What is art?

VICTOR KANNAN recently visited the Inner Peace Museum at Kanha Shanti Vanam, and invites us inside its doors to feel the calmness that inner peace bri

Inner peace museum

JEMINA WATSTEIN has taught art all over the world, including Thailand, Germany, and the United States. She encourages all her students, and now us, to

3 activities to calm the mind

The light within

BO JOHNSON is interviewed by SURAJ SEHGAL about being a stand-up comedian, the humanity behind humor, and the nerves around how it will be received. H

Being funny

Sharing the soul

KATHLEEN SCARBORO shares her journey as an artist, explaining why she has chosen the subjects that are so dear to her heart. In December 2023, she ope

Thoughts about painting india

Creative power

JOSH BULRISS is the professional photographer behind The Buddha Project, an initiative capturing unique Buddha imagery across the world. In this photo

The diverse faces of the Buddha

PAPIGUY from Montpellier reminds us that we have a lot to learn about generosity from the natural world around us, in this case from a very beloved el

Mana the elephant

The enemy of creativity

Fascinating life

6 Questions with Tanya ManiktalaTANYA MANIKTALA is an award-winning Indian actress. We asked Tanya about the people, places, and things that help her 

Access your full potential

JOSH BULRISS is a traveling photographer. Before heading to Thailand for the Buddha Project, he had no idea that he would find a soul mate for his tra

How the Buddha brought us together

Try slowing down

SIDDHARTHA V. SHAH has been promoting art as a means of community engagement and social responsibility throughout his professional career. Recently he

Art, healing, and slowing down

Students' Contributions From The Heartfulness Learning CenterArtwork by AVIYUKTArtwork by HARSHA R

Peace - students' contributions

The light in the heart

LIU JIANMIN is a Heartfulness practitioner and calligrapher. He has taken a quote of FEI XIAO TONG (1910-2005), one of the founders of Chinese sociolo

The beauty of nature and spirituality

Thoughtless presence

The Womanifesto collective came together in Bangkok in the late 1990s to fulfill the need for an inclusive, creative, and open-ended art platform for 

Womanifesto

Value food and cheer

POOJA KINI shares one of her simple superfood salads to brighten up your Monday and give you a burst of nutrients.Sometimes, ordering delivery can see

Case of the weekday blues? Eat some blueberries

From your soul



AN ART ESSAY




  JASMEE MUDGAL
    reflects on her love for Rumi, the much-loved 13th-century Persian
    poet.









  Rumi’s poetry has alway

Rumi


    FIONA
            NEARY is passionate about creating introspective spaces to share with others through painting,
        photography, music, and 

A fun exercise: Tree of life




    CHRISTIAN
            MACKETANZ is an artist and Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany.
        He shares his lov

Creativity and art

Your unfolding life




  GRANT
      SNIDER
    began drawing and writing before he knew what he was doing. His comics
    have appeared in The New York Times Book Review

Comic Joy




  SIMONNE HOLM
    is the founder of the Alkaline Institute and is dedicated to helping
    people to thrive on their health journey through creati

Healing Soup

A closed book




  Chef VIJAY SAHU has cooked his way from India to Australia, and across
  Thailand, New York, and now Dallas, TX.Here he shares his thoughts on
  

10 tips for heartful cooking

Be your own person


    POOJA KINI
        shares her experience and tips for setting intentions and caring for your
        health on a daily basis. She also shares a g

Interest, intention, and a yummy breakfast






        AN ART ESSAY







        What an insight it could be to travel in a Commitment Train called
        Ma, to have a window seat, but thi

Commitment train

Commitment


      
      POOJA KINI
        simplifies the art of eating healthy food to 4 simple principles that
        are easy to follow. She brings joy to e

4 ideas for healthy eating in the New Year


  
  JOEL CROSS, aka A Soul Called Joel, is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter. He
    grew up singing gospel songs with his seven siblings. In 202

Flow

The creative process

Creativity leads to progress


    KAREN
            EYÞÓRSDÓTTIR
        works for the city of Reykjavik in the field of climate change and European
        cooperation, adopting 

Creating a green city


  SIMONNE HOLM
    looks at ways to develop healthy balanced nutrition using the 80-20
    alkaline-acid principle.





  In the book, The pH Miracl

New biology


  POOJA KINI
    is a master of finding simple ways to eat healthy food while living a busy
    lifestyle. Here she shares a kale salad that is full 

Easy kale salad

Cooking is creative!


