There has been increasing research on the application of yoga and meditation to the composition of performing arts as one of the comprehensive approaches to creativity, stage performance, and well-being of the performers. Exposing the works of art to intense physical exercises, emotional outbursts, and excessive psychological stress, tend to affect the performance, as well as their health in...
Education in arts is important in the development of creativity, arts expression and communication of culture. Nevertheless, the conventional training of performing arts tends to emphasize more on the development of technical skills and the preparation of performance to the exclusion of the physical and psychological health of performers. This study examines how yoga and mindfulness can be...
In India, indigenous knowledge systems are complicated epistemic worlds that are difficult to translate into textual archives or codified information. This paper suggests that this kind of knowledge is preserved through embodied practices: ritual healing, martial movement, artisanal labour, ecological stewardship, and spirit-mediated communication, which serve as living archives. It uses...
This paper explores the mystical themes in the poetry of Mirabai and Tulsidas, two of the most powerful voices of the Indian Bhakti movement. It studies how each poet expresses devotion, longing, and union with the divine in their own way. Mirabai’s poetry is emotional and fearless. She speaks of Krishna as a lover, a friend, and the only one who matters (One who is infinite: a cosmic energy)....
This paper attempts to discuss the thematic dialecticism in Arun Joshi’s Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel The Last Labyrinth which is one of the complicated and interesting novel motifs found in it. The story is about the unstable consciousness of the protagonist, hyper rational, western educated, millionaire industrialist Som Bhaskar, which is split between secular materialism and latent...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a disorder that involves ongoing, uncontrollable worry, autonomic hyperactivity, and general cognitive rigidity. In contrast to the more traditional approach to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which concentrates on the content of distorted thinking, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) provides a paradigm shift by changing the relationship an...
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and robotics has reshaped contemporary narratives, prompting a re-evaluation of what it means to be human. Richard Powers’s Galatea 2.2 explores the intersections of artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive science, and posthuman consciousness, engaging deeply with the philosophical and technological implications of human-like...
Through this sincere endeavour, an effort has been made to represent in a proper perspective and systematic manner, the perceptions, concepts, and motivation behind the artistic journey of internationally renowned painter of Neo-Tantric art- Sohan Qadri. It also traces the development of Neo-Tantric art movement which started in 1960s, there by explaining the origin and socio-political...