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Deborah Eden Tull, the founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation/mindfulness teacher, author, spiritual activist, and sustainability educator. She spent seven years as a monastic at a silent Zen Monastery and has been immersed in sustainable communities for 25 years.

Eden’s teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, non-duality, mindful inquiry, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation. She teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world.

She also facilitates The Work That Reconnects, as created by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy. Eden has been practicing meditation for the past 30 years and teaching for over 20 years.

She is the author of three books, The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution, Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Ourselves, Each Other, and the Planet, and Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown. She lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and offers retreats, workshops, leadership training, and consultations internationally.

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Welcome back to another week of Guided Sound Bath Meditation! This week’s focus is Awakening: igniting the fire within to go forth and prosper. Focus your energy on this and allow the fire the burn. I hope this meditation energizes you. Namaste Friends!

In this episode, Michael takes us on his journey from his first sound memory as a young child to how he ended up creating sound meditation products.

Michael Joly is the founder and CEO of Hear Now Systems Inc, where he designs sound meditation aids. These include the Amazon best-selling n.o.w. Tone Therapy System and Solu: ToneStream Meditation––a new mobile app that uses pure tones instead of voice guidance. He is on a mission to bring peace and healing to the world, through sound––as a heart-based company. 

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Candace Dunaway is the Host of the All Things Relatable podcast. Candace practices daily gratitude and believes that this practice is the key to living a joyful life. Candace sees the world through an optimistic lens and looks for the silver linings, even in the most difficult of times. She believes that life is a collection of simple moments of joy that compound to create a happy life.

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In The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being , Zen teacher Brad Warner untangles the mystery and explains nonduality in plain English. To Warner, this is not just a philosophical problem: nonduality forms the bedrock of Zen ethics, and once we comprehend it, many of the perplexing aspects of Zen suddenly make sense.

Drawing on decades of Zen practice, Warner traces the interlocking relationship between Zen metaphysics and ethics, showing how a true understanding of reality — and the ultimate unity of all things — instills in us a sense of responsibility for the welfare of all beings. When we realize that our feeling of separateness from others is illusory, we have no desire to harm any creature.

He lives in Los Angeles where he is the founder and lead teacher of the Angel City Zen Center. Visit him online at www.hardcorezen.info. 

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Kevin and Niseema welcome Dr. Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D. back to discuss her book, “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love.”
Following up on last week's show, Dr. Shoshanna talks about how everyone says they want to be in love but are addicted to the habit of staying separate. Brenda talks about the practice of  "Zazen," which is simply sitting still, noticing your breath, watching and not reacting to your passing thoughts. Similarly, in love, Brenda teaches us not to react to our passing feelings and emotions of the moment, but to simply commit your spirit to a flowing forward in love.

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In this episode, Lianne shares the unique lens that her policing career gave her. She describes how investigating fatal car accidents frequently reminded her how life can truly change in an instant, which led her to be more present and intentional in her day to day life. Lianne talks about how she was so busy doing all the things that she never slowed down, until one day, she sat down for only15 minutes and it felt so good! The next day, she did the same, and then again the next. She talks about how she ended up coming back to a meditation practice that she once had many years ago. She also shares the benefits that have come from this practice and some tips about how to ease into meditation if you have never tried it before or if you want to get back into it. 

Lianne is a Productivity and Meditation Coach for Moms and Female Entrepreneurs.  For the last 20 years, Lianne has served her community as a Police Officer in the city of Ottawa and in the province of Ontario. She has recently become a certified meditation teacher. Lianne's mission is to encourage people to stop living on autopilot and to be intentional with the time that they have as she knows that life can change in an instant. Through meditation, Lianne helps her clients release overwhelm and return to live in the present moment so that they can create more time to be who they are meant to be. Lianne serves her clients through her “Intentionally Aligned" coaching program where she leads her clients through 6 weeks of time management, stress reduction and mindfulness.

