Join the Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC) for a Meditation from the Dell on Saturday, April 5 from 12:45-1:45pm in Dell Field, adjacent to the Contemplative Commons. This is a public event. No tickets are required.  

This event gathers members of the CSC, University, and Charlottesville communities for contemplative practices centered on the theme of community flourishing and contemplative action. The program includes:  

• A Soothing Sound Bath, featuring Susy Schieffelin of The Copper Vessel 
• ***UPDATE*** A Presentation of the Inaugural Contemplation in Action Award to GRAMMY® Award-nominated producer, songwriter, and performer Maggie Rogers
• A Guided Meditation on Community Flourishing, featuring Mindfulness Teacher Rhonda Magee
• A Musical Offering, by The Golden Hours, featuring members of David Wax Museum and Lowland Hum 

We invite you to bring lawn chairs and blankets for this outdoor community gathering. There will be limited seating available. As an outdoor event, this event is weather permitting. Please check CSC’s social media accounts (@uvacsc) and this page for updates in case of bad weather.  

***UPDATE*** We are also excited to share that we will have limited free tickets available to the CSC’s benefit concert starring Zac Brown Band with special guest Maggie Rogers and comedy by Joe Zimmerman for our first 50 guests at Meditation from the Dell. Each ticket recipient will receive a ticket for themselves and a friend.   

EVENT LOGISTICS

Location 
Dell Field is located behind the Contemplative Commons at 403 Emmet St S in Charlottesville, between the Contemplative Commons and the Perry-Fishburne Tennis Courts. To get to Dell Field, please walk along the pedestrian pathway between the Contemplative Commons and the Dell Pond. 

Inclement Weather Information 
As an outdoor event, this event is weather permitting. Please check CSC’s social media accounts (@uvacsc) and this page for updates in case of bad weather.

Supervision of Minors
The University of Virginia expects parents or guardians to provide supervision over minors on University property during this event. Parents or guardians should not leave minors unsupervised on University property.

PARKING
We will have limited free parking available for the event at the following locations on Saturday, April 5 (also highlighted in purple on the map below): 

• Alumni Hall: Parking will be available until 4 pm at Alumni Hall (221 Emmet St S, Charlottesville, VA 22903) in the X3 lot (directly across from the tennis courts) and the U-Shape lot (in front of the Emmet St entrance).
• Culbreth Garage: Event guests may park in the Culbreth Parking Garage for this event. No reservations are necessary. 130 Culbreth Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903
• Ridley Hall R1 lot Parking will be available from 7:30am-5:00pm.

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ABOUT OUR CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTITIONERS

Rhonda V. Magee
Rhonda V. Magee is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and a leading mindfulness teacher and practice innovator with a focus on applying mindfulness to the hardest challenges of our times. She is an internationally-recognized teacher, guide and mentor, focused on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law and social change work. A prolific author, she draws on law and legal history to weave storytelling, poetry, analysis and practices into inspiration for changing how we think, act and live better together in a rapidly changing world. For more than 20 years, Professor Magee has studied mindfulness, its underlying origins in Buddhism, and its potential benefits and applications in the world. As both a law professor and a mindfulness teacher, Magee has been exploring the integration of mindfulness into teaching and learning, and social engagement, including in support of personal and collective healing, activism, leadership. She has written extensively on how mindfulness and other contemplative practices support engagement in the world in the face of the multiple interlocking challenges of our times, including climate distress, migration, political polarization, migration, war and their effects on us all. Along the way, she’s become a sought-after Keynote speaker and thought-leader, inspiring others to explore the integration of socially-engaged mindfulness research and applications inside schools, workplaces, communities and beyond.

Susy Markoe Schieffelin 
Susy Markoe Schieffelin, a 2011 graduate of the University of Virginia, studied East Asian Studies and Religious Studies before forging a unique path as a leader in the wellness and sound healing space. Based in Los Angeles, she is a renowned sound healer, Reiki Master, Kundalini yoga teacher, spiritual business coach, and founder of The Copper Vessel and The Sound Healer’s Academy. Susy has led sound baths and trainings for millions around the world, brought healing to companies like Google, Meta, and The Ritz-Carlton, and collaborated with artists including LeAnn Rimes and the LA Philharmonic. Her work has been featured in VOGUE, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Through her signature sound baths, transformational trainings, and her debut solo sound healing album Angel Aura, Susy helps others reconnect with their truth and step into lives of clarity, purpose, abundance, and joy. Susy’s work can be followed at @thecoppervessel and www.thecoppervessel.com. 

The Golden Hours
Created by internationally touring bands David Wax Museum and Lowland Hum, The Golden Hours offers an immersive live music experience, inviting presence, stillness, and deep listening that is simultaneously individual and communal. Founding bands David Wax Museum and Lowland Hum have been touring for nearly 20 years and lauded by The New York Times, TIME, Rolling Stone and NPR. As NPR’s World Cafe host described The Golden Hours' innovative performance, “It brought me back to my first show, the feeling of anticipation, surprise and joy. These musicians have crafted something special, one that will show us how to recapture that magic again.” Since 2017, The Golden Hours has been invited into a diverse array of gatherings such as a national conference of archivists at The Rotunda at UVA, a colloquium organized by medical ethicists from Columbia University, and the Department of History & Literature at Harvard University. After performing at UVA’s Arts on the Hill, President Jim Ryan said, “It’s rare to know for sure that you’ll remember an hour of your life twenty years from now."