Author: kenjisummers
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Meditation for Snapchat, 2021
Kenji guided a meditation in the Metaverse for the 2nd annual Snap enERGy Summit 2021. The session was held in Snap’s virtual events platform ohyay as a relaxing end to the first day of the summit.
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Meditation Residency for EvolVR, 2021
Kenji took up his residency with EvolVR because of the opportunity to explore the teachings he has received in his Certified Mindfulness Instructor (CMI) course from MNDFL. In the course, Kenji was exposed to the term “Mindfulness 3.0” and sought to explore how spiritual technology was affecting the human experience of contemplation in the Metaverse.…
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3D Meditation for WAGMIAMI Art Basel, 2021
70 Foot Holographic 3DLive LED Wall Art on wall provided by Orbseer Kenji led a 3D first of its kind performance of his guided meditation EP Initiation. Hosted by WAGMIAMI art and music NFT festival during Art Basel, curated by Trippy and sponsored by CreateDAO. The experiment birthed an extension of Kenji’s art practice (now)…
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Pay Attention, 2021
The guided meditation concept came to Kenji in the summer of 2021 while preparing to study with Kobe Bryant’s mindfulness teacher. While shooting around on the Biggie Smalls basketball courts in Brooklyn, Kenji drifted to the future. He imagined meditating using advanced technology, seeing himself as an anime character. Kenji described it as a trippy…
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Meditations for Children of Promise NYC, 2021
Kenji guided meditations for the caregivers and the young people of Children Promise NYC, a non-profit serving youth impacted by mass incarceration. As a native to the neighborhood, Kenji witnessed friends lose parents from incarceration and saw the stress it caused in their lives. Basketball was one of the ways Kenji and his friends coped…
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Meditation for Twitter Blackbirds, 2021
For BHM, Blackbirds were continuing to celebrate #LoveToSeeIt — a hashtag created from #BlackTwitter that connects Black people in the moment and celebrates the sheer joy of being a Black person right now. Through all the adversity of 2020, Black resilience remained a constant. Resilience took the forms of joy, laughter, promotions, manifestation, movement, dances,…
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Love LIVE, 2021
Kenji was invited to Fotografiska New York museum as the featured artist for Okayplayer’s PASSAGE: Live Guided Meditations. For the first week of practice, instruction was given by Kenji, vocalist behind the EP’s fifth track, “Love.” He kicked off the six week program, with 30 people sitting alongside him as he performed “Love” and transitioned into a loving…
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Love, 2021
PASSAGE is a curated mental health and wellness initiative created by Okayplayer. The program was developed to amplify the collective stories and healing practices of millennials of color. Kenji received the invitation to record during the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic. He contributed a guided meditation that corresponded with the heart chakra. Featured on the…