This iPause guided practice session offers participants an opportunity to delve into the principles of authenticity and self-compassion, essential for personal and professional well-being. Through reflective practices, visualizations, and affirmations, participants will explore setting healthy boundaries as a way to practice pausing and reconnecting with their authentic selves to help them achieve professional fulfillment. Al'ai …
The Stanford Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Health Equity invites you to join Stanford Cancer Institute members, researchers, and other community members to address cancer diagnosis, treatment, and barriers to care. This impactful event aims to foster connections, enhance our understanding, and promote ongoing efforts to improve cancer care. Speakers include Stanford and community leaders. …
In times of uncertainty and change, we can draw on Buddhist teachings to help us move beyond constricting habitual patterns such as fear, denial, and despair. Awakening our inner capacities for compassion, wisdom, and joy, we learn to transform our worldview from one of isolation and confusion to one of connection and clarity. We can …
Metta is the Pali word for friendship or lovingkindness. It is taught as a meditation that cultivates our natural capacity for an open and loving heart. With its roots in practices said to be taught by the Buddha himself, metta is traditionally offered along with meditations that enrich compassion, joy in the happiness of others, …
Lovingkindness meditation is a process that emphasizes compassion for ourselves and others as the best field for learning, self-development, and having an ethical relationship with the world. This practice develops greater concentration, an expanded sense of connection, skills to deal with anger, fear and frustration, and a better sense of balance in both taking care …
It has been well established that therapeutic mindfulness practices are connected to benefits such as lower stress responses, greater awareness, and better regulation abilities, leading many to recommend mindfulness to everyone who experiences mental, emotional, and physical distress. Dissociation, on the other hand, is best understood as a mental health concern, ranging from moderately impairing …
This workshop will be based on Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John’s latest book, First Aid Kit for the Mind – Breaking The Cycle of Habitual Behaviours and will explore the cause of habits and addictive behaviors through the lens of the Shaman's Teachings. We will deconstruct the language around addiction, and move towards a more compassionate languaging. …
Dissociation, in all of its iterations, is an innate, emergency cascade defense akin to playing dead. It is an automatic reaction to real and perceived threat. Dissociation is connected to a plethora of biomechanical and neurobiological responses that can lead to a person feeling like parts of their life and experiences are not theirs – …
This session offers a guided experience of Susan’s Embodiment Practice and Embodied Meditation. For details and background, see course description for Susan’s Lecture: Embodiment and Somatics as Contemplative Practice: Reclaiming our innate well-being on Oct. 26, 2024. Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC, has spent 45 years in private practice as a psychotherapist and has trained helping …
“Thoreau walked out every morning like a glass ready to be filled with water.” This was John Cage’s admiring observation about Thoreau’s daily walking practice. And Thoreau wanted that glass to be as full as he could make it! “I must walk with more free senses. It is as bad to study stars and clouds …