Skymind and Shadow: Illuminating Reality with a Vast Mind
What if the darkest corners of ourselves, the places we most want to avoid, are actually lighting a path to greater freedom?
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Lily Rockefeller
Accompanying Suffering: The Science Behind Contemplative Care
Not every challenge in medicine has a clinical solution. Illness, grief, uncertainty, and loss all ask something of clinicians that extends beyond their ability to diagnose and treat: the capacity to be present in the face of suffering.
Contemplative Ecology, Get Inspired, Pathways to Planetary Health, Philosophical & Psychological, Read, Resources & Reflections, Systems Thinking
Beyond the Individual: Ecodharma and the Relational Mind
The environmental crisis is often described in the language of science, economics, or public policy. Less frequently do we ask what kind of mind produces a civilization capable of destabilizing the ecological systems upon which it depends.
Exploring the Intelligence of Somatic Practice
Somatic Experiencing® practitioner and meditation instructor Kathy Cherry’s retreat at Garrison Institute this week, “Beyond Calm: The Intelligence of Presence” engages somatic work, a growing field that focuses on the connection between the physical body and mental health. Kathy sat down with us to answer some questions for readers curious to learn more about this innovative field and her work within it.