Active Pause

This is the second in a series of very short talks, each under five minutes. The series explores different aspects of the pause as the foundation from which mindfulness emerges. In this 3-minute video: There is a lot of baggage associated with the word “meditation”. So what if instead we were just talking about a mindful pause?

See “Short Talks” on the menu.

Published July 2019

Steve Katz, a founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, jokingly asks in his memoirs: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? In this conversation, we focus on what it is that has been sustaining him.

Steve Katz was a founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, which won three Grammies and sold millions of records worldwide. After BS&T, Steve went on to produce three Lou Reed albums, two of which went into Billboard’s Top Ten. His last official band membership was with American Flyer in the mid-seventies who’s first album was produced by Beatles’ producer, George Martin. Steve then went on to become a Vice-President of Mercury Records where he produced the seminal Irish band, Horslips. His memoirs, Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? were published by Lyons Press in 2015. This year, Steve Katz released his first solo album, a career retrospective called The Juggle. See website.

Published July 2019 – Connection through Robin Kappy.

Steve Katz, a founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, jokingly asks in his memoirs: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? In this conversation, we focus on what it is that has been sustaining him.

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Steve Katz was a founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, which won three Grammies and sold millions of records worldwide. After BS&T, Steve went on to produce three Lou Reed albums, two of which went into Billboard’s Top Ten. His last official band membership was with American Flyer in the mid-seventies who’s first album was produced by Beatles’ producer, George Martin. Steve then went on to become a Vice-President of Mercury Records where he produced the seminal Irish band, Horslips. His memoirs, Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? were published by Lyons Press in 2015. This year, Steve Katz released his first solo album, a career retrospective called The Juggle. See website.

Published July 2019 – Connection through Robin Kappy.

This is the first in a series of very short talks, each under five minutes. The series explores different aspects of the pause as the foundation from which mindfulness emerges. The word “pause” usually implies “this is not where the action is”. This episode addresses why a mindful pause may be described as active.

See “Short Talks” on the menu.

Published July 2019

In this talk, Salvador Moreno-Lopez describes a journey of discoveries and surprises: “How I found that using my bodily felt sense helps me orient in my daily life and my work, with much more certainty and precision than I would using only logic and reason disconnected from bodily feelings. This is a great gift of life, available to all people.”

The video is in Spanish. Please note that we have several options to make this accessible to people who don’t speak Spanish very well, or who don’t speak Spanish at all:

– If you understand some Spanish, and want to follow the original video in Spanish, there is a transcript that includes both the Spanish and an English translation. See: bilingual transcript.

– If you don’t understand Spanish and want to hear it in English, there is an audio recording in English (see below the video). The English text is read by Charles Herr, who translated it.

– There is also a PDF of the whole text in English. See English transcript.

Audio recording: The voice you hear in this recording is not Salvador Moreno. It is read by Charles Herr, who also translated Salvador’s talk into English. See also English transcript.

Dr. Salvador Moreno-López

Ph. D., Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City.

Certified Focusing Instructor and Certifying Coordinador for Mexico of the International Focusing Institute.

Has been a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and León, and at the ITESO in Guadalajara, in postgraduate studies in Psychotherapy and Human Development. Has led workshops at Universidad de Fortaleza, Brasil.

Has published three books, as well as several book chapters and articles. His most recent book: Descubriendo mi Sabiduría Corporal, Focusing. Articles include: Tendencia actualizante, sabiduría organísmica y comprensión del mundo; Focusing with the Stresses of Everyday Life; Focusing, Mindfulness and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy; y Vivir saludablemente y Enfoque Corporal.

Director of Focusing México, psyschotherapist, group leader and lecturer. His focus is understanding the interaction between physical and emotional health, with an emphasis on the experiential dimension, and in identifying implications in terms of promoting health.

Published July 2019

In this conversation, Judith Blackstone describes the experience of living within one’s body and uncovering a fundamental dimension of consciousness pervading one’s body and the environment as a unity.  She explains how this experience deepens our sense of intimacy and contact with other people at the same time as it deepens our contact with our own being.  The embodiment of fundamental consciousness also enhances and unifies our basic qualities and functions, including our ability to know, feel, sense and perceive.

Judith Blackstone, PhD, developed the Realization Process, a method of embodied psychological and relational healing and nondual spiritual awakening.  She offers workshops and teacher certification trainings world-wide. She recently retired from forty years as a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.  She is the author of Trauma and the Unbound Body: the Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness, Belonging Here, The Enlightenment Process, The Intimate Life, and The Empathic Ground.  An audio series of the Realization Process practices is available from Sounds True.  For information on Judith’s teaching schedule, visit her website.

Published April 2019.

Movement has been important to Marjorie Rand for al her life, personally and professionally. in this conversation, she talks about an accident that refocused her.

Marjorie L Rand Ph.D. has had a private practice of Integrative Body Psychotherapy in Manhattan Beach and Newport Beach CA for 42 years. She has co-written, or contributed to 4 books and many published articles. Her DVD’s and those of Jack Lee Rosenberg can be found in the archives of USABP. See website.

Published March 2019. See also conversation with Marjorie Rand about therapy.

Movement has been important to Marjorie Rand for al her life, personally and professionally. in this conversation, she talks about an accident that refocused her.

Marjorie L Rand Ph.D. has had a private practice of Integrative Body Psychotherapy in Manhattan Beach and Newport Beach CA for 42 years. She has co-written, or contributed to 4 books and many published articles. Her DVD’s and those of Jack Lee Rosenberg can be found in the archives of USABP. See website.

Published March 2019. See also conversation with Marjorie Rand about therapy.

In this conversation, Shinzen Young talks about embodiment, mindfulness, and the future of science… and the natural connection between these. Hope you enjoy.

Shinzen Young is an American mindfulness teacher and neuroscience research consultant. His systematic approach to categorizing, adapting and teaching meditation, known as Unified Mindfulness, has resulted in collaborations with Harvard Medical School, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Vermont in the burgeoning field of contemplative neuroscience. Shinzen’s interest in Asia began at the age of 14 when he decided to attend Japanese ethnic school in his native city of Los Angeles. After majoring in Asian languages at UCLA, he entered a PhD program in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. As a part of his thesis research, he lived as a Shingon (Japanese Vajrayana) monk for three years at Mount Koya, Japan. It was then that he received the name Shinzen. He is the author of The Science of Enlightenment, Natural Pain Relief and numerous audio offerings. Shinzen leads residential retreats, as well as phone-based mini-retreats. See website.

Published February 2019.

Jeff Warren talks about exploring consciousness from the perspective of how to live a more fulfilled life… approaching this exploration with a spirit of adventure.

Jeff Warren is a writer and meditation instructor. His primary subject is practice – meditation practice, movement practice, life practice – made relevant and exciting and (sometimes) ridiculous. He is the co-author of The New York Times bestselling Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, a road-trip-slash-how-to-mediate manual, and author of The Head Trip, a travel guide to sleeping, dreaming and waking. In 2011 Jeff founded The Consciousness Explorers Club (CEC), a nonprofit meditation adventure group based in Toronto. The CEC’s motto is “being human takes practice.” Their ambition – and Jeff’s – is to empower and support new forms of shoddily-executed community practice. See website.

Published January 2019.