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Vinny Ferraro has been a practitioner of insight meditation (vipassanā) since the mid 90’s and he is the co-founder of the Dharma Punxs. He's been the guiding teacher of Sangha in San Francisco for 15 years. He is also a nationally recognized leader in designing and implementing interventions for at-risk adolescents and is a senior trainer for Mindful Schools. Ferraro explains that our nervous system is trying to protect us from danger and it often becomes hyper vigilant. This can make us very uncomfortable in our experience. It can also cause us to check out - run through addiction, relationships, food and a thousand other things. Your mind can literally hijack your life. Ferraro explains that mindfulness is almost a silver bullet because for most people it can put us back in relationship with ourselves and our bodies and direct our attention to a different dimension of our experience. Then we are freed up to place our attention on things we feel are worthy. Our awareness becomes almost a super power. In this podcast, he also explains that self-compassion and letting go of the tyranny of perfection is critical. Life is not something you can do wrong. Once we're able to see obstacles as doorways, then we see that whatever we think was IN the way IS the way.  We can literally turn curses into blessings using the alchemy of presence. 

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Official Website: https://vinnyferraro.org/

Vinny Ferraro has been a practitioner of insight meditation (vipassanā) since the mid 90’s and he is the co-founder of the Dharma Punxs. He's been the guiding teacher of Sangha in San Francisco for 15 years. He is also a nationally recognized leader in designing and implementing interventions for at-risk adolescents and is a senior trainer for Mindful Schools. Ferraro explains that our nervous system is trying to protect us from danger and it often becomes hyper vigilant. This can make us very uncomfortable in our experience. It can also cause us to check out - run through addiction, relationships, food and a thousand other things. Your mind can literally hijack your life. Ferraro explains that mindfulness is almost a silver bullet because for most people it can put us back in relationship with ourselves and our bodies and direct our attention to a different dimension of our experience. Then we are freed up to place our attention on things we feel are worthy. Our awareness becomes almost a super power. In this podcast, he also explains that self-compassion and letting go of the tyranny of perfection is critical. Life is not something you can do wrong. Once we're able to see obstacles as doorways, then we see that whatever we think was IN the way IS the way.  We can literally turn curses into blessings using the alchemy of presence. 

More From Vinny Ferraro

Official Website: https://vinnyferraro.org/

American veteran and highly decorated soldier Dan Nevins is a professional speaker who for over a decade has shared an inspirational message of leadership, perseverance, resilience and overcoming adversity with audiences around the globe. His work with professional and business communities enables his passion of sharing and teaching yoga to the world.

At one time Dan was horrified to think that he would ever become a Yoga teacher, because the image he had of Yoga didn’t fit at all with the image he had for himself.  After having a life changing experience his third time on the mat, he began to realize that yoga and mindfulness meditation help people powerfully return to their bodies and heal themselves definitively from the inside out. He says that many people get disconnected from their body.  Yoga helps change the chemicals in the body and reconnect people with their personal power and each other. 

Dan explains that for him Yoga is a petri dish for his life, teaching him how to slow down, connect, belong and push through all of his limitations. Now, he lives in creation of his life moment to moment rather than in reaction to his life. 

Ironically self love has a boomerang effect.  Dan explains, “What happens if I'm kind to myself? I can actually demonstrate kindness for others much more easily. And what happens when I feel compassion for myself? Then I can find compassion for other people that I might not see eye to eye with.”

Listen in to this powerful interview about how Yoga can transform our lives. 

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Official Website: www.dannevins.com

Warrior Spirit Retreat

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American veteran and highly decorated soldier Dan Nevins is a professional speaker who for over a decade has shared an inspirational message of leadership, perseverance, resilience and overcoming adversity with audiences around the globe. His work with professional and business communities enables his passion of sharing and teaching yoga to the world.

At one time Dan was horrified to think that he would ever become a Yoga teacher, because the image he had of Yoga didn’t fit at all with the image he had for himself.  After having a life changing experience his third time on the mat, he began to realize that yoga and mindfulness meditation help people powerfully return to their bodies and heal themselves definitively from the inside out. He says that many people get disconnected from their body.  Yoga helps change the chemicals in the body and reconnect people with their personal power and each other. 

