Catching Z's: The Millennials Guide to Mindfulness

Kate Starling leads us in a guided meditation about tuning into the sensations of our body and mind. 

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Adam started his company, Wuf Shanti, when he was 9 years old after his grandfather Jack had passed away and they wanted to do something to honor his kind and compassionate spirit and carry on the mantras that he lived out.  Since then, Adam (with the help of his mom) has written 7 books and has expanded Wuf Shanti to elementary schools and children's hospitals throughout the country!  He even recently had the Mindful Kids Peace Summit for teenagekids where they tackled topics like Diversity, Kindness and Anti-Bullying, Tools for Kids to De-Stress and Cope with Emotions, and even Social Emotional Learning!  We talk about all of the wonderful things he is doing and about what it is like being a teenager that is born with so much technology around them.  Adam had amazingly thoughtful responses to everything and I had a great time getting to know him! 

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On this month's Catching Up with Catching Z's I talk about all of the wonderful moments of mindfulness that I gain through being a parent to my son, Wylie Boone Zolfo! 

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Kevin Ellerton had achieved success at an early age in the real estate business, but this wasn't fulfilling him the way he thought it would.  In the most unlikely of circumstances while he was trying to pick up girls in a bookstore, Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" impacted Kevin in a profound way.  This led to him going overseas and attending a monastery and his life would forever be changed from there.  He has since went on to found Meditation Magazine and traveled the world talking to Guru's about the meaning of life.  Listen as I chat with Kevin about these life experiences and how they influenced the creation of Meditation Magazine. 

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Excited to bring to you another wonderful conversation on this months Meditators Among Us series.  I talk with one of my colleagues Elayna Spratley about her journey into meditation.  We talk about: 

- being a workaholic and worrier and how meditation helps those things

- how her friends relationship with her mom changed through meditation and this caused Elayna to want to explore it deeper

- spirituality + meditation being complementary

- her profound moment of awakening

- February's Dyad!

SIYLI February Dyad!

Hari and Rasanath met in 2006 and the rest is history.  They both joined the same Bahkti Yoga Monastery in New York and this has caused them to be able to see the world differently and share this with many other people.  We talk about:

• First getting into meditation
• Pursuing careers in Film and Wall Street prior to joining the monastery
• How they held these jobs and were living in the monastery at the same time
• Balancing ambition and stress
• What their organization Upbuild does
• How their relationship together is the cornerstone for their work
• What it would mean to "live without masks"
• much more! 

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Today I talk about how the subject of death has been coming up a lot in my life recently and try and break down the perspectives that have helped me to further understand death in my own life and also how I still struggle with this topic! 

I talk about Ram Dass' No Death, No Fear workshop in this episode and it looks like the sign ups have been closed down but I recommend signing up to receive future free retreat information!

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Catching Z's Episode with JP: Part 2

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Oren Jay Sofer has been practicing meditation and diving deep into the subject of nonviolent communication for over 20 years now.  He brings a deep knowledge about both of these practices to this interview.  You will see that he applies these concepts when speaking as he has an elegant way of using pauses and really bringing your whole self to the conversation.  I chat with Oren about: 

• His new book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication
• How he got into meditation in high school
• Going to Asia and spending two years as a renunciate
• Clearing up (for me) what equanimity means
• How we can feel emotions without letting them control us 
• What is non-violent communication? 
• How contemplative practices can be applied to communication
• Leading with presence in our conversations
• Much more! 

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On this inaugural episode of profiling the many different meditators in our communities, I'm thrilled to bring to you Leo Ortiz from Covina, California!  We talk about his meditation practice of 3 years, and get to know Leo's mind blowing job making space parts as a Manufacturing Engineer at NASA JPL. At the end we both take part in this month's dyad from SIYLI! 

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SIYLI January Dyad

Russ Rausch leads us in a guided meditation establishing how to trust and embrace our current life situation to allow us to take action in our lives.

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