{"id":18169,"date":"2025-03-11T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2025-03-11T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:24:37","slug":"10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/?prompt=Visit%20this%20URL%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mindful.org%2F10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025%2F%3Frand%3D15311%20and%20summarize%20the%20content%20of%20this%20article%20titled%20%2210%20Powerful%20Women%20of%20the%20Mindfulness%20Movement%3A%202025%22%20for%20me%20in%20arabic%20and%20english\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #ffffff;text-decoration: none;font-size: 15px;background-color: #10a37f;padding: 12px 16px;margin: 0 0 16px 0;text-align: center;font-weight: bold; width: 100%; border-radius: 12px; display: block\">Summarize \u2728 \u062a\u0644\u062e\u064a\u0635<\/a><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The women platformed here show us what\u2019s possible when we honor ourselves and honor each other. In this fifth installment of our feature shining a light on powerful women\u2014nominated by their peers\u2014who are leading the mindfulness movement, a common thread ties each of their stories: the strength to live with open eyes and an open heart, even when it would be easier to shut down and tune out. They exemplify the courage to listen deeply, to be fully present with themselves and the world around them, to welcome the moment and work with it. They\u2019ve each shaped unique practices that nourish their growth and calling. And in sharing their stories, they bolster us with inspiration so that each of us may, in our own way, do the same.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"cursor:pointer\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Embrace_Whats_Broken\" >Embrace What\u2019s Broken<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Brenda_K_Mitchell\" >Brenda K. Mitchell<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Center_Love_and_Liberation\" >Center Love and Liberation<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Shelly_Harrell\" >Shelly Harrell<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Meet_It_With_Love\" >Meet It With Love<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Caverly_Morgan\" >Caverly Morgan<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Celebrate_Who_You_Are\" >Celebrate Who You Are<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Sue_Hutton\" >Sue Hutton<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Find_Your_Strength\" >Find Your Strength<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Melli_OBrien\" >Melli O\u2019Brien<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Come_Home_to_the_Body\" >Come Home to the Body<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#S_Helen_Ma\" >S. Helen Ma<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Create_New_Paths\" >Create New Paths<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Nanea_Reeves\" >Nanea Reeves<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Hold_It_Lightly\" >Hold It Lightly<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-16\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Vidyamala_Burch\" >Vidyamala Burch<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-17\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Keep_Your_Heart_Open\" >Keep Your Heart Open<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-18\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Shalini_Bahl\" >Shalini Bahl<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-19\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Tell_a_New_Story\" >Tell a New Story<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-20\" href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/10-powerful-women-of-the-mindfulness-movement-2025\/#Yuria_Celidwen\" >Yuria Celidwen<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-embrace-what-s-broken\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Embrace_Whats_Broken\"><\/span>Embrace What\u2019s Broken<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-brenda-k-mitchell\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brenda_K_Mitchell\"><\/span>Brenda K. Mitchell<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Pastor, Activist, Teacher<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All her adult life, Brenda K. Mitchell has rightly been known as a strong tower in her community: driven, politically active, rising up in her career. As a pastor, she cares deeply for others and gets things done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When her 31-year-old son Kenneth was killed by gun violence in 2005, leaving behind two young sons with another on the way, Brenda tried to keep being that strong tower. She had grandsons to care for and people who needed her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t understand then how trauma affects both mind and body. Grief took an immense toll, and her doctor told her she needed to stop everything. \u201cAs strong as I\u2019ve always been,\u201d she says, \u201cI had to stop and embrace my brokenness so that I could finally start to heal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAs strong as I\u2019ve always been, I had to stop and embrace my brokenness so that I could finally start to heal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pastor Mitchell took her doctor\u2019s advice and rested. At a grief group, she was asked to try a mindfulness retreat with other survivors of gun violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the retreat, she discovered the \u201cpower of the pause\u201d and how to be fully with herself and others in the present moment. She saw there were still pieces of herself left unattended, even in the midst of good healing work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The compassion of mindfulness allowed her to make herself the priority in her healing process, to fully own all grief\u2019s scattered pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She committed herself to practice and leadership in mindfulness spaces, especially to help other survivors of trauma and violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, she incorporates mindfulness into all she does\u2014as a leader, pastor, activist, and facilitator. \u201cI realized how important this is to me, to work in communities of color and in the faith community,\u201d she says. \u201cYes, you have God. Yes, you have therapy. But there still might be a need for deeper healing. We have to utilize all our resources, because trauma is real.