Dan explains that for him Yoga is a petri dish for his life, teaching him how to slow down, connect, belong and push through all of his limitations. Now, he lives in creation of his life moment to moment rather than in reaction to his life. 

Ironically self love has a boomerang effect.  Dan explains, “What happens if I'm kind to myself? I can actually demonstrate kindness for others much more easily. And what happens when I feel compassion for myself? Then I can find compassion for other people that I might not see eye to eye with.”

Listen in to this powerful interview about how Yoga can transform our lives. 

More From Dan Nevins

Official Website: www.dannevins.com

Warrior Spirit Retreat

Linkedin @dannevins

Twitter @dannevins 

Facebook @WarriorSpiritRetreat @thedannevins

YouTube @WoundedWarriorProject

Instagram @dannevins @warriorspiritretreat

From January 27th-29th, 2020, we are hosting a three day Wellness Experience with the Gasparilla Inn in Boca Grande, Florida! We'll be doing cooking demonstrations, walking on the beach and yoga every morning. We're going to be learning from world class teachers on how to take better care of ourselves and more. It's going to be amazing. This is a community affair, and we want all in our community to know that they're welcome to join us. 

Gasparilla Inn is known for its incredible chefs, and the island is a throwback in time where people abandon cars for bikes and golf carts. We will be sharing the experience with Matt Dawson, Keith Mitchell, Kristin Kirkpatrick, Mark Middleton, Dr. Tracy Freeman. Plus the hilarious Sweet Potato Queen, Jill Conner Brown, will be with us too. We will learn about laughter, and longevity growing bolder, not older at any age. 

Wonder how to transform anxiety into peace? We will learn about food and mood and how they relate with one another. We will also learn the distinction between real food vs. food. Come down, get out of the cold, destress, boost your resilience, increase productivity and most importantly join our friends as we build community.

From January 27th-29th, 2020, we are hosting a three day Wellness Experience with the Gasparilla Inn in Boca Grande, Florida! We'll be doing cooking demonstrations, walking on the beach and yoga every morning. We're going to be learning from world class teachers on how to take better care of ourselves and more. It's going to be amazing. This is a community affair, and we want all in our community to know that they're welcome to join us. 

Gasparilla Inn is known for its incredible chefs, and the island is a throwback in time where people abandon cars for bikes and golf carts. We will be sharing the experience with Matt Dawson, Keith Mitchell, Kristin Kirkpatrick, Mark Middleton, Dr. Tracy Freeman. Plus the hilarious Sweet Potato Queen, Jill Conner Brown, will be with us too. We will learn about laughter, and longevity growing bolder, not older at any age. 

Wonder how to transform anxiety into peace? We will learn about food and mood and how they relate with one another. We will also learn the distinction between real food vs. food. Come down, get out of the cold, destress, boost your resilience, increase productivity and most importantly join our friends as we build community.

Dr. Brandon Nappi is a spiritual teacher, speaker and writer who passionately believes in the capacity of the human spirit to awaken. Inspired by the common wisdom of the world's spiritual traditions. He has dedicated his life's work to sharing the transformative power of mindfulness practice. He founded Copper Beach Institute in 2014 and is the institute's executive director.

In this podcast you will learn about Dr. Nappi’s mission to bring more curiosity and meaning into the world. Curiosity was a special trait his earliest school teachers noticed about him. A turning point in his life was working as a janitor in a church in high school. He found a world there in the quiet stillness, and began to come alive.

Today, he helps others find that world through mindfulness -- which can be done lying down, standing, walking, or sitting. He says this practice of staying present will in effect almost double your life. Recent study show that we spend more than 48% of our time distracted, unconsciously projecting into the past or present.

Dr. Nappi naturally felt compassion for others but grew to use mindfulness to cultivate his own self compassion. This double synergy is powerful and without it is like breathing with one lung or flying with one wing.

Mindfulness takes courage, but it transforms pain at the root, because pain that isn’t transformed is transferred. When we go through life we can be reactive but mindfulness helps us to look at our life with exceptional courage and compassion, allowing us to respond outside of our normal patterns.

It is not enough to want to be kinder and more loving, we must practice our way into whole heartedness. People who visit the Copper Beech Institute often say their hearts have grown ten times. Often when people are not wiling to feel emotions that come with mindfulness we can live in denial and we can begin to self medicate with addiction, self medication, lashing out at others. If we don't take care of our pain, profound depression and anxiety that may seem to have no exact explanation, a kind of vague sense of unease.

