute short begins with young Sanjay watching cartoons and eating cereal in a bland, beige room as his father jingles a bell, beckoning him to join in meditation. Pixar artist Sanjay Patel gets personal with 'Sanjay's Super Team' 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The film, available on Netflix and elsewhere through Shorts.TV, is a poignant meditation on loss. "If Anything Happens I Love You" is an animated "distillation of grief" from a school shooting 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

Employees also gather before each shift for “mindful minutes,” brief meditation sessions to counter the impact of work that can be physically and psychologically taxing. The Hard-Knocks Restaurant World Discovers Wellness 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

But London River is a thoughtful, resonant meditation on 7/7. Film review: London River 2010-07-08T21:40:00Z

Perhaps attempting to compensate for the virtual visual harassment of Leonardo’s masterpiece, Mr. Greenaway actually compounded the fiasco by adding a cannibalized version of his digital meditation on Veronese’s immense painting “The Wedding at Cana.” When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z

At its core, “Dune” is, as Simone Weil said of “The Iliad,” a meditation on force, in all its aspects. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

If they follow Agnes’s meditation practice, pedagogical methods and complete denial of learning challenges like ADHD, their families will settle back into their proper roles, like eggs nestled in cartons. Review | In ‘The Pessimists,’ privilege collides with desperation 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

There were raves, meetings, meditations and movie nights, all of which took place on the internet. Oh, So We’re Doing Random Video Chat Again? 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

In an age of restless movement and too much information, the practice of painting a single tree also becomes a profound, even radical act of mindfulness, meditation and care. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

There is a sense of meditation or spirituality in Havas' paintings, generated by his luminous colors and gracious compositions, but it's an earthly spirituality, rooted in this world. A tribute to Paul Havas, skilled NW landscape painter 2012-03-07T22:57:03Z

She typically recommends 10 minutes of meditation twice a day, though there are relaxation podcasts or cuddle sessions with a pet or loved one that can help curb anxiety and other stressors. How to reverse your biological age and feel younger without spending a fortune 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

These field notes provide springboards to wider meditations on our attitudes to the natural world. Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson – review 2013-03-15T17:42:01Z

Don closes his eyes to engage in some hippie meditation yoinked from a third-world religion, allowing a soft, almost imperceptible smile to cross his face. “Mad Men” finale recap: “Someday, people are going to brag that they worked with you” 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Later, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he developed an interest in Eastern religions and found connections between contemplation and meditation. Movie Review: ‘Thomas Keating’ Follows a Life From Affluent to Austere 2014-04-10T23:23:52Z

But on the set of “Paterson,” Jim Jarmusch’s meditation on poetry both on the page and in life, the one-liners were variations on a deceptively simple theme. Adam Driver Takes the Wheel 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Cavendish’s self-portrait included a searching meditation on her crippling fear of social groups and her extreme bashfulness. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

But it was also purposefully small — a de facto love story between teacher and student, and a meditation on failed fathers. ‘La La Land’ Is Stuck in Its Own Time 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

A night of silent prayer and meditation will follow a half-hour performance by an all-male vocal quartet. Heralding a Joyous Spring 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The show is an extended meditation on nature’s grandeur and what it means to exist, to see and to be an artist. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Let 2022 be the year you finally start that regular meditation practice. Morning habits doctors and psychologists wish you would do 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

It’s a meditation on social identity, a journey to the mythical land of one’s ancestors, an evocation of childhood as a place of stories and mystery, and a quest for the self. Dance Review: ?Desh? From Akram Khan at Sadler?s Wells - Review 2011-10-08T00:37:35Z

The performance was thought to be a meditation on the burials at sea that he had observed on board a vessel bearing captives to be repatriated to Japan. Kazuo Ohno obituary 2010-06-07T17:40:00Z

We got in touch with the Prison Mindfulness Institute and many of the organizations that work with prisoners teaching them meditation techniques. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

When he doesn’t remember something, he digresses on subjects that matter to him: trees, L.A. light, transcendental meditation. Review | David Lynch writes a memoir — but reveals only more mysteries 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

The story initially presents itself as a complex, timely meditation on the struggles of a refugee trapped between two worlds, an adventure with a thoughtful, nuanced core. Magic Ripples Just Below the Surface in These Novels 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

It becomes a meditation on the power of writing — “the flowering of a personal imaginative vision” — as a pathway to a cure. Siri Hustvedt wonders why we revere the intellect and distrust the body 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. McCallum has developed her own practice, called Five, which is a combination of yoga, breath work, meditation and cold exposure. Yoga, Then an Ice Bath 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

What followed was a meditation on walking that meandered like a walk, but was held together with narrative gel and some funny interjections from his walking partner. Radio review: Twenty Minutes ? Walking on Snowdon 2011-03-02T08:00:01Z

The poem is a mental exercise, a meditation. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

I like that the coach teaches meditation to calm the boys. "Free Solo" filmmakers recreated Thai soccer team cave rescue: "A massive and chaotic operation" 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Interweaving factual reporting and magic realism with meditations on myth, history and the quicksilver nature of truth, Mr. Martínez’s two most famous novels explore the lives of Argentina’s two best-known and most enigmatic figures. 2010-02-06T07:20:00Z

But, he added, "What I'm doing with my painting is a form of meditation." Review: The community of Fishtown is gone, but museum in La Conner conjures up its spirit 2010-09-10T04:01:00Z

Most days, after meditation and two morning smokes, she paints during regular office hours at her London studio, taking breaks to chat with Carlos at the gallery next door. Issy Wood Met Power Players in Art and Music. She Went Her Own Way. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Today, Yogaville provides workshops in yoga, meditation, interfaith spiritual teachings, or just a day of retreat. Who knew nirvana was tucked away in Virginia’s back roads?

As much as it is a marital dirge, “Siracusa” is also a meditation on writing – specifically, on the difficulties of embodying life in fiction. An Italian vacation is not what two couples hoped in Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

In notes distributed at the movie’s premiere, Mekas, who died last year at 96, called it his “meditation on love and death in a period of darkness,” and “Guns” is a period piece. Jonas Mekas’s Debut Is an Artifact of Beat-Era New York 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Just as the Magritte is not a pipe, but a painting of a pipe, Mr. Esber’s project is not a portrait of Mr. bin Laden, it’s a meditation on drawing and individuality. Last Chance: An Artist and His Friends Take on Bin Laden 2010-12-22T17:14:58Z

Swimming is something that I enjoy doing because it’s a moment of meditation. Yo-Yo Ma Tries to Bring Us Comfort and Hope 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The book, published last week by Pantheon, mixes memoiristic meditations on the lexicographic life along with a detailed description of the brain-twisting work of writing dictionaries. A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Abstractionism, easy to look at, does not require meditation, and buyers to whom time is money do not waste it by looking too long at what they settle for. The Fever Bubbling in Contemporary Art Sales 2011-11-11T14:00:10Z

A concert version of the show, a meditation on married life and relationships, ran in New York in 2011 with Neil Patrick Harris in the lead role. Marianne Elliott to Direct Sondheim and Furth’s ‘Company,’ With a Gender Twist 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Claudia Rankine won the poetry award for “Citizen: An American Lyric,” a meditation on race in America that weaves together poetry, sports and pop culture references and cultural criticism. ‘Lila’ Honored as Top Fiction by National Book Critics Circle 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

This perfectly weighted collection feels like a companion volume to his erudite and profound meditation on death, Nothing to be Frightened of. Pulse by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z

It “is also a moving meditation on grief time, where there is no beginning, no end, and ‘each hour, each day, passes with excruciating slowness yet it is all happening very quickly.’” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The results – which have been accepted for publication in the journal Psychological Science – detail how, among relatively interdependent-minded individuals, the brief mindfulness meditation caused them to become more generous. Mindfulness meditation can make some Americans more selfish and less generous 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

By the end of such a meal, something has happened to you, something close to the psychic euphoria produced by yoga or meditation. In Search of Japan’s Hidden Culinary Revolution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

"The thing that drove me to write this is that it's a meditation on mortality," he says. Why Robert Redford lost his voice 2013-12-23T01:10:29Z

And the moment may be exactly right for a paranoid meditation on the possible end of the human race. Review: The Perfect Timing of ‘Westworld’ Season 3 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The famous bogeyman of the global economic collapse is one of three characters in Ms. Margolin’s somewhat diffuse, oddly meandering meditation on the mysteries of the Madoff psyche. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z

When I went upstairs to the main meditation room, I was a bit distracted by the ritual. Which works better: A meditation app or in-person instruction? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

After that, however, the runway went kind of bananas, like a meditation labyrinth for sufferers of fashion-obsessive, shopping-compulsion disorder who have gone off their meds. The Vogue Show 2010-09-08T15:06:00Z

The meditation teacher invited me to slow down enough to hear the sound of my body’s intuition, as if my life depends on it, because it does. Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

It was the monastic library, the Shaker meeting houses, places that combined work and meditation, stiff-back chairs and lap rugs. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Michael Kamen's brief Quintet, written for Canadian Brass, is a sweet meditation. L.A. Phil chamber players start Next on Grand in here and now 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

He tapped into the walking meditations he had learned from Landsman, who was at the Carnegie concert and recognized what he was doing from her seat. A Young Horn Player Could Become ‘a Real Legend’ 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

Called a “phantom opera” by its creators, the work is a kind of meditation on colonialism, loosely based on the story of Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, a brutal British Army commander in Africa; Ione directs. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

As part of a Diaghilev celebration last year, Russell Maliphant presented AfterLight, a meditation on the work of Nijinsky, whose blazing career as a dancer was tragically halted by schizophrenia. Russell Maliphant company 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

As the ancient stretching and meditation practice gained popularity, the travel industry began seeing dollar signs in sun salutations. 2010-02-02T21:49:00Z

“A Sky of Honey” follows the oceanic turbulence and the percussive, hard-riffing, globe-hopping music of “The Ninth Wave” with a meditation on light, color, nature, art and beauty. Kate Bush Is Running Up That Concert Stage for a Giant Live Album 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Together, in its loose but attuned way, the band found eerie meditations in “The Wheel” on Friday, spooky back alleys in “West L.A. Fadeaway” on Saturday, bitterness and then affirmation in “Throwing Stones” on Sunday. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

And if you can, take time out every morning for prayer, yoga, meditation, whatever you do to get in tune with yourself so you know fundamentally that you are OK.” Feel Like You’re in Prison? These Trainers Actually Were 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Surely literature isn't – or isn't just – about contemplation, let alone meditation. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z

High patient volumes and honest-to-goodness life-or-death emergencies leave scant time for meditation. What Medical Students Learn from Drawing Mickey Mouse 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

My doctor, along with my therapist, recommended a three-pronged approach to combating my anxiety: exercise, meditation and meds. Anxiety made planes, trains and automobiles impossible. What was next? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wooley’s quest began in 2007, when he first presented a project titled “The Seven Storey Mountain”: a slow-mounting meditation for trio and taped sounds, subsequently documented on a live CD. Music Review: ‘Seven Storey Mountain,’ by Nate Wooley - Issue Project Room 2013-06-10T20:54:54Z

While dealing with the financial realities of women of a dying generation, “Julie de Carneilhan” is also a meditation on loneliness. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

Meshing his own text with swatches of “Hamlet,” he makes a sort of backstage drama that places “Who’s on First?”-style verbal silliness alongside meditations on death. Theater Review: ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,’ but Returned 2014-01-22T03:00:02Z

Zen gardens were set up as places for meditation, but nirvana can also be found in the daily tasks of maintenance. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

He mentions a Sanskrit mantra that he recites in moments of stress, so you assume there’s been a meditation guru somewhere in his life. Theater Review: Martin Moran’s ‘All the Rage’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-01-31T03:00:51Z

According to legend, the Immortals were human beings who gained eternal life through some combination of meditation, good deeds, trickery and elixir-drinking. Dragons, Saints and a Sexy Nurse: The Art of Takashi Murakami 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Outstanding gallery group shows included “La Carte d’Après Nature,” Thomas Demand’s meditation on art about nature at Matthew Marks. In the New York Art Scene, Spectacle and Substance Both Wow 2011-12-17T05:26:18Z

Located within walking distance from the Sunset Strip clubs where Morrison performed, his two-bedroom, 70-sq-m apartment is adorned with Doors' posters and memorabilia, and includes a meditation garden where Morrison wrote poetry. Check In: Rock N Rolls Rental 2010-07-15T08:05:00Z

There’s a meditation on chaos and coincidence from the artist Harry Dodge. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

It’s important to “listen” to the sensations – if your mind wanders, bring it back to being present to the touch, just as in meditation. Orgasm addicts, sex doesn’t have to be red hot 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z

Getting to that point requires a great deal of meditation, she said. The Art of Being Bombarded by Watermelons 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Some of the best stories are not tied to the dramatic action but the dalliances, the self-contained exploits that often provide opportunities for the characters to goof off or slip into more existential meditations. The Good, the Bad and the Jazzy: What ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Gets Right and Wrong 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

Some people use vision boards, intention journals, meditation or prayer. Covid brought ‘manifestation’ back. But you can’t simply will your way to a better life. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

On his most recent album, "Older Than My Old Man Now," an eloquent meditation on mortality, there is a song called "I Remember Sex." Loudon Wainwright brings dry, wise humor to Triple Door 2012-05-16T22:03:09Z

We were, in mass meditation, all one, I thought. A passionate Sellars-Rattle triumph with Bach's 'St. Matthew' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Crisscrossing folklore with the classic movie trope of a man-child, Sato crafts a thoughtful meditation on alienation and masculinity, and the delusions of male saviors. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

And somewhere along the way, the second Trip movie becomes a reflective, curiously powerful meditation on life, death, and all the absurdity therein. The Best Movies That Didn't Get Nominated for Any Oscars This Year 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

It’s not a spoiler to say that Jane Alexander is sensational in this meditation on the risks and rewards of love that arrives late in life. Review: ‘Modern Love’ Is Charming but Uneven 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

It’s music of meditation, less driven by lines than by individual sonic events. Review | Whistles, rumbles, bleeps: New Icelandic music sounds like no string quartet you’ve ever heard 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

The piece is one of a number of sonic meditations that Ms. Oliveros created to hone what she called “deep listening” — an art that engages both heart and mind, focus and generosity. Join a Musical Meditation Bringing Together Hundreds Worldwide 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

A loving-kindness meditation might fit someone who is religious, Thorp says, “since it’s kind of like a prayer.” If you’ve always wanted to try meditation, use this guide to get started 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Briefly, the play is a strange and not exactly persuasive compound of facile thriller and earnest, insubstantial meditation on freedom and exile. ‘Shesh Yak’ Stars Laith Nakli and Zarif Kabier 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

She paces in frenzied circles, collapses onto the floor in brooding meditation and folds piece after piece of small paper with fretful, concentrated industry. Review: A Captive Emily Dickinson in ‘Because I Could Not Stop’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

“The Wheel,” which can easily stay smiley and upbeat, moved toward a floating meditation, the better to unveil Robert Hunter’s fatalistic lyrics. Grateful Dead 'Fare Thee Well' Tour Gets Down to the Music 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

This is a place where running, yoga and meditation exist alongside lessons in dance technique, Sanskrit and Indian literature. Inside one of the few places where dancers still perform, founded by a glamorous disco impresario 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

The film is a meditation largely about grief and revenge. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

When not on the green or swimming in the turquoise water, you can go hiking, try kitesurfing, take a steel pan class, or swing by the fitness studio for a guided meditation. 7 New Escapes in the Caribbean 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

While the novelist Mohammed Hanif praised it as a "poetic meditation on the destructive urges that bind us together", some were uneasy about its twinning of beauty and brutality. Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z

In 1933, the Nazis banned Jawlensky’s work; the next year, broke and with severe arthritis, he began painting “meditations” organized around an even starker simplification of the human face. From Alexei Jawlensky, Abstract Faces at Full Intensity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

It was the simplest things in life, like omega, exercise endorphins, surrounding myself with happy and healthy like-minded individuals, meditation, yoga, breathing… those were what really helped. “You have to look at food as medicine. Clean eating can become a lifestyle that’s easy to follow”: Candice Kumai on secrets of happiness and health 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Companies are searching for “what they can add to their arsenal in addition to the weighted blanket and meditation app and hot tea,” Ms. Zegler said. How Will We Eat in 2021? 11 Predictions to Chew On 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Its successor, “When I Get Home,” is something different: a reverie, a meditation, a therapeutic retreat, a musicians’ playground. Solange Defies Pop Expectations on ‘When I Get Home’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Addressed to their patriarch, this elegiac meditation recounts the family’s tragic history and tenderly evokes their stately home filled with objets d’art, now a museum. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Let's talk about the fairies, the ancient monuments, the spiritual meditations, the mispronounced names of traditional holidays, the cobbled-together bits of mythology and folklore. Hey, Irish Americans: Your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic — because that whole idea was made up 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

I have a few strategies for weathering these storms: Sometimes it’s music; sometimes it’s meditation; sometimes it’s a hot shower; and sometimes it’s a hot shower, meditating to the music of the fan. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

It is also a meditation on the passage of time. Around and around with Marcus Herse at Commonwealth & Council 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Westerners, though, are likely to perceive the violence as a dark meditation on human-rights abuses — notwithstanding Mr. Wang’s broad grin at the end of the video, or his vague comments on the wall label. Art Review: As China Evolves, So Does an Artist 2011-01-27T21:05:47Z

“They get up at 4:30 in the morning. First a little bit of meditation, then a little bit of a walk to get fed.” Thailand’s ‘Gong Highway’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The movie is an elegiac meditation on a Japan that no longer exists—if it ever truly did. The Most Popular Anime of All Time Comes to America 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

During the 1960s, when meditation and drug use were popular, many people developed psychiatric problems. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z

Pauline Oliveros, in “Primordial/Lift,” engaged with a small ensemble in a lengthy process akin to collective meditation. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros and Olivia Block Find the Unconventional 2013-09-15T22:03:58Z

At the end, while the word “om” sounded, she moved seamlessly from one sustained position to another, finally achieving a stillness that seemed the perfect image of tranquil acceptance and meditation. An Odissi Dancer Contains Sublime Multitudes 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Still, this novel’s prose soars with its transporting descriptions of the planet’s landscapes and their dwindling inhabitants, and contains many wonderful meditations on our responsibilities to our earthly housemates. ‘The Animals Are Dying. Soon We Will Be Alone Here.’ 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Vivekananda argued that an obsessive focus on the body distracts from the true practice of yoga: meditation. Yoga isn’t timeless: it’s changing to meet contemporary needs 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

On a recent Tuesday night, after an hour of sumo burpees, Russian twists and planks galore — followed by an empowering meditation — Miller and other moms discussed the most difficult move: escaping the house. How to actually fit in a workout, at every stage of parenthood 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Her main idea is that he existed in a "permanent present tense", or that he "lived in the moment", in the way that devotees of transcendental meditation aspire to. Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin – review 2013-06-27T07:00:18Z

A good essay, she said, “inevitably sets the reader to thinking,” and “meditation is highly contagious.” ‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Rather than settling into a sulky meditation on chronic illness, the following 300 pages are taken up with lively memoirs, wherein Daniel details both his own corporal decline and his siblings' reckonings with middle age. Telescope by Jonathan Buckley - review 2011-08-26T21:55:04Z

You can do that just generally or really drive the message home with loving-kindness meditation. Perspective | How to keep your cool with your kids when everyone is cooped up together 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

To be called M.O.B., the 350-room hotel will include a cultural center with a bookstore, meditation rooms, an open-air movie theater and a vegetarian restaurant serving organic, local produce. At a Paris Flea Market, Tips for Treasure Hunters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Starring Joaquin Phoenix as a psychologically damaged war veteran and former FBI agent turned private mercenary, it is an absorbing meditation on a tortured soul that poses as a violent action thriller. The film world is hard for women directors 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Gold’s staging, following in the auteur vein of Ivo van Hove, offers a profound theatrical meditation on the poetry of a play fixated, as Hamlet is, on images of debauchery, death, dirt and decay. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

With an excellent performance by Kelly Lynch, the film is a layered meditation on desire and collective delusion. 'Madame Psychosis': Kelly Lynch is obsessed with JFK in art film 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Wearing a pale yellow unitard and point shoes, she guided her body through a sequence of static positions, creating an oddly mesmerizing movement meditation. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z

Indeed there's a whiff of Atonement about Never Let Me Go, a love tragedy in three acts with great gaps of painful time, and a meditation on the nature of the heart. London film festival ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

Yet the show is also very much a meditation on the expansiveness of photography itself. Capturing Human Moments Amid Chaos in Israel and the West Bank 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

In the first two, Lage and Eldridge pass remarks back and forth, sometimes briskly and sometimes thoughtfully, and the third is a sly and drowsy meditation. Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Their New Record, “Mount Royal” 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Rather, it feels like an Americana meditation weighted with a reality of fading life. Essential tracks: Lesser-known but just as worthy Grammy nominees 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Indeed, what is strongest about the novel is its meditation on humanity's potential for breaking out of its chrysalis to become something cosmically new. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z

How meditation might ward off the effects of ageing, the Observer "Charles Thompson hunted monsters." Jo Marchant on science writing: 'You need a burning curiosity' 2013-03-13T07:00:01Z

He even started to pick up things like yoga and meditation, which was entirely out of character but wonderful to hear. What happened to Todd: retracing my brother's steps to understand addiction 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

American Falls The Echo Theater Company presents the West Coast premiere of Miki Johnson's meditation on the search for love and meaning in one small town. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 6-13: 'American Falls' and more 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

This collection by a poet who teaches at Walla Walla Community College is described as "an unflinching, lyrical meditation on nature's forced exodus from the human." Local-interest books of week include thriller, poetry, picture book 2010-06-14T22:50:00Z

