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Portal Studio

Blue Portal is an utterly unique approach to help people tap into their capacities for peace of mind, joy, creativity and flow.

We are developing Blue Portal to be a dramatic and immersive, brick and mortar venue.

Our first location will be in New York City. Visitor's will be enthralled by interactive exhibits, world-class designs, and cutting edge technologies.

People usually connect the experience of wonder and awe to extraordinary situations like starry nighttime skies, sunsets, and the like. This exhibit celebrates the fact that everything, even the most ordinary of things, reveals itself to be truly mysterious if we relax the filters of our minds and look more closely.

Guests begin in the Immersive room. Timed programs capture attention with Spatial Audio moving the full range of sound through your body. Bone conduction transducers built into the lounges deliver intimate narration. And biometrics. once the mind is settled we suggest ways visitors might look with titles like A Tour of Your Mind, Everything is Astounding, and Stillness.

When visitors sit at the Wonder Bar, guided audio programs in the Bowler hats above them speak to one visitor at a time. Only they can hear the audio. It invites them to see the people and things around them in surprising new lights. It’s so easy to just get used to reality.

The Blue Portal Comedy Club. Holograms of great standup comedians asking “What’s so funny about being human?”

Over the past several years, Being & Doing has produced online conferences and courses hosted by Jeff Charno, bringing together more than 150 speakers, teachers, authors, artists, scientists, business leaders—and even one robot. Thousands of participants joined these unscripted conversations and experiential workshops, creating a lively meeting place for insight, discovery, creativity, and meaningful exchange.

Deep Flow Summits

Flow states liberate our gifts and capacities. Our Deep Flow online conferences gave the mic to some fabulous teachers, writers, artists, researchers, athletes, and an improv comedian.

Awakening Creativity Online Conference

Creativity is not a special talent reserved for the few; it is a living human capacity. Our Awakening Creativity online summit brought together an astonishing range of artists, writers, researchers, innovators, teachers, and change-makers to explore how creativity is sparked, deepened, and brought into the world. The gathering honored both disciplined practice and the unpredictable mystery of original thought.

Flow Speaking

Flow Speaking was a peer-group practice for getting out of our own way and letting the voice move freely, without editing or restraint. Led by Irish slam poetry champion Dave Rock, the series helped participants discover the uncanny intelligence that appears when control loosens: abundant creativity, intuition, surprise, connection, and the simple joy of speaking from a deeper place.

Record Labels

ellipsis arts…

Far, far, away in another time and space, Ellipsis Arts… was a revelation. Just as the world’s ears were opening to a wider range of musical cultures, we released Global Meditation, a boxed set that shot to the top of the Billboard charts. From there came a creative explosion: global music, experimental niches, and projects that lifted remarkable sounds out of obscurity and into cultural relevance. We contributed award-winning packaging and worldwide distribution—but the music did the heavy lifting.

The Relaxation Company

The Relaxation Company was a pioneering label. We took a genre often dismissed as excessively “woo-woo” and made it accessible to major book and music chains across the country. Working with artists who explored sound’s potential to heal the body, calm the nervous system, and uplift the mind, we produced nearly 500 titles over 30 years—grounded in the emerging science of sound, while always leaving room for artistic intuition.

Bodymind Sessions built a healthcare oriented meditation app to white label to institutions wanting a turn-key meditation app solution. We identified the relevant guided meditations in our library and activated them for the implementation. We also added additional support content from the institution.