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 filmed and edited 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 and/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, in contrast to the bombardment of pictures, news and fast cuts we are getting on a daily basis, helps to calm us down, and feel grounded and centred. Sometimes all it takes is 1 minute to recharge.
After "Take a Minute to Relax" we ventured into "Take a Minute to Fly" and "Take a Minute in Statia". Watch their galleries further down. Our main focus stays on relaxing with the weird and wonderful underwater world.
Take a Minute to Relax
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 the underwater world.
Every clip offers information to look underneath the surface and get to know our aquatic friends from around the world. Sometimes, we focus on broader aspects linking us to the world beneath like corals reefs protection or breathing.
Video gallery of the entire clip collection
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Take a Minute LIV: Electric Clam (Ctenoides ales)
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Take a Minute LIII: Sea Bunny (Jorunna parva)
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Take a Minute LII: Picasso Triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus)
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Take a Minute LI: Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni)
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Take a Minute L: The Coral Reef (Life sustaining symbiosis)
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Take a Minute XLIX: Blue-lined philinopsis (Philinopsis speciosa)
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Take a Minute XLVIII: Hairy Frogfish (Antennarius striatus)
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Take a Minute XLVII: Hard coral polyps (Hexacorallia)
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Take a minute XLVI: Leaf scorpionfish (Taenianotus triacanthus)
Most of the episodes have their own blog entry (Take a Minute). Just browse through the section on our website or the playlist on YouTube.
Take a Minute to Fly
In this video series, we invite you to “Take a Minute to Fly". Let your mind and soul take off with some visual meditation. Take a 1-minute break from whatever you are doing in order to change your perspective and get carried away by looking at the world below or flying into the sky. For this minute, Yoeri creates one long aerial shot to allow you to fully focus on one landscape. Fall right into the scene, feel the energy of some special places, open your heart, look for details and connect to each of the - cultural or natural - subjects presented.
To make this flight as relaxing as possible, we‘d like to invite you to breath in and out slowly and deeply. Most calming is breathing into the belly. While breathing only into the chest in the upper part of the lung is associated with the fight-or-flight-reflex, breathing slowly and deeply into your belly shows your nervous system that there is nothing to be afraid of. To enhance the body-mind communication and highlight that stress has ended, smile or even laugh and set yourself free.
Video gallery of the entire clip collection
Take a Minute in Statia
Welcome to Statia! Even when mentioning the full name of this Dutch Caribbean island „St. Eustatius“, most people stay clueless. Our new series „Take a Minute in Statia“ we bring Statia to you. Let us introduce the island we call home.
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