The museum will also offer socially distant outdoor yoga and meditation events at 10 a.m. on Sept. 19 and on Sept. 26. Two Museums Announce September Reopenings 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Graber’s poem, prefaced by a passage from St. Augustine’s “City of God,” is a meditation on survival and on our attitudes toward mortality: Poetry Podcast: Anna McDonald Reads Kathleen Graber 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

This book becomes an intellectually agile meditation on what Mr. Hertmans calls “the authentic glow that sometimes lies hidden in a copy.” Review: ‘War and Turpentine,’ a Grandfather’s Painful Life 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

“Boogaloo and Graham,” by the Northern Irish director Michael Lennox, is a delightful and funny short film that contains, as a kind of hidden surprise, a meditation on fear. Screening Room: "Boogaloo and Graham" 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

But if you want to unleash yourself from the structure of your surroundings, the book is a good meditation for that. An Unlikely Victory in an Unforgiving Horse Race 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

From the nearby meditation hill, there’s a lovely panorama of the cemetery. A local’s guide to Stockholm: 10 top tips 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

"I think it was like a mid-life meditation, I was struck by that." Rolling Stone releases Lennon's final interview 2010-12-08T11:46:00Z

He repeatedly told inquiring reporters that the video was a meditation on fame, though precisely what we were to surmise or conclude about fame from the images is unclear. What Just Happened at the Video Music Awards? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

When you’re on the trail for such a long time, “you get into a mode of meditation,” he said. Running in the Wild 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

“The Vexations” builds to a devastating conclusion, but it’s worth the pain for this unusual, quietly beautiful meditation on the work and strife behind art that has endured for generations. Review | ‘The Vexations’ revisits the eccentric life of composer Erik Satie 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

It was Ms. Beasley who got her into meditation and to stop her “crazy cardio” routine in favor of hiking and yoga. Maureen Chiquet’s Move From Chanel to Self-Empowerment 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

At first, the slow art movement might seem rooted in meditation and mindfulness, but at its core, it is concerned with museum accessibility. The ‘slow art’ movement isn’t just about staring endlessly at paintings. It’s also about accessibility. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

“The first Roman cinema spectacular to be made by Hollywood since the end of the Cold War, it is a meditation on the perplexity of the world’s sole surviving superpower.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Love Trip: Paris’ and American Idol 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

She calls the tweets “a daily meditation for me to remind myself that this is not normal.” Natasha Rothwell is ready to be the lead of her own rom-com 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, Ms. Chen met the billionaire Marc Benioff while sitting mindfully next him at a morning meditation session in Davos. Caring for Premature Babies, With a Little Help From Beyoncé 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

While on the surface, the topics seemed bland or scattered, Wilson ended up creating a shockingly vulnerable meditation on the inherent loneliness of urban living through the inventive use of seemingly mundane footage. No happy trees here – HBO's "Painting With John" is a dark and dreamy contemplation of artistry 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

In a sly meditation on the art market, the body of a collector lay dead, face down, in a swimming pool, as in the opening scene of “Sunset Boulevard.” Elmgreen & Dragset’s ‘Tomorrow,’ at Victoria & Albert Museum 2013-12-09T23:11:08Z

His meditation on modern masculinity was released in 1990, and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Prominent Minnesota poet, writer Robert Bly dies at 95 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

This provocative meditation on the ethics of freedom as a source of constraint, as well as liberation, shows her at her most original and brilliant. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

SAT Yoga, breathing and meditation session for ages 16 and older, bring your own yoga mat, 10 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-04-11T20:53:24Z

Gates notes that he found many books about meditation to be too intimidating, but Puddicombe "made the barrier to entry low enough" both with his Headspace app and this how-to book. Bill Gates Shares the 5 Best Books He Read This Year 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

There are songs about wizards and demon frogs mixed in with meditations on suicide and death. Wayne Coyne, mad scientist: “If the Flaming Lips make a wrong move, so what?” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The film is a meditation on aging gracefully — from a world-class master of grace. WATCH: Cameras capture moment legendary ballerina decides to end her career 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Ms O’Sullivan’s book says almost nothing about what cures exist, mentioning specific treatments such as meditation only in passing. Straight and crooked thinking 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

A meditation on change, this 45-minute work is also a fresh start of sorts. Review: These Art-Historical Nudes Become Bodies in Time 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

Now, the maker of a popular meditation app hopes Mr. Ross will put everyone else to sleep, too. Can’t Sleep? Let Bob Ross Help You Find Some Happy Little Zzzs 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

The title track, which ends the album, is a grim meditation on death. James Mercer and the Shins Return With ?Port of Morrow? 2012-03-16T16:12:29Z

The French scholar Vanessa Guignery, who wrote a book about Okri, called him a “vocal town crier against injustice,” whose elliptical approach encourages “reflection and even meditation.” It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Now the store exhibits the tie-dye bonanza in the front and hosts evenings for meditation and sound baths in the back. The Curious Case of the Sudden Tie-Dye Store 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The widow’s walk was being turned into a meditation room; photographs of Gray and his children, now grown, occupied every wall and corner. ‘Spalding Gray,’ the Color? It’s a Long Story 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

In addition to being grave markers, stupas were meditation aids, three-dimensional mandalas, or maps of the spiritual universe, that devotees must traverse to reach enlightenment. Art Review: ‘Golden Visions of Densatil’ Opens at Asia Society 2014-02-20T23:13:05Z

In these moments, rather than panic, you can also try doing something proactive like doing a quick guided meditation track, repeating a calming mantra or playing relaxing music. 10 ways to manage stress, according to mental health experts 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mindfulness is essentially meditation of the kind practiced in East Asia for thousands of years. Baa Baa Land: a film they want you to fall asleep in 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

But the meditation session swelled to 50 participants and got underway before the conversation could go any further. A Match Made in Group Meditation 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

She now organizes salons for Calm, the meditation and sleep app, Columbia Records and the University of Southern California San Francisco. Smarty Party 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Pollan’s first book, the precocious Second Nature, was a profound meditation on humans’ place in the world, disguised as a book about rose care and lawn maintenance. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z

Molding the potter’s mud was like meditation, even for the girls, and, as we silently worked, the minutes melted into hours. Introducing kids to the charm of Provence 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

The confusion over this most basic fact stems from West answering a question about production with an existential meditation on the number of people on the planet and what constitutes mass production and the Gap. Perspective | At Paris Fashion Week, designers reworked the tuxedo and explored the meaning of color. And, oh yeah, Kanye showed up. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

To fill strings of sea days, activities abounded, from meditation, golf putting, dance classes and tai chi to culinary demonstrations, trivia contests, port lectures, themed balls and special events. Cruising around the world in 115 days 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

He tries to manage his thinly veiled rage and jealousy with journaling and meditation. ‘You Should Have Left’ Review: This Haunted House Is Familiar 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Rather, it is a series of meditations on immunity and inoculation — as both policy and metaphor. David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

The isolation allows her to disappear further into the story, an experience she describes as part meditation, part vigorous interaction with the language. Let Cassandra Campbell Tell You a Story. She’s a Pro. 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

This week, meditation pods with headphones are being installed providing a space for guests to have a 10-minute guided session. Five new London hotels: reviewed 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Medicine may have found smart drugs for some conditions but the biggest impact may be achieved from lower-tech actions, such as meditation in schools or brain gyms for pensioners. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z

Is it a meditation on the consequences of fame? Darren Aronofsky 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The Tibetan Museum complex includes a fish pond, meditation cells and rotating exhibitions on Himalayan culture. Things to Do in New York: A Free Culture Fix, Thanks to Your Library Card 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

On an album rife with images of oppression, it seemed like the perfect opportunity for an update of the harrowing meditation on racism, but West takes a pass. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z

“Love of a Poet,” like much of Mr. Kelly’s work, is partly a meditation on the grubby process of art making. Review: John Kelly Revives ‘Love of a Poet’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Marriage can feel like a soothing meditation retreat or a dirty tryst or a very long lunch with the most head-splittingly repetitive human who ever walked the face of the earth. Marriage Requires Amnesia 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

After about two months, both his body and that of his mother were moved to a permanent site in the meditation garden on the grounds of Graceland. Elvis' crypt, other rock, sports items to be sold 2012-05-28T23:10:31Z

Should I not mention this to anyone and simply do as my meditation teacher encourages me to do with difficult people — bless them and move on? Ask Amy: Facebook ‘unfriending’ bewilders cousin

We can’t force them to pursue the courageous and difficult path of therapy, lifestyle change, deep personal reflection, meditation and/or drugs that may lead to a better life. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bride, 31, is the senior product manager at Inscape, a meditation and wellness company in New York. Edlyn Yuen, Jordan Christopher Pisarcik 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Her latest book, “Devotion,” is a slim meditation on the essential mystery of the creative act that is equal parts exasperating and inspiring. Patti Smith’s ‘Devotion’ — equal parts exasperating and inspiring 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

It’s a meditation on yearning, solitude and self; a soul storm, a mirage of phantom figures — resurrected images of dead ancestors, childhood memories, the changing face of Spain itself. ‘Ordesa’ Is a Meditation on Yearning, Solitude and Family 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Rudi Greenberg, of the Washington Post, described it as “an incredibly dark and surprisingly nuanced meditation on depression, fame, family and friendship.” “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

At home: For daily meditation, create a nook or corner space using a pile of soft cushions and plants for added greenery. Far from a cubicle farm, Etsy’s stylish headquarters is full of design ideas worth bringing home 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

The Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman made the surprising revelation over Instagram after he emerged from a silent meditation for the past 12 days. Twelve days in the desert left Jared Leto clueless about coronavirus 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

In The New York Times Book Review, Edmund White called it a “gripping novel, absorbing right to the end” and “a deep meditation on fate and death.” Juan Gabriel Vásquez Wins International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

I'd prayed so hard my stomach and jaw had hurt from the earnestness of my meditation. "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" helped me reconsider my painful Evangelical childhood 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

Burgs tells me his silent retreats and meditation courses are a form of aversion therapy, whereby people can confront their fear of doing nothing until it eventually dissipates. ‘No tricks. No mantras. I just want to learn how to do nothing’: my quest to stay still 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

You don’t have to do this alone; there are lots of good apps with guided meditations. Perspective | How to keep your cool with your kids when everyone is cooped up together 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The stories vary from formal experiments to deeply felt character meditations, from a three-page piece of flash fiction to a well-developed novella, and from heartbreak to horror to humor. A Poltergeist Who Adores Apricots and Cat-Loving A.I. 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Tarkovsky’s film is a languid, internalised meditation with an eye on the sublime; Soderbergh’s is trimmer and blunter, but just as moving in its way. The best English-language remakes – ranked! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

His life’s work became a meditation on his attachment to the Alabama countryside and his reasons for leaving it. William A. Christenberry, Photographer of Rural South, Dies at 80 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The recording of our half-hour meditation last Saturday, by contrast, often sounds like a cosmic flock of bleating sheep. Join a Musical Meditation Bringing Together Hundreds Worldwide 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist meditation teacher, presented the couple with his version of a “ring,” a Tibetan singing bowl and a wooden mallet. The Writer Anne Lamott Gets to the Happily-Ever-After Part 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Though she spoke about turning to therapy for other situations and getting more sleep as well, in this edited excerpt from our conversation, she talked about what happened and how she ultimately turned to meditation. Lynn Shelton on Overcoming Her Darkest Moment on Set 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

