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Practice You with Elena Brower

Content and conversations for times of transition and change. Join me in discussion with renowned luminaries and dear friends to explore life's myriad transitions, our understandings and our responses. What does it mean to be present, to shift our perceptions, to engage with the world meaningfully, with dignity and care? With respect for the ancient practices and the modern wisdom that continue to inform and elevate our exchanges, each episode is an invitation to Practice You.
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Now displaying: August, 2024
Episode 198: Paula Arai 0
Aug 31, 2024

On activating compassion through our simplest offerings of forgiveness, care, gratitude and respect.

  • (0:30) - Japanese rituals for beauty, harmony, and love.
  • (10:00) - Cleaning and its connection to healing and mindfulness.
  • (16:36) - Organizing and decluttering, with a focus on the importance of forgiveness and creating more space in life.
  • (24:49) - Healing, self-care, and relationships.
  • (31:48) - Buddhist teachings, suffering, and healing through interconnectedness and self-reflection.

Paula Ara was raised in Detroit by a Japanese mother, and did Zen training in Japan. She obtained her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University in 1993 and is now the Eshinni & Kakushinni Professor of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals, Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra. Her work has been a tremendous force in my own spiritual formation.

Episode 197: Alicia Mathlin 0
Aug 17, 2024
On the duality of resilience, the vitality in softening, the shifting landscape within a diagnosis and finding deep, lasting peace.

(5:32) - Cancer treatment, body connection, and self-love. 
(11:35) - Resilience, grief, and legacy after cancer diagnosis. 
(18:07) - Starting a foundation and creating a membership community for personal growth.
(24:59) - Spirituality, self-forgiveness, and patience with a guest speaker. 

Alicia Mathlin is the founder of Meditation Pusher, a unique meditation, mindfulness and mindset training company. Alicia has been teaching dynamic teams, professional athletes, entertainers and young people for almost a decade. She teaches in a warm, funny and relatable manner. Alicia is also a yoga teacher, holistic nutritionist and the founder of Theine Foundation. Her background is in international business (London, Paris), and her favourite food is a proper pain au chocolat.
  
The Practice is a membership community rooted in friendship, not mentorship. It is a quiet and elegant place online created to help you access your peace, activate your power, and unlock your potential on your own terms and in your own time. https://www.meditationpusher.com/thepractice
Episode 196: Cory Allen 0
Aug 3, 2024

On steady practices of self-awareness to redefine yourself as often as you wish, and trusting yourself in any situation to make strong choices that serve.

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