Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious: Session 2, Fall 2024

Mon, Nov 25, 2024

10:00 AM–11:00 AM

All are welcome. This 60-min online meditation series will take place virtually via Zoom. Register below to attend and we’ll email you the Zoom link.

Noticing tension and inviting release

Join us Monday, November 25th at 10 AM EST on Zoom for the guided mediation session “Noticing tension and inviting release” facilitated by Anaïs G. Duplan. This session will focus on postures and breathing techniques for practical and reflective use in community and organizing work. This series is open to the public and encouraged for community organizers who work around climate justice or social justice issues. From facilitating meetings to navigating physical reactions to stress and escalation, this workshop is intended for anyone who wants to approach their work with care, thought, and reflectiveness.

To join this mediation series, please fill out this registration form. Zoom links will be sent out prior to the start of the series. All are welcome.

This 60-min online meditation series hosted by Anaïs G. Duplan will take place on a bi-weekly basis from November to December, 2024. Each meditation session will begin with a talk by Anaïs G. Duplan, followed by guided yoga postures (yin, long durational holds), breathing techniques (pranayama), and a discussion and Q&A session.

This season will focus on the following themes: (1) Connecting to your breath and body, (2) Noticing tension and inviting release, (3) Witnessing another and being witnessed, and (4) Breathing through conflict, inspired by Jennifer Patterson’s The Power of Breathwork.

We will engage the following pranayama techniques:

Fall 2024 sessions will be held on the following dates:

Meditation Guide

Anaïs Duplan

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of the book I NEED MUSIC;Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture; Take This Stallion; and the chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the MoMA and the Studio Museum in Harlem, and in 2021 received a Marian Goodman fellowship from Independent Curators International for his research on Black experimental documentary. In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. He is the recipient of the 2021 QUEER|ART|PRIZE for Recent Work, and a 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction. Duplan is a professor of postcolonial literature at Bennington College, and has taught poetry at The New School, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College, and others. Visit his website here for more information.


Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate-Conscious is a two-year, monthly meditation series led by trans* poet, artist, and meditation teacher Anaïs G. Duplan. “We are in dire need of heightened attention and action around the climate crisis, particularly the way it manifests as environmental racism. By engaging in collective breath work and tending with delicate urgency to our inner worlds, climate activists can both build an inner resilience and tap into an energetic harmony with the earth in order to support their efforts at addressing these life threatening issues.”

This meditation course will center embodied wisdom around ecojustice, racial justice, and mindfulness. Anaïs will lead participants through a series of meditative postures, exercises, and knowledge sharing/production, guided by scholars and practitioners studied in these disciplines.

Through the series, the Center for the Humanities hopes to enact and advance new forms of creative, activist, and scholarly care that more effectively supports the people and organizations leading on the frontlines of climate change.