Self-compassion has two main forms – tender and fierce. Tender self-compassion allows us to accept our flawed selves and our imperfect lives with kindness rather than harsh judgment. Fierce self-compassion spurs us to alleviate suffering by standing up to injustice or making needed changes to improve our lives. When fierce and tender compassion are combined …
Events: 1st April 2025
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.
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 – …