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Celeste Young: A New Relationship to Experience

November 7, 2017Podcastanxiety, attention, Buddha, compassion, contented, contentedness, device, Dharma, experience, iPhone, meditation, mindfulness, pain, relationship, relationships, silence, silent, solitude, stillness, stress, suffering, teacher, teaching, technologyDianeMcDaniel

Mindfulness meditation practitioner and Dharma teacher, Celeste Young, talks about her search to lessen her suffering and develop a new relationship to experience, as well as the joy she now feels in sharing what she loves with students who are dealing with anxiety and stress. Celeste also talks about developing a balanced relationship with the technologies that both claim our attention and connect us to community and how being silent and practicing mindfulness can be a doorway into compassion for oneself.

Find information on Celeste’s events, corporate wellness, and individual sessions at celesteyoung.com.

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Brian Wogensen: Learning to Appreciate the Lessons of Experience

July 25, 2017Podcastbreast cancer, c-section, cancer, cesarian section, chemotherapy, child, community, compassion, empathy, experience, family, fear, friends, guilt, husband, innocence, NICU, preemie, pregnancy, pregnant, premature birth, radiation, schizophrenia, son, support, wifeDianeMcDaniel

Brian Wogensen is a high school English teacher and department chair at a private school for girls in Los Angeles. In 2005, his wife, Liz Ganem, was diagnosed with breast cancer, five weeks after learning that she was pregnant. Seven years after the successful completion of treatment—and the healthy birth of their son—Liz was diagnosed with and treated for a new breast cancer.

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Cindy Fraser: Finding Balance in an Imbalanced Situation

May 23, 2017Podcastbalance, cancer, chemotherapy, compassion, daoism, patience, simplicity, taoism, yogaDianeMcDaniel

Receiving a cancer diagnosis and undergoing treatment can quickly put one’s life out of balance. How can one endeavor to find equilibrium while facing extreme fear and trauma, as well as undergoing harsh but potentially life-extending therapies and treatments?

Today I’m speaking with Cindy Fraser, artist, writer, and teacher, who leads a yoga class for people living with cancer and chronic illnesses. Cindy talks about yoga’s usefulness as a tool to help us navigate our lives, in particular when dealing with something as overwhelmingly frightening and traumatic as cancer and its treatment. She also discusses the grounding of her work in the Chinese philosophy of Daoism (Taoism), seeking balance within ebb and flow, and the guiding principles of simplicity, compassion, and patience.

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