Walking Meditation: Walk with Lin Lisberger and Patty Dodd

Walking Meditation: Walk w/ Lin Lisberger & Patty Dodd

Walking Meditation brings together artist Lin Lisberger (featured in the University of Southern Maine Art Gallery’s current exhibition, 20 Walks) and meditation teacher Patty Dodd for a calming stroll on the University of Southern Maine Gorham campus pathways. Departing from the University of Southern Maine Art Gallery (5 University Way, Gorham), Dodd will lead the pre and post walk discussions. Lisberger will lead the walk and discuss themes of walking as a practice.

The walk will take place over the course of one hour on light terrain. Participants are encouraged to wear close-toed walking shoes, bring water, and a small trail snack if they like. Leave no trace principles will be observed. Please, no pets. So that we may have an accurate headcount for the event, we kindly ask that you please register at the Eventbrite link below. Lin Lisberger will be available for questions at the University of Southern Maine Art Gallery following the Walking Meditation. Please join us for an intimate exhibition viewing.

About the trail guides:

Lin Lisberger has been a sculptor and woodcarver since the 1970s. She taught sculpture, drawing, and design at the University of Southern Maine from 1981 until her retirement in 2017. Lisberger has an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania (1980) and a BA in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz (1973), and she lives and has a studio in Portland. Her exhibition experience is widespread, and she has worked in several private and corporate collections. Her attention to form has been consistent, creating a foundation upon which an abstract narrative can be built, using narrative to emphasize her interest in humans and their journeys.

In 1972, as a teenager, Patty Dodd took a Transcendental Meditation workshop and got a taste of the possibility of a kind of freedom that has called her ever since. She began going on Yoga retreats to Kripalu in the 1990s and soon after attended Kripalu’s East meets East conferences that led her to Buddhism. Her current mind/body practices include Iyengar Yoga and Lama Willa Miller’s somatic wakefulness practices. In 2017 she began working with high school students, and those students taught her that they needed to learn how to relax

For more about 20 Walks, .

Artist Lin Lisberger

Insomnia artwork by artist Lin Lisberger.

The University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, entrance is at the rear of the building.

Also check out other Arts events in Gorham, Health & Wellness events in Gorham, Exhibitions in Gorham.