    SANJANA AYYAGARI
        shares some everyday images of ways to be more aware, take care and
        responsibility for self and others, and buil

Everyday ways you can be a better leader

Well-being through creativity

Fill yourself with creativity


        GUILA CLARA KESSOUS, UNESCO Artist for Peace and art therapist, uses drama therapy to
          help people “let go” of their suffering throu

Art therapy for human suffering

The creative act

  
        PAWO CHOYNING DORJI
          is a Bhutanese filmmaker and photographer. His film,
          Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019), was nom

A love letter from Bhutan


  BRIGITTE SMITH
    speaks about the social responsibility of artists, and creativity’s
    role in inspiring new thought processes.





  
    
  

The urgency of our time

Slowing down





AN ART ESSAY








  ZACHARI LOGAN is interviewed by VANESSA PATEL about his art, the influences that have
    informed his approach, the relati

Let art slow you down





AN ART
        ESSAY







CHRISTIAN MACKETANZ explains the creative process
        behind the paintings in his exhibition.







The content o

Patience and observation

The beauty of the world


    CLAYTON JOHN
        writes about his approach to art and spirituality and the techniques he is
        using to create his latest series, Imagin

Imaginata Australis


    DR. V. RAMAKANTHA
        retells the legend of Savithri and Satyavan, which is centered around the
        Banyan tree, also known as the Tree o

A story of everlasting love

Creativity and possibility


        HARPREET BHAN experiments with some simple plays on
        words in order to explore the profound meaning that words can sometimes offer us.

Word plays



SUKRITI VADHERA KOHLI
is an artist whose mission is to encourage people to discover
well-being. Here she shares her own experience of being courageo

About a dog and a small boy


  VENKAT MURTHY
    is a hospitality professional, chef, and an educator who trains aspiring
    student chefs in Sydney, Australia. This year, he wi

Mushroom biriyani


  SIDDHARTHA V. SHAH
    is the Director of Education and Civic Engagement and Curator of South Asian
    Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, M

Art as social responsibility

The arts


  BARBARA SONVILLA
    writes about the divine feminine, the global awakening of women, and their
    growing role in leadership. She celebrates wome

Love the Earth


    SIDDHARTHA V. SHAH
        is the Director of Education and Civic Engagement and Curator of South Asian
        Art at the Peabody Essex Museum i

Art in service of community


  In these landscapes, which are so surreal they are almost like paintings,
  BRUNO MEMEINT
  captures the stark beauty of Iceland, a land known for 

Lights of Iceland

All the difference


  RASHMI BANSAL
    is an Indian non-fiction writer and entrepreneur. In this exclusive
    interview, she shares the inspiration behind choosing the

The road less traveled


  JYOTI BHATT
      is a celebrated and awarded artist, best known for his work in
      painting and printmaking, as well as his photographic accoun

Beyond traditional and modern – part 2




  oh, there i am – lost





  years ago,i begana very long gameof hide and seek.i
  looked in every nookand i scavenged every crannyto try and fin

Oh, there i am

Say it out loud

Start something new


  JYOTI BHATT
    is a celebrated and awarded artist, best known for his work in painting and
    printmaking, as well as his photographic accounts o

Beyond traditional and modern

ANANYA PATEL explores the timeless nature of wisdom and how it affects every little detail of our everyday life.

Timeless Wisdom

Progress

Work in progress

The sacredness of life


  An Art Essay







  
    
  





  HOPE FOR TRANSFORMATION



  Nobility of the soul requires cultivating. This opportunity is granted to wise
 

Hope

Infinite hope

In the moment



  A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY



  RAJESH MENON is a photographer from Delhi,
  who specializes in images from nature. Here he shares some of the beautiful

The birds of Kanha

Pilgrimage


IRA CHAUDHURI is a studio potter and ceramic artist who now lives
      in Delhi. She grew up in Tagore’s Visva Bharati, Santiniketan in West Bengal,

A life in the day

In this exclusive interview, AMISH TRIPATHI speaks with ELIZABETH DENLEY about what propelled him to write fiction. A self-professed liberal who at th

Tradition, liberalism, and Lord Shiva

KATHLEEN SCARBORO has a career in public art. Here she describes the motivation behind her painting and how she has developed her themes and technique

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The innate elegance of humanity



To wonder and be surprised
  by the wonders of nature.
  This is the core of my existence.





I stood by the Norwegian coast high up north. The we

To wonder & be surprised


    SIMONNE HOLM shares her passion for fresh, alkaline foods, and
    especially for healthy green drinks full of chlorophyll.
  
  
  
    
  
  CH

Good health

NARENDRA KINI is an artist among other things. He
  shares with us his own experience of creating, and what helps him most.

What inspires minds?
What

The heart of the matter

A Workshop for the Young at Heart of All AgesWe all have the wisdom of the universe inside us, so in this activity ANNA-GRETHE KOUSGAARD and her stude

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