One collection that had a particularly strong effect on me was Solmaz Sharif’s début, “Look,” an indefatigable meditation on the language of war. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

However, I will argue that some meditation practices, including the method I describe in “The Mind Illuminated” and other practices within the Buddhist tradition, do qualify as science. Your brain as laboratory: The science of meditation 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

But Ms. Chastain, who prepared for her role by studying paintings of the Madonna and practicing meditation, said she does not see it as a film about Christianity. Without Ever Showing Up, Malick Is Talk of Cannes 2011-05-16T20:16:10Z

The logistics of the plot became more important than the show’s meditations on humanity; the who, what, when and where superseded the why. Breaking Bad Finishes in the Shallow End 2013-10-01T09:45:47Z

Goenka retreat, a retreat at the Garrison Institute, and two years of meditation without missing a day. Ayahuasca, meditation and activism: On cultivating the mindful politics of love 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Transcendental meditation helps you have a clearer perspective on life. The Beach Boys' Mike Love: 'There are a lot of fallacies about me' 2013-07-04T08:00:03Z

Sometimes there might be fear of bringing meditation into environments that might not seem to be ready for it. This top pediatric allergist swears by meditation and thinks it can fight medical burnout 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

A film about a man revolving around the world, Duncan Jones’s solemn and surreal science-fiction meditation stars Sam Rockwell as a lone astronaut working on a lunar mine. What’s on TV Sunday: Country Music Awards and ‘The Walking Dead’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Thurber’s work, “The Insurgents,” is about a wanderer who travels through the United States searching for something to believe in, and a meditation on historical figures and their responses to injustice. A Craig Grant Show and a New Lucy Thurber Play Coming From Labyrinth Theater 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The meditation that emerges is less about loss and disappearance and more about the ludic nature of the archive, with its gaps and fragments. A Literary Catalog of Things Lost to History 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

This wistful meditation on Thomas Wolfe’s novel quotes the author and is the show’s closest thing to a reality check. Music Review: Maude Maggart Evokes Hollywood Fantasy at Café Carlyle 2014-02-26T20:28:43Z

The only sequence that felt really persuasive, in fact, was Hamlet’s meditation near the end on Yorick’s skull, when Mr. Dean’s tense, shrouded music was most anchored to a character, to the poetry. ‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mainly, though, Great House is a meditation on loss and memory and how they construct our lives. Great House by Nicole Krauss ? review 2011-02-19T00:05:23Z

I have had a long-time problem with depression, which now is really alleviated because I have a very strong meditation practice, which takes about, oh gosh, it takes a long time. Margaret Cho's message to drag show haters: "Take equal rights like a man" 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

It meshes ambient music and songs with words, in tracks that move amid meditation, disquiet, desolation and uplift. Brian Eno: Ambient Sounds, but Political, Too 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Softening a Trucker’s Rough Edges Beating a sweet retreat from exposition and event, the Argentine director Pablo Giorgelli turns his minimalist road movie, “Las Acacias,” into a swelling meditation on wounded hearts and rekindled hopes. Movie Review: ‘Las Acacias,’ Directed by Pablo Giorgelli 2012-09-07T00:03:02Z

“The more important thing is not what the title is on it, because meditation is just the way you train your brain to quiet down and so forth,” says Hawn. Goldie Hawn: ‘I was born with a high set point for happiness’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

And, as this particular work moved away from a silent meditation toward language and stories, it came to rest on the most basic of all questions: What is truth? Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

He founded Digital Detox last year, leading small retreats in Northern California, Cambodia and other locations, emphasizing yoga, meditation, a healthy diet and one-to-one connections as a reprieve from digital life. A Trip to Camp to Break a Tech Addiction 2013-07-05T20:44:12Z

But he was attracted to Jacob’s Ladder because it had non-traditional treatment offerings, such as eastern philosophy, meditation and yoga. Recovery Boys: the documentary on what happens after opioid addiction 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Were it not for the occasional soulful exchange between varying members of this trio, the movie would resemble a meditation montage. The motherhood cure-all: “The Light Between Oceans” illuminates a reckless romance with adoption fallacies 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

When Elyse Fox greets newcomers to her Sad Girls Club monthly meet-up at Inscape, a meditation space in the Flatiron district of New York, she bypasses the women’s extended hands and leans in for hugs. The club helping women of color finally talk about depression 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Andrew” describes Scorsese’s new film as “a meditation and a prayer”, an experience that is still “reverberating” for him. Andrew Garfield: ‘I never compromised who I was’ 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Buggy, who recently appeared in Brooklyn in “Penelope,” Enda Walsh’s eerie meditation on Homer’s “Odyssey,” portrays a widower named Mr. Berry, who is taking stock of his life and the ghosts of his past. The Week Ahead: Dec. 5-11 2010-12-03T15:15:00Z

The fact that this annoyed me made me think I really needed meditation. So You Think You Can’t Meditate? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

But even I, who considers baking a form of meditation, can get this shortbread in the oven in about 15 minutes. How to go from zero to shortbread in less than 60 minutes 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The memoir is an affecting meditation on the life of a writer, on aging, friendship — and the disappointments that always seem to overshadow successes even for a “giant of American letters” like Philip Roth. Review | Best audiobooks to get you to winter’s end 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

As a cheerful response to Haas’ moody meditation, Mirga capped the evening with a fluid and excitable performance of Haydn’s Symphony No. 31 — nicknamed “Hornsignal” for its innovative use of four horns. The real headliner of the concert: alphorns, blowing a whirlwind of dark emotion through Disney Hall 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

If it’s not sitting down in a kumbaya position and breathing — which I rarely do — it is playing tennis, which is a form of meditation. All Seal Needs Is Love 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

Then I remembered the meditation instructor told us to “be spacious.” On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Calm seeks to assuage the fears of folks who are new to meditation. Apptitude: At first, despite her racing mind, she resisted meditation. Then she found Calm

Along with Mr. Knoles, a Vedic meditation teacher, he will use his experiences to confront the realities of cause and effect. Spare Times for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

What begins as a story about a talking piece of plastic ends up a deeply felt meditation on existence and one's purpose in life. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z

Perhaps it’s the new year’s resolution for the Internet age, or a quirky millennial form of meditation, or another example of the vacuous attention-seeking of social media. She makes a tiny chair, he eats a taco, she braids a lock. Every. Single. Day. 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Polley masterfully takes what could have been a weepy melodrama or a scolding screed and turns it into a nuanced and probing meditation on what it truly means to be faithful. ‘Black Bear,’ ‘Sharp Stick’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

Ford's forte is delivering wordy, nuanced meditations on personal and political concerns with verve and aplomb. David Ford 2010-07-13T20:45:00Z

Many meditation apps offer gifting options, so you can nudge your friends and family to give one a try. 9 gifts to de-stress, center and rejuvenate: They (and you) deserve it 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

As I was filming, I would come home and as a meditation, I would make music, and that haunted yet driving rhythmic structure is within me and my work. "Clean" star Adrien Brody talks "Succession" & daily injustice: "There is a lot to be angry about" 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

He took up meditation, became a vegan and shared his love of his new lifestyle with famous friends. Russell Simmons, the Yoga King of Los Angeles 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

A drama of colonisation based on the mapping of Ireland's landscape in the 1830s becomes a supple meditation on language and identity rather than a lament for a lost idyll. Translations ? review 2011-07-19T18:00:05Z

Their clash drives one of several interlocking stories in this profound meditation on how exiles cope with strong mixed emotions about their shared history. Haitian Diaspora in ‘Stones in the Sun’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It began with a five-minute meditation in a darkened gallery and replaced wall text with sensory effects. Change is coming to the National Gallery of Art. But is it ready for Kaywin Feldman? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Each video is between five and 20 minutes, and feature yoga and meditation exercises such as hip and back stretches and deep breathing. All the Amenities Airlines are Offering for Healthier Flights 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Around it, paintings and sculpture by five other artists form a shifting meditation on the relationship of art making and craft. ‘Bonsai’ Show at Maccarone Honors Roger Brown 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

But after Larry Sanders he took to the beaches of California and Hawaii, and to Buddhist meditation as an antidote to creative burn-out. After 10 years 'Larry Sanders' is back 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z

The first episode of Jimmy McGovern’s meditation on modern Britain and the consequences of complacency started with Anna Friel’s unceremonious firing from her job at a bookies. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The day starts with a 6 a.m. meditation, followed by a morning hike, nasal cleansing, then an hour of hatha yoga, which emphasizes mental and physical purification — and that’s all before breakfast. Next Stop: Pokhara, Nepal, Becomes Nepal?s Top Yoga Destination 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z

In yet another tale, on the day of Holi, the god of love — Kamadeva — shot an arrow at Shiva and disrupted his meditation. The surprising history of bhang, India’s edible cannabis drink 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

For Shields and other critics of plot, narrative is a distraction from “the deeper drama” of epiphanies and overt meditation. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

The program includes two nights’ accommodation, organic food prepared by an onsite chef, meditation and yoga classes, and various workshops dedicated to detaching and healing. Don't text your ex: inside the booming industry of 'breakup experts' 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

The doleful vocals over gently epic, lushly orchestrated piano rock that soundtracks Vic's maudlin meditations – you could easily imagine this stuff catching on with that kind of audience. New band of the day – Satellites (No 1,431) 2013-01-15T15:37:00Z

“We often term them ‘meditation rings,’” said Cynthia Gale, the founder and designer of the label. Yes, You Can Play With Your Clothes 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

For instance: “The Mother of All Questions” begins with a long meditation on silence. Rebecca Solnit tries to answer 'The Mother of All Questions' 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

The theology is invoked not to elicit meditations on mercy, justice or sacrifice, but to buttress a spectacle of power. Review: ‘Batman v Superman,’ Dawn of a Franchise 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The guy who mostly taught me pretty much picked up whatever he has just through meditation. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

“Dawn of Goodbye” was conceived as a meditation on the ups and downs of romance, though the concept applies loosely. New Music: Fountains of Wayne, Now With Less Smirking 2011-08-01T23:00:34Z

She describes it as “an alert type of meditation” and a “restful awareness.” The sexual healers next door 2013-01-27T00:00:00Z

I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still. Ruth Ozeki: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist' 2013-03-07T09:00:01Z

Director Robert Altman’s “fictional meditation” aims to reveal the character of Richard Nixon. For Filmmakers, Watergate Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Consisting of previously created material knitted together by the dancers’ spoken meditations, “Elo Experience,” which drew loud applause and cheers that night, offers a decidedly contemporary take on how a full-length ballet might be structured. Boston Makeover, No Sugarcoating 2011-04-29T16:20:24Z

“Always” is at odds, lyrically, with the record it appears on, Blake’s “The Colour in Anything,” a seventy-six-minute meditation on betrayal, loss, and change. Three Songs That Pushed Me Forward in 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

