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Deeper Dive: A Dance Critic on the Less Glamorous Aspects of Ballet

Ballet may look effortless and beautiful to audiences, but the experience for dancers can be quite different. In this final episode of the season, host Lilit Sadoyan spe

Patience Meditation with a Degas Dancer

How does your body feel when you wait? Slow down and explore your body’s experience of patience (and impatience) inspired by Edgar Degas’s enigmatic pastel drawing Waitin

Deeper Dive: Māori Haka Taps into Deep Emotions

Extreme facial expressions are the first thing many notice when they see a haka performance. It’s the same thing that people tend to notice with Getty’s sculpture of The

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercise with The Vexed Man

Explore how deeply you can relax—by tensing each muscle in your body. This unusual exercise builds on Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s The Vexed Man (1771–83), a sculpture of

Deeper Dive: The Near-Universal Appeal of Tea with Friends

Japanese chadō, or tea ceremony, is widely known for its beauty, precision, and meditative qualities. So how does that compare to the story told by artist Jean-Ettienne

Calming Tea Meditation with a Still Life

Focus on fully experiencing the moment while you sip on a cup of tea in this relaxing meditation inspired by Jean-Étienne Liotard’s Still Life: Tea Set (1781–83). This p

Deeper Dive: Chani Nicholas on the Ancient Appeal of Astrology

People have made meaning from the movement of the stars and planets since before recorded history. In this conversation with host Lilit Sadoyan, contemporary astrologer

Find Your Space in the Universe with a Medieval Astrology Diagram

Feel one with the cosmos as you explore your place in time and space inspired by a 15th-century astrological diagram found in an unusual manuscript. Featuring a collecti

Deeper Dive: A Buddhist Monk on the Value of Cleaning

Buddhist monks don’t spend all their time in quiet meditation—they also do a lot of cleaning. However, cleaning can also be a meditative practice, if done with intention

Mindful Housework Meditation with "The Laundress"

Pause and reflect on being fully present in the everyday with this mindful cleaning exercise inspired by Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s painting The Laundress (1761). Weave mind

Deeper Dive: How an Environmental Designer Connects with Trees

When was the last time you stopped and really noticed the trees and plants around you? Artist and environmental designer Aroussiak Gabrielian knows that a lot of us suff

Grounding Tree Meditation Inspired by the Forest of Fontainebleau

Slow down time, feel grounded, and reset with this nature-focused meditation inspired by Théodore Rousseau’s mid-19th-century painting Forest of Fontainebleau, Cluster of

Deeper Dive: A Brief History of Sleep

Sleep is a biological necessity, but our practices around sleep are cultural. Before the industrial revolution, sleep was generally biphasic, meaning that it happened in

Yogic Sleep Meditation with an Ornate Bed

Deeply relax your entire body with a yoga nidra, or yogic sleep, meditation inspired by a luxurious 18th-century French bed. Called a lit à la polonaise, or Polish bed,

Deeper Dive: Clouds…on Mars? Insights from a Mars Climate Scientist

Clouds have a lot to teach us—they indicate the weather, they impact the climate, and they inspire a sense of awe and wonder. But what can we learn from clouds on Mars?

Observe Your Thoughts Like Passing Clouds

Engage with your sense of wonder and bring awareness to your thoughts through this meditation practice inspired by Simon Joseph Alexandre Clément Denis’s Study of Clouds

Deeper Dive: The Call of the Mountains

What is it about mountains that make people want to climb them? Mountain climber and writer Katie Ives has thought a lot about the ineffable qualities of mountains that

Mountain Meditation Inspired by Italy

Feel still and majestic like a mountain in a meditation inspired by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld’s painting View of the Bridge and Part of the Town of Cava, Kingdom of Napl

Deeper Dive: Blue Across Art History

For much of history, blue was one of the most fugitive pigments in art. Writer and historian Victoria Finlay, author of the book The Brilliant History of Color in Art, go

Blue Light Visualization with Edvard Munch’s Starry Night

Bring awareness to the memories, thoughts, and emotions evoked during this blue light visualization inspired by Edvard Munch’s Starry Night (1893) and his many uses of th