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Candace Dunaway is the Host of the All Things Relatable podcast. Candace practices daily gratitude and believes that this practice is the key to living a joyful life. Candace sees the world through an optimistic lens and looks for the silver linings, even in the most difficult of times. She believes that life is a collection of simple moments of joy that compound to create a happy life.

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Join me for an enlightening discussion about the Intersecting Paths of Zen Mediation and Ashtanga Yoga with Rich Ray. 

Rich has been practicing meditation and yoga for over 20 years. He trained as a resident monk for 4 years at a silent monastery. He taught yoga and meditation at state prisons in California and New Hampshire and started a meditation program at a women’s county jail in Boston, Massachusetts.

Rich is a KPJAYI Level 2 authorized teacher and  co-directs a Mysore yoga program at Down Under Yoga in Brookline, MA and Ashtanga Portland Maine with Kate O’Donnell. He has made a multitude of trips to India for study. He holds 200 hour and 700 hour yoga certificates and a 200 hour Ayurvedic certificate from the Boston School of Ayurveda. A practicing bodyworker for seven years, he was a licensed LMT. Rich dedicates his time guiding people to realize their inherent wholeness and embodied experience of wisdom.

You can find Rich online at ashangaportlandme.com and at richraymeditation.com. You can also follow him on IG at @richrayyoga.

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Debbie talks with Peter Corbett, a retired CEO who moved to Brooklyn from DC, sold his tech company to J. Walter Thompson (part of WPP), and completely changed his life. 

Peter was a young guy in his 20s when Debbie knew him back in DC's tech heyday. He was well known in DC’s tech community as the founder and CEO of iStrategy Labs as well as the convener of popular tech meetups. iStrategy Labs was one of the first digital marketing agencies, known for its creativity in bridging online and offline. The company won lots of awards and grew to have dozens of Fortune 500 clients. But after almost ten years of running the company Peter moved to New York to open an office there. Shortly after, he realized he’d had enough of the CEO life - it wasn’t who he really was. He sold the company for tens of millions of dollars and began living a completely different life. 

Now, at age 39, he is a Zen hospice practitioner volunteering at a hospital in Brooklyn as well as continuing his training. He also mentors entrepreneurs. Together they talk about how he found this new path, how meditation plays a crucial role for him and why he thinks it’s so important to contemplate mortality. This is not a Coronavirus episode, per se. But the virus - and the pain it’s causing for so many people - is hovering in the background. They talk about a bunch of things, including white privilege and what that means to him.

It was a pleasure for Debbie to reconnect with an old friend. 

What was talked about:

• What Peter does now: serving the sick and dying as a Zen hospice volunteer plus advising entrepreneurs
• Moving to NYC to find anonymity
• Realizing he wanted to change his life as he deepened his Zen practice
• His profound realizations around being white and the privilege that gave him
• What a spiritual caregiver does and why he chose that path
• Is the older generation more disposable?
• Coming to terms with your own mortality
• Why you should meditate

Mentioned in episode or useful:

• About Peter 
• iStrategy Labs
• A Founder Moves On (Peter on why he sold his company)
• Peter's newsletter on Zen, Work and Life
• From CEO to Nobody by Peter Corbett (Medium, Dec. 7, 2020)
• New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care where Peter is studying
• Headspace
• Calm
• WeCroak (an app to find happiness by contemplating your death five times a day)

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We cover a lot of ground in this conversation. Nina Thompson talks about the birth, and death, of The Wake Up to Dying Project, which uses the power of story to explore death, dying, and life. Nina shares her perspective on why we tend to avoid the topic of death and how, in doing so, we're actually doing ourselves a disservice. Nina talks about the now thriving Death Positive Movement and how this is changing the way we talk about death. 

Nina and I share how death has touched and changed us. We also talk about some of our personal spiritual experiences that have informed the way we view death - Nina from the perspective of a Zen Buddhist practitioner and me, through the lens of my shamanic visionary experiences. Get your swimming trunks on!