And I worked with Matt Martin from the Lucasfilm Story Group, as well as Nationwide Children's Hospital and their On Our Sleeves movement for children's mental health, to make sure that everything was clinically-based, but first and foremost, that these are rooted in the Star Wars story. And so we, with Star Wars Mindful Matters, we're combining these lessons that we learned in Star Wars with clinically-based mindful exercises. I've always tried to relate with kids, and I take things from their everyday life, whether it be school, or emotions, or things that they're going through in their everyday life, and I relate those everyday life lessons to Star Wars, and lessons that our favorite characters have learned throughout the Star Wars stories. The actress and Mindful Matters host continued, sharing that the series combines Star Wars with clinically-based exercises: Ahsoka's journey has been long and complex ( and still not over), but fans can appreciate some of the same principles of her Jedi training by focusing on mindfulness, meditation, and grounding in the present.
I mean, these are lessons that we already learn in Star Wars.Īshley Eckstein has been part of Star Wars going back to 2008, when she debuted her now-iconic character of Ahsoka Tano in The Clone Wars film and then continued into the Clone Wars TV show. Learning to have patience, learning to manage your emotions and understand your emotions. Learning to connect with your breath, learning to meditate, learning to confront your fear, learning to feel the Force and ground yourself in the present moment, the here and the now. And so these lessons of the mind are all throughout Star Wars. You know, I've been interacting with Star Wars fans now for the past 14 years, and one of the most common questions, especially from kids, is how can they be a Jedi too? And Jedi Master Yoda says, 'A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind.' He teaches us that training our mind is just as important as physically training our body. This has been a passion project of mine for the past five years, and this was directly inspired by the fans. When I spoke with Eckstein for Star Wars Day 2022, she opened up about the appeal of Mindful Matters for franchise fans, and just how long she has been working on it: Ashley Eckstein – who also founded the Her Universe company that puts on a popular fashion show each year – partnered with Lucasfilm and Citrone 33 for the project that guides viewers in mindful exercises.
Star Wars Mindful Matters is a series of shorts that can bring out the inner Jedi in any Star Wars fans, even without existing a long time ago in that galaxy far, far away.
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