Meditations for the City | Guided Breathing YouTube video by AUGUST SHELLS

First recording of the performance now on youtube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKO...

Thank you all for joining this beautiful evening at Das Baumhaus the other night. This communal meditation with you gave me chills. Love 🖤

Join us for a live audiovisual meditation session in Berlin!

T: Friday, 30th of January 2026
L: Das Baumhaus, Gerichtstraße 23, 13347 Berlin

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Meditation for today

"Whatever your fate or your trials, just be sure that you are truly in the moment. Life is short when you are not".

from Women who blow on knots, by Ece Temelkuran

Being able to regulate your own emotions is essential as an adult.

Meditation for today

Balance can be achieved by putting stuff on two ends of the swing but also by removing things from both ends of the spectrum.
—
Jin Chung and Kyoco Taniyama, Seesaw (2025)

'Perfect balance is found in still waters. Such water should be an example to us all. Inner harmony is protected and nothing external affects it. Virtue is the result of true balance. Virtue has no shape or form yet nothing can be without it,' said Confucius.

from Chuang Tzu, The Tao of Nature

Meditation for today

All life is simply what it is

Meditation for today

When we are satisfied with being ourselves, we no longer have to look for the approval of others.

Meditation #2

Anger is a mirror

Meditation #1

Fighting for balance is an endless struggle and we can only accept it.

3d scan of a fallen tree

3d scan of a fallen tree

3d scan of a fallen tree

Alnus Glutinosa, fallen; Gorge of Cher River, Auvergne, France, 2025

Alnus glutinosa (black alder), fallen, and thousands more species living on it and off it now. Decay and new life, infinite processes of mutual support.

Wuhlheide Meditation for today

#zither

Rendering of a 3d scan of an olive tree

Rendering of a 3d scan of an olive tree

Rendering of a 3d scan of an olive tree

Rendering of a 3d scan of an olive tree

They were called "moriae" (μορίαι), the legend being that they had been propagated (μεμορημέναι) from the original olive which Athena herself had caused to spring up on the Acropolis.

Olea Europaea, Scanned in Sicily, Italy in 2023

Limitation can be your strength and support. Your base.

poverty of imagination

Put your head in your hands, feel its weight. Let you head feel it is being held. Let your mind feel it is safe and can let go.

Prayer as a way to connect to the feeling or the sensation of divine/spiritual/higher power?

...there can be men that are wise enough to love and show it.

From: @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social's Women who blow on knots

Meditation for the city. New project on Berlin's walls.
#meditationmusic #projection #acoustic

A: Training my intervals
V: Recent scan of Arabic typography @ MK&G in Hamburg

#intervals #arabic #typography #musictraining

I think about mental configurations often, I use it as a tool to understand myself better – now it feeds my music too.

Second day with Ableton Live – it's a beast but a tickly one!

#bassharmonica #ambient #newmusic #hohner

Last weekend I had the most beautiful moment during a private musical and video performance / meditation for my friends. It's so great to be surrounded by such beautiful beautiful human beings. #klapkikubota #bassharmonica #zither #ambient #meditation #meditationmusic #musicvisualisation

Akurat - Do prostego człowieka YouTube video by Maku Maku

Just learned that this song that accompanied me in early twenties was actually a poem from Julian Tuwim – "Do prostego człowieka" – To the common man, from 1929. So so valid today. Here's english translation: allpoetry.com/poem/8537689... youtu.be/7wChlvZbXjY?...

During meditation with sound or music, you (or a guide) can define some sounds or instruments as the ones 'bringing you back' to the empty state. If you are there, they're just sounds, if not, it's a gentle reminder.

Two sections of beats in GarageBand

Two sections, each improvised on separately. As you work on one, the other loops. It gives you time to set up the beats on the one constantly changing but also it gives you this interesting way of moving the 'main' repeating rhythm between the sections.