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Body-based Practices Offerings

Mind & Life Videos
Meditation 101 with Willa Blythe Baker
Mind and Life Institute • January 17, 2025
Topics: Body-based Practices | Interconnection | Mindfulness

Blog
Advancing Contemplative Research: A New Mind & Life Grant Named in Honor of Laurisa S. Dill
Mind and Life Institute • December 12, 2024
Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other

Mind & Life Videos
A Meditation with Lama Willa Blythe Baker—”Body As Mountain”
Mind and Life Institute • October 9, 2024
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe-Ward—A Compassion Meditation
Mind and Life Institute • July 12, 2024
Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy

Blog
Teaching Yoga in Africa: The Silent Revolution
Daniela Camargo Rodríguez, Víctor Restrepo Rivera • April 25, 2024
Topics: Body-based Practices | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Videos
Mindful Movement with kelley nicole palmer
Mind and Life Institute • March 5, 2024
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Social Change

Mind & Life Videos
Jon Kabat-Zinn—A Meditation on Befriending Stillness
Mind and Life Institute • August 28, 2023
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Inaugural Cohort of Contemplative Changemakers Pursues Diverse Approaches to Support Healing and Transformation
Mind and Life Institute • July 5, 2023
Topics: Body-based Practices | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Videos
Tsoknyi Rinpoche—Befriending Our Beautiful Monsters
Mind and Life Institute • June 30, 2023
Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health

Mind & Life Connect – Session 3
Trauma and Resilience
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Videos
Sebene Selassie—A Meditation on the Four Elements and Reawakening Our True Belonging
Mind and Life Institute • April 6, 2023
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

Mind & Life Videos
Kaira Jewel Lingo – A Meditation for Connecting to the Body
Mind and Life Institute • February 9, 2023
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness

Blog
Contemplative Researchers Seek to Leverage Power of Technology for Well-being
Brynn Pedrick • December 18, 2022
Topics: Body-based Practices | Interconnection | Mental Health

Mind & Life Videos
Sharon Salzberg – A Meditation for Grounding and Rest
Mind and Life Institute • May 19, 2022
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Listening to Our Body’s Intelligence: Reflections from Mind & Life’s Summer Research Institute
Megan Lindow • March 10, 2022
Topics: Body-based Practices | Environment | Interconnection

Varela Grant
The acute impact of yoga-based stretching on inflammation and its resolution: A pilot study
Dennis Muñoz Vergara
Topics: Body-based Practices

Inspiring Minds – November 2021
Mindfulness Approaches to Addiction and Recovery
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Blog
Grant Jones: Showing Up Fully Through Music and Mindfulness
Brynn Pedrick • August 16, 2021
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Social Change

Blog
Engaging Differences: How Learning Communities Can Help
Paula Ditzel Facci • February 27, 2021
Topics: Body-based Practices | Interconnection | Self & Other

Varela Grant
Conscious Connected Breathing for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot RCT
Steven Pratscher
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Inspiring Minds – December 2020
Finding Connections: Pathways to Embodied Wisdom
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Dr. Peter Wayne Honored with Catherine Kerr Award for Courageous and Compassionate Science
Mind and Life Institute • December 1, 2020
Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience

Inspiring Minds – November 2020
Yoga as a Tool for Social Change
Topics: Body-based Practices | Social Change

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session
Morning Yoga: “Prana and Chi: Moving the Elements”
Hawah Kasat
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session
Morning Yoga: “Trul khor: Tibetan Yoga”
Alejandro Chaoul
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom


Think Tanks
International Society for Contemplative Research
Linda Carlson, Amishi Jha, Erin McCarthy, Harold Roth, Zindel Segal, David Vago, Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Environment | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

2020 Summer Research Institute Session
No Place Like Home: Decolonizing our American Dreams & the Necropolitics they Bury
Jasmine Syedullah
Topics: Body-based Practices | Self & Other | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
A meditation intervention for repetitive subconcussive head impact exposure in youth sports
William Flood
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
VOICES: Vocalizing Oppression and Interconnection in Contemplation and Embodiment Spaces
Richa Gawande
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Social Change