The text of Owls, a meditation on "nothing", is by Elgar himself. Have you heard the new Elgar? 2010-10-15T15:01:00Z

The series is a fitting companion to McNamara's bestseller, but it's also a sprawling meditation on loss — loss of life, loss of the person you used to be — and of the secrets that haunt us. HBO's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" is a haunting tribute to Michelle McNamara and meditation on grief 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

A former addict who was a meditation teacher of mine told me that if do this, my addiction will weaken and eventually fall away—and it feels that it has. Confessions of a kleptomaniac 2012-10-10T22:05:00Z

But Yamamoto sees his work as a form of meditation. Spoleto Festival celebrates Philip Glass' 75th 2012-05-19T17:37:08Z

A lovely, 8 ½-minute automotive meditation, it’s as if the car were a chariot of the gods. Ricardo Valverde at Vincent Price museum: Fresh look at a probing eye 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Yet there’s something holy in the show’s meditation on that nothing. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Starts Over Beautifully in Season 2 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

The song, from 2012, is a meditation on the limits of a celebrity’s position, and its refrain sounds more like a Black Lives Matter slogan every day. “Making Change” at the Global Citizen Music Festival 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

A documentary portrait of the Indian swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

A typical session — there are more than a 100 a month — begins with meditation followed by yoga postures and martial arts moves like fast punching and kicks. Urban Athlete: ‘Boot Camp’ Yoga at Pure Yoga and Circuit of Change 2012-07-19T21:25:24Z

The zen experience – it was almost like a meditation every morning, as both Lynn and Martial would do their work. The Carpetbagger: Glenn Close, Already Thanking Her Makeup Team 2012-01-25T14:00:53Z

Led by spiritual guides, the program will offer workshops in art, writing and music and activities including dance, yoga, meditation and sandboarding. Tour and Festival News: Northern Lights and Miami Yoga 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

You can find a 1980 studio recording of this mesmerizing four-movement meditation for modified organ, but its crystalline sheen lends its surface too much polish for my taste. Perspective | Scrap the romantic ballads. Use this eclectic playlist for your first Valentine’s Day stuck at home. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

It accompanies the photograph of those looping Long Island expressways and dictates, almost like a meditation tape, how the driver might place himself in space and time: The 'Mad Men' Title Sequence Is Eerily Similar to This LIFE Magazine Cover 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

On May 6, at the Sheen Center’s Loretto Auditorium, writers, musicians and other artists will read original meditations and prayers. PEN World Voices Festival Returns With Eye on Africa 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

When dusk turns to darkness, the DJ switches from dance tracks to calmer “healing music” and the meditation begins. AP PHOTOS: Dancers silently lose themselves on Venice Beach 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Now, she prefers white noise or guided meditations. Once Upon a Time … Bedtime Stories Were Just for Kids 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

Instead, the production is more like a meditation on Michelangelo’s relationship with his creation, and on creation in general. Bringing the Sistine Chapel to Life, With the Vatican’s Blessing 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

He also practises yoga and meditation: “It’s all about harmony and balance, to ground yourself after a busy day.” ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Describing a lilac door "made of something like light, but not," the piece is nine-plus mesmerizing minutes that roll along the same speedy groove, a meditation that seems to fly by in seconds. 'High Life' elevates the Eno-Hyde rhythm 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

These fancy flourishes are all part of a dreamlike meditation on the myths and transformations of the American West that's both ambitious and ambiguous. Art band at On the Boards is a little cryptic, but still 'Awesome' 2010-04-23T20:21:00Z

To leaven the intensity of our yoga and meditation classes, we toured the acres of Yogaville’s grounds, replete with wooded walking paths. Who knew nirvana was tucked away in Virginia’s back roads?

When I find my consciousness filling with these text strings terminated with question marks, I would return to my meditation. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

“What Comes After” is a mystery — and a gritty meditation on loss and redemption, drenched in stillness and grief. What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Calming strategies such as deep breathing and meditation can help. Conspiracy theories: Why some people are susceptible and how to protect yourself 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

A wide array of dance motifs returns throughout the work: A tilting stance with hands meeting overhead becomes a classically statuesque image of withdrawn meditation. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Four Quartets’ Hits Poetic Heights 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

It concludes with one original, "Angel City," a meditation that grew out of her experience working with the New Basement Tapes band. Rhiannon Giddens discovers true calling with help from friends 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

The most spectacular moment was his deeply invested performance of “Umi Says,” a meditation on self-love. For Yasiin Bey, Once Known as Mos Def, a Comeback With the Finish Line in Mind 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Avoiding alcohol and caffeine can reduce hot flashes, while cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation can make them more tolerable. Welcome to the Menopause Gold Rush 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

The result is a meditation on American roots music with barely a whiff of the musty carpetbag, and more than a hint of personal investment. New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z

But it's really this meditation on what is important and about how we spend our time. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

He turns a meditation of biblical proportions about good and evil into white-knuckle drama. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

For her clinical trial participants, Fitzgerald prescribed a "basic meditation protocol." How to reverse your biological age and feel younger without spending a fortune 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

When he attended college in Bogotá, he sometimes saw members of the Hindu branch soliciting donations or seeking students for its yoga or meditation classes. Painting Colombia red, blue and green 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Reading has been shown to put our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state, similar to meditation, and it brings the same health benefits of deep relaxation and inner calm. Is Reading the New Therapy? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

“The Last Supper,” his last one, and his new “My Last Play,” a poignant meditation on failure wrapped inside a theatrical stunt, are bizarre and truly bold experiments in form and manipulation. | 'My Last Play': Oh, Come in. Glad to See You. Would You Like a Book? 2010-12-17T21:58:35Z

On a rainy Thursday afternoon, in a plush pink conference room in Manhattan, a group of colleagues formed a meditation circle. Can Wellness Heal the Workplace? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Robot & Frank being a buddy movie – as well as a heist comedy, a meditation on memory loss and semi sci-fi – Frank does indeed forge a bond with his bot. Robot & Frank: vision of the future? 2013-03-08T09:21:04Z

Today, he runs a fitness studio that integrates boxing, yoga and meditation. The duty and burden of the black police officer 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

This is one sense in which certain forms of meditation qualify as science. Your brain as laboratory: The science of meditation 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Being present is central to meditation and mindfulness, and the power of Candace compels me to get back to the central premise. If "A Christmas …Present" shows what Candace Cameron Bure means by tradition, she can keep it 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

“It used to be a butcher, a baker and a hardware store. Now it’s SoulCycle, Juice Press and a meditation place.” The Talk of the Hamptons This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

It is instead a record fixated on the tension between private and public knowledge, a social-media-era pop star’s meditation on how much candor — if any — she owes her audience. Billie Eilish’s Uneasy View From the Top 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

The other is a self-consciously digressive meditation on the iconography of the Hollywood western.” DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z

Ko Un’s work is expansive: he writes love poems and political poems, biographical poems and meditations on nature. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

This isn't a character study of Asch but a Brechtian-style meditation on his controversial work. 'Indecent' is a moving reminder of art's power to expose truths 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

But this is something else: part meditation on art, part mystery and part pure hallucinatory transcendence. Review | Let’s talk about fantasy and science fiction books that have fallen off the radar 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Her melodies are long-breathed and deliberate, sung with calm determination, while the arrangements, largely constructed by Mitski and her longtime producer Patrick Hyland, veer between austere, exposed meditations and perky, danceable propulsion. Mitski Steps Back Into the Darkness 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

A couple buys the Lisbon house, turns it into “a sleek empty space for meditation and serenity, covering with Japanese screens the shaggy memories of the Lisbon girls.” “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

“When things get slow you got to go/hear that highway whine,” he sings in “For a Long While,” an existential meditation in down-home garb. Olivia Rodrigo’s Gutsy Catharsis, and 12 More New Songs 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

“They used violence as an instrument, but in the meantime they tried to have tranquil lives,” he said of the popularity of easy listening during times of strife, likening it to meditation. Who Is Jerry Vale and Why Does Martin Scorsese Love Him So? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

I hear people trying to catch onto themes like there’s a right answer for it, and my intention is always a non-verbal association, a meditation on an idea. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Reflects on the Season So Far 2012-06-10T19:42:36Z

He learned that meditation and staying present in the moment keep him from zoning out. The naked truth about nude art modeling 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

“He creates a space for a certain kind of meditation within the daily life experience.” In Hong Kong, a Streetcar That Cuts a Path Through Time 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Yoga Rave: Dance rave party with yoga, meditation, dance and live music, alcohol-free, proceeds benefit The Art of Living Foundation, 8 p.m. Weekend Preview: Easter Parade, Yoga Rave, low-tide walks 2012-04-04T22:59:04Z

Banished under Communism, the pilgrims are now free to perform dances, prayers, meditations and exercises which they say help create peace and harmony in the world and enhance physical and mental health. Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

SUN History, basic concepts and brief practice of meditation, 12:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-11-10T00:20:05Z

Though written for three voices, this meditation on pregnancy and childbirth takes the form of poetic stanzas and lacks named characters, stage directions, dialogue – all the markers by which we recognise a text for performance. What makes a play unstageable? 2010-09-28T15:18:00Z

She usually sits in meditation, which she says helps reduce stress and increase self-compassion and inner confidence, for about 20 minutes every afternoon. If you’ve always wanted to try meditation, use this guide to get started 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Snake Ropes is partly an extended meditation on trauma and healing, and the trauma is handled so well that the reader is exactly as upset as she needs to be to follow through. Snake Ropes by Jess Richards – review 2012-06-01T21:55:06Z

For another, the cost was $560 for five days, including room, board and a daily hourlong conversation with a spiritual director, who would escort me through Scripture-based prayer and meditation. Personal Journeys: In Pennsylvania, a Quick Shot of Peace, on a Budget 2011-12-29T18:59:14Z

The afternoon concerts on Friday and Saturday in the East Building’s auditorium offered disparate meditations on process and product. Art or music? The National Gallery of Art provokes ears and thoughts.  ​ 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

“No Country for Old Men” — grisly, lyrical and fleet of foot — is a blood-dark meditation on the violence that man visits upon man. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

In her first, “To the River,” she walked the length of the Ouse — the river in which Virginia Woolf drowned herself — blending Woolf’s story with a larger meditation on landscape. Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather’ ponders the role of art during times of crisis 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Futures that Inspire” features artificial intelligence that promotes meditation, while “Futures that Work” focuses on food, work and sustainability. The Smithsonian is turning 175. It’s celebrating with robots, flying cars and hope. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

My craving for silence on that New York street led me back to a Quaker Meeting, possibly the quietest place in today's society outside of a meditation class. Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z

With a click of her necklace, Barbie uses lights and sounds to guide kids through five meditation practices. The ultimate holiday gift guide for 2020

“Coda” is a meditation on whatever it is we seek when we pursue fame, or even immortality, and what we seek to achieve by being seen, by being recognized. A Photographer, Her Muse, and the Hunger for Fame 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Others have sat depressed in the house for months, or turned to meditation, yoga, reckless adventures in distant lands. Heartbreak specialists: how Mississippi bluesmen got me through my divorce 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

