THORNICO's LE NON MOI prize is presented annually to an individual or team who, through their art, research or communication, enables more people to experience le non-moi.
Le non-moi is the important state of mind in which we forget the certainty of the self and allow ourselves to be absorbed, so that it feels as if time stops, disappears and everything is flowing. It is in that state of mind that we as humans are at our best and feel best.
It can be the work of art in which we forget ourselves, the music that makes us forget about time and place, the book that lifts us away. But it can also be research into the mind, for example, consciousness or psychedelics or dissemination of or teaching in meditation, breathwork, yoga or biohacking.
This is precisely what we want to pay tribute to with the LE NON MOI - THORNICO PRIZE, of DKK 250,000 as well as a unique artwork from a globally recognized artist.
The prize cannot be applied for but is given to a specially selected individual or team by Thor & Christian Stadil and THORNICO Holding.
LE NON MOI – THORNICO Prize recipient 2024 | Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
As a globally revered spiritual and humanitarian leader, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has reached millions of people through his teachings and organisations, including the international, non-profit, educational and humanitarian organisation Art of Living.
Sri Sri’s Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique has proven effective worldwide across all levels of society and is a central cornerstone in the Art of Living organisation. The techniques facilitate physical, mental and emotional well-being to a degree that prisons have decided to reduce sentences for prisoners who participate in the Art of Living prison program – a program that has reached 8 million prisoners around the world.
The techniques facilitate physical, mental and emotional well-being and enable more, at least partially and temporally, to let go of ego and self-consciousness. That is what the LE NON MOI Prize celebrates: people who, through their art, teachings or research, help others reach this state if only now and again.
Learn more about Sri Sri Ravi Shankar here
Photo credit: Søren Solkær
Film production: Flig Collective
LE NON MOI – THORNICO Prize recipient 2023 | Wim Hof
Wim Hof is a leading global teacher and inspirator when it comes to the health of mind and body as well as spiritual development. He promotes the importance of using a combination of breathwork, cold exposure and commitment; The Wim Hof Method, as a way of getting people out of their minds and into their bodies, to achieve increased physical as mental health and well-being - ultimately to experience Le non-moi; the state of mind where we let go of ourselves, to find ourselves and where we as humans are at our best and feel the best.
Learn more about Wim Hof here
Film production: Flig Collective
LE NON MOI – THORNICO Prize recipient 2022 | Torben Ulrich
Torben Ulrich is the natural first choice as recipient of the LE NON MOI Prize. Besides, as one of very few people, being a true polymath working across sports, art, music and literature, he has also communicated and embedded the notion of No-Mind and Le non-moi concretely into his oeuvre as well as having actively experimented with different states and the science of mind and consciousness via yoga and meditation.
Learn more about Torben Ulrich here
Film production: Tobias Scavenius
Lars Movin receiving the LE NON MOI Prize 2022 on behalf of Torben Ulrich.
By the Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen of Rosforth Films