Varela Grant
Liyan: Contemplation, well-being and ethical action in Australian Indigenous wisdom traditions
Sarah Laborde
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

2019 Mind & Life Conversation
Mind & Life Conversation: Conversations on Compassion, Interconnection, and Transformation
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Social Change


2019 Summer Research Institute Session
Contemplative Practices
Alisa Dennis, Larry Yang
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Is knowing the body knowing the mind? Mind-body coherence, interoception, and contemplative training
Sasha Sommerfeldt
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Contemplative Arts Evening Performance
Srinivas Reddy, Robert Kaplan, Ed Sarath, Patricia Wallace
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Bridging Contemplative Science and Business: An Emerging Global Industry, Innovation Panel co-hosted by The Eagle and The Hawk Foundation and the Aetna Foundation
Moderators:
Panel: Acacia Parks, Cyd Crowse, Charlie Hartwell, Hamet Watt, Mark Bertolini
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Contemplative Session: The Four Elements
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Master Lectures: The Neural and Physiological Mechanisms Supporting Mindfulness–induced Pain Relief
Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Contemplative Session: Awakening the Presence Body
Zvi Ish-Shalom
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Contemplative Session: Putting the Mind in the Heart: Centering Prayer and the Christian Contemplative Tradition
Cynthia Bourgeault
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Contemplative Session: Ancient Hebrew Sound Meditation
Zvi Ish-Shalom
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Standing Meditation and Qigong
Louis Komjathy
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Contemplative Session: Watching the Breath
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Yoga
Mary Taylor, Richard Freeman
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Keynote Panel “Contemplative Practice Enters the Digital Age”
Moderators: Zindel Segal
Panel: Acacia Parks, Jack Kornfield, Darnell Lamont Walker, Zindel Segal
Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change

Think Tanks
African Contemplative Practices for Healing the Past, for Transforming the Present and for Future Flourishing
Lucy Draper-Clarke
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Social Change

Blog
With Justice and Contemplation for All
Christine Phelan Kueter • October 15, 2018
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Social Change

2018 International Research Institute Session
Meditation in Japanese Context
Fusako Koshikawa
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 International Research Institute Session
Old Insights for A Hectic World: What Does Hakuin Teach Us Today?
Masaki Matsubara
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2018 International Research Institute
Contemplative Practice in Context: Culture, History, and Science
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness

Blog
2018 SRI Reflections: “I judge less. I understand more.”
Sheila Kinkade • August 7, 2018
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session
Taking Care of Social Justice: Outside and In
Marisela Gomez
Topics: Body-based Practices | Social Change

Varela Grant
Intracranial circuits underlying Deep Slow Breathing and its palliative effects
Jose Herrero
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness



Blog
An Exploration of Nature, Mindfulness and Well-Being
Joanna Shaw, Hannah Woodruff • June 27, 2017
Topics: Body-based Practices | Environment | Mental Health | Mindfulness


Blog
Mindfulness in Periods of Stress
Meghna Shankar, Melissa Wu • June 26, 2017
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience


Think Tanks
Embodiment, Contemplative Practice, and Equality: Developing a Programmatic and Research Agenda for Reducing Ingroup Bias through Embodied Inquiry and Contemplative Practice
Bo Forbes, Norman Farb, David Vago, Christine Wilson-Mendenhall
Topics: Body-based Practices | Self & Other | Social Change

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Clifford Saron
Mind and Life Institute • November 12, 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Thupten Jinpa
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Judson Brewer
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Harold Roth
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Education

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: Neurobiological Underpinnings of Contemplative Practices: Is There Common Ground (and who cares)?
Judson Brewer
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies
International Symposium for Contemplative Studies 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Social Change


2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Opening Keynote: Opening Welcome and Meditation
Amishi Jha, Sharon Salzberg, Harold Roth
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom


2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Yoga of Sound: Indian Classical Music as Contemplative Practice
Srinivas Reddy, Ferhan Najeeb Qureshi
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Sustainable Compassion Training—Receiving-Care Mode of Practice
John Makransky
Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other


