An ancient Chinese idea,
reimagined for life today.
WÒYÓU
卧游
A Journey Without Leaving the Room
A Stillnow guided experience
Why Wòyóu?
For days when you cannot travel—
or simply do not want to go out.
Enter a Chinese landscape through image, sound and imagination.
Your body can stay.
Your attention can travel.
What is Wòyóu?
WÒYÓU 卧游
More than 1,500 years ago, age and illness kept the Chinese painter Zong Bing from returning to the mountains.
On the walls of his room, he painted the landscapes he remembered. He played the qin, an ancient Chinese string instrument. There, he travelled through the mountains in his mind.
This idea became known as wòyóu. It is not limited to places you already know. You can also travel through a landscape you have never visited.
澄怀观道，
卧以游之。Clear the mind.
Contemplate the Way.
Travel while at rest.
Begin
Two ways
to enter the landscape
Before you begin
Two small steps.
Selected: First journey
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Use headphones,
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02
Press start.
The landscape will move slowly from right to left with the music.
3 minutes 53 seconds · Music and voiceoverReflection
What stayed with you?
One detail is enough.
Return another day and see what comes back.
Help shape the next Wòyóu.
Tell us how this journey felt.
Thank you. This will help us refine the next journey.
A lighter journey
Not every journey
needs a ticket.
This journey asks for no additional travel.
Wòyóu offers another way to meet the world—
without always moving through it.
It gives the mind room to settle,
while asking less of the Earth.
