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Tricycle Week: How Mindfulness Helps You Handle Toxic People and Protect Your Peace
Welcome to Zen Commuter and day three of Tricycle Week! Today, weāre tackling a challenge that tests even the most mindful among usādealing with toxic people. Whether itās a difficult coworker, a critical family...
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Tricycle Week: Is Meditation Beneficial for Young Students? Insights from Emma Varvaloucas
Welcome to Zen Commuter and day two of Tricycle Week! Today, we dive into an important question: Is meditation truly beneficial for young students? Across the country, schools have introduced mindfulness programs with...
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Tricycle Week - Listening to Our Ancestors by Thich Nhat Hanh
Welcome to Tricycle Week on Zen Commuter! Iām kicking things off with a reading from Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, featuring Thich Nhat Hanhās insightful article, "Listening to Our Ancestors." In this episode, we...
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Richard Earney - Integrating Spirit for Ultimate Transformation (Part 2)
What if the key to peak performance and lasting well-being was as simple as stillness? In this episode of Ze Commuter, I sit down with Richard Earney, a leading expert in fitness and movement, to explore how...
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Unlocking Peak Performance: Richard Earney on Mindful Movement and Wellness
What if the key to peak performance and lasting well-being was as simple as stillness? In this episode of Ze Commuter, I sit down with Richard Earney, a leading expert in fitness and movement, to explore how...
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How Matt Drago Finds Zen in Acting ā Lessons from Somewhere in Montana
In this episode of Zen Commuter, actor Matt Drago shares how he stays grounded in the unpredictable world of Hollywood. From his experience on Somewhere in Montana to his personal mindfulness practices, Matt reveals...
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Sonal Kalra - Founder of CONNECT Meditation: Helping Students find Clarity and Resilience
Sonal is a certified meditation teacher and the founder of CONNECT Meditation. In her workshops and sessions, she blends ancient Eastern wisdom with modern science to make mindfulness accessible to todayās...
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Catherine Duncan - Author of Everyday Awakening
Catherine is an integrative spiritual consultant, former trauma and hospice chaplain, and first time author of the book Everyday Awakening. In her book as well as her private practice, she counsels people on what it...
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Jeff Patterson: Meditation Instructor and Author of The Yielding Warrior
Jeff Patterson, from Portland, OR, USA, has over 36 years of experience, practicing and teaching the meditative and martial arts. As the founder of Northwest Fighting Arts/Portland Tai Chi Academy and The Yielding...
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Exercises for Becoming a Better Visualizer
Visualizing is an important aspect of meditation, yet some people struggle with how to it. My Insight Timer friend Alberto asked if I could help him with becoming better at it, and to that end, I thought I would...
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Overcoming One of the Greatest Hurdles When Starting to Meditate
Some people fear being alone with their thoughts. those people understand the benefit of calm that a practice brings, the cost for getting there is too great; the cost of being alone with painful, denigrating....
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2087: Humanity's Spiritual Rebirth by Forrest Rivers
The last time we got together we had the joy of hanging out with Forrest Rivers, Author of tHumanityās Spiritual Rebirth. As is customary on ZC, when I interview an author, I like to read an excerpt from their book;...
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