WashU Mindfulness Week: Day 3

Join the Mindfulness Science and Practice group at WashU for four days of music, art, movement, silence, and stillness. We will experience community and conversation, insight, rest, and reflection.

View the full Mindfulness Week schedule, including speaker bios, here.

Mindfulness Science and Practice is a multiyear cluster of the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures.

Thursday, September 26:

Mindfulness Research @ WashU
Umrath Lounge, 10 - 11:30 a.m. (Map)

Learn about mindfulness research happening right here at WashU from a transdisciplinary group that includes psychology and brain science, social work, public health, music, education, physical therapy, film, and anthropology. 

Tsering Wangmo
Exploring the Epistemology of Memory in Exile and Its Relation to Land Through Art/Film 

Maegan Arney
An Emotional Support Intervention to Improve Educator Well-Being, Increase Mindfulness, and Change How Teachers Communicate About Stress to Students 

Lisa Gilbert
Looped Soundscapes: Composing and Creating Harp Music for Use in Mindfulness Settings and Research 

Resh Gupta
Understanding the Effect of Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Meditation on Attentional and Cognitive Control in Anxiety

Kerri Rawson 
Moving Mindfully: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Approach to Freezing of Gait in Parkinson disease.

Diana Parra Perez & Todd Braver
Mindfulness to enhance cognitive health in Latinx older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease

Mindful Art Viewing
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Noon - 12:45 p.m. (Map)
REGISTRATION CLOSED

Take a pause and look deeply at a work of art, perhaps for the first time ever. José Garza, Museum Academic Programs Coordinator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, will guide us through exercises to experience artwork by Andrea Bowers from the series Eco Grief Extinction. Bowers' art amplifies causes ranging from human rights advocacy to environmental protection. Activist chants reverberate through her creations, manifesting as vibrant, neon-lit slogans; expansive black marker drawings on collaged cardboard, inspired by vintage agitprop; and small, detailed illustrations of individual demonstrators amidst a larger crowd, inviting viewers to recognize the unique voices within collective movements.

Loving-Kindness Meditation
Umrath Lounge, 2 - 2:45 p.m. (Map)
Facilitator: Armando Gomes

How do we come together in a world that is seemingly more polarized than ever? Mindfulness can help. Armando Gomes, a finance professor at WashU and certified mindfulness teacher through the MMTCP program, will guide us to strengthen feelings of kindness and connection toward others, offering tools to help us live with more ease.

Yoga for the Heart
Umrath Lounge, 3 - 4 p.m. (Map)
Facilitator: Danielle Magnus

Led by Danielle Magnus, this class guides participants through a heart-centered journey, blending breathwork, gentle and powerful asanas, and meditation to cultivate emotional resilience and inner peace. Drawing from her diverse background in architecture, landscape design, and holistic plant care, Danielle weaves together the alchemy of contrasts—movement and stillness, effort and ease—to create a balanced, harmonious practice. Rooted in yogic philosophy, "Yoga for the Heart" honors the dualities within, offering a sacred space for healing, self-acceptance, and the discovery of wholeness through mindful movement. Suitable for all levels. Bring a yoga mat if you have one. We'll have a few available for those who don't.