Part 5 of 6. Practice for seven days or until memorized. This part adds a phrase for our stomach. A wide body of research supports AT (Autogenic Training by Dr. Schult) efficacy in the ability to relax our muscles, our bodies, and our minds. It is a powerful tool to stay well or alleviate any condition exacerbated by stress. Please note: Discontinue if there are any concerns and consult with your physician. Do not operate a moving vehicle. PC Y. Kovaley Script based on U. Wisconsin-Madison.

Biet Simkin is definitely a unique voice in the meditation world. She is a bridge between the ancient work of shamans and the modern language of rock and roll and fashion. Biet is best known for modernizing the spiritual path and has been called the "Meditation Guru for the next generation.” 

Her immersive meditation experiences have reached contemporary audiences in cultural spaces, including museums, hotels, and fashion shows. She even scores her own music to go along with these experiences and she was one of the first to mix meditation with pop culture. Biet learned most of her spiritual teachings from her father who exposed her to a wide variety of material in her teen years. 

Biet's father was a medical doctor in Russia, before they immigrated to New York. He had healed himself of Tuberculosis and became a practicing shaman and healer. Biet lost her beloved mother at a very young age and was left to fend for herself in day to day life. A talented singer and songwriter, she fell into the rock and roll world, eventually spiraling down into addiction. 

She found a deep resilience after many tragic losses and now she straddles both the deep spiritual world where material goods mean nothing and the day to day, practical spiritual world, where everything from temper tantrums to material desires all exist. She shows us that these things can, and do, co-exist. Biet's refreshing take on unapologetically embracing the entirety of human existence, the range of ugly to beautiful, is really quite extraordinary. I'm certain that this is the reason so many people resonate with her teachings. 

Articles and interviews about Biet: 

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Jennifer Monness, a longtime yoga and meditation teacher, was inspired to bring mindfulness into schools when she witnessed, first hand, the extreme stress experienced by high school students. She founded The Meditation Lab and was able to convince schools to integrate her program into the school day.

Listen for her best practices for working with kids of all ages, tips on financing a school program, and why mindfulness can be such a powerful tool during this time of unprecedented uncertainty.

Throughout her 25 years of teaching, Jennifer gained first-hand experience of the powerful impact the mindfulness practice can have on building inner resilience to navigate physical, mental, and emotional stress.

As a parent to middle school, high school, and college-age children, Jennifer understands the overwhelming pressure students feel to achieve in their lives. Mindfulness is a powerful way to relax and ease the stress of an overscheduled life.

"A consistent meditation practice can play a key role in overall mental health and well-being. By increasing one’s capacity to focus attention and manage challenging emotions, meditation helps the practitioner navigate work demands and personal challenges with a greater overall sense of ease.” Jennifer Monness

More about Jennifer Click -> The Meditation Lab

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See her in action here -> The Hudson Independent Article

As founding Dean of Relay Graduate School of Education in Connecticut, Dr. Rebecca Good is an award-winning educator and an inspirational leader.

She shares with us her story of resilience, being the first person in her family to graduate from high school and, most recently, earned her Doctor of Education EdD degree in Global Education from the University of Southern California.

Rebecca tells me her story and how she processes stress, even as a young child, understanding the natural ability to pay attention to our senses, to be in the moment, to be, what we now know is mindfulness.

Listen for a surprising implicit bias unfold in real-time and see if you get sucked into it too.

Dr. Good will be leading a workshop at the annual Educator Summit co-hosted by her school, RELAY Graduate School of Education and Character Lab -  Angela Duckworth, author of ‘GRIT: The POWER of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE.’

“. . . persuasive and fascinating . .”— Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink

MENTIONED IN OUR CONVERSATION:

“It is important to acknowledge that many trauma survivors have a genuinely great sense of humor, which is both miraculous and, at times, life-saving.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/healing-trauma-s-wounds/201509/why-clients-smile-when-talking-about-trauma-part-1

Some of our favorite books we escaped with during a tumultuous childhood:

https://www.beverlycleary.com/

https://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/bsc/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Valley_High

Sweet Valley High is a series of young adult novels attributed to American author Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters to produce the series

Go Ask Alice by “Anonymous” Simon Schuster

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Second Edition, Kindle Edition by Rigoberta Menchú (Author), Elisabeth Burgos-Debray (Editor), Ann Wright (Translator)

Amy Giddon had two career transformations. After many years as a corporate management consulting executive, she wanted to find more meaningful work. She decided to switch tracks to mentor young women for leadership in male dominated fields by becoming a workshop leader at Columbia University. 

In 2016, she was struck by a public art exhibit "Subway Therapy, a communal art project in which strap-hangers wrote messages on colorful Post-it notes, offered a chance for emotional catharsis at one of the city’s main subway stations. The brainchild of artist Matthew “Levee” Chavez" This beautiful wall inspired Amy to create the Daily Haloha App. 

Please listen to the end of the podcast to hear Amy read the many touching reflections she received from the users of the Daily Haloha App on their experience during Covid-19 isolation.

https://www.instagram.com/dailyhaloha/

https://consciouscompanymedia.com/social-entrepreneurship/the-wisdom-of-women-amy-giddon-co-founder-ceo-of-daily-haloha/