On Sunday, November 9th, at 3pm  Saya Woolfalk’s exhibition ChimaTEK Beta Launch, will host a partial-demonstration of the Empathics’ system for self-transformation.  The demonstration will be led by Biet Simkin*, a leading expert in emotional and intellectual cleansing and remixing via meditation techniques.  A combination of breathing, virtual travel, and aural exercises this session begins at 3pm and will last approximately 50 min.  

(The Closing Reception for Saya Woolfalk and Vandana Jain will follow from 4-6pm and is open to the public.)

*Biet Simkin, creator of Center of the Cyclone, brings meditation into peoples’ everyday lives. Raised by her Shaman/ Psychotherapist father Dr. Grigory Simkin, her first experience with passion and presence came to life with art, cinema and music growing up in New York City.  She spent the large part of her 20’s “burning” as Jack Kerouac would say and looking for enlightenment in destruction. Due to gaps she found in her environment, she felt she could benefit her communities by bringing the spiritual and cultural together.  Her carefully crafted meditation practice embraces the intellectual, the spiritual, the romantic and the instinctive rather than leaning too heavily on the elusive metaphysical. Simkin has lead meditations in art galleries around New York City with the premise that enlightenment can be found without moving to a distant mountain. For more information about Ms. Simkin please visit www.centerofthecyclone.com.  An interview with her can be found at here.