Brooklyn Meditation

Founded in 2015, Brooklyn Meditation located in North Brooklyn provides approximately 1,500 visitors and members with services that include: guided meditations, special events, and customized programming. Our Meditation Center's mission is to serve as "a comfortable place to rest your mind." We welcome all without discrimination for age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, immigration, or social/economic status. Current membership, both diverse and international, consists of working professionals (doctors, social workers and educators), freelancers and entrepreneurs (musicians, writers, and photographers) as well as retired seniors and college students. Action meditation engage... read more Founded in 2015, Brooklyn Meditation located in North Brooklyn provides approximately 1,500 visitors and members with services that include: guided meditations, special events, and customized programming. Our Meditation Center's mission is to serve as "a comfortable place to rest your mind." We welcome all without discrimination for age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, immigration, or social/economic status. Current membership, both diverse and international, consists of working professionals (doctors, social workers and educators), freelancers and entrepreneurs (musicians, writers, and photographers) as well as retired seniors and college students. Action meditation engages us in special events, custom meditation programming and workshops reaching a wide audience in the NY region. Events include walking meditations in Prospect Park and volunteering at ChiPs Community Soup Kitchen. Ongoing outreach and partnerships provide educational programming for local schools and custom workshops - Park Slope Women's Domestic Victim Group. We directly engage over 100 families in weekly meditation practice and programming. Extraordinary times call for "extraordinary" living. Facing unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, we propose to honor and equip essential workers and their loved ones with sustainable coping strategies by offering guided meditation practice. Remote meditation programs will be critical to collective healing both immediately and in the wake of the pandemic. Meditation practice facilitates deep emotional and psychological change proven to enhance feelings of self-awareness, acceptance, safety, empathy, and resiliency. This practice is designed to assist frontline workers overcome daily trauma. Our goal is to equip and support these populations to enable them to serve the larger community. This project includes four actions designed towards benefitting the well-being of essential workers, their families, and the public. Community outreach: Our goal is to expand and develop our current weekly online program that launched on April 11 2020 (see link). We will create customized meditation programming that reaches essential workers, the eldery, as well as low income families by tailoring live guided meditation practice sessions as support in the development of coping strategies that can mediate stressors unique to their lived experience. link Scholarships for essential workers: Funds will subsidize scholarships in providing unlimited access to a host of daily online live guided sessions; as well as one-on-one support to meet the critical challenges of a community recovering from this health crisis. Currently, we offer a limited online meditation schedule. Scholarship will subsidize registration to access to the first 4 weeks of the meditation program and full scholarship - subsequent 8 weeks. Sustaining members can avail of one-on-one coaching and guided meditation with experienced guides to empower the individuals for successful living. Producing recorded guided meditation sessions: In transition to remote services, we will create recorded sessions designed to be used before and after work shifts. The pre-recorded sessions can help workers to build resilience for extremely stressful situations, thereby allowing them to provide quality and compassionate care to the people they serve. Providing devices: Grant money will make accessible, rental tablets that can be placed in wellness rooms in hospitals, fire stations, schools, nursing homes. Similarly, basic technology for families of essential workers who lack or have limited access to avail of the meditation programming.