Basking in Gravity at Magick City

Basking in Gravity: Dead Bird Blues
Magick City | Brooklyn, New York
Friday, August 30, 2019
6-7:30pm and 8-9:30pm
$21

Basking in Gravity is a 90-minute Yin yoga and meditation session led by Indiana-based artist Daniel Chamberlin, aka Cosmic Chambo. This slow and low sequence of asanas will be accompanied by the debut of Dead Bird Blues (2019), an animated mandala projection. The practice will also feature a selection of New Age, ambient, drone, and “cosmic metal,” as heard on Chamberlin’s Inter-Dimensional Music broadcast on WQRT Indianapolis and Marfa Public Radio in Far West Texas.

Basking in Gravity takes concepts from yoga and Zen and emphasizes their implications for radical body acceptance and use as a tool for escaping false binaries. This is the body we have today, the only body, the ultimate body, the every body. Our practice is a space for ritual release, a celebration of the infinite flux of life, and a chance to drift and sink into the flow of our fluids.

Dead Bird Blues (2019) is a slowly turning mandala composed of Chamberlin’s photographs of a Northern Parula, a migratory warbler that died in a collision with a high-rise bank window in downtown Muncie, Indiana. The mandala completes one sequence each hour. The work takes its name from a song by August Born, a 2005 collaboration between Ben Chasny and Hiroyuki Usui.

MagickCity is hosting two separate Basking in Gravity sessions on Friday, August 30 from 6-7:30pm and 8-9:30pm. Click the "sliding scale" link on the RSVP form to choose one.

Both sessions are intended to be accessible to all bodies and experience levels. Please talk to Chamberlin before class if you have specific concerns. And bring your own yoga mat!

For more information visit Magick City or Instagram and Facebook or contact cosmic.chambo@gmail.com.

Stay tuned for September 2019 yoga happenings in Indianapolis and Muncie!

Inter-Dimensional Music
WQRT 99.1FM Indianapolis
Fridays 12-1p + Mondays 8-9p ET

KRTS 93.5FM Marfa Public Radio in Far West Texas
First Sundays 9-11p CT

Find 72+ hours of Yin yoga slow jams, heavy mellow madness, and void contemplation tactics streaming anytime at mixcloud.com/CosmicChambo.