A two-day event called Heartfulness Festival will take place for the first time in the Republic of Moldova. The purpose of this Festival is to promote meditation, a healthy lifestyle, harmony with soul and nature as a model that helps achieve a better life experience. It is an event for people who are open to new experience. In a news conference at IPN, the organizers said the Festival participants will learn how to prevent and fight everyday stress.

On May 14-15, the participants will be able to take part in meditation sessions, yoga workshops, concerts and film screenings and different masterclasses.

One of the Festival organizers Elena Yushina said the people are now more preoccupied and do not pay much attention to internal harmony. The goal of the event is to help the people get rid of streets, balance their life and learn to live in harmony with nature and the other people.

Organizer Laura Laine, who teaches meditation lessons, explained that meditation means fixing of attention on a particular object for a particular period of time. Within the Festival, they will promote fixing of attention on the human heart. This type of meditation does not require special training and can be practiced by children too. The “Heartfulness” meditation is not religions or commercial and is used by employees of foreign companies. For meditation to bring more benefits, this should be practiced daily, as sports.

Another organizer Marianne Tchichkina, who launched the idea of staging such an event in Moldova, stated that meditation is like an exercise that can be used in all the spheres of life, including at work. “Reaching balanced conscience is the goal of meditation. When there is great stress and many thoughts, our state of spirit influences the level and quality of our work. A person involved in “Heartfulness” meditations has more chances of balancing the nervous system and freeing the stress accumulated at work,” she said.

Similar Festivals were organized in a number of states, but, according to another organizer Maria Zolotova, the Festival that will be staged in Moldova is different because it will be held in the open air. On the first day, the event will take place at the Organ Hall and will end with a concert given by the National Chamber Orchestra. On the second day, the Festival will be held at the Dendrarium Park and will end with a concert by Ukrainian indie-folk musician Sergey Onischenko.

Entrance to the festival is free. The organizers expect the event will involve 2,000-3,000 participants.