Part 1 in a weeklong series of blog posts written by undergraduate students from the 2017 spring-semester class, “Mindfulness & Compassion: Living Fully Personally and Professionally” at the University of Virginia. Transitioning to new environments is always difficult, especially for young adults entering adulthood. Many students find the transition from middle school to high school …
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ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Clifford Saron
Minding Mindfulness: Issues, Models, and Findings in the Scientific Study of Meditation
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Thupten Jinpa
Understanding the Psychology Behind Compassion Meditation
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Judson Brewer
Neurobiological Underpinnings of Contemplative Practices: Is There Common Ground (and who cares)?
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Harold Roth
What’s ‘Critical’ About ‘Critical First-Person’ Perspectives?
Community and Conversations on Context in Contemplative Studies
The Mind & Life Summer Research Institute at Garrison The Mind & Life Institute continues the tradition of hosting its signature program, the annual Mind & Life Summer Research Institute (MLSRI) at the Garrison Institute every year in mid-June. Over the course of a week, a community coalesces. In a rich and intimate retreat-like setting, …
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Yoga Asana and Breathing: Internal Forms
In this exploration of the subtle patterns that inform all yoga postures, we will investigate the internal forms of the inhalation and the exhalation and how we can map these through precise attention to sensation. Come prepared for simple movement and seated meditation postures. There will be time for questions and answers as well.
Mind–Body Interventions Affect Sleep and Oxytocin in Cancer Survivors
Surviving a cancer diagnosis and the treatment that follows requires overcoming significant emotional and physical hurdles. Even after a patient is cancer-free, he or she often continues to struggle with depression and anxiety from fear of cancer recurrence, and many also suffer from sleep disturbances. These ongoing challenges negatively impact well-being and quality of life, …
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Concurrent Session 5 – Yoga in the Public School Setting: Rationale and Research
Children and adolescents are faced with substantial stresses and life challenges that contribute to an increasing burden of mental and physical health conditions and problem behaviors. The existing school curriculum is lacking in instruction that would provide skills of self-regulation, stress management, and emotion regulation. Yoga is a contemplative mind/body practice that combines meditation, mind/body …
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Concurrent Session 5 – Yoga, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and the Body: Getting to the Heart of Matter
Transformation is a mind-body endeavor. Yet in the quest for enlightenment, meditation can overlook body-based practices, while modern yoga can omit the training of the mind and emotions. This talk focuses on the body’s role in transformation. We examine the significance of the body in mindfulness-based practices such as interoception and self-compassion. Drawing from emerging …
