Drawing Breath

This year we've shown great dedication to practicing mindfulness daily. We've participated in a number of courses, including learning about how mindfulness impacts the brain. Together we've learned about mindfulness through visualization, breathing, focused listening, reflective thought, power of smell, and practicing stillness. Our current course is about mindfulness through drawing. Inspired by Sam Winston's art piece Drawing Breath, we've worked on our own pieces of mindful art. Each line represents a breath, an inhale or an exhale. Over the length of a week, we've added to our pieces, which now represent over 40 minutes of breathing. This process, we've discovered, "invites us to discover awareness, not just with our minds, but also through our bodies."

Examples of students' work in drawing their breath. Our breath comes from our center, and that is where we started.