Yoga And Meditation

When we started this project, we were asked to think about something that has been on our minds recently. One of the things I wrote down was “It’s a struggle to stay zen.” Out of everything I wrote, I felt that this was what most totally encompassed everything I was dealing with. I realized that the way I understood zen, yoga and meditation was a lot different than how most people around here understand it. Being raised by a Buddhist mother, these ideologies are, whether consciously or not, ingrained into how I think. I realized later on that these ideas are just not a part of where I live. Certain aspects that we do see are often misrepresenting these philosophies.They’re turned into something that has more to do with appearance and fitness …show more content…
In other words, meditating regularly and keeping my depression and anxiety from getting in the way of my life in the face of stressors. As I started thinking more about my meditation and yoga practices, I realized that most people in western society aren’t very familiar with what yoga and meditation actually are, and that sometimes it gets a little lost in translation. I hope to show how people take advantage of these things and treat them as trends not even realizing that they are scientifically backed and historically non religious yet spiritual paths towards total health. I want people to try to understand what these ideas actually are, if not just because they’re so drastically different than most ideologies around here. There are so many myths and misconceptions about these ideas, which I think is why they’re still so uncommon after existing for so …show more content…
I wanted to play with the irony of capitalist advertising of anti-materialist ideas, which I see a lot of.I hoped to achieve this by integrating advertisements and other layered sound clips to created a sort of muddled feeling to the recording, like one might feel in their minds when they’re anxious. It’s very different than how a meditation should actually feel. When you’re actually in a meditative state, everything should feel totally silent and peaceful . In my performance, I come home from school ready to relax. I decide to listen to a guided meditation, and it seems to have a robotic, Siri-like voice. The actual meditation is constantly interrupted by ads for yoga workout tapes that promise abs and a yoga booty, a request for a microtransaction in order to continue the meditation, and separated, dissonant voices. The majority of yoga in the United States is nothing like yoga as it’s practiced in the east. Yoga is not supposed to be a work out, or to make you look differently. Traditionally, yoga is the movement of the body in order to stay present. It’s akin to meditation and is more for mental or spiritual health than physical fitness, although that is a part of it. Even so.it’s more about health overall than just physical fitness. By the end of the performance I can never manage to meditate and I try to express feeling even more