Mindfulness Meditation · Intention
This week’s meditation session is led by Tracy Cochran and the theme is Intention. The guided meditation begins at 16:00.
Photograph by Filip Wolak
This is a card selected from A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful, which was on view at the Rubin Museum in 2018. Created by artist Candy Chang and writer James A. Reeves, the installation asked visitors to write down the reasons why they are hopeful or anxious. Once they wrote down their hopes and anxieties on separate cards, they placed them on either the hopeful side (blue) or the anxious side (red). The Monument was constantly shifting, growing, and changing, as it continually reflected visitors’ greatest hopes and biggest anxieties.
Tracy Cochran has taught meditation and spiritual practice for many years. She is a speaker and author whose most recent book, Presence: The Art of Being At Home in Yourself, was published by Shambhala Publications in 2024. Tracy is the founder and leading teacher of the Hudson River Sangha and has taught mindfulness and mindful writing at New York Insight, the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, and many other venues. In addition to serving as the editorial director of the acclaimed spiritual quarterly Parabola, her writings have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Best Spiritual Writing series, Parabola, and many other publications and anthologies. For more about Tracy, please visit tracycochran.org and parabola.org.
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