Latest Episodes
December 27, 2021
Creating Safe(r) Spaces for Mindfulness of Breath: Non-White Western Practitioners’ Experiences of Race, Racism and Whiteness in American Mindfulness
In Vipassana meditation practice, the first common object is the breath. By allowing the breath to be the focus of your awareness, one lets...
00:26:48
December 20, 2021
Susannah Deane on "Tibetan Notions of Wind in Mental Health and Illness"
This presentation explores how Tibetan Buddhist and medical notions of the relationship between heart, wind and mind come together to explain the (dys)functioning of...
00:18:53
December 13, 2021
Geoffrey Samuel on "Wind and Breath in Tibetan Thought"
Breath and wind concepts are widespread in Asia, and the Tibetans inherited both Yogic and Tantric prāṇa and Ayurvedic vāta, both translated into Tibetan...
00:30:49
December 06, 2021
Anne Klein on "Breath: In the Body and Beyond"
Anne Klein starts with a few phenomenological reflections on how easeful attention to breath resolves structures that constrict our experience of being. What does...
00:19:37
November 29, 2021
Thomas Patton on "Buddhist Wizards, Breath Meditation, and Superpowers"
Preached by the Buddha, prescribed by psychologists, and practiced by people from all faiths and walks of life, breath meditation is one of the...
00:11:20
November 22, 2021
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko on "Windhorse, Smog, and the Stagnation of Vital Energies"
This presentation will describe how urban Mongolians navigate the capital city Ulaanbaatar’s chronic air pollution in relation to breath, clarity, bodily winds and purification....
00:19:54