\u201d \u2013 SM<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-center-love-and-liberation\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Center_Love_and_Liberation\"><\/span>Center Love and Liberation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648776\" style=\"width:439px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-1534x1536.jpg 1534w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-2046x2048.jpg 2046w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shelly-Harrell-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-shelly-harrell\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shelly_Harrell\"><\/span>Shelly Harrell<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Psychologist, Mindfulness Teacher, Founder of the Soulfulness Center<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Motown was the soundtrack of Shelly Harrell\u2019s childhood in the \u201960s in Detroit. Earth, Wind &amp; Fire\u2019s <em>That\u2019s the Way of the World<\/em> and Stevie Wonder\u2019s <em>Songs in the Key of Life<\/em> played on repeat. \u201cIn those songs, compassion is so central, care for humanity is so central,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>She credits music as her first ever mindfulness teacher, dance as her first form of meditation, \u201ca place I could come home to.\u201d When she was a teenager, her father passed away and \u201call I could think to do was dance,\u201d she says. \u201cI started to trust coming back to my body and coming into presence with my inner life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, Harrell\u2019s personal and professional growth are guided in part by seeking wisdom about mental health and healing beyond Eurocentric frameworks. \u201cStillness and silence are beautiful, but those aren\u2019t the only paths to mindful presence,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cStillness and silence are beautiful, but those aren\u2019t the only paths to mindful presence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the early 2000s she recognized a gap between Black Americans and the mindfulness community, caused not only by mostly white representation in mindfulness spaces, but also by the undercurrent of detachment that lies beneath attempts to attain individual calm and happiness. \u201cFor collectivist, communal, interconnected-worldview cultures, a message of detachment just doesn\u2019t call,\u201d she says. So she founded The Soulfulness Center where the focus is \u201clove and liberation\u2026centering connection and reconnection to what has been lost, stolen, forgotten,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMindfulness is about return, return to breath, return to that anchor again and again.\u201d Harrell often refers to an African proverb, associated with the West African Adinkra symbol called Sankofa, meaning \u201cto return and get it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this temporal interconnectedness that we\u2019re invited into with past, present, and future ancestors and living descendants, to connect with that continuity of where we come from, where we are, and where we\u2019re going,\u201d she says. \u201cFor me it\u2019s this bigger worldview, the wisdom of a collective, that centers interconnectedness as an ethic. And when we start there, what does that mean for how we live?\u201d \u2013 AWC<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-meet-it-with-love\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Meet_It_With_Love\"><\/span>Meet It With Love<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"934\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Caverly-Morgan_Final-Retouched-59-1-934x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648801\" style=\"width:439px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Caverly-Morgan_Final-Retouched-59-1-934x1024.jpg 934w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Caverly-Morgan_Final-Retouched-59-1-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Caverly-Morgan_Final-Retouched-59-1-768x842.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Caverly-Morgan_Final-Retouched-59-1-1401x1536.jpg 1401w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Caverly-Morgan_Final-Retouched-59-1-1867x2048.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-caverly-morgan\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Caverly_Morgan\"><\/span>Caverly Morgan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Founder of Peace in Schools, Teacher, Author<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before Caverly Morgan found mindfulness, she had no idea that she had any negative self-talk at all. On her first retreat, she thought the people who were talking about this were a little loopy. \u201cTo me, it wasn\u2019t negative self-talk. These were just facts about myself. So there was this voice that was always driving the car, and I didn\u2019t even know it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her mindfulness practice started as a way to learn how to be in a different kind of relationship to this voice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once we realize the presence of that Inner Critic, she says, we\u2019re conditioned to make the logical leap that there\u2019s something we have to fix. We have to overcome the voice, learn more practices, and build more skills so we can get better at being compassionate. Then our lives will feel happier and more complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When we approach compassion with that energy of self-improvement, though, we just turn it into something else that we can get good at or fail at. We stay stuck in the mental ruts of good enough\/not good enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhen we approach compassion with that energy of self-improvement, we stay stuck in the mental ruts of good enough\/not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Morgan offers gentle guidance for how to rewire these mental patterns. When the Inner Critic shows up, we don\u2019t have to defeat it. We can greet it and meet it with a practice that\u2019s steeped in unconditional reassurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unconditional reassurances aren\u2019t just saying the opposite of the Inner Critic by offering false positivity. They\u2019re anchored in the truth, regardless of what\u2019s happening or how we feel about it. So when we\u2019re struggling with a sense of failure, the practice isn\u2019t to say, You\u2019re amazing and super-successful! It\u2019s Whether you succeed or you don\u2019t, I love you no matter what.