What is ONEBREATH workshop

“One Breath” workshop was cultivated from Pan’s ongoing social calligraphy projects. The purpose is to integrate ancient East Asian calligraphic knowledge into contemporary life with an open heart. The big challenge has always been the language. How could someone practice calligraphy without knowing any Chinese or Japanese characters? “One Breath” workshop makes this possible by focusing on brushwork and the mindful process.

Our humanity is facing more challenges from different aspects nowadays. The inquiry of who am I becomes the question again! For Pan, "only when using the brush, I feel I am still alive."

5 practices and more

1. Lose your body

Body is the brush! but you need to lose it! and the secret is to learn how to breathe together with every movement. You will practice 8 or 13 taiji or Shaolin warm-up movements guided by Pan.

Body is the brush! But you need to lose it! Eight movements connected with 8 strokes and lead to 8 aesthetic experiences. The secret is beyond the body, but breathe together.

2. Silence and sense

Meditation with fine tea tasting is the best way to open your senses and dive into the ocean of silence. You will have some authentic tasting tea moments by experiencing the pan's humble tea ceremony, no need for any preparation, just sit and calm down.

Pan is an artist with a collection of tea and manuscripts. For him, writing is holistic. Meditation with fine tea tasting is the best way to dive into the ocean of silence. Reading the ancient manuscripts is the moment of encountering the presence.

Pan's humble tea ceremony will help you calm down and open sensations.

3. Hold the void

The brushes are made from bamboo which is empty inside, so learning how to hold the brush is not an easy task since you need to talk to the void first. Pan will explain the matters of the materials (ink paper and brush) related to the workshop.

All writing materials are vulnerable. For example, the brushes are made from bamboo, hollow inside. Holding the brush is not easy when you have to learn how to hold the hollow tightly. Pan will explain the materials, such as ink, water, paper, brush, and stone, combined with the writing techniques.

4. Place your heart

Where is our heart located today? The concentration of using a brush might help to focus on your current situation. You will experience some basic strokes or forms written by heart! yes, that's right by heart even if you need the help of your hand.

Where is our heart located today? The concentration of using a brush might help to focus on your current situation. Through writing, to experience and inquiry into the human identity, emotion, and belonging.

5. Writing is painting

Once you learn four steps, it's time to reward yourself! let your hands get dirty and your mind go crazy, because writing is painting! Who cares? A performative mindful writing workshop with Pan.

Writing is not about language, but a performance and ritual of connection and communication between body and mind, ancient and modern, the East and the West, and the forest and the city. The friction between them will be written to new artworks with a common rhythm and reflections of a hybridized, global consciousness.

ONEBREATH workshop

A performative mindful writing workshop with Pan

What is ONEBREATH workshop

5 practices and more

Join us, breathe together

ONEBREATH
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