The Dharma of Healing, with Justin Michelson
Healing isn’t a checkbox; it’s a way of relating to what hurts. We sit down with Insight Meditation teacher and author Justin Michelson to explore a grounded path through stress, pain, and trauma that begins with self-compassion and widens into nature, lineage, and something larger than ourselves. Justin's website: JustinMichelsonDharma.com Justin's book: The Dharma of Healing From his first teen meditation class to hard-won lessons with overwhelming energies, Justin shares how he moved...
13 Joulu 202541min
Reset Your Day With Sacred Transitions
Ever notice how your day turns into one long, uninterrupted scroll? We leave work on a call, weave through traffic still mid-story, and step into the kitchen without ever really arriving. We wanted to break that blur, so we dug into a simple framework: use the day’s natural hinge points—dawn, noon, midafternoon, dusk, and night—as scheduled pauses to reset attention and rebuild a sense of home. This is an excerpt of an interview with Austin Hill Shaw: AustinHillShaw.com Together we explore h...
11 Joulu 20254min
Integrating Mindfulness, Movement, And Meaning In Your Yoga Class
You can feel when a class lands: the room gets quiet, the body softens, and attention holds steady even as movement continues. That shift is not magic; it’s method. We sat down with senior teacher and writer Sara-Mai Conway to unpack a practical, human way to make yoga and meditation one continuous experience rather than two separate boxes on a schedule. Sara-Mai's website: https://www.iwriteaboutwellness.com/ We start by redefining yoga as skillful energy movement using both outer and inner...
9 Joulu 20251h 18min
Mindfulness For Long Lines And Short Tempers
We turn a slow line into a short mindfulness practice that eases tension and reshapes impatience into patience and kindness. We ground in breath, relax the body, and extend compassion to strangers and staff who share the same wish to be happy. • naming impatience as normal and common • breath work with nose inhales and mouth exhales • scanning and softening jaw, shoulders and belly • grounding through feet, posture and relaxed face • wishing yourself ease, patience and kindness • sensing oth...
8 Joulu 20255min
Healthy Anger, Healthy Body - with Dr. Gabor Maté
When does being “nice” start hurting your health? We explore the surprising science that links suppressed emotions—especially healthy anger and buried grief—to immune function, inflammation, and long-term disease risk. Drawing on affective neuroscience, we break down the core mammalian systems wired for rage, fear, panic and grief, care, seeking, and play, and explain why these circuits exist to protect boundaries and connection, not to create chaos. Gabor Maté's website: https://drgabormate....
7 Joulu 20258min
Mindfulness Tools For Healing PTSD Across Three Stages
We map a three-stage approach to using mindfulness for PTSD: immediate self-soothing, reconnecting with emotions, and long-term integration. A short guided practice shows how breath, grounding, and softening cues can create ease while we set clear safety guardrails. • framing mindfulness for PTSD and its stages • self-soothing practices for the immediate aftermath • reconnecting with emotions with courage and choice • integrating trauma healing over the long term • simple guided breathing an...
5 Joulu 20257min
From Silence To Seeing: Joseph Goldstein’s Training For The Mind
Clarity gets practical when you treat attention like a craft. We open the pages of Joseph Goldstein’s The Experience of Insight and translate retreat-honed wisdom into tools you can actually use: breath you don’t control, movement you feel from the inside, and the quiet power of seeing intention before action. No mystique, no shortcuts—just a clean method for meeting each moment without the usual tug of wanting and resisting. Joseph's book: https://a.co/d/bsVOXoU We start with the mental fra...
3 Joulu 202514min
Why Tailored Teaching Beats Cookie Cutter Mindfulness
A stressful morning, a deep tissue reset, and a simple lesson that changes how we teach: relevance beats routine. Sean shares how tuning into the body can open the door to smarter, kinder mindfulness instruction, especially when life is messy and attention is thin. We walk through a practical approach to choosing what to teach by asking short, respectful questions, listening for needs, and then adapting practices so they fit real people and real constraints. You’ll hear why a trauma‑informed...
1 Joulu 20255min
