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For many of us in pandemic lockdown, walking is 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 rhythmically 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.
Join artist Kath Fries in a collective act of meditative walking practice. Kath guides 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 bodily momentum - 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.