Relaxing music in the background by Chris Collins for your Daily Dose of the Relaxation Response. Come down from your heightened stress response. We all need to give our mind and body a break but how? SImply listening to this meditation can change your brain chemistry immediately and help you recover from the stress we are all feeling at this time.

Your Daily Dose of the Relaxation Response. Come down from your heightened stress response. We all need to give our mind and body a break but how? SImply listening to this meditation can change your brain chemistry immediately and help you recover from the stress we are all feeling at this time.

Shari Gordon is the proud owner of Addison Street Spa. Shari is one of the most special people I've ever met. She is a mom to three boys and is determined to bring alternative healing for those who need something in addition to traditional medicine for health and wellness. 

Toward this goal, she launched a new, one of a kind meditation studio called Sacred just a few doors down from her spa, where she offers different types of meditation, restorative, and healing yoga, pilates, tai chi, and qigong, self-care workshops and retreats, children’s movement and yoga, Reiki trainings, Chakra workshops, sound healing and more where she welcomes all people, with respect and without judgement. 

Shari grew up in an unstructured childhood. Abandoned as a teenager, she became the sole provider for herself and her younger siblings. This interview is about how she draws resilience from meditation and spiritual connections to herself and others. She says that although it seems very simple, meditation and looking inwards is what it all comes down to for her.  "Even in great suffering and insecurity, turning inwards to our souls is where we find reprieve from all conditions and find understanding and connection."

True to Shari's big heart of kindness and compassion, she is offering virtual therapies and free healing meditations during this challenging time on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/addisonstreetspa/  

Please support Shari and her amazing spa and meditation space during this temporary time where she is closed due to Covid19.

She carries amazing quality products in her store. 

Email her through her website for a special package made for you or for your mom on Mother's Day.

https://www.sacredlarchmont.com/

https://www.addisonstreetspa.com/

Danny Etkin is a 20 year old world Karate champ has over 40 World titles in NASKA, ISKA, and WAKO circuits in the disciplines of traditional weapons, traditional forms, extreme weapons,  extreme forms, and Synchronized Team Forms.

Despite his impressive titles, athletic ability and extensive career at such a young age, Danny is an incredibly nice, down to earth person who has so much wisdom to share. We talk about winning, losing, what gives him perspective and how he sees it all in the grand scheme of things. 

We discuss how he got started, what he thinks was the magic formula of parental support, internal drive and training with the right people that fueled him as an athletic prodigy.

Listen through to the end to find out how his TikTok video went viral with over 9 million views!

FULL BIO HERE: https://teampaulmitchellkarate.com/team/danny-etkin/

Danny represents and is sponsored by the prestigious 30-year-old professional sports team,  Team Paul Mitchell. In 2012 Danny became the youngest Hyper Martial Arts Pro Athlete, an action lifestyle brand whose mission is to inspire the next generation of martial arts athletes worldwide.

Danny teaches seminars and competes all over the United States, as well as Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Hungary, England, Ireland, Mexico, Amsterdam, and Canada.

In 2018, Danny signed with Adrenaline Worldwide as one of their professional tricking athletes. Later that year, Danny teamed up with Century martial arts to create his own signature nunchucks line, which is sold worldwide. Danny also created his own martial arts tricking apparel line, TRXWARE.

No special place or clothes needed. Just find a quiet spot and sit. Just 20 min a day can change your brain over 8 weeks so you can manage stress, and overreact less. The Relaxation Response has a whole host of associated benefits like decreasing your inflammatory markers, decreasing blood pressure and really decreasing any disease process that are made worse by stress - too many to list here.

Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash

This interview is so inspiring that I listen to it over and over again and it helps me every time. There are so many golden nuggets in this one. I definitely recommend downloading it and keeping it handy. Peg is a very special person to me and to all the countless other people she's taught and to those countless others affected by those she has taught! Incredibly humble and always ready with words of wisdom, Peg is the Clinical Director of the Center for Training at the Benson-Henry Institute where she has earned international recognition as a leading educator and lecturer in the field of mind-body medicine. She is the Director of the Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Program, an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Peg is a researcher and clinician who created innovative programs for patients and health care providers. So without further ado, my interview with one of my favorite people in the world.

Peg leading a Relaxation Response: https://youtu.be/gAIYm6wpzw4

Dr. Benson: https://youtu.be/nBCsFuoFRp8

https://www.bensonhenryinstitute.org/staff/peg-baim/

https://www.amazon.com/Tonglen-Meditation-Ms-Peg-Baim/dp/B00OAVETC0

Did you know that Imagination and Creativity combat stress in our minds and bodies? It's actually one of the benefits of being human. But, when's the last time you used your imagination? Not to worry or to imagine what you're having for dinner, but use it in the way little kids do or the script writers for Star Wars or Mary Poppins? Do you ever wonder why we don't use it in this way as we grow up? 

https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-future-of-human-work-is-imagination-creativity-and-strategy

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/where-machines-could-replace-humans-and-where-they-cant-yet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6831624/

Elise Garibaldi, an American author, playwright, songwriter, and mother of two amazing teen boys, became an Amazon best selling author for her book "Roses in a Forbidden Garden", a historical love story about her grandparents during WWII. Elise has since returned to Bremen, Germany to present her book wide audiences including government officials, journalists, and schools. The German translation of her book launched in December 2018. Listen for Elise's return visit with us at the end to tell us about the surprise turn of events when she revisits her grandmother's hometown.

You can find her book here: https://www.elisegaribaldi.com

Roses in a Forbidden Garden is part of the educational reading list at the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center and you can find notes for educators when you click on her book listed here: https://hhrecny.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Holocaust-Books-for-young-readers-1.pdf

Articles and Sponsors in English  https://sfi.usc.edu/profiles/elise-garibaldi https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn709455  https://hhrecny.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Holocaust-Books-for-young-readers-1.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10848770.2018.1449400?journalCode=cele20 https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?t=42362

Newspaper (German)

https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-stadt_artikel,-ausstellung-ueber-juedin-inge-katz-eroeffnet-_arid,1882163.html

https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-stadt_artikel,-schulzentrum-neustadt-heisst-nun-ingekatzschule-_arid,1881947.htm

Television (German)

https://www.facebook.com/butenunbinnen/videos/724135744747072/?__xts__[0]=68.ARDkaR-DJ_YEz86Rw6MpTnxC01vY8YerYSe6XjIN7vYlmFZQqNGxYpndLiuy3MSod_8pCl564RVIm98ZO1YiKdXE4mFXlNqjCV6KfZuxfvY8_vQfSYPnU-1MLtDFXTzSHj2b6HcoQ82lImluUUz6nLfV_7DHcVRxfbr-B03byPge8_4yFtAlg3ltAcC_EyeJWwAB7PTGKsk8J-_bD6ROETv_RQTRLn_YV1HnUEq1gp6szGLdgybEEOqvaM1_m1CjAYwKnPieh2yemek8Ji4VKUp0C3fO5UQW42fm5OeN5mNibUad9_eP-HdH0Qb12KVlCoiER6Jr_iwdJNadY0z7xhPcJuKObw&__tn__=H-R

Radio (Hebrew and English)

Click on the date 01.01.20, and the tab at the 10:04 mark

https://www.kan.org.il/radio/program.aspx/?progid=1212

Voice Only Relaxation Response. Your energy levels can be at the peak for performing in an audition. This level is between over excitement and low energy so you can play at your best. Use this 10 min guided meditation to help you get to the peak performance.

Voice with birds in the background. Your energy levels can be at the peak for performing in an audition. This level is between over excitement and low energy so you can play at your best. Use this 10 min guided meditation to help you get to the peak performance.