New video series for visual meditation: Take a Minute

In this series of 1-minute clips, we invite you to “Take a Minute” to relax and refresh your mind and soul with visual meditation.

The first video features a shallow and sheltered part of the reef which is simply perfect to start or end a dive. Take a minute to let your eyes wander over the healthy and abundant corals. Gently moving closer to examine a group of Batfish (Platax) hanging out in one corner of the reef – simply taking their time to relax. Over the years we saw members of this group of Batfish (also called Spadefish) growing up. So beautiful to continuously be one with nature-diving rules. So wonderful to see the positive impact of protected marine areas in Wakatobi.

Video clip: Take a Minute to Relax I

YouTube — The first clip in our video series: Take a Minute

Video series: Take a Minute

In this video series, we invite you to “Take a Minute” to relax and refresh your mind and soul with visual meditation. Take a 1-minute break from whatever you are doing to immerse yourself in the beauty of our blue planet. For this minute, Yoeri selects one long shot to allow you to fully focus on one creature, cultural site, land- or seascape. Dive into the scene, feel the energy, open your heart, connect to the subject, look for details or simply get carried away!

Be here now. Take this one minute to fully be there, instead of analysing the past or planning the future. It is quite interesting to see how long and relaxing one minute can be as soon as we stay in that moment – fully aware, fully present, fully relaxed. Observing one long scene, contrary to the bombardment of pictures, news and fast cuts we are getting on a daily basis, helps to calm us down, to ground and centre us. Sometimes all it takes is 1 minute to recharge.

We start off with an underwater reef shot because diving is our form of active meditation. Underwater we find happiness in the present moment. There are so many healing and soothing factors to the ocean. There is so much we love about diving and nature.

We will get to that: New clips will be added to our page „Take a Minute“ every two weeks and, of course, you can also subscribe to our YouTube Channel.

Take a Minute LII: Picasso Triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus)