Podcast

Jennifer Howd Jennifer Howd joins us to speak about her book Sit, Walk, Don’t Talk: How I Survived A Silent Meditation Retreat. Going on retreat can be one of the most transformative, fun, interesting, and difficult things a meditator may do in their lifetime of contemplative practice. You encounter pain, continuous thoughts, overwhelming emotions, sometimes…

Nicholas T. Van Dam Dr. Nicholas Van Dam joins us to speak about the recent paper “Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation”. Several years ago, thanks to the kindness of a friend, I was fortunate enough to be included in a gathering sponsored by the Mind…

Shala Nicely Shala Nicely and Jon Hershfield join us to talk about how mindfulness can help those with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Have you ever noticed your mind spinning on a single track? Try as you might, the same thought repeats again and again? I certainly have, and mindfulness has really helped me to notice when…

Lisa Dale Miller Lisa Dale Miller joins us to speak about somatic trauma intervention. While mindfulness in a typical program is not necessarily therapy, there are often overlapping ideas and disciplines which may be found in both. The skills one develops in a mindfulness program, for example, build a capacity to notice, to sense both…

Amanda Johnson Amanda Johnson joins us to speak about how aspirations of being perfect may not being serving us, in her new book Becoming Enough: A Heroine’s Journey to the Already Perfect Self. Do you ever wrestle with the thought or feeling that you just aren’t measuring up? That there’s a Should Be, and you’re…

Elana Rosenbaum Senior MBSR teacher Elana Rosenbaum joins us to speak about teaching mindfulness, and her new book The Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: A MBSR Guide for Clinicians and Clients. Mindfulness programs have started to become quite common in the U.S., and while it’s good to see more accessibility to those who may benefit…

Episode 092 :: Janet Solyntjes :: Colorado MBSR Teacher Group Janet Solyntjes Janet Solyntjes speaks with us about the Colorado MBSR Teacher Group. In our last episode we learned about the formation of a community of mindfulness teachers in the Pacific Northwest. In today’s interview, we move to another part of the country, exploring this…

Laura Martin Laura Martin speaks with us about building a community of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teachers of the Pacific Northwest (MBSRPNW). If you’re a mindfulness teacher or thinking of becoming one, you may run into some challenges with peer interaction. Not the interaction itself, but simply finding them, locating the community of those fellow teachers.…

One of the most challenging aspects of offering mindfulness programs isn’t establishing a foundational meditation practice, or even progressing through years of training to become a qualified teacher, however difficult those may be. Rather, it’s what you’re not taught in teacher training: the business part. How do you set up a website if you’re not…