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November 19, 2022 29 mins

Exclusively featured at @filmfestivalgr🥳 2022 in the podcasts out of competition category. Uncovering our religious trauma wounds, tackling mindfulness and avoiding spiritual bypassing  with Jay Michaelson

In this episode you will learn:

1. What is spiritual bypass, why is it harmful and how can we avoid it?

2. How do Buddhist teachings inform modern mindfulness practices?

3. How can meditation help us confront our issues and heal from religious trauma?

Join meditation instructor Dena Argyropoulou as she explores the mysterious yet ridiculously simple practice of meditation with Jay Michaelson. Jay has taught meditation for twenty years in Buddhist, Jewish, and secular contexts. He is currently an editor and podcast host at the @tenpercenthappier meditation startup, as well a columnist for New York Magazine. Jay was a member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Board of Directors for six years, and is authorized to teach in the lineage of Ayya Khema by his teacher, Leigh Brasington. He is also an ordained rabbi.

 

Jay is also a visiting fellow at the Center for LGBTQ Studies in Religion who worked as a professional LGBTQ activist for ten years. He holds a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University and a JD from Yale Law School.

Conversations about the power of mindfulness meditation for stress, anxiety, deepening awareness and living with ease. Listen as international teachers and practitioners share their insights on how meditation helped them find clarity, inspiration, creativity, wisdom, strength. Mindfulness is a powerful tool to manage stress, anxiety and the challenges in life with courage and compassion.

Create the meditation practice you've always wanted with Dena, your personal meditation teacher. https://www.denaargyropoulou.com/sessions re/st your mind νιούζλετερ - διαλογισμός για να ξεκουράσεις το νου σου, ένα email που δεν θα σε αγχώνει. https://denaargyropoulou.substack.com/

 

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Produced, created and hosted by Dena Argyropoulou. Sound editing and mixing by Dimitris Misirlis at Matrix Recording Studio, Athens, Greece. Song "In a world" written and performed by Tiger Gang. 

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