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 …
Events: 24th October 2024
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 …
Evening Guided Meditation is designed to offer basic meditation skills, to encourage regular meditation practice, to help deepen self-reflection, and to offer instructions on how meditation can be useful during stressful and uncertain times. All sessions are led by Andy Acker. Open to Stanford Affiliates. Free, no pre-registration is required.
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 …