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    The Weight of Wellness: Contemplative Performance Art as a Practice

    By Devora Neumark

    …ways that contemplative performance art serves to interrupt the intergenerational traumas associated with genocide, colonialism, climate change, and environmental injustice.

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    Is Academia a Religion? with Marcy Braverman Goldstein (#150)

    By Jacob Kyle

    A Reflection on Elements of Emergent Education

    By Amy Edelstein

    Sevā: The Heart of Spiritual Citizenship

    By Marcy Braverman Goldstein

    Can “Contemplative Practices” Lessen Hatred in Social and Political Activism in the U.S.?

    By Ramdas Lamb

    The form it takes in most societies has been relatively predictable because people within them learn to live by and function within social norms and customs mean…

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    #Healing #Practice

    How do we cultivate body awareness?

    One of the biggest questions I get in my practice is what is body awareness? I teach  Pilates and Yoga,…

    By Erica Breen

    Embodying Emotions: A Simple Method for Improving Spiritual & Mindfulness Practices

    In the seminar, the science-backed and body-based practice of embodying emotions from Integral Somatic Psychotherapy (ISP) will be introduced as an effective method for developing the capacity to tolerate opposites in human experience.

    #Practice #Traditions

    Beginning the Journey: Tao Te Ching

    How did you begin your search for peace? I began mine with political activism in the sixties. My college friends…

    By Diane Dreher
    #Pedagogy #Practice

    Somatic Practices and Dance: Global Influences

    I hypothesize that the search for “the universal, “the humanistic,” or “the biological” as a through-line of body-mind investigation, has encouraged a mono-cultural approach to somatic pedagogy and to the promotion of the field.

    By Martha Eddy
    #Practice #Psychology

    The Soul of Practice

    In an increasingly media-based industry, yoga teachers have come to represent the physical elite. Instagram, Facebook, websites, newsletters thrive on images of impressive physical feats and physiques.

    By Stacey Ramsower
    #Cultures #Practice

    Working the Land, Working the Self: Understanding Healing and Embodiment Through Diverse Traditions

    What is the story you tell yourself about who you are? Is it true? Is it time to change the story you carry within to align with your inner truth?

    By Chanda Williams
    #Philosophy #Practice

    What is it Like to Be a Human?

    In this article, I’ll use somatics, radical embodied cognition, ecological psychology, and my personal practice of nondual animism to root out the unexamined use of dualistic philosophical paradigms including Cartesian dualism, traditional cognitive science, and the ideas that underpin popular interpretations of the simulation argument.

    By Rebekah Nagy
    #Ethics #Practice

    The Ecology of Tantra: Why Yogis Eat Carrots Rather Than Cows

    To live a life according to the wisdom of ecology is the most urgent task for humanity today. What can the philosophy of yoga contribute to this critical challenge? How can we develop an environmental ethics according to yogic principles? What would a sustainable ethics based on yoga look like?

    By Ramesh Bjonnes
    #Practice #Psychology

    In Pursuit of Resilience

    The brain is the central organ for adaptation to experiences, including those we call “stressors,” that are capable of changing brain architecture as well as altering systemic function via the neuroendocrine, autonomic, immune and metabolic systems.

    By Bruce S. McEwen
    #Practice #Psychology

    Contemplative Psychotherapy: The Art and Science of Sustainable Happiness

    The very idea of “contemplative” psychotherapy may invoke some cognitive dissonance.

    By Joe Loizzo
    #Pedagogy #Practice

    Study? Practice? Can the Two be Integrated?

    This article discusses the history of the university, analyzes the challenge of modernity and post-modernity, and affirms the efficacy of integrating study and practice.

    By Christopher Key Chapple
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