Jon Kabat-Zinn “Healing Power of Mindfulness” on Breast Cancer and LIFE

  This interview was conducted by Monty Mckeever and appears on TRICYCLE Buddhist Review Editor’s Blog on October 5, 2010 (On October 6th at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, renowned scientist, writer, and meditation teacher Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn  gave a talk titled  “Letting Everything Become Your Teacher: The Healing Power of Mindfulness,” as part of [...]

Daniel Goleman:Resilience for the Rest of Us

  this post first appeared on the Harvard Business Review Blog April 2, 2011     There are two ways to become more resilient: one by talking to yourself, the other by retraining your brain. If you’ve suffered a major failure, take the sage advice given by psychologist Martin Seligman in the HBR article “Building [...]

Visual Perception Heightened by Meditation Training

Intensive mental training has a measurable effect on visual perception, according to a new study from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis. People undergoing intensive training in meditation became better at making fine visual distinctions and sustaining attention during a 30-minute test. This article first appeared on Upaya.org newsletter [...]

Fully experiencing the present: a practice for everyone, religious or not

‘Mindfulness, the heart of Buddhist meditation, is at the core of being able to live life as if it really matters. It has nothing to do with Buddhism. It has to do with freedom,’ says Jon Kabat-Zinn, developer of a stress reduction system. By Nomi Morris, Special to the Los Angeles Times This article first [...]

LIFE CHANGING OXTAIL & ROOT VEGETABLE SOUP WITH CHANTERELLE~SPAGHETTI SQUASH MEDLEY

I had the unexpected pleasure of eating a most surprising lunch last week. Dr. Ken Grey and Carol Maglio have been working on a cookbook and made a wonderful soup of oxtail and marrow with a delicious relish of fall vegetables that went on the soup. I have eaten a large variety of foods over [...]

Ottmar Liebert — Intimacy Through Practice

Ottmar Liebert Interviewed by Buddhist Geeks Sept 13, 2010 We’re joined this week by Flamenco guitarist and Zen practitioner Ottmar Liebert. Ottmar shares the story of how he broke with his childhood religion of Catholicism, started doing Transcendental Meditation, and then found his spiritual home in the Zen tradition. We also discuss the nature of [...]

Mindful Medicine: Jon Kabat-Zinn

This interview appeared in UPAYA NEWSLETTER Sept 13, 2010     The interview was conducted by Richard Streitfeld of the PRIMARY POINT staff. —(Source: http://www.kwanumzen.org/primarypoint/v08n2-1991-summer-jonkabatzinn-mindfulmedicine.html. Accessed on September 13, 2010.)     Primary Point: What inspired you to start the Stress Reduction Clinic? Jon Kabat-Zinn: Ever since I began practicing meditation, I have felt an [...]

Emily Large- Living Large Therapeutics -Viniyoga Therapist

Emily Large is the founder of Living Large Therapeutics, which combines the science of physical therapy with the time-honored practice of yoga. Emily has practiced physical therapy since 1994 in various settings, participated in physical therapy research, provided continuing education for health care professionals, and been featured in the New York Times, Yoga Journal, Palm [...]

Dr. Ken Grey, Healing Hands, Healing Lives

Ken Grey “It is my dream that patients will visit their Doctors and instead of asking: What will you give me? They will ask: What will you teach me?” – Dr. Ken AP, DOM http://www.earthschool.tv – “way to live”