For many of us in lockdown, walking has become the highlight of the day and one of the few excuses to go outside. Going for a walk has become a privilege and our appreciation of this simple freedom has grown accordingly. Walking is an act of touching the Earth, a series of rhythmic repeated acts connecting your body to the ground. Each breath brings the world, and the present moment, into your body, and then it releases the body back into the world in a continuous cycle of exchange. To walk mindfully rather than rushing from one place to another, is to walk meditatively, opening your awareness to the metabolism that exists between yourself and your surroundings.
As part of Cementa's Spirit of '21, you are invited to join me on a collective act of meditative walking - Walkdown in Lockdown. I will guide you through an experience of mindful walking, coaching you to focus your thoughts and embodied attention. Along with a cohort of fellow travellers – each in their own world, breath, footfalls and body’s momentum – you will be moving across the ground in front of you and through the air around you. This movement is not just the mind slowing down to meet the body, but the body also moving to meet the mind. The process of being attentive to your breathing and walking allows each step to connect you to the Earth.
You can listen to my conversation with Ira Ferris discussing Walkdown in Lockdown here - https://soundcloud.com/artemis-projects/eastside-radio-kath-fries-walkdown-in-lockdown-cementa-festival
Cementa Spirit of '21
15 - 16 October 2021
Live stream - cementa.com.au
Cementa is hosting a two-day live streamed program that will bring us together as a community and celebrate the spirit of our creative social body.
The Spirit of ‘21 is the ghost of what we have lost and the spirit of what remains. It is gone, still here, past away and alive, it is anxious and undaunted, it is dematerialised and undiminished. It is our sorrow and resilience, the exuberance of fear, our ability to laugh and to play, to love and to hope, to dream and create all of which is to risk ourselves, to lose because loss marks the value of what we have. It is the spirit that spans the distances and differences that separate us.
SO'21 will bring joy, at times peace, amusement, food for thought, and hopefully a sense that we are not as alone as at times it might seem. Join Cementa across Friday 15th and Saturday 16th October, where we will host a raft of activities and events to entice, beguile, intrigue and interest you. We might not know where we are going but we know its going to be a ride!
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