TOP OF mind

MEDITATION AT THE MOVIES

indfulness and meditation can be found from schools to boardrooms to prisons—and now streaming in your very own home theater. Written and directed by Rob Beemer, explores why a growing number of people are practicing mindfulness, and looks at the benefits of meditation. The documentary film features the staff at work, interviews. “Oftentimes you enter it perhaps because you’re in pain or because you want relief from maybe stress or whatever. And then as soon as you start to see the benefits, it’s so easy to share and the desire is there to share. And it’s just utterly transportable. It’s free. Everybody can do it. It’s secular. The fact is that it all just makes a better society. I think that it brings out the good in so many people.” The doc also includes two opportunities for audiences to practice while watching. It was slated to premiere in North American cinemas, but screening plans were scuttled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Undaunted, Beemer and team have made available worldwide to rent or buy at .