Liquid Meditation is a guided meditation and collective listening session exploring
our relationship to the fluidity of our bodies.
Developed through my artistic research around water, bodily permeability and
hydrofeminist thinking, the session invites participants to approach the body not as
a fixed or isolated entity, but as a space of circulation and movement.
Through gentle mobility exercises, breathing, guided visualisation, listening and
moments of silence, participants are invited to bring their attention to the different
flows taking place within their bodies: breathing, blood circulation, internal rhythms
and other bodily fluids.
The session is partly informed by the work of philosopher and theorist Astrida
Neimanis, particularly her concept of the body of water, which considers bodies as
materially connected to wider ecological and planetary circulations. Short passages
from her writing will be integrated into the guidance as a way of introducing these
ideas through language and imagination rather than through a theoretical lecture.
The session will gradually move from physical movement towards stillness and
meditation. A guided visualisation will lead participants from an awareness of the
physical boundaries of the body towards a more fluid and porous understanding of
its relationship with the surrounding environment.
The final part of the session will introduce a music album by Voices from the Lake,
allowing music and listening to gradually take over from the spoken guidance and
accompany participants as they return from the meditative state.
The session is designed to be accessible to participants with or without previous
experience of meditation or yoga. It is not conceived as a yoga class or therapeutic
practice, but as a collective space for attention, sensory experience and embodied
listening.