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  • Resources for MBSR and mPEAK

    Additional Resources and Links

    Mindfulness Center, Brown University, Community Mindfulness Sessions

    https://www.brown.edu/public-health/mindfulness/

    Daily meditations via Zoom with Copper Beech Institute of Hartford, CT; once-weekly evening candlelight meditation and once-monthly BIPOC meditation group

    Free webinars and daily meditations through the Garrison Institute’s Virtual Sanctuary in NY, and once-weekly BIPOC group

    Books:

        

    • Mindfulness in Plain English, Henepola Gnaratana
    • Radical Acceptance & Radical Compassion, Tara Brach
    • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out by Ruth King 
    • Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, Joseph Goldstein
    • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing, David A. Treleaven
    • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel Van Der Kolk
    • One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism, Joseph Goldstein
    • Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hahn
    • Start Where You Are or When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
    • Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a path of Self Discovery by Mark Coleman 
    • Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness; Jon Kabat-Zinn
    •  Wherever You Go, There You Are; Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D
    • A Path with Heart, & After the Ecstasy the Laundry, Jack Kornfield
    • The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda V. Magee
    • The Black Women’s Yoga History Book by Stephanie Evans
    • What’s Beyond Mindfulness? by Stephen Fulder
    • Self Compassion, Kristen Neff
    • Lovingkindness, The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, Salzberg, Sharon 
    • Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Jasmine Syedullah, Lama Rod Owens, and Angel Kyodo Williams
    • The Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: A Guide for Clinicians and Clients, Rosenbaum, Elana
    • Being Well (even when you’re sick): Mindfulness Practices for People Living with Cancer and Other Serious Illness, Elana Rosenbaum
    • Here for Now: living well with cancer through mindfulness, Elana Rosenbaum
    • Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness; Mark
    •  Williams, John Teasdale and Jon Kabat-Zinn
    • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Siegel, Williams, Teasdale
    • The Mindful Way Workbook, Teasdale, Williams, Segel
    • Eating Mindfully, Susan Albers, Psy.D.
    • The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution, Lynn Rossy, PhD.
    • Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Robert M. Sapolsky
    • Buddha’s Brain, Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
    • The Craving Mind, Judson Brewer
    • Heal Thy Self, Saki Santorelli
    • Real Change, Sharon Salzberg
    • Peak Mind, Amishi P. Jha, PhD.
    • My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
    • You Belong: A Call for Connection by Sebene Selassie
    • Awakening Together by Larry Yang
    • No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh
    • Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and to Find Your People in an Unjust World by Kate Johnson
    • The Mindful Christian: Cultivation a Life of Intentionality, Openess, and Faith by Irene Kraegel
    • A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom at Any Moment by Spring Washam
    • Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible by Ruth King
    • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    Videos:

    • The Connection: Mind Your Body (Shannon Harvey director) Her newsletter is excellent
    • My Year of Living Mindfully (Shannon Harvey director) trailer

    Websites:

    Dharma Seed (free talks, resources): https://dharmaseed.org

    Apps:

    • Insight timer

    • Calm

    • 10% Happier

    Meditation Retreat Centers (silent and non-silent retreats, on-land and online)

    Just a few of many! Would highly recommend a silent meditation retreat if the causes/conditions ever align to do so.

    Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA

    Copper Beech Institute, Hartford, CT

    Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY

    New York Insight, NYC

    Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA

    Poetry: 

    Mindful poetry (includes many of those read in class)