Sitting at the Feet of Elders - July 11, 2023 Sitting at the Feet of Elders - July 11, 2023

Guest: Joan Halifax, Buddhist Teacher, Zen Priest & Anthropologist

Hosts: Sharon Salzberg & Reggie Hubbard

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

11am ET / 5pm CET

In the final episode of “Sitting At The Feet Of Elders,” join hosts Reggie Hubbard and Sharon Salzberg with special guest Joan Halifax as they explore personal growth in a post-pandemic world.

Discover how challenging experiences can become opportunities for healing, resilience, and profound transformation. Gain practical guidance and wisdom from these remarkable individuals as they share their insights and stories.

Don’t miss this enlightening conversation that combines spirituality, activism, and introspection!

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Joan Halifax

Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D

Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist

Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology in 1973 and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress.

From 1972-1975, she worked with psychiatrist Stanislav Grof at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center with dying cancer patients. She has continued to work with dying people and their families, and to teach health care professionals and family caregivers the psycho-social, ethical and spiritual aspects of care of the dying. She is Director of the Project on Being with Dying, and Founder of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners. She is also founder of the Nomads Clinic in Nepal.

She studied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie Glassman.

A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and founder of Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order, her work and practice for more than four decades has focused on engaged Buddhism. Her books include: The Human Encounter with Death (with Stanislav Grof); The Fruitful Darkness, A Journey Through Buddhist Practice; Simplicity in the Complex: A Buddhist Life in America; Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Wisdom in the Presence of Death; and Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet which was released on May 1, 2018.

Click here for a listing of Roshi’s books.

Click here for a listing of Roshi’s film credits.