Chakars: An Evening of Mystical Meditation

​A semi-guided spinning, breathing, and embodiment practice rooted in Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu traditions

​Chakars is a monthly mystical meditation practice drawing from Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu devotional traditions and the ancient understanding that the body, given the right container, already knows how to find its way home.

​Tonight we will move through six doorways of observing deeply and seeing, to behold. Each one asks the body to pay attention differently. Each one asks: what do you notice when you really look? And how does it change you?

​Each session moves through a full arc: breathing, meditation, yoga, whirling, chanting, and shivasana. From stillness into breath, from breath into body, from body into motion, from motion into dissolution, and finally into an awakened return.

​Tickets: Free / Suggested donation €10. Pay what you can. No one turned away.

​What to expect:

• ​A warm, intimate space with recorded music

• ​Guided listening and movement prompts, you won't be left to figure it out alone

• ​Stillness as an active practice, movement as meditation, and a community of people who are also figuring this out together

​Flow:
​8:00 Arrive, settle in, mingle
8:30 Invocation + Preparation + Stillness
9:00 Chakars: devotional spinning and whirling
9:45 Shivasana + integration

​Who is this for? These artistic and spiritual movements were always made by the margins, for the margins. As such, this experience centers immigrants, people of color, queer communities, and all those who carry multiple worlds inside them. For anyone who has felt like an outsider in wellness, spiritual, or arts spaces. This was built with you in mind.

​What to bring:

• ​Comfortable, loose clothing you can move or lie down in

• ​An open mind and a curious body

• ​Water, Socks, Towel, and a Journal

​A note on documentation: We may quietly capture moments in this session through photos and video - not for performance, but for archive.