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our mindfulness practice, then, isn\u2019t a tool we wield to change what we don\u2019t like about ourselves. Rather, it\u2019s like a life preserver we hold onto when we\u2019re flailing, until we feel safe enough to simply float again in the vast ocean of love. Our practice helps us return to presence, and the more we return to presence, the more we sense the reality that compassion is already in and around us\u2014that compassion is actually a natural byproduct of who we authentically are. We don\u2019t have to make more of it for ourselves or other people; we just need to sit still long enough to allow it to naturally emerge. \u2013 SM<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-celebrate-who-you-are\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Celebrate_Who_You_Are\"><\/span>Celebrate Who You Are<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Sue-Hutton-full-Rabbat-Photography-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648777\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:439px;height:585px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Sue-Hutton-full-Rabbat-Photography-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Sue-Hutton-full-Rabbat-Photography-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Sue-Hutton-full-Rabbat-Photography-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Sue-Hutton-full-Rabbat-Photography-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Sue-Hutton-full-Rabbat-Photography-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sue-hutton\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sue_Hutton\"><\/span>Sue Hutton<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Social Worker, Mindfulness Teacher, Disability Rights Advocate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sue Hutton has been working with neurodevelopmentally disabled adults, as well as their families and caregivers, since her 20s\u2014and practicing mindfulness for even longer. These communities offer a beautiful place to practice, she says. \u201cI love celebrating our differences and getting to know people\u2019s individual ways of being and helping celebrate who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compassion has always motivated her. As a child, her mother\u2019s suicide attempts awakened her desire to help ease suffering. \u201cMy experiences of being an outsider or alienated rested within me and really strengthened my interest in validating other people and never wanting anyone to feel like an outsider.\u201d At the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre in Toronto, Hutton works alongside paid autistic advisers to develop and adapt mindfulness curriculums for neurodivergent communities and caregivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in her career, Hutton specialized in providing disability rights education to disabled adults and their families. And because there is also neurodiversity in her own family, she says, \u201cWeaving access to justice and accessibility rights into my mindfulness practice was a natural fit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI love celebrating our differences and getting to know people\u2019s individual ways of being and helping celebrate who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although conversations around disability and neurodiversity have become more common, including in the mindfulness sphere, meaningful change lags behind. She says she often witnesses tokenistic actions that result in even more exclusion, instead of a genuine commitment to the work of inclusion and accessibility rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alongside systemic change, Hutton also believes in the power of self-compassion. She notes that with standardized meditation instruction, it is assumed that we all experience the practice in more or less the same way, so self-compassion is particularly important for neurodivergent meditators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single person who sits down to meditate is doing so through the fabric of their wiring and their brain structure,\u201d she says. \u201cFor me, it is so important to know that each person is going to have their very unique and individualized way of experiencing mindfulness, and to honor and accept that, hey, we all do this differently.\u201d \u2013 AT<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-find-your-strength\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Find_Your_Strength\"><\/span>Find Your Strength<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Mellie-OBrien10397-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648778\" style=\"width:675px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Mellie-OBrien10397-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Mellie-OBrien10397-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Mellie-OBrien10397-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Mellie-OBrien10397-1536x995.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Mellie-OBrien10397-2048x1326.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-melli-o-brien\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Melli_OBrien\"><\/span>Melli O\u2019Brien<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Mindfulness Educator, Entrepreneur, Mental Health Coach<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, Melli O\u2019Brien went to her public school library and pulled every book she could find on mental health and happiness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time, her days were defined by deep <a href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/understanding-depression-symptoms-types-causes-diagnosis-and-treatment\/\">depression<\/a> and an eating disorder fueled by a belief that she wasn\u2019t enough. Meanwhile, the Iraq war raged on and she struggled to make sense of world leaders taking actions that harmed so many. She saw only two paths ahead: One would lead to taking her own life and the other would mean trying to heal, build inner strength, and maybe be part of the change she wanted to see in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I believed all those voices and if I didn\u2019t transform them, I don\u2019t think I would have been able to help so many people,\u201d she says today. \u201cThat\u2019s a really good reason to unlock your own gifts, so that you can share them with the world and do your own little thing, no matter what it is, to make other people\u2019s lives a bit better too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her study of happiness