For episode 275, we’re persevering with a brand new sequence on the Metta Hour, centered on children, in honor of Sharon’s first youngsters’s guide, Variety Karl, out now!
Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated image guide is for 4-8 year-olds and is a brand new youngsters’s adaptation of Sharon’s beloved guide Lovingkindness.
For this podcast sequence, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers concerning the methods meditation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness can impression youngsters of all ages and the household techniques that help them. For the fourth episode of the sequence, Sharon speaks with Ali Smith, Andres Gonzales and Atman Smith of the Holistic Life Basis.
Andy, Ali, and Atman co-founded the Holistic Life Basis in 2001, a non-profit group bringing yoga, meditation, and breath-work to hundreds of at-risk children in Baltimore and past. Their work has acquired broad nationwide consideration as a result of their outstanding ends in public faculties the place suspension charges plummet and commencement charges skyrocket. Outdoors of the Holistic Life Basis, Ali, Atman, and Andy additionally train to numerous populations worldwide, together with drug therapy facilities, psychological disaster services, homeless shelters, and Yoga, Wellness, and Mindfulness Festivals.
Their first guide, “Let Your Mild Shine” was printed in 2022 by Penguin Random Home.
On this dialog, Sharon, Atman, Andres and Ali talk about:
• The creation of the Holistic Life Basis
• Experiencing meditation early in life
• Working in underserved communities
• Instructing with trauma consciousness
• HLF Retreats and certification packages
• The significance of sharing love
• Advantages of mindfulness for teenagers
• Partnering with faculties and schooling techniques
• Modifying apply for youthful minds
• Methods to champion love
• Encouraging genuine, in-person interplay
• Giving from a spot of overflow
• Caring for ourselves to higher look after others
The episode closes with a guided apply. You may study extra concerning the Holistic Life Basis’s work on their web site, proper right here. And get a duplicate of the guide“Let Your Mild Shine” proper right here.
To study extra about Sharon’s forthcoming youngsters’s guide, Variety Karl, and pre-order a duplicate with a particular pre-order present, you’ll be able to go to Sharon’s web site, proper right here.
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