Meditation Classes in the City

Last Wednesday evening, on August 22nd, a tall young man with several bags slung over his shoulder went slowly clomping up the stairs to Index Art Center (IAC). In his bags were his healing equipment "” a recorder, a drum, a guitar, and a variety of other paraphernalia.

DALIEN, aka. 13HANDS was making this trek not for art, as we know it though, but for the practice of the art of mind. He was coming to the Center to teach a yoga meditation class of his own creation, "13HANDS/NOMAD YOGA" at the Newark Community Meditation Center that meets regularly at IAC.

The class started with humor, sounds from his recorder, then moved into simple yoga moves, a discussion on the colon, contortion, sleep and lack of, and more. His session ended in the "corpse" pose as he played his different instruments as well as beautiful vocals.

His class was the third in a series of Introduction to Meditation classes at NCMC that combined moving meditation and sitting meditation. Other guest instructors taught 5Rhythms dance and 8-form moving meditation, a type of qigong.

Each class has also had a session of sitting meditation, let by NCMC instructor, Dr. Cornelia Santschi, a neuropsychologist. Conni discussed the benefits of meditation. Along with Marcie Barth, Conni is a founder of this donation-based meditation center. They both have a passion to share the benefits of meditation with the Newark community. Their goal is to build a meditation community of like-minded people that can also be engaged in Newark through providing special outreach programs and gifts to charitable organizations.

In the fall they will begin a regular sitting meditation group at IAC on scheduled evenings. You can read more about NCMC at http://newarkmeditation.org/ or contact them at info@newarkmeditation.org.