led to two lessons that changed her life: that inner strength is a skill you can build, and that mindfulness is one way to cultivate it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a really good reason to unlock your own gifts, so that you can share them with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWithin a couple sessions of mindfulness training I had the experience of understanding I\u2019m not my mind, I\u2019m not my thoughts, I can get space\u2026 I got a taste of freedom,\u201d she says. \u201cI fell in love with the practice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien spent years nurturing her practice, which helped her heal and led her to become a mindfulness teacher. In 2015, she cofounded The Mindfulness Summit, which raised $500,000 for mental health charities around the world and led to her cofounding the popular app Mindfulness.com in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then she burned out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of adversity coming my way in one go really had me on my metaphorical knees,\u201d she says. Around this time, the World Health Organization named a world mental health crisis, which she saw reflected not only in herself, but her clients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to get really still inside and really think about who I want to be now, how I want to serve now, how I want to live now,\u201d she says. And the result was The Deep Resilience Method, and her forthcoming book by the same name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this book and this method are like a love letter to myself. It\u2019s the answer to my own question of What do I need? And what I need is hopefully going to be what really serves other people when they want to show up in these crazy times we\u2019re living in and be able to make positive change,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest obstacles that I\u2019ve observed is people feeling like there\u2019s no point, and it\u2019s practices like recognizing your own strength that would help you get there.\u201d \u2013 AWC<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-come-home-to-the-body\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Come_Home_to_the_Body\"><\/span>Come Home to the Body<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648779\" style=\"width:439px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/shuk-wah-helen-ma.jpg 1454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-s-helen-ma\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"S_Helen_Ma\"><\/span>S. Helen Ma<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Clinical Psychologist, Mindfulness Researcher, Teacher Trainer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1998, S. Helen Ma traveled from Hong Kong to the US for mindfulness training with Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. She told him, \u201cI know mindfulness helps, but I want to know how it helps.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Ma had spent much of her career working in Hong Kong and Australia hospitals with people experiencing clinical <a href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/understanding-depression-symptoms-types-causes-diagnosis-and-treatment\/\">depression<\/a>. While she saw healing, she also saw relapse. Empathy and compassion fatigue threatened to take over\u2014until a colleague introduced her to mindfulness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor psychology we would be very interested in people\u2019s stories\u2014what\u2019s happened before now,\u201d she says. But in mindfulness, \u201cYou don\u2019t need to be concerned about the stories at all\u2026 Everything comes and everything goes. It\u2019s so liberating.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She learned she could say to herself, It\u2019s just a thought that I\u2019m not helping people, it\u2019s just a thought that the suffering will go on forever. Instead, in this moment, what is happening?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEverything comes and everything goes. It\u2019s so liberating.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kabat-Zinn connected Ma with John Teasdale, a leading Oxford researcher, and together they conducted one of the first studies on mindfulness for clinical <a href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/understanding-depression-symptoms-types-causes-diagnosis-and-treatment\/\">depression<\/a> relapse. The study showed mindfulness is a viable intervention in clinical settings, revolutionizing the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lately, though, she\u2019s taken a step back from her career in researching and educating about mindfulness to be a full-time caregiver to her husband, who has dementia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m forever grateful for the practice,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s still attachment, there\u2019s still aversion, there\u2019s still joy, there\u2019s still sorrow, and sometimes the narrative is so thick\u2026 But I can recognize, right now my heart is hurting. So can I allow my heart to open up, to fill with sorrow, to feel the grief? Let me see how long it will last and when it will fade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult now in this very fast-paced and electronic age, but if we can just allow for a moment of stillness and coming back to the body and sensing how the body is tensing up\u2026 There\u2019s so much wisdom that starts with being mindful of the body,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s coming home, you know. If everyone in the world could come home, it would be a different world.\u201d \u2013 AWC<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-create-new-paths\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Create_New_Paths\"><\/span>Create New Paths<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Nanea-Reeves-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648780\" style=\"width:439px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Nanea-Reeves-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Nanea-Reeves-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Nanea-Reeves-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Nanea-Reeves-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Nanea-Reeves-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nanea-reeves\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nanea_Reeves\"><\/span>Nanea Reeves<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Founder and CEO of TRIPP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nanea Reeves learned to meditate, she says, before mindfulness \u201cwas even a thing.