That evening’s offerings included a sound bath, a guided meditation, a candle-lighting ritual and an invitation to interact with an art installation in the center of the dance floor. Can Parties Help Us Heal? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

I’d sat in meditation circles in strangers’ apartments, trying not to sneeze. Review | Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

“It’s like engineering in a way,” he says, deep into a layered meditation on craft, oblivious to his scratchy throat. The bestselling literary sensation you may struggle to name 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

It’s a calm, amusing, low-key meditation on a subject that is anything but calm, amusing or low key. Books of The Times: Application Adventure: A Dad?s College Essay 2011-03-03T16:59:43Z

Part parable, part creation story, this novel by the author of “Motherhood” and “How Should a Person Be?” is a philosophical meditation on love and the long reverberations of grief. 12 New Books Coming in February 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Slated for April 24 to 29, 2016, the gathering will feature yoga, meditation and nutrition classes. Tour and Event News: Arizona Light Show; Skiing in the Dolomites 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Some songs use no drumbeat at all; some become immersive meditations. 2010-01-10T23:10:00Z

Ms. Salt had done some of the same, studying meditation and Hindu traditions off and on for 10 years, sometimes with the same Siddha Yoga guru featured in Ms. Gilbert’s book. Jennifer Salt: The Story Behind the Writer 2010-07-21T22:30:00Z

“What Belongs to You”, a first novel by Garth Greenwell, an American writer with a growing reputation, is a sensitive, almost nostalgic, meditation on desire. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

But with sparkling-white crescents of sand and huge rocks that double as lookouts to the sea, it’s a place perfect for meditation. Scotland’s ultimate island getaways 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Adeptly translated by her husband, Richard Philcox, “Of Morsels and Marvels” is a meditation on the relationship between those two passions. Writing, and Cooking, Across Borders 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Inspired in part by his young daughter, it is a meditation on identity and the things that make and mar us. 12 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

It is a lyrical meditation on being forced to move to another location after the party’s over, on the Sisyphean task of trying to replicate the magic of young passion. Oliver and Elio Are Back 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

It's a soulful meditation on the age-old question: Is that all there is? "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z

It's a monotheistic religion founded 500 years ago in Indian's Punjab region with tenets emphasizing social justice, self-awareness, devotion and meditation. NYC exhibition sheds light on Sikhs and their religion 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

He blends the military toughness with martial arts, yoga, Pilates and meditation, as well as dietary and medical coaching. 2010-02-06T09:40:00Z

The music is this circular meditation so it actually works very easily to repeat it," said Aaron Dessner, one of the band's guitarists and principal songwriters, "because it winds around on itself. Six hours, one song: the National perfect the art of repetition 2013-07-11T18:03:02Z

Yet he kept returning to a quieter meditation on masculinity and the desperate need for attention. Dance Review | 'Wow + Flutter': Lights, Gadgets and Video Create a Technological Id 2010-03-04T23:04:00Z

Q: How did meditation become part of your routine? This top pediatric allergist swears by meditation and thinks it can fight medical burnout 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

From the first page of this superb meditation on death, grief and the passage of time, it's clear we're in the presence of a master. White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

It's unlikely the man himself is going to confirm or deny anything much besides the ongoing benefits of transcendental meditation. Has David Lynch retired, or is it just a bad dream? 2011-08-19T11:40:48Z

In addition to activities like rock climbing, meditation, martial arts and children’s yoga, the event will offer art projects, entertainment and a talent show. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Indeed, those who have mastered the art of lengthy meditation may be best equipped to concentrate on his glacially slow, highly repetitive sounds. Music Review: Eclipse Quartet Performs at Roulette 2012-05-22T22:05:04Z

I didn’t tell Laura I nearly went broke and crazy trying everything suggested to me: massage, acupuncture, energy healing, plant medicine, meditation, oils, pills, retreats. Perspective | I survived cancer. Everyone wants to know how I did it. 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

I saw numerous new classes and activities: a meditation hike; a stretching class; a bird walk; a labyrinth; postural therapy; craniosacral therapy; and jewelry design. ‘The Ranch’: In Mexico, a spa’s luxury inspires a cultish devotion 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

But how about noticing the tiniest vignette from a minor romantic comedy and turning it into a meditation on man’s diminished significance in the Atomic Age? Richard Matheson (1926–2013): The Wizard of What-If? 2013-06-28T20:55:11Z

In the second half of "Harry & Meghan" we bear witness to the couple's session with a meditation coach. Even if Harry and Meghan "win" for Netflix, they lose 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

An exhibition displaying everything in the catalog would be a once-in-a-lifetime event and a richly illuminating meditation on the classic Arcadian myth of pastoral bliss and what it means for the modern world. Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z

A meditation on mothers and daughters, Weiner’s latest novel also explores class conflicts, identity issues and real estate dramas. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Mainly, it was a meditation on a new kind of life limbo, the newborn stage, as experienced by a radically unprepared new mom: isolated, overwhelmed, and seething with self-pity. Goodbye “Girls”: A Review of a Fittingly Imperfect Finale 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

What threatened initially to be another addition to the point-and-snigger school of film-making soon revealed itself to be a respectful and rather lovely meditation – no, I don't think that's going too far – on human frailties. Bank of Dave: Fighting the Fat Cats; The Wedding Shop – TV review 2013-03-01T07:00:09Z

The Belmond Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge recently introduced a “Mystical Ceremony” package that includes a private cleansing ceremony, one-hour temple meditation and an aromatherapy massage. Shamans on Call for Rites Near Machu Picchu 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Taking cues from Chicago's gang and gun-torn South Side, Common offers a gripping meditation on the senseless nihilism that is tearing through his native city at a furious, mind-blowing rate. Grammys 2015: Common's' 'Nobody's Smiling' deserves rap album honor 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Some, seated on foam squares, were aligned in meditation poses. Iasos Raises Musical Consciousness at Baby’s All Right 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Breathe in. Exhale. Squeeze,” she intoned calmly, sounding more like a meditation master than a world-beating competitor. Skiing Town to Town in a Magical Corner of Vermont 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

She often caps off the day with a 4 p.m. “muscle melt massage,” followed by a meditation session and perhaps a facial. The Last Resort? Canyon Ranch Succumbs to Botox 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

His latest album, “Real Enemies,” released last year, is a meditation on famous American conspiracy theories. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

They held weekly meditation sessions, and Hamilton-Byrne started giving sermons, or discourses as she called them, from a purple throne in a specially built lodge funded by donations. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

The restaurant, which opened in 2010, was a meditation on modern Harlem, an embrace of its past and a vision for its future — vibrantly diverse, effortlessly cool. Review: ‘The Red Rooster Cookbook’ Is a Homage to Modern Harlem 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

I began attending a large group meditation to cope with some major life events. It’s Bad Enough That My Mom Died. Now My Dad Is Dating Her Nurse? 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

While he was best known for his novels, some translated into 27 languages, Mr. Buechner also wrote poetry, literary reviews, essays on secular subjects and “meditations” on religious matters. Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Under the surface of the movie is a meditation on ageing, and loss, and England. Sam Mendes: life is sweet 2013-04-19T22:00:00Z

Beneath the surface of Warner’s humor is a quiet but powerful meditation on what it means to be mortal. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The placement of mirrors means that a single performer will often appear quadrupled, a visual meditation on identity and the multiplicity of self. Review: In ‘Chambre,’ Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson Refract a Tale of Murderous Maids 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

The creation of brilliant music counterpoints the tormented amorous lives of three prominent composers in “Fugue,” Echo Theater Company’s edgy historically based meditation on genius, sexual obsession and betrayal. A different kind of fugue state by Echo Theater Company 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

By the end of the course, students often report feeling full body flow of energy during meditation. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

By the time 15 January rolls around, I’ve said to hell with everything except a halfhearted attempt at daily meditation. The key to keeping your New Year's resolutions: subtraction 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Despite often being lumped together these days in what gratingly gets called the “wellness sector,” psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation might be seen as almost opposite approaches to the search for peace of mind. What Unites Buddhism and Psychotherapy? One Therapist Has the Answer. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Her only respites were books, yoga and meditation — and the vintage store she constructed in her mind. Desirée Venn Frederic went from jail cell to style-setter 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

As White highlights, "even the American Heart Association advocates for meditation to improve health and decrease blood pressure." Morning habits doctors and psychologists wish you would do 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

Clever and sinewy and upsetting, this 29-minute nightmare wraps a meditation on fate and helplessness in gleaming primary colors and a buoyantly optimistic lead performance. ‘The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Major Issues in Brief 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Mindfulness experts say such extreme adverse reactions are rare and are most likely to follow prolonged periods of meditation, such as weeks on a silent retreat. Mindfulness therapy comes at a high price for some, say experts 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Yes, I recall once seeing a documentary called, "Dust" which was a meditation on, well, dust. Jacqueline Bisset on her latest film and career typecasting: "They would say I was too pretty" 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Beyond its meditations on art, “Red” has also been a boon to graphic artists for theater companies who have put their own twists on marketing designs. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Red' and 'Carnage' Find New Life Well Beyond Broadway 2011-10-03T17:27:28Z

But its intellectual aspiration produces an ideologically crowded film, where each philosophical meditation struggles to receive the attention and depth it deserves. ‘Luzifer’ Review: Finding the Devil in Everything 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

The dance, for four performers, is a search for happiness that explores “mysticism and sensuality, as well as meditation and improvisation,” according to Live Arts. Dance Inspired by ‘A Love Supreme’ to Open New York Live Arts Season 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Like the opening moment of a meditation session, the rock band Swans commenced the first of two sold-out nights at the Roxy in West Hollywood with the ringing of a gong. Swans at the Roxy: Volume, harmony and rhythm yield profound beauty 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Her blunt yet ambiguous meditations on gender, class and language make her one of the few great artists to emerge from the Y.B.A. ranks, as the New Museum’s show, “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel,” should demonstrate. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

“They know nothing of flower power or meditation, pansexuality, or mind expansion.” ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at 40: You Should Still Be Dancing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Intense but often funny, “Not Medea” is a resonant meditation on guilt, alienation, resilience and double standards for men and women. Standout plays at this year’s Contemporary American Theater Festival: The list 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The daily meditation, diet and exercise routines are chronicled down to each mandatory smoothie. Sinister Doings at a Luxury Spa? Must Be a New Liane Moriarty Novel 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

I happily offered the techniques I used in my life coaching practice: meditation, journaling, and exploratory questions. Motherlode Blog: Woman Gives Birth to Own Grandson 2012-11-23T13:50:50Z

This rummaging through remains is a meditation on collective memory, a dryly sophisticated and cerebral work. Review: Dance That Playfully Brings Art History to Life 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

My daily schedule consisted of four self-guided meditations of one to one-and-a-half hours each while sitting on the floor of my small room. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

She teaches the vets to breathe with deliberation, a version of meditation I won't belabor. For the healthy, safe and secure, the coronavirus shutdown is also an opportunity to let go 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Strands of solo instruments emerge from a billowing cloud of sound, poised between meditation and violence. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

