BARDO BATH
Immersive rock music sound bath with guided meditation and visuals
Art by Yosuh Jones
Take a trip with Psychedelic Sangha into the bardo for an eyes-wide-open guided meditation into numinous improvised music soundscapes with surreal visuals.
Find a comfortable position, relax, and prepare to experience the bardo as described in the Tibetan Book of Dead and later adapted for psychedelic trip sessions by Drs. Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert.
Our Bardo Baths are “dose friendly,” featuring onsite risk reduction facilitators, and range in scale and length. The largest and longest baths are held at Judson Memorial Church (Manhattan) and Weylin (Brooklyn). They feature live improvised music, group meditation, sound installations, light art, playful rituals, divination, performative poetry, spontaneous improvisation, video art, and a specially curated “Bardo Bazaar” marketplace for vendors.
Smaller, shorter baths are held at venues like Tibet House New York, The Rubin Museum, The Alembic (Berkeley, CA), and Sparrow Funerary Home. These baths focus more on traditional Buddhist death meditations, often featuring a death dula-facilitated integration circle.
“Liberty resides in its exercise.”
“Trust your divinity, trust your brain, trust your companions. Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.”
