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Creativity, Reflection, and Mindfulness in Our World

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Title

Creativity, Reflection, and Mindfulness in Our World

When

Sun., Nov 13 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Where

New Cabell Hall, 236
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The Creativity, Reflection, and Mindfulness in Our World event is filled.

RELATED EVENT: Water Stories: Indigenous Activism in Eastern India with Professor Anindyo Roy. Details
November 18, 2022 2:00-4:00pm, 
Hybrid: New Cabell Hall Rm 144 and ZOOM ID: 936 2956 2535 Password: 567384 
Sponsored by the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures.

An immersive nature, and art experience for UVA students with renowned scholar Anindyo Roy. What are the sensory processes behind mindfulness? How do seeing, touching, smelling, and our other senses affect thinking, memory, and creativity? What is our relationship to the natural and built worlds?

We will select 20 students to participate in this fully funded three-hour mindfulness experience. All UVA students are welcome to apply. Funding includes workshop fees, materials, and light food and beverages.

This event will take place both indoors and outdoors. Activities will include mindful walking, painting and drawing, reflection on poetry, sound meditation, mindful eating, and body scan practice.  No prior experience in mindfulness or art is necessary. 

About Anindyo Roy
Anindyo Roy has been working among the indigenous groups of the Eastern Himalayan foothills of India since 2007, serving as mentor and counselor of rural youth. Exploring the rich shamanic traditions and the varied forms of Buddhism of these regions has enabled him to design and offer special retreats that help create an awareness of the life of mindfulness that combines the power of the sensory and the contemplative and offers new insights into human creativity and reflection. Roy retired as Associate Professor of English at Colby College, Maine, in 2020 after teaching literature for nearly thirty years.