Podcast

Kimberly Carrière Kimberly Carrière joins us to speak about Mindfulness-based interventions for weight loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis. If you’ve taken a mindfulness-based program, you’ve likely encountered the raisin exercise, in which you engage all of your senses with playful curiosity in the full process of eating. This is explored further with having an…

Carol Horton Carol Horton joins us to speak about Best Practices for Yoga in the Criminal Justice System. Offering programming of all kinds within the criminal justice system runs into difficulties, and those challenges are even larger when there’s an accompanying misunderstanding about them. Yoga, for example, does not necessarily conflict with an appropriate separation…

Michelle Gale Michelle Gale joins us to speak about Mindful Parenting in a Messy World. Life, it may be fair to say, can be complicated at times. There are circumstances that provide a continuous roller coaster ride of ups and downs, and learning to navigate those often tidal currents is part of the practice of…

Max Pugh Film maker Max Pugh joins us to speak about Walk With Me, a film about mindfulness with Thich Nhat Hanh. Many of the mindfulness teachers in the West, whether first generation, Gen X, Millenials, or whatever is most current, got their start on the contemplative path from various traditional settings. One of the…

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…