Aboriginal women create mindfulness app in language, bringing outback meditation to the world
ABCOn a warm Alice Springs morning, Wanatjura Lewis closes her eyes, puts in some headphones and gets ready to relax and meditate. Key points: Women from the NPY Women's Council collaborated with the team behind Smiling Mind to create the app It combines the skills of traditional healers with interpreters and western mental health professionals to improve wellbeing The app is being trialled in remote Central Australian schools She is listening to an ancient language that is being put to a very modern use. Teaming up with the producers behind mindfulness app Smiling Mind, women from Central Australia's NPY Women's Council have helped create recorded meditations in Kriol, Ngaanyatjarra and Pitjantjiatjara languages. It's the latest project created through the council's Uti Kulintjaku wellbeing and mental health program — the title translates to "to think and understand clearly". Bringing traditional healing to millions Fellow NPY council member Rene Kulitja from Mutitjulu said transferring the physical healing process into a compact app was not as difficult as it might seem.
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