Daily Practice is delighted to welcome Alireza Abbasy with his ongoing research and project WALK, starting June 28 2025 from 16:00-18:00 hrs.

Particularly through the practice of walking meditation WALK wishes to combine resisting and healing racial oppression with non-Western modes of thinking and being. It intends to address (intergenerational) wounds of racism, not through the intellect but through a non-violent collective embodied practice of emtptiness.

Therefore Ali -in close collaboration with Sarmad Platform- will facilitate and organize several walking meditations with Daily Practice as a starting point for gathering. The walks themselves are in silence and will be outside in the open air.

For the occasion of Keti Koti (July 1 2025) Ali invites you for a first gathering, titled WALK #4, on Saturday June 28 from 16:00-18:00 hrs. There will be a reading of two publications made for this session, followed by a collective 40 minute silent walking meditation outside. No experience needed; walking meditation is an exploration in itself, and in case of being lost, Ali will guide you through.

Trained in -the never ending- practice of vipassana I am curious about how the Buddhist practice of ‘insight’ and ‘being’ can touch broader socio-political history and suffering . And I am glad that Ali is exploring how these connections, between the personal and the communal suffering, can be made, experienced and felt, simply by placing one foot in front of the other foot and so on.

Alireza Abbasy (born in Tehran, Iran) is a Rotterdam-based artist, writer, engineer and the co-founder and editor of Sarmad Platform. After an extensive educational and working background in engineering Alireza focused on his creative and autonomous practice working as an artist in The Netherlands, Germany and Iran.