\u201d Her mother struggled with mental illness and <a href=\"https:\/\/theprivateclinic.me\/en\/posts\/mental-health\/understanding-addiction-symptoms-types-causes-diagnosis-and-treatment\/\">addiction<\/a>, and 15-year-old Nanea (whose name is Hawaiian for peacefulness and serenity) found herself in hospital, experiencing a crisis. A hospital therapist taught her a breathing technique to connect to the present moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it was one of the greatest gifts I\u2019ve ever been given,\u201d she says. After her younger sister, Vicki, died from a drug overdose, Reeves deepened her commitment to helping others access the healing tools meditation can offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a real practice for me to learn how to open up my heart more. And now, to be able to put it into work is an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A vision began to take shape while she was working in the video game industry. Today her award-winning company, TRIPP, offers virtual reality- and AI-powered guided meditations. \u201cThere are many paths up the mountain,\u201d Reeves says. \u201cIf we can give people the experience of having present-moment awareness through this method, can it help them translate that into the physical world as well?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The TRIPP app\u2019s AI guide, K\u014dkua\u2014a Hawaiian word for support and selfless giving\u2014generates guided meditations tailored to a meditator\u2019s mood, and adjusts with their feedback. While not meant to replace human support, Reeves describes it as \u201cthat compassionate voice that you can connect to at two in the morning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a kid who had to deal with a lot of violence in the home, I tended to really close off my heart, because it had been hurt so much,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s been a real practice for me to learn how to open up my heart more. And now, to be able to put it into work is an honor.\u201d \u2013 AT<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hold-it-lightly\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hold_It_Lightly\"><\/span>Hold It Lightly<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/DSC00531-684x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648781\" style=\"width:439px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/DSC00531-684x1024.jpeg 684w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/DSC00531-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/DSC00531-768x1150.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/DSC00531-1026x1536.jpeg 1026w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/DSC00531-1368x2048.jpeg 1368w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/DSC00531-scaled.jpeg 1710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-vidyamala-burch\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Vidyamala_Burch\"><\/span>Vidyamala Burch<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Mindfulness Teacher, Writer, Founder of Breathworks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After 50 years of living with chronic pain and 40 years of meditation, Vidyamala Burch says, \u201cI laugh much, much more than I used to.\u201d She smiles. \u201cI love telling people that because it\u2019s so surprising.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think one of the fruits of long-term practice is an ability to hold life lightly. Take it seriously, because it is a very serious business, but hold it lightly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Burch is the founder of Breathworks, a charity based in the UK that teaches people living with chronic pain, illness, and stress how to live a fuller life with the help of mindfulness. Her approach comes from her own lived experience of pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a child, she lived an active, outdoorsy life in New Zealand and dreamed of becoming a wildlife officer. But that all changed when her spine was fractured, once at the age of 16 and again at 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t really be mindful without being loving, and can\u2019t really be loving without being mindful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lying alone in an intensive care unit after the second accident, faced with intolerable pain, she didn\u2019t know how she would make it to morning. Then she realized that all she had to do was make it through one moment, then one more, and in this way she made it to dawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs human beings, we\u2019ve always got two options. One is to turn away from suffering, and the other is to acknowledge it and see if we can keep our hearts open,\u201d she says. \u201cI always say to people at Breathworks, \u2018You\u2019re heroes because you\u2019re willing to look at your mind and you\u2019re willing to be in your body.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Breathworks, they teach people how to embody a middle way between denial and overwhelm, first with their own pain but also with global issues. \u201cIf we had billions of humans who were able to be with whatever\u2019s happening with an open heart and not tipping into either denial or overwhelm, we might have a species that was quite well-equipped to deal with the challenges of our age.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust keep practicing. This is what the world needs. This is what we need as individuals,\u201d she says. \u201cYou can\u2019t really be mindful without being loving, and can\u2019t really be loving without being mindful.\u201d \u2013 AWC<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-keep-your-heart-open\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Keep_Your_Heart_Open\"><\/span>Keep Your Heart Open<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Shalini-Bahl-4-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648783\" style=\"width:439px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-shalini-bahl\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shalini_Bahl\"><\/span>Shalini Bahl<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Mindfulness Teacher, Researcher, Consultant, Author<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shalini Bahl feels that trees were her first mindfulness teachers. Years ago, after getting divorced and then moving with her son from India to Amherst, Massachusetts\u2014leaving behind family, friends, and culture\u2014she would sit among the trees, \u201ccontemplating my life,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019d have all these questions: Why me? What happened? Then I would get this sense or thought in my mind: Just breathe first, and you will get the answers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This reflective experience sparked her mindfulness journey, and she pursued training with luminaries including Jon Kabat-Zinn and Mirabai Bush. In her academic career, she began sharing the practice with her marketing students. Eventually she redirected her full-time work toward mindfulness, not only teaching, but offering organizational consulting as well as leading research on beneficial ways to be mindful in marketing and business. \u201cWhat I\u2019m really interested in is using these mindfulness skills for real-world change, to create a better world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds simple, it\u2019s not. While serving as an Amherst town councilor, Bahl realized that the qualities she\u2019d been honing in meditation\u2014compassion, equanimity, curiosity\u2014weren\u2019t always translating to the way she was showing up. So she developed a framework for acting and living mindfully in everyday life, using eight habits rooted in foundational contemplative teachings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe important thing is that we keep our hearts open, and we continue to keep our eyes open and see each other along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This framework forms the basis of her book <em>Return to Mindfulness<\/em>, published in January 2024. Its reminders, she says, \u201callow us to take a breath, to step back: Am I acting from a place of reaction, default bias, unconscious bias? Or is it from a place of spaciousness, ease, and clarity?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also noticed how cultivating openness and clarity can lead us to deeper compassion. One day, she was talking with an unhoused man on the sidewalk, and a passerby gave the man a bag with two croissants. Immediately, he offered one to Bahl. This act of selfless generosity moved her deeply. \u201cI had judged him as someone who was there on the street, who needs my help.\u201d They became friends, enriching her understanding of shared humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time, she set an intention: \u201cFor now, I\u2019m going to show up for him and stay open. Don\u2019t close my heart. And when I can do more, my heart and my eyes will be open to seeing that opportunity.\u201d Later, when she was elected to town council, that intention gave her the courage to speak up in support of shelters for unhoused people and others who needed help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s part of living compassionately, when we don\u2019t know what we can do right away,\u201d she says. \u201cBut the important thing is that we keep our hearts open, and we continue to keep our eyes open and see each other along the way.\u201d \u2013 AT<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tell-a-new-story\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tell_a_New_Story\"><\/span>Tell a New Story<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Yuria-Celidwen-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648784\" style=\"width:632px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Yuria-Celidwen-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Yuria-Celidwen-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Yuria-Celidwen-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Yuria-Celidwen-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/Yuria-Celidwen-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-yuria-celidwen\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Yuria_Celidwen\"><\/span>Yuria Celidwen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Scholar, Researcher, Teacher, Indigenous Nahua and Maya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Yuria Celidwen talks about contemplative practice, she\u2019s describing something much more expansive than solely what\u2019s going on in the mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the Mesoamerican tradition specifically, but generally in many Indigenous practices, it\u2019s also about the emotional state, the heart that is involved with the body that informs the mind processes that end up revealing\u2026that animating principle of life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a child, she already possessed this rich awareness of complexity. From her parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, she says, \u201cI learned a lot about how to really be with the landscape, be part of the landscape of a larger community.\u201d Then, starting in elementary school, she faced racist discrimination. Inhabiting these conflicting worlds led her to the study of identity, consciousness, and cultural narratives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, a growing range of Indigenous perspectives is found within contemplative studies; when Celidwen entered the field 15 or 20 years ago, there was no such representation. \u201cI was the one to push for Indigenous wisdoms to be part of this field, and to also look at them as sophisticated systems of transforming our sense of identity and cultural identity, examining those identities, and then creating social and environmental transformation for well-being,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHow do we learn to listen to the world? To the whole living, beautiful mother planet that we inhabit?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mindfulness is often interpreted in the West as a set of tools to benefit primarily the individual self. In the Indigenous epistemologies that she researches and teaches about at the University of California, Berkeley, there\u2019s a vision of \u201ca responsible community, an ethical community,\u201d where there is room for every being to be heard and valued as kin. \u201cHow do we learn to listen to the world? To the whole living, beautiful mother planet that we inhabit?\u201d she asks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These are glimpses into what Celidwen calls the Ethics of Belonging. It\u2019s elucidated in her academic work, as well as explored in her new book, <em>Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being<\/em> (published November 2024).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that humans learn through stories,\u201d she says. 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