Podcast

Tracy Heilers Tracy Heilers speaks about the new book, Educating Mindfully: Stories of School Transformation Through Mindfulness. While there are many people who would like to include mindfulness in their school systems, interest may outpace the skills to implement it. Having a practice is not the same as teaching others, and subtle but critical aspects…

Elisha Goldstein Elisha Goldstein speaks with us about A Course in Mindful Living. One of the most challenging things for those new to mindfulness practice is that even if you’ve found and taken a good course from a competent teacher, that ends, and… then what? Often there is a difficulty with integrating one’s time off…

Hunter Clarke-Fields Hunter Clarke-Fields joins us to speak about Mindful Mama Mentor. As many of you may know, raising children is more than a full-time job. Kids need attention, education, let alone food, clothing, and perhaps especially love. That’s a pretty tall order, and mindfulness can help parents be at their best. Hunter Clarke-Fields is…

Gunes Sevinc Gunes Sevinc returns to the podcast to speak about the latest research on mindfulness and fear responses. When looking at scientific research, sometimes a question comes up: So What? There’s a measurable resizing or thickening in some part of the brain, but how does that actually show up and maybe change things outside…

Thorsten Barnhofer, Amit Bernstein, and Dave Vago join us to talk about “The science of mindfulness — What do we really know and where do we go?” If you are listening to this podcast and find value and insights from what is shared here, know that this is made available from your generosity and the…

Micki Fine Micki Fine joins us to speak about her new children’s mindfulness book, May All People and Pigs Be Happy. Introducing a concept, let alone a practice, that can be as fraught with nuance as mindfulness to adults can be very challenging. In some ways that introduction can be made more accessible when sharing…

Bonnie Griffin Bonnie Griffin joins us to speak about 6 Small Meditation Meals A Day. There can be a subtle, or sometimes obvious, tendency to measure contemplative practice by time spent on the cushion. Performance rather than substance is encouraged by accumulated minutes on Insight Timer or other trackers, giving us a visual domamine reward…

Loch Kelly Loch Kelly joins us to speak about The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life. Many people coming to mindfulness practice for the first time may find it difficult, maybe even exhausting work. Soon after the reasons not to meditate show up, primarily the excuse of being too…