# Flowing Water Meditation in Robert Irwin’s Central Garden

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Podcast: [OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ommm-our-museum-mindfulness-meditation-7867495)
Published: 2026-06-23T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.getty.edu/podcasts/ommm/flowing-water-meditation-robert-irwin-central-garden/
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## Resource

Visualize your thoughts, worries, and stress floating away, like a leaf or petal on a garden stream, in this flowing water meditation inspired by Robert Irwin’s Central Garden (1997). Irwin’s garden is the largest work in the Getty Museum’s collection. Composed of living plants, carefully selected boulders, and landscape features, the artwork—and our experience of it—is always changing with the cycles of nature. Irwin added a stream running through the center of the garden; as it flows over intentionally placed rocks, the sounds of the water change. The ever-changing plants and water bring awareness to our bodies and our experience of the work of art. This podcast uses chapters. If you'd like to jump straight to the meditation, find the forth chapter. You can watch this episode on YouTube here: https://gty.art/4wZysOS Find images, a transcript, and more resources on our website: https://www.getty.edu/podcasts/ommm/flowing-water-meditation-robert-irwin-central-garden/ See the Central Garden in person at the Getty Center: https://www.getty.edu/visit/ Hear how Getty's Head of Grounds and Gardens, Brian Houck, approaches his task, mindfully, in this week’s deeper dive conversation. Look for this conversation in your podcast feed or on our YouTube channel Thursday, or find it on our website. Subscribe to OMMM be the first to hear new episodes.  Production team: Host: Lilit Sadoyan Producers: Zoe Goldman and Gideon Brower Mixer and Sound Designer: Jaime Roque Executive Producer: Christopher Sprinkle For more art history insights, check out our other Getty Podcasts shows at www.getty.edu/podcasts Recording Artists tells artist biographies using archival material from the Getty Research Institute: https://www.getty.edu/podcasts/recording-artists/ If Objects Could Talk is a fa…

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