Dreamwalk - meditation with Tyson Yunkaporta
Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is the author of 'Sand Talk', a book about Indigenous thinking and how it can save the world.
As an Indigenous person, Tyson looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
Common Ground - Meditation In Australia
An important online forum exploring the unique nature of meditation in Australia.
This event gathered First Nations Australian practitioners, thinkers and academics to explain and teach ancient Indigenous practices and stories representing the interconnected traditions of meditation, systems thinking and caring for Country deeply embedded in the original spirituality of Australia.
The program also explored some of the more prominent cross-cultural meditation practices prevalent in this country since the 1960s, emerging from teachers in Indian and South East Asian traditions through to more recent psychologically-attuned approaches.
29 May 2021
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