Wellness Wednesday: Creative Self-Care: Enso Mantras
Location
Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park
Date & Time
September 4, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Interested in finding simple yet impactful ways to weave wellness into your professional and personal life? If so, please join faculty and staff colleagues for Wellness Wednesdays. Each session offers information, resources, and/or immersion into different wellness modalities that are supported at UMBC.
In this 1-hour wellness session, you will learn the meditative art of Enso (circle) painting, a sacred Zen calligraphy symbol from 6th century Japan that symbolizes the connectedness of existence, strength, the universe, and the imperfect as perfect, among other things. Painting Enso is traditionally accomplished in one movement that is coordinated with the breath and is said to be a reflection of the state of the painter's mind in that moment.
To prepare for painting Enso, participants will be lead through a mindfulness meditation to assist with quieting the mind, arriving to the present moment, and embodying a state of peacefulness. Participants may accompany their Enso with a self-care inscripton or mantra to act as an anchor for moving through the stressors of daily life.
Co-sponsored by Human Resources and the Center of Art, Design & Visual Culture.
Rain location for this event is Engineering 023.
Space is limited and registration is required. Registration by Friday, August 30th at https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/training/events/72039.
If you register for a workshop and your attendance plans change, please let us know by emailing hrtraining@umbc.edu.
Please arrive early so we can begin promptly at 12:00 noon.
For more information on wellness at UMBC, visit http://www.umbc.edu/wellness.
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