Meditate & Create

Schedule

Fri Nov 07 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5827 Riverside Drive, Punta Gorda, FL, United States, Florida 33982 | Punta Gorda, FL

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🧘💗 MEDITATE AND CREATE: Find your Zen moment at Peace River Botanical and Sculpture Gardens!
Step into the intersection of art, meditation, and nature with a REFLECTIVE experience guided by meditation teacher Laurie Lyons. this immersive workshop offers a unique way to connect with the ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN exhibit at the gardens. In our daily lives, it’s easy to become disconnected and forget how intimately linked we are with nature. Meditation can help us reconnect and experience ourselves as alive and awake expressions of nature. Our time will include guided meditation, walking meditation that takes us through The Gardens, and time to respond to the exhibit creatively with haiku poetry, drawing, watercolors, and origami. Live shakuhachi flute music offered by Adam Wells will provide a meditative soundscape.
All are welcome! No previous experience with art, poetry, origami or meditation required. All supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your art supplies if you like.
Location: The Pergola
Includes general admission to The Gardens & Full Access to the ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN exhibition!

MEET YOUR TEACHER:
Laurie Lyons is the founder and director of Zen & the Arts, a nonprofit organization offering donation-based meditation and creative arts to the Southwest Florida community. Lyons has been trained in yoga and meditation since 1996. In 2010, Lyons formally took Zen Buddhist vows and subsequently received authorization to teach Zen. Her work teaching meditation has brought her to classrooms, rehabilitation centers, churches, campgrounds, and museums. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music performance. She worked as an orchestral musician, performing as a percussionist with the Naples Philharmonic for over 20 years, and now teaches piano. Lyons is also a professional organizer who uses the Konmari Method, as taught by Marie Kondo. At the heart of her varied professional and personal endeavors is a commitment to inspire people to connect with the contemplative side of life. You can learn more about Laurie and Zen & the Arts at ZenArtsFlorida.com
This Group will meet on The Great Lawn
$25 For Members
$45 For Non-Members-Includes full access to The Gardens and ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN Exhibition.
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5827 Riverside Drive, Punta Gorda, FL, United States, Florida 33982

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Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens

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