Sitting at the Feet of Elders – April 4, 2023 Sitting at the Feet of Elders – April 4, 2023

Reggie Hubbard will be joined by guest host, Mirabai Bush. They will talk to Sharon Salzberg about “REAL LIFE – The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom”

Guest: Sharon Salzberg – Author of “REAL LIFE – The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom”

Host: Reggie Hubbard & guest host, Mirabai Bush

Tuesday, April4, 2023

11am ET / 5pm CET

About Real Life, The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom

No one is immune to the different seasons of life. Yet we are often ill-prepared to navigate these natural ups and downs without undue pain and suffering. In her twelfth book, Real Life, NY Times bestselling author Sharon Salzberg contemplates the skills needed to traverse the larger cycles of life, drawing from forty-plus years of experience in the Buddhist tradition. Applying contemplative tools, we can learn to live more fearlessly―moving from constriction and isolation to a more spacious place of possibility, creativity, connection, and joy.

In Real Life, Sharon sets a path out for us, merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own teachings to:

  • Uncover a deeper sense of ourselves
  • Expand our vision of what’s possible for ourselves
  • Align our words, hearts, and actions with our core values
  • Navigate loss without getting stuck in bitterness or disconnect
  • Carry a sense of community with us, even in stormy times
  • Recover from the emotional effects of crisis
  • Learn the art of letting go and beginning again
  • Build emotional intelligence to face times of difficulty without fear
  • Seek out joy in everyday life, even when things don’t go our way
  • Befriend ourselves on the journey of being human

Embark on the journey to embody a life of curiosity, authenticity, and freedom. Set for release in hardcover, e-book, and audio-book formats in April 2022 from Flatiron Books. To pre-order visit the book’s website here.

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Mirabai Bush

Mirabai is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director until 2008. Under her direction, The Center introduced contemplative practices into education, law, business, environment leadership, the military, technology companies, and activism.

She has been teaching workshops and courses on meditation and contemplative practice in life and work for many years. She co-developed the curriculum for Search Inside Yourself for Google, the first program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence; it has been attended by tens of thousands of Google employees. A founding board member of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization, she directed the Seva Guatemala Project, supporting sustainable agriculture and integrated community development.

She is the author, with Ram Dass, of Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying and Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service. She is co-author with Daniel Barbezat of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning and editor of Contemplation Nation: How Ancient Practices Are Changing the Way We Live.

She is Chairperson of Love Serve Remember Foundation and has been a board member of Lions Roar, Omega Institute, Seva Foundation, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Military Fitness Institute, and the Dalai Lama Fellows. She is an advisor to Mindful.

Her spiritