Music and Meditation

August 2014

Strings Magazine

I think of practice as a kind of "balanced mindfulness", cultivating a dispassionate error-signal mechanism, critical of the sound, not the self. 

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April 14, 2020

Esalen Institute

Soulful creative works often have the ability to morph into effective contemplative practices. Esalen faculty Barbara Bogatin has experienced this firsthand in several ways—primarily as a master cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 1994, but also as an active listener to classical music, which allows her to truly be in the moment.

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