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In order to be giving, we need to be nourished. This week, Andres Gonzalez shares a practice about learning to check in with yourself and to do so with love. Andres is cofounder of the Holistic Life Foundation. For twenty years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations, including Baltimore City Public School, drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, wellness centers, colleges, private schools, and other venues throughout the nation. He is also one of this year's teachers in our Mindful30 meditation challenge. Andres will be guiding practices based on easing stress with intentional breathing. If you want to know more about Mindful30, we’ll link to it in the show notes for this episode.

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Find more from Andres Gonzalez here:

Holistic Life Foundation

Meditate with Andres in the Mindful30: a 30-Day Meditation Challenge

Andres on mindful.org

And more from Mindful here:

The August 2022 issue of Mindful magazine: The Happiness Issue

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The Real Mindful Podcast

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This week, Rose Felix Cratsley offers a meditation to honor equity by uplifting and celebrating the power of pausing together. In this mindfulness framework, each letter of the word BREATH serves to remind us of our responsibility to ourselves and to others to honor and promote equity. So she invites us to breathe, renew, exercise equity, activate and advocate, trust the power, and heal.

Rose Felix Cratsley is the founder and president of Ivy Child International, a nonprofit that develops global mental health initiatives for children, families, and communities. She is also featured in our annual list of powerful women in the mindfulness movement. You can find that feature in the August issue of Mindful Magazine later this month.

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Ivy Child International 

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The Real Mindful Podcast

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Frank Ostaseski is a well-known and much-loved teacher of meditation, mindfulness, and compassionate service. In the past two years, he’s suffered five strokes that affected his brain’s capacity and as many aspects of daily life became more difficult, Frank found strength and refuge in love, compassion, and curiosity. He also found his practice still very much alive through the whole experience—and his ability to communicate the nuance of what we discover when we welcome everything remains intact. In this remarkable conversation between old friends, Frank shares some of what he learned and leaned on with our founding editor Barry Boyce. We’ll bring you this conversation in two parts over the next two episodes of Real Mindful.

Show Notes

Find more from Frank Ostaseski here:

The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

Zen Hospice Project

A 12-Minute Meditation to Welcome Everything

“Lean Into Love” from the February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine

And more from Mindful here:

February issue of Mindful magazine: Welcome Everything

More Real Mindful podcast episodes

The 12 Minute Meditation practice podcast

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In this unique episode of Real Mindful, we’re looking back at some of the memorable moments at Mindful in 2021. Mindful managing editor Stephanie Domet sits down with members of the editorial and design team to discuss what stood out to them in the world of mindfulness over the past year. You’ll also hear all about how the folks at Mindful like to rest, a few things they’re grateful for, and the importance of taking the time to notice the small moments of beauty all around us. 

Show notes:

Powerful women of mindfulness, 2021: 10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2021

Powerful women of mindfulness, 2020: 12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2020

Powerful women of mindfulness, 2019: 12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement

Read The Importance of Noticing Small Moments of Beauty: The Importance of Noticing Small Moments of Beauty

Read How I Stopped Terrorizing Myself: How I Stopped Terrorizing Myself

Read Healing in the Deep Ocean of Grief: Healing in the Deep Ocean of Grief

Read Gentle Men: The Healing Power of Vulnerability: Gentle Men: The Healing Power of Vulnerability

Ruth King Real Mindful Episode: Ruth King on Planting Seeds for the Future - Mindful 

Enjoy our Mindful Gratitude Journal with a discount applied at checkout here: www.mindful.org/journal 

Edward M. Adams and Ed Frauenheim Real Mindful Episode: Liberating Masculinity With Edward M. Adams and Ed Frauenheim

Read the lastest Top of Mind section: How Naming Can Empower Patients, and Other Mindful News

Rashid Hughes R.E.S.T practice: R.E.S.T.—A Guided Practice for the Tired and Weary

Imagine a retreat where you don’t talk, partake in some labor, and your dad expects you to come out of the whole experience as an altered and evolved version of yourself. The character Fleabag, in the half an hour dramedy Fleabag, experiences just that. 

Barry and Stephanie consider this one-and-done approach to mindfulness and engage with the telling hilarity found in the episode. 

They both agree there’s a lot of creepy and crappy teachings of mindfulness, Fleabag’s retreat and some real-life retreats are some of them. 

After they dive into the show’s revealing satire, Barry and Stephanie reflect on the uncertainty of the pandemic we’re all living in and our interconnectedness along with a few references to violinists and expressions of our new universal love language: wash your hands. 

Show notes:

Fleabag Season, 1 Episode 4

Violinist Fritz Kreisler

Not to be confused with Fritz Crisler, American football coach

Violinist Itzhak Perlman is not a cellist