He was responsible for introducing mindfulness meditation practice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he is involved in research into its relationship to the arts and performing artists. 'Mindfulness opera' launches in UK 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Though some of its meditations on female resilience are spelled out more plainly than they need to be, it’s an impressive first outing behind the camera accompanied by an affecting performance by Holmes. The Best Movies at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

She goes to an ashram in hopes of finding peace, but all she can think about is how she'll decorate her meditation room back at home. `Eat Pray Love' offers lush scenery and tasty cast 2010-06-14T12:04:00Z

Yogananda accepted the property and constructed a temple, a meditation garden and a peace memorial to Mahatma Gandhi. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

That makes it sound like an action movie, but it’s more of an inaction movie, a meditation on the allure and perils of not changing. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Saariaho’s music is characterized by surging, luminous tones and textures, large masses of sound that move and change, more static meditations than dramatic journeys. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a book about meditation and the power of thought and the reality of life and truth. Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

I was more moved by this meditation on poetry and second world war bombers than by almost any other entrant, but there were times when it drove me into a fury. Red pen blues 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

A bit distant perhaps, but Rod Serling’s teleplay is so nuanced a meditation on political power that “On Thursday We Leave for Home” is timeless enough to apply to today’s news cycle. The “Twilight Zone” episode that Trump needs to see 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

While Mr. Brennan describes his life of gathering apples, making cider and creating a business, “Uncultivated” is more than anything a meditation on the industrialization of agriculture and all that’s been lost as a result. The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

As reimagined by Ms. Baumann, this story of exiles in love and in conflict becomes a meditation on immigrants and refugees today, with a multilingual cast that mixes amateurs with professionals. Reinventing Shakespeare, According to the Gospel of Joseph Papp 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

More than anything, we discovered, Ava Gene’s is a place to linger, well cared for, and so we prolonged our evening with dessert, including a perfect gelato meditation on salted peanuts. Choice Tables: In Portland, Ore., Dining Gets Fine Without Losing Flair 2013-07-23T17:52:17Z

Murdered by its own marketing strategy – the trailer, featuring Carrey hoofing around with some CGI penguins, made it look aggressively stupid – the film is actually a sweet meditation on parental disappointment. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

“Travel can be a grind, and yoga and meditation are simple and efficient ways to alleviate the stress,” she said. Where to Get Healthier in 2018 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

It is a meditation on social and gender progress. Where to See — Really See — the Art of Maya Lin 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Like Bardem, Damon also sees dead people, though his psychic uses his "gift" sparingly in this multi-stranded spiritual meditation – until the hand of fate starts swatting. This week's new films 2011-01-29T00:06:01Z

The following comparison might seem unfair, but let us put “Proof of Heaven” next to another meditation on man’s mortality: “Hamlet.” Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z

The poem moves from a description of some of the painting’s details — “The crowd must surely part before these six or seven drummer boys” — to a meditation on war. ?Making American Taste? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-10-16T20:57:17Z

But more than anything, it is a meditation on family and forgiveness. Review | Nancy Johnson’s ‘The Kindest Lie’ is a layered, complex exploration of race and class 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

It’s not just me who has made the link between psychedelic drugs and meditation. True secrets of psychedelics: Are they everything they’re cracked up to be? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Wellness tourism—travel that promotes health through physical and spiritual activities from meditation retreats to weight loss spas–is a $439 billion industry worldwide. The Problem With Celebrities Who Tell You How to Live Well 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Turning Josephine Baker’s lively numbers into unresolved meditations, here is both suave, jazzy swing and glacial expanse, an exploration of race and identity that is ultimately undecided — a mood of endless disappointment and endless wishing. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

The result is a page-turning meditation on human suffering whose spiritual dimension does not become fully apparent until the entire story has been told. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

He uses music and sound to control the pace, to slow time, as if cinema were a form of enforced meditation. ‘The End of Time’: a slow-ticking meditation on time 2014-02-06T22:45:00Z

Finally, in its later stages, How to Get Filthy Rich becomes a meditation on mortality in the form of a love story. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-03-28T08:00:02Z

What you hear are the notes of the C major scale turned into a meditation for four hands. A guide to György Kurtág's music 2013-03-12T10:13:00Z

A meditation on power and powerlessness, “Crave” is about being trapped in the straitjacket of your own yearning body and the shards of your own splintered consciousness. Review: ‘Crave’ Is a Timely Ticket for a World on Fire 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

It's also a kind of manifesto and at various points a meditation on the nature of whiteness; its epigraph is from "Moby-Dick." 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

I’m just following the example of people who have lived long, healthy lives without any infirmity and died peacefully in meditation. Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Mostly she has embraced a quiet existence: doing meditation and therapy, volunteering, spending time with friends. Monica Lewinsky Is Back, but This Time It’s on Her Terms 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

My favorite is Tony Morales’s “BEC,” a macabre meditation on mortality. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

G. Willow Wilson's new Wonder Woman arc is "a meditation on violence" and "whether there is such a thing as a just war anymore." What Would Wonder Woman Say About Justice Today? Ask G. Willow Wilson 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

It's also a meditation on the nature of sexual obsession, conveyed in an exemplary translation. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

They might ask you to start believing in God, or to start a very regular meditation routine starting today – they’re asking for a very deep dive. Why most self-help plans don’t work: “You can’t just cut and paste a few things happy people do and hope that your life is going to improve” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

He describes a simple counting meditation to reduce anxiety, explains how to “record your feelings”, and the events that trigger them. ‘It hits you over the head’: can I survive my midlife crisis? 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

“Instead of stress reduction workshops or meditation, reduce stress,” he said. Can Wellness Heal the Workplace? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

One series by Mr. Welling is a meditation on Philip Johnson’s Glass House, shot using colored filters. Art Review: ‘What Is a Photograph?’ Opens at the I.C.P. 2014-01-30T23:57:35Z

He described “Big Love” as a “meditation” on change, but this was more like an exorcism. Concert review: Fleetwood Mac at the United Center 2013-04-14T06:08:00Z

Marías’s latest novel is a meditation on duplicity, and the limits to knowing another person, as perceived by the wife of a spy, the beautiful madrileña of the title. Duplicity, Grace and Violence: New Spanish-Language Fiction 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

To pinpoint the start of this mourning period, it's proper to go back to R.E.M.'s 1992 album "Automatic for the People," a moving meditation on death, mortality and the afterlife. R.E.M.’s “Monster” and the legacy of an unsung melancholic masterpiece 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The Inhere meditation pod is a fancy screened cubicle, shaped like a kidney bean, made of slatted wood. Fit in my 40s: 'I thought I'd be bored. But meditating brought me peace' | Zoe Williams 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

“I have been addressing my own madness for some time with yoga and meditation – just becoming aware of it is a big job.” Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

Harmony, Harder Than It Looks Abstract paintings of an emptied-out kind are like meditation devices. Art Review: ‘Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper,’ at the Morgan 2012-07-26T23:09:42Z

Or maybe a meditation is the better word. On the Runway: Miuccia Prada Brings On the Dress, Innocently 2011-02-24T20:27:37Z

Ms Alexander’s meditations are mostly personal, but her book asks bigger questions, such as how to cope with death when there are no set rules to guide her. How to remember 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

In this elegant meditation on refuge, exile and home, a couple flee their unnamed country riven by civil war. Paperback Row 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

“People expect too much from meditation,” he said. When a Therapist Puts Buddhism Into Practice 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Once a month, instructors lead a 20- or 30-minute meditation, and afterward folks share lunch. This top pediatric allergist swears by meditation and thinks it can fight medical burnout 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

But the studies represent a new strain of critical thinking about mindfulness meditation amid an avalanche of hype. Mindfulness therapy comes at a high price for some, say experts 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Morning Routine: Ms. Ash begins her mornings with meditation, a relatively new practice in her life, followed by an herbal latte and a walk. Fostering A Community For Healing 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

And like any form of meditation, it’s best done alone. Doug Wheeler Creates an Ethereal Installation at David Zwirner Gallery 2014-02-13T05:00:00Z

The Bridge divided critics – ghoulish snuff film or poetic meditation on suicide? Breaking the taboo: the director who has filmed the moment of death 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Walking through a meditation garden next to the monastery, we read reflections written in Thai and English. Three yogis take on Thailand 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

I was curious to discover what all of these meditations — prompted by the editor’s call for “thoughts on a specific kiss” — would unearth. Writers Pay Lip Service to a Universal Gesture of Love 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Despite a recovery plan based on "meditation through prayer", withdrawal was "gruesome". Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong opens up about addiction problems 2013-02-28T13:51:20Z

The exhibition, according to Ito, is a meditation on “so many feelings,” involving fear, beauty, the past, the present, the future. One worked on the A-bomb. The other was a victim. How their grandsons now create art together. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Or more simply, this season of "Stranger Things" is an extended meditation on moral injury, and one of the most psychologically fascinating pieces of recent television. Everyone thinks "Stranger Things" Season 4 is about trauma. It’s not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

He called the program "True Life Stories," the title of five highly personal meditations for piano by Mark-Anthony Turnage on the first half of the program. Humble virtuoso Mark Robson's piano weaves his highly personal tales 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

So if I were you I would concentrate on the quality of my consciousness by increasing my meditation. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

The resultant book consists of Coelho's meditations on such themes as courage, solitude, loyalty, anxiety, loss, sex and victimhood suggested by followers. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

Painting was kind of healing, a meditation, in a way. Barry Manilow’s Bubble and a House of Whimsy 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

The song that eventually arrives isn’t an Ocean track, but instead a return to the opening meditation on technology courtesy of the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans and his previously unreleased composition “Device Control”. Frank Ocean's Visual Album Endless Is the Year's Most Curious Work in Progress 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Metamorphosis,” a silent show performed on Sunday at 3 p.m. and Monday through Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., uses only pieces of cloth manipulated by the puppeteers to offer a meditation on creativity and play. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 5-11 2012-10-04T22:49:01Z

Stupas are hemispherical structures, focal points for worship and meditation. Into the Land of Happiness 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s a much broader meditation on interacting with your environment.” For Chakaia Booker, Whose Medium Is Tires, the Art Is in the Journey 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Ruiz's intriguing meditation on the possibilities and limitations of the pictorial in the cinema is also a detective story with clues and a solution. Ra?l Ruiz obituary 2011-08-19T14:53:12Z

"We may not realise it but dancing is a form of meditation," she says. 'I never wanted to be an actor,' says screen star Neve Campbell 2011-04-07T21:05:01Z

It’s also an even-keeled meditation on the link between conformity and community — the enormous fear of being cast out and the frantic desire to continue belonging, even if that means living dishonestly. ‘The Unbelieving’ Review: Life After Faith 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

No longer content with his communist colleagues, the author of the famous Critique of Everyday Life created this short, philosophical meditation on urban ills. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z

Yet Saedi notes that since mindfulness is now trendy, many of her patients use yoga and meditation for stress relief instead of binge drinking. Sober is the new drunk: why millennials are ditching bar crawls for juice crawls 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

