CBD 2024: Introduction to Stanford’s 11th Annual Contemplation by Design Summit with Tia Rich, PhD
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The 2024 Contemplation by Design Summit offers 46 free sessions presenting the evidenced-based process of enhancing health and well-being for all through contemplative movement and stillness practices. Join us to deepen your reservoir of skills that revitalize you and the people with whom you interact. Learn from leading contemplative science researchers and teachers, while also …
Tsm'syen peoples have sacred stories (adaawx) that teach foundational principles of living a good life. This talk is a window, a small portal into the spiritual teachings of respect for everyday life. Ancestral teachings help to go beyond making sense of cultural atrocities to seeing the supernatural in the present moment. Patricia June Vickers, PhD, …
These weekly classes are taught by YogaX alums who are well-versed in teaching Integrated Holistic Yoga, which is a practice of accessibility and belonging, intentionality, and beneficence that honors the whole person and offers a wide variety of yoga practices. Meets every Wednesday 6-7p via zoom. Free for faculty, staff, and students at Stanford.
Mindfulness meditation has long been associated with subjective quality of life improvements, however, an incomplete understanding of the mechanisms contributing to these improvements has partly prevented widespread acceptance of mindfulness meditation among healthcare practitioners. Recently, it has been suggested that neurofluid (e.g., cerebrospinal fluid and interstitial fluid) circulation is upregulated during sleep and this upregulation …
Enjoy firsthand the health and well-being benefits of contemplative movement and stillness practices. Guided instruction will deepen your interoceptive, proprioceptive, and kinesthetic experiences as well as cultivate compassionate mindful awareness and loving kindness toward yourself and others. Attending to breath, body, and mind together during this Contemplation by Design iPause session will support development of …
Reflecting on impermanence and death is “the supreme contemplation” that led to the Buddha’s awakening and is summarized in his teachings on the Wheel of Life. By transforming ignorance (the first link on the wheel) into wisdom, we transform death (the last link) into enlightenment. With the Right View of wisdom, death becomes a once-in-a-lifetime …
The teachings of yoga nidra (practices for embodying unchanging wholeness amidst the ever-changing circumstances of life) reveal that which is already and always Whole and Healthy within us—that never needs fixing, changing, or healing. From this perspective, we are not, as students, clients, patients, or practitioners, practicing or engaging healing approaches to become whole. We …
Tsm'syen sacred stories and ancestral teachings are for the here and now. Inquiry and dialogue, community and ceremony, creativity and reflection are all practices that help us to open to ancestral teachings. Practicing as an opportunity to think of sacred stories in everyday life. Your life as a sacred story. Patricia June Vickers, PhD, belongs …
You will need coloured pencils and paper for this Guided Practice experience. Using pencils and paper, going into stillness and quietness to watch and observe. The mind rests while the deeper self watches and sees. Indigenous (Tsm'syen, Coast Salish and Sweat Lodge peoples) ceremonial teachings for the present moment of reflection. Patricia June Vickers, PhD, …