I'm fond of saying if you can feel everything and anything that a human being can feel, then you will be free. The purpose of our mindfulness practice is freedom, true freedom. And that freedom then makes joy and love and compassion really possible.

Website www.copperbeechinstitute.org
Live Stream Meditation - Mondays EST 12:30pm
Facebook Copper Beach Institute, Dr. Brandon Nappi
Twitter @CopperBeechCT
Instagram @CopperBeachInstitute , @bnappi4

Dr. Brandon Nappi is a spiritual teacher, speaker and writer who passionately believes in the capacity of the human spirit to awaken. Inspired by the common wisdom of the world's spiritual traditions. He has dedicated his life's work to sharing the transformative power of mindfulness practice. He founded Copper Beach Institute in 2014 and is the institute's executive director.

In this podcast you will learn about Dr. Nappi’s mission to bring more curiosity and meaning into the world. Curiosity was a special trait his earliest school teachers noticed about him. A turning point in his life was working as a janitor in a church in high school. He found a world there in the quiet stillness, and began to come alive.

Today, he helps others find that world through mindfulness -- which can be done lying down, standing, walking, or sitting. He says this practice of staying present will in effect almost double your life. Recent study show that we spend more than 48% of our time distracted, unconsciously projecting into the past or present.

Dr. Nappi naturally felt compassion for others but grew to use mindfulness to cultivate his own self compassion. This double synergy is powerful and without it is like breathing with one lung or flying with one wing.

Mindfulness takes courage, but it transforms pain at the root, because pain that isn’t transformed is transferred. When we go through life we can be reactive but mindfulness helps us to look at our life with exceptional courage and compassion, allowing us to respond outside of our normal patterns.

It is not enough to want to be kinder and more loving, we must practice our way into whole heartedness. People who visit the Copper Beech Institute often say their hearts have grown ten times. Often when people are not wiling to feel emotions that come with mindfulness we can live in denial and we can begin to self medicate with addiction, self medication, lashing out at others. If we don't take care of our pain, profound depression and anxiety that may seem to have no exact explanation, a kind of vague sense of unease.

I'm fond of saying if you can feel everything and anything that a human being can feel, then you will be free. The purpose of our mindfulness practice is freedom, true freedom. And that freedom then makes joy and love and compassion really possible.

Website www.copperbeechinstitute.org Live Stream Meditation - Mondays EST 12:30pm Facebook Copper Beach Institute, Dr. Brandon Nappi Twitter @CopperBeechCT Instagram @CopperBeachInstitute , @bnappi4

David Feherty is a former professional golfer on the European Tour and PGA Tour. He now works as a writer and broadcaster hosting his own show called Feherty on NBC’s Golf Channel.

In this podcast Feherty talks about how he walked out of a high school lecture on rain when he was 17 to become a professional golfer.

He also talks about the alcoholism in his family and how that lead to his own encounter with the permanent condition where he some days drank two bottles of whiskey and downed 20 Vicodin. He believes, speaking frankly about his bipolar condition and recovery has been healing for many people. That, and David’s never-ending sense of humor is truly healing.

David talks about the missing ingredient in the world today - kindness and the power of coming from a place of non-judgement.

More From David Feherty
Website: www.feherty.com and www.troopsfirstfoundation.org
Podcast: http://www.feherty.com/podcasts

David Feherty is a former professional golfer on the European Tour and PGA Tour. He now works as a writer and broadcaster hosting his own show called Feherty on NBC’s Golf Channel.

In this podcast Feherty talks about how he walked out of a high school lecture on rain when he was 17 to become a professional golfer.

He also talks about the alcoholism in his family and how that lead to his own encounter with the permanent condition where he some days drank two bottles of whiskey and downed 20 Vicodin. He believes, speaking frankly about his bipolar condition and recovery has been healing for many people. That, and David’s never-ending sense of humor is truly healing.

David talks about the missing ingredient in the world today - kindness and the power of coming from a place of non-judgement. More From David Feherty Website: www.feherty.com and www.troopsfirstfoundation.org Podcast: http://www.feherty.com/podcasts