In addition, meditation has been shown to reduce stress, which can do a number on memory. 9 Smart Ways to Improve Your Memory 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

According to our reviewer, Joshua Henkin, Oates’s “fever dream” is “a moving meditation on grief time, where there is no beginning, no end.” New in Paperback: Susan Orlean and Brandon Taylor 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In meditation, you get to practice cool boredom with yourself. Practicing the Perfections of Meditation, and Love 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

You say in the book that this is not meditation. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

As it happens, the movie is not just a brainy meditation on how communication affects cognition, but also a deeply poignant, heartfelt rumination on memory, connection and love. It’s all in the wording: ‘Arrival’ raises profile of linguists, making them almost cool. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

They offer quick, smart meditations on writing, family, and stagecraft. Books to Watch Out For: September 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

A meditation on Anthony Weiner, upon the third iteration of a sexting scandal involving the former Democratic New York congressman and mayoral candidate. 11 ways to think about the Anthony Weiner-Huma Abedin split 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Yoga, in this instance, is not a matter of meditation mats and Whole Foods Wellness Clubs. Art Review: ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at Sackler Gallery 2014-01-02T22:01:19Z

Forget the fact that she wrote Eat, Pray, Love and concentrate on instead on Gilbert's meditation on the maddening capriciousness of the creative process. How to be creative 2013-03-18T14:25:30Z

They are ideal for New Yorkers who crave the introspection of meditation without all the sitting, and the physical exertion of yoga without the agonizing poses. Where Dancing, Not Drinking, Is the Point 2010-08-04T16:26:00Z

Bravura stuff – though it left me wondering how on earth to label a product that is such a curious hybrid of crime story, historical revenge drama, meditation on art and quasi-allegory. Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

The progress he has achieved he attributes to years of hard work, sobriety, meditation and helping others. We live in the Age of Trauma 2013-05-01T23:30:00Z

I had planned this as a meditation about real time and telepresence: how to be there and not there at the same time. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Road to Wigan Pier sets out a hellish vision of a broken Britain, before delivering a long meditation on creating a fairer society. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z

Which is a shame, because once you've got past the sentences, Bed is a satisfyingly complex meditation on what it means to need and be needed. Bed by David Whitehouse ? review 2011-07-22T09:00:01Z

Her prose rambles from animal gags to dirty talk to infinitely beautiful meditations on the nature of perception that deflate and turn absurd before they can turn philosophical. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Among the lively cast of characters Green meets in his wide-ranging meditation on sound and human memory is the Princeton physicist Edgar Choueiri, who experiments with recordings that mimic three-dimensional sound. ‘32 Sounds,’ a Film Performed Live, Probes the Power of Listening 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

Alex Garland, who wrote and directed each episode, created an absorbing meditation on the very essence of human existence and free will, all hidden in an elegant techno-thriller. Nomination surprises: ‘The Mandalorian,’ Quibi get Emmy love 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The book centers on Mr. Blow’s upbringing in a segregated town in Louisiana; the scars left by childhood molestation; meditations on masculinity and sexual identity; and efforts to escape cycles of violence. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

They lead mini-guided meditations and quote solitary luminaries like Thomas Merton and Julian of Norwich, a medieval mystic who lived through the Black Death and civil unrest. What We Can Learn From Solitude 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z

He successfully battled drug and alcohol dependency and in recent years had taken up tai'chi and meditation. Lou Reed: In his own words 2013-10-28T13:32:31Z

The best of this satirical collection is “SantaLand Diaries,” a meditation on his time as an elf for hire, which our reviewer, Alexandra Jacobs, called “at once hilarious and profoundly depressing.” Just Foolin’ Around: 7 Books From Comics and Humorists 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

“Habit,” six loose, lo-fi songs released in 2016, included “Slug,” an especially astute meditation on helplessness and identity that empathizes with the garden mollusk. An Indie-Rock Star at 18? Snail Mail Is Figuring It Out 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The Los Angeles home features a master suite with a yoga/meditation room, and an outdoor dining loggia with a built-in barbecue. Celebrity Homes for Sale from Jennifer Lopez, Goran Visnjic, and More 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The documentary that came out of the project is partly a celebration of Cannes and partly a meditation on the state of the film industry. Alec Baldwin and James Toback discuss Cannes documentary Seduced and Abandoned - video interview 2013-05-22T10:58:00Z

The first movement, which used to be called a fantasy, seems a deep philosophical meditation, gradually emerging from stasis, to which it returns at the end. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert and Beethoven at Carnegie Hall 2014-04-13T21:42:43Z

For Libin, fasting is another Silicon Valley trend in the same vein as meditation, which gained popularity a few years ago with the creation of apps such as Headspace. The Silicon Valley execs who don't eat for days: 'It's not dieting, it's biohacking' 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

The conclusion he reached was that the three most widely agreed-upon routes were: meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy and psychotropic drugs. Stefan Sagmeister?s ?Happy Show? at Institute of Contemporary Art 2012-04-03T12:00:00Z

So we’ve been doing that to give ourselves a little moment of reset, a little moment of meditation. Phillipa Soo’s Week: Fund-Raising Videos and ‘Agents of Chaos’ 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

A few mornings later, we went paddleboarding through the North Star Nature Preserve, the experience so quiet and peaceful that it was like a meditation. My kids’ camp closed because of covid. So we went to Colorado and created our own. 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

The two loneliest howlers in hip-hop unite for a meditation on the joylessness of fame. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Brand-New Boy Problems, and 7 More New Songs 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

SUN Celebrate the lives of mothers who have died with education, facilitated discussion, meditation and ritual, 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-05-01T21:45:29Z

Show up at a meditation center, by contrast, and you’ll be encouraged to see all those thoughts and emotions as mere passing emotional weather, and the self to which they’re happening as an illusion. What Unites Buddhism and Psychotherapy? One Therapist Has the Answer. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

There is a final talking meditation in the groups of six, each of us having to state what we appreciate about ourselves and what the others in the group appreciate about us. The search for my inner ‘hero’: a modern masculinity retreat 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Some contemporary hermits say prayer and meditation can be done while simultaneously engaging in other activities. What We Can Learn From Solitude 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z

Love and death, body and spirit, overload and austerity, propulsion and meditation, desire and renunciation, fear and strength, joy and melancholy, existence and oblivion all figure in the songs on “No Shape.” Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

It’s got zero fitness tips and no meditation advice. I Love Gwyneth Paltrow. There. I Said It. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

On display in the museum’s third floor Ancient Egyptian Art galleries, the piece is a meditation on fundamental human connections — sisterhood, motherhood, aging — across time. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

They all seemed to have something to do with the power of the imagination or could be construed as gorgeous meditations on time and mortality. Who was Wallace Stevens? A new biography looks at the man and his work. 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Still H.I.V. positive, his immune function has almost entirely returned—an achievement that he credits in large part to his practice of the meditation technique called Reiki, which he engages in several hours a day. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Anywhere else, the noise would have been a distraction, but here, it plunged him into a pleasant state of half-conscious meditation. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Mindfulness is essentially meditation of the kind practiced in East Asia for thousands of years. Baa Baa Land: a film they want you to fall asleep in 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

The enigma is further complicated by the poet’s meditation on what it means to “help someone / grow while helping someone die.” In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Love regained her footing through a renewed devotion to Buddhist chant and meditation and with the support of several life coaches and therapists. Music: Courtney Love?s Improbable Second Act 2010-04-15T18:37:00Z

The result is “equal parts vérité character study and probing meditation on the virtues of success,” Beandrea July said in her review for The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Try Harder!’ and ‘Sheryl’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

Doty’s graceful balance between meditation and observation begins with the first five poems, all of which are called “Deep Lane” and explore some form of descent. The best poetry for April 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Trying to get the attention of a Swiss soccer pro, he gets involved in a kidnapping scheme that leads to a surprising meditation on mortality. Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2014: a big lineup at NWFF 2014-01-22T23:56:26Z

He seems like an aging, impotent, vaguely erudite hippie who sits around smoking bowls and boring people with his monologues about Timothy Leary and Tibetan meditation. Pick of the week: "Down Terrace" 2010-10-22T11:01:00Z

Q. “You are here” — the expression — sounds like a phrase from a meditation session. Jenny Lawson totally gets the coloring book craze. In fact, her new book is one. 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Try to set aside your worries, perhaps by first engaging in a few minutes of mindful meditation. Nap time is the new coffee break. Here’s how to make the most of it. 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Maybe because I was exhausted, or maybe because my daily meditation was starting to truly change my behavior, I resisted going to Google at first. Living with Exploding Head Syndrome: This is what it feels like to hear gunshots in your mind 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

"The Halftime Show" is a meditation that invites private participation. In Jesse Fleming's 'The Halftime Show,' the spectacle is all around us 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Recounting the worm surgery leads to a meditation on the word “fluke” — from the Greek for “floor,” Davis’s teacher told the class. This Memoir About the Contradictions of Grief Plays by Its Own Rules 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Describing their results in January in JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers found moderate evidence that mindfulness meditation alleviates pain, anxiety and depression—the latter two to a similar degree as antidepressant drug therapy. Is meditation a sham? 2014-05-07T12:50:00Z

“Five Star Billionaire” is a meditation, at heart, on impermanence. Books of The Times: Tash Aw’s ‘Five Star Billionaire’ Captures China’s Changes 2013-08-01T20:48:21Z

It is, instead, a meditation on a series of loosely related themes drawn together, somewhat tenuously, by the familiar yet elusive sensibility that Hitchcock brought to Hollywood and then to American television. | 'Double Take': Grimonprez Makes Hitchcock a Symbol of Cold War Era 2010-06-01T22:24:00Z

On the opposite side of the mood spectrum is “My Little Love,” a strangely grooving meditation on the paranoia of parenthood. Review | Adele’s ‘30’ has more to offer than dazzling sadness 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Well, within five days of silence and beach meditation, I’d woken up to a whole new vibration. Modern tribes: the silent retreat evangelist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

As a meditation on loss, fear and anger, though, “The Way Back” feels as timeless as a fairy tale. Into the Woods 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

The story doubles as a manifesto for thinking deeply – if he had been writing a decade or two later, Sillitoe would probably have called this "meditation". The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – running blog book club 2013-05-15T10:15:17Z

“Dark Content” is another complex meditation, on an untenable paradox: the friendliness of the Internet, which seems to invite free expression, is maintained by the hard work of censorship. Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

I’m grateful therefore that I encountered and practiced meditation — more precisely zazen — long before David’s illness. Alzheimer’s, a love story 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Like any true meditation technique, Ms. Oliveros’s piece holds up a mirror to such inner processes and, over time, brings them into balance. Join a Musical Meditation Bringing Together Hundreds Worldwide 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

He said people are always coming up to him saying, "How could you be so happy? What form of meditation do you do? What spiritual tradition are you aligned with? What's your practice?" Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Holding a transparent plastic pouch, my cellphone zipped inside with a white label displaying my name in bold letters, I followed the line as it snaked toward the front of the meditation hall. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z