At a time of deep polarization and heightened conflict around the world, MindBody Studies Managing Editor LeTonia Jones and Kimberly Loh, co-author of Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart engage in a deeply felt conversation about both the necessity of embodiment an...

The ability to tolerate opposites in human experience is considered to be an important if not the most important qualification for personal and spiritual development as all other qualifications can be seen as difficult to achieve without this capacity, called affect tolerance in psychology and ti...

The power of yogic pranayama, or breath practices, expands exponentially when we appreciate the significance of the breath as it has been venerated in world wisdom traditions. Learning to regard this substrate of consciousness as sacred sanctifies all perceptions, imbuing ordinary experiences wit...

In part 1 of this series of Sādhaka on 4 Expressions of the Divine Feminine, Laura Amazzone explores the goddess Sarasvati. She begins by discussing why all four goddesses she teaches about in this series can be seen as different expressions of śakti, the creative power that animates all of exist...

In this talk Dr. Syedullah sits with the archives of Black feminist practices of abolitionist homemaking, caretaking, and truancy in order to imagine freedom beyond the juridical binary of citizen versus captive. Dr. Syedullah will consider what Black fugitive orientations to freedom are born of ...

This seminar will review polyvagal theory and its convergence with yoga therapy both in reference to a therapeutic framework and specific application. The seminar will be both didactic and experiential followed by time for a Q and A. The discussion will focus on the relationship of the neural pla...

In this interview, MindBody Studies Director Dr. Chris Walling, and MBT Editor Letonia Jones, MSW discuss the scholarship and interventional works of Dr. Tobin Shear and his colleague Dr. Regina Shands Stoltzfus as they outline their powerful course coming soon to Embodied Philosophy's Wisdom Sch...

Explore yoga postures as a basis for mind training, and notice ways in which the neural symmetry of hatha yoga provides a springboard for the non-dual experience known as samadhi. The heightened interoceptive awareness of the postures initiates introversion or “pratyahara,” automatically compell...

A spiritual masterpiece of unparalleled profundity, The Tibetan Book of the Dead is as applicable today as it was a thousand years ago. While it was written as a guidebook for death, it is equally The Tibetan Book of Life. Studying The Book ironically brings you more fully into life, and gives bi...

Perhaps because Western culture is so identified with cognition, it seems surprising to learn that trauma therapy need not be led by the recall of past traumas or the body sensations associated with that recall. The focus on regulation and the “window of tolerance” has begun a different focus — b...

MindBody Studies Managing Editor, LeTonia Jones, interviews neurologist and Ayurvedic practitioner Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary about the Ayurvedic practice of sound medicine. During this interview, Dr. Chaudhary discusses the paradox that occurs when mind and body are defined as separate entities. She ...

In this seminar, we will learn about the origins of the Lalitā Sahasranāma, its place in the Śrīvidyā tradition, and a broad understanding of its philosophy. In addition, we will learn selected verses from the hymn along with a meditative verse that describes the iconography of Lalitā Devī. We wi...

Babies arrive in this world eager and expectant to form relationships, expressing their eagerness through their gaze, facial expressions, voice, and movements. In adult life, this eagerness remains implicitly alive in our bodies. Considering that the greater portion of early communication is nonv...