About Us

A  journey  that gathers memories good or bad and never ends until it "Ends"

The Company “ART OF MEDITATION" was launched by Riffat Chughtai in the beginning of 2022 with a vision of helping communities who have gone through traumatic experiences. Riffat Chughtai lives by the principle of serving others and changing the world to be a better place for all. She has been on committees and Boards that develop programs that just do that.  She was on University of Pittsburgh’s Council on disparities in Healthcare, first co-chair of Allegheny county’s Council on Internationals and Immigrants and many more. Her passion for serving the Veterans comes from her lived experience of being a military brat. Veterans in US are deprived of programs that help in their rehabilitation after the traumatic experiences of war. 

Riffat's conviction comes from her understanding, “failure is not an end but a new beginning”!.

During Covid Riffat Chughtai resigned from her job in healthcare management and decided to take up her hobby of painting portraits. She already understood the value of therapy based on her master’s degree in psychology from Duquesne University, she researched on the clinical value of art therapy and took a certification exam. Art Therapy is a discipline that combines psychology and psychotherapy helping the client rearrange their mode of expression through their art work. The therapeutic side of art work was propagated by Sigmund Freud and others and is known to be closest to Humanistic psychology which is the lived experience of the human. Art Therapy which not only helps people express themselves in a rearranged manner but studies were done to understand that the chemical dopamine is released by just the act of painting,  Entrancement happens automatically since the painter is immersed totally in his or her own world that they have created thus helping with anxiety disorder, depression and PTSD. It also helps in determining who has classified Schizophrenia and who is struggling with life induced trauma. 

Art of Meditation programs and classes help customers experience fulfillment and gratification besides the learning experience. The classes are not an art competition but an immersive experience for our friends, since every customer becomes a friend by facing their strengths and weaknesses head on and thus learning how to cope with them