2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Meditation Practice: Cultivating Love and Compassion
Roshi Joan Halifax, Sharon Salzberg
Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Self & Other
2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: Understanding the Psychology Behind Compassion Meditation
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Practicing Meditation Through Sacred Texts and Prayers
Sheila Peltz Weinberg
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Daoist Contemplative Practice: Standing Meditation and Qigong
Louis Komjathy
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Engaged Contemplative Practice in Islamic Sufism: Vocal, Silent, Living
Alan Godlas
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness


2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Meditation Practice: Settling the Heart and Mind
Sharon Salzberg, Roshi Joan Halifax
Topics: Body-based Practices

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: Minding Mindfulness: Issues, Models, and Findings in the Scientific Study of Meditation
Clifford Saron
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Engaged Contemplative Practice in Islamic Sufism: Silent Emphasis
Alan Godlas
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Letter from the Future
Sheila Peltz Weinberg
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Social Change

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Engaged Contemplative Practice in Islamic Sufism: Vocal Emphasis
Alan Godlas
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Tibetan Sound Meditation
Alejandro Chaoul
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: What’s ‘Critical’ About ‘Critical First-Person’ Perspectives?
Harold Roth
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Education

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Yoga with Mary Taylor and Richard Freeman
Mary Taylor, Richard Freeman
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
NCCIH Research Priorities and Funding Opportunities for Mind and Body Health
Partap Khalsa
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Community and Conversations on Context in Contemplative Studies
Susan Bauer-Wu, Wendy Hasenkamp • July 8, 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection
2016 Summer Research Institute Session
Panel Discussion: Movement-Based Contemplative Practices
Moderators:
Panel: Catherine Kerr, Catherine Shaddix, Peter Wayne
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom

Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Impacts of yoga on self-regulation and emotion regulation in preschool education
Roxanne Rashedi
Topics: Body-based Practices | Education | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Mind/body awareness workshop for teachers living in post-conflict Northern Uganda
Kyle Matsuba
Topics: Body-based Practices | Education | Mental Health

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
Yoga Asana and Breathing: Internal Forms
Catherine Shaddix
Topics: Body-based Practices

Blog
Mind–Body Interventions Affect Sleep and Oxytocin in Cancer Survivors
David Lipschitz • June 12, 2015
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Yoga’s Self-Regulatory Functions in Promoting Psychological Health: A Proposed Model
Jessica Noggle-Taylor, Crystal Park, David Vago, Angela Wilson


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 5 – Yoga in the Public School Setting: Rationale and Research
Mark Greenberg, Sat Bir Khalsa, Laura White
Topics: Body-based Practices | Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 5 – Yoga, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and the Body: Getting to the Heart of Matter
Bo Forbes

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – The Five Elements and the Body-Mind as an Instrument of Knowledge for Holistic Wisdom: Yogadance Therapy™
Soraya Franco
Topics: Body-based Practices


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – Movement-Based Embodied Contemplative Practices: Current State-of-the-Art and Future Research Directions
Dav Clark, Eva Henje Blom, Catherine Kerr, Philip Nessel, Laura Schmalzl, Peter Wayne
Topics: Body-based Practices


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 4 – Yoga: A Contemplative Technique for Mental WellBeing
Alejandro Chaoul, Sat Bir Khalsa, Elisa Kozasa, Sara Lazar

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Dancing Compassion: Using Dance to Cultivate Personal and Social Awareness in the Classroom
Judy Austin
Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy | Education


Varela Grant
What is it about yoga? Isolating the effect of structured movement sequences on cognition, interoception, and stress markers
Chivon Powers, Laura Schmalzl


Think Tanks
Interoception and Contemplative Practice
Catherine Kerr, Norman Farb, Wendy Hasenkamp
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Effects of yogic breathing on sleep and well-being in college students: Exploration of psychophysiological mechanisms
Michael Goldstein
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Differential effects of mindfulness and yogic breathing on cognitive and emotional processes
Andrea Hayes
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Focused attention versus open monitoring meditation and self-referential brain processing
Rael Baruch Cahn
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Mindfulness training for parents and children
Jessica Tipsord
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness
