Jazz Meditation at The Shinnyo Center For Meditation And Well-Being

Experience the Live Music and Relaxation Benefits of Jazz Meditation
A Guided Meditation at The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being in New York City

WHAT:The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being will present a unique meditation that combines Shinnyo guided meditation with a live jazz music performance. Led by Shinnyo meditation guide Eitaro Hayashi, with accompaniment by Nick Gianni on Saxophone and Arlen Hart on piano, the session will introduce the combine live music and the relaxation benefits of meditation.

Music has often been used as a background for yoga, massage and exercise, but music can also be the focus of meditation practice. Jazz as an art form is based on being completely focused in the present moment. Jazz musicians do this by being aware of their surroundings and harmonizing with the other musicians as well as the mood of the audience. The Shinnyo Center Jazz Meditation session will explore this concept as musicians play off the words of the meditation guide who in-turn will reflect the musical accompaniment in the leading of his practice to audience members. ...

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Experience the Live Music and Relaxation Benefits of Jazz Meditation
A Guided Meditation at The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being in New York City

WHAT:The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being will present a unique meditation that combines Shinnyo guided meditation with a live jazz music performance. Led by Shinnyo meditation guide Eitaro Hayashi, with accompaniment by Nick Gianni on Saxophone and Arlen Hart on piano, the session will introduce the combine live music and the relaxation benefits of meditation.

Music has often been used as a background for yoga, massage and exercise, but music can also be the focus of meditation practice. Jazz as an art form is based on being completely focused in the present moment. Jazz musicians do this by being aware of their surroundings and harmonizing with the other musicians as well as the mood of the audience. The Shinnyo Center Jazz Meditation session will explore this concept as musicians play off the words of the meditation guide who in-turn will reflect the musical accompaniment in the leading of his practice to audience members.
It will be a great night for entertainment, new experiences and for people to relieve the everyday stress that comes with living in the big city.

The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being works towards translating fundamental Buddhist values into experiences that can be accessible to everyone in contemporary society.
WHERE: The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being
19 West 36th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
New York, NY 10018
(212) 868-9838

WHEN:Thursday, June 11th 2015 at 7pm

HOW:Public tickets: $15 per ticket

Buy tickets online or call 212-868-9838
Purchase tickets online here: http://shinnyocenternyc.org/events/center-stage/

WHO: The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being brings together fundamental Buddhist values into experiences that can be accessible to everyone in contemporary society. The vision for the Shinnyo Center is to make all its activities a contribution to the public through programming that applies the core values of Shinnyo Buddhism to modern life. The Shinnyo Center offers a variety of quality programs that resonate with the situational and spiritual needs of those in metropolitan New York City, and guided and individual meditation sessions for people seeking increased balance and perspective in their day-to-day life, opportunities to mentally and emotionally develop on both personal and professional levels, and a warm and inviting community of respectful and mindful discourse.

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