Events: 23rd October 2024

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Every day the news and social media are buzzing with complex and often conflicting messages about nutrition. How can you sort out the key elements of healthy eating among all the mixed messages? What are the evidence-based “whys” behind nutrition recommendations? What does healthy eating really mean in our daily lives? This two-session online class …

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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 …

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Writing down your thoughts and feelings has been found to reduce stress, improve mood, and even improve immune function. Journaling regularly can help us to understand and manage our emotions and then to choose actions that align with what we really want. If you’ve always wanted to start a journaling practice, are struggling to stay …

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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, …

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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. 

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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 …