as digital underground said, doowutchyalike - sit how you like, close your eyes if you like, feel your breath where you like and if someone says "that's not meditation," tell em they attachment is showinggg.

close your eyes or nah (skip to two min to start) xo

seated neck/shoulder/side stretch for between werkin xo

petal breathing is a practice i share with youth, but also find helpful for me personally and i'm grown so thot i'd share with you. try it with me, then set a timer and try on your own, for one, two, or three min to start.

ting called petal breathing

i'm riffing on my relationship to meditation, what i understand it to be and some resources that i've learned heaps from. trigger warning: talmbout SADs cos that's real.

mindfulness: what is it even?

a lil yoga nidra for yo' face! not in, for. for you.

skip to 4m for anuva seated medi xo

you can meditate lying on your back, promise. ppl will tell you it's cheating, tell em to open their mind to the possibility and like, relax brah.

no blunt, but ya, lay back and let's co-meditate.

in these days and times, stress is at an all time high, whether it's loving kindness, petal breathing or orienting, find a meditation practice that suits you xoxo

a loving kindness meditation (skip to 5m for no gabba gabba)

i make sound art. i made this work this year. i installed it recently at a residency wrap exhibit n iono if it rly worked tbh but i'm sharing it here cos i think now is a nice time xo

meta black cheer is a compilation of elation of black audiences - us seeing us - our recognition of the heartfull efforts of black cheerleaders, stompers and strollers. only we know the feat: we make from whatever; chitlins from guts, blues outta hurt, big black lips beatbox basslines and wave caps turned couture. we make money we never see. black folx feel what it takes black folx to cheer in the midst of state-sanctioned police murder, missing girls, gentrification, appropriation, shitty representation, anti-black schoolboards, white workplaces, the often impossible desire to repatriate to wherever we come from. and more than this. the unspeakable. so when you see yourself hear ourselves scream and shout in support of ourselves - look in the mirror and listen to this and fulljoy yourself. you are a portrait.

metaBlackcheer

ok friends, we can change and evolve, if ever we needed to hear that, now's the time to remember, you can do sumn new!

jamilahmalika