Mindful U at Naropa University
Thoughts and Instruction on Mindfulness in Higher Education
Displaying items 1-10 of 29 in total of Mindful U at Naropa University with the tag "naropa university".
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109. The Journey of a Poet
May 22nd, 2025 | 56 mins 51 secs
ecopoetics, naropa, naropa university, poet, poetry, summer writing program, writing
Born in California on Walt Whitman’s birthday, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, and "a master of mixing genres." She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral lineages.
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96. Barbara Bash: Heaven, Earth and Humanity—What Calligraphy Can Teach Us About Each Moment
May 10th, 2023 | 58 mins 40 secs
art, big brush stroke, buddhist studies, calligraphy, contemplative art, integration, meditation, naropa, naropa university
We are happy to have Spring 2023 Lenz Distinguished Lecturer Barbara Bash join us to discuss her creative journey as a calligraphic artist. In this episode, she discusses everything from Western calligraphy's precision to Big Brushstroke calligraphy's spontaneity and what unites them. She also discusses the three primary principles of contemplative art: Heaven, Earth, and Humanity and how these become gateways that attune you to the aliveness of the moment. After the episode, find more on BarbaraBash.com.
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95. Valeria McCarroll, PhD: Somadelics, Pursuing Life with Psychedelic Support & Intentional Integration
February 27th, 2023 | 49 mins 5 secs
buddhist studies, integration, meditation, naropa, naropa university, phenomena, psychedelic assisted therapy, psychedelic medicine, psychedelics, somatic psychology, therapy, transpersonal psychology, trauma healing
Valeria McCarroll, PhD, joins us to discuss Somadelics, Pursuing Life with Psychedelic Support & Intentional Integration in this thought-provoking episode. Also discussed is being in 'right relationship' with the medicine, trauma responses, honoring the medicine's lineage, and transformational justice. After the episode, find more on ValeriaMcCarroll.com and Somadelics.com.
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91. Netanel Miles-Yepez: Comparative Religion
September 26th, 2022 | 1 hr 21 mins
comparative religion, naropa professors, naropa university, professors, sufism, world wisdoms
World Wisdom's Professor of Naropa University shares his knowledge on Sufiism, developing a deeper understanding of religion, and what connecting to his own religion did to assist his soul path. Tune in to this thought-provoking episode.
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88. Dr. Nicholas Powers: A Future On Psychedelics
August 15th, 2022 | 55 mins 42 secs
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This is a bold, no-holding-back conversation on the future of psychedelics in therapy and beyond. "Last time I sang the national anthem, I was on ecstasy." (Powers, 2018) Nicholas Powers, PhD, is a writer. His no-BS approach to humanitarian literature has caught the eyes of Wall Street Journal, Truth Out, and The Independent. Tune in for a bold conversation on how a future on psychedelics might look.
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86. Tai Amri Poetics: Beautiful Ashe
July 20th, 2022 | 46 mins 56 secs
buddhism, mindfulness, naropa university, on being, restorative community, restorative justice
"I started Allies in Action at Naropa while I was there as a student, and also was the editor of Tendril, which was a journal on diversity. And that really came out of my feelings of like, man it’s really hard being black in Boulder, and being black at Naropa was also very difficult. And — and I was getting triggered all the time, and micro-aggressions, which I didn’t have language for at the time, I just like, I’m not gonna be able to graduate from here if I don’t do something to try to change it. And Allies in Action was really like - how do we address unaddressed privilege and oppression in the school environment? And I feel like B.L.A.C.K Lawrence tries to do a lot of that, as well as how do we create space for black creators in a place where there’s not a lot of us.”
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85. Regina Smith: Visions of a Thriving Mission, Culture & Inclusive Community
July 1st, 2022 | 59 mins 18 secs
anti-racism, buddhism, buddhist school, culture, mindfulness, naropa university, on being, restorative community, restorative justice
Regina Smith, Masters in Contemplative Psychotherapy & Buddhist Psychology from Naropa, has a contemplated what a thriving mission, culture, and inclusivity-driven community could look like. Tune into this episode to get a glimpse of her vision and find out how you can help.
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84. Jamelah & Amanda: Mission, Culture & Inclusive Community at Naropa
June 11th, 2022 | 49 mins 23 secs
anti-racism, buddhism, justice, mindfulness, naropa university, on being, restorative community, restorative justice, transformative justice
Mission, Culture & Inclusive Community is an important development in Naropa's recent history. MCIC was created post murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor - when the push for closer alignment with the University's values and mission was necessary for the conscious evolution of our community. Learn more about this division of Naropa from Jamelah & Amanda in this Mindful U Podcast episode.
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81. Jamie Beachy: Psychedelic Chaplaincy
September 29th, 2021 | 55 mins 33 secs
buddhism, chaplaincy, contemplative studies, naropa university, plant medicine, psychedelic therapy
"When we’re with people who are reviewing the end of their life or saying goodbye to a loved one, there’s this heightened sense of connection and awareness, a lot of times in crisis and sometimes difficulty. Psychedelic journeys can be — not always be easy and expansive, sometimes they’re challenging. And so there's a lot of our training, I think crosses over well into psychedelic therapies. And in particular, chaplains have this capacity to help assess the spiritual and religious landscape for a person before they go into a psychedelic experience. Because what can happen is, you can have a very powerful existential, you know, awareness of like the presence of a being or maybe a feeling of connection and — and then it becomes important to integrate that with your understanding of the cosmos and your religious and spiritual commitments. So people can go into some degree of existential crisis or just transition — it’s a very creative space. And chaplains are good at navigating those spaces as they’re unfolding. So that’s what chaplains I think, have to bring to the field, but at the same time, there are a lot of religious taboos and a lot of teachings within the religious traditions that encourage staying away from psychedelic medicines. And so that conversation is very much happening in the field right now and among religious leaders and professionals and chaplains and it’s — it’s an interesting conversation that’s taking place you know about the right use of these medicines and plants and how we can also do that without harming the communities that they come from."
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80. Anne Lamott and Neal Allen: Conversation for Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside of You
July 29th, 2021 | 57 mins 9 secs
buddhism, buddhism lessons, contemplative, contemplative literature, divine connection, divinity, education, gender, healing journey, higher education, illusion, naropa, naropa university, patriarchy, schoalrs, self-help books, spiritual authors, spiritual literation, understanding truth
In this special evening event, hosted on June 3, 2021, by Naropa Extended Campus, spiritual coach and writer Neal Allen is joined in conversation by his wife, best-selling author Anne Lamott. Allen’s new book, Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You, provides a contemplative method for discovering one’s inner nature that is influenced by Eastern traditions, especially Sufism and Buddhism, as well as contemporary psychodynamics. Lamott’s best-selling spirituality books often explore a personal Christianity that is removed from the currently popular doctrinal evangelism. Together they discuss their collaborative writing life, practical approaches to spiritual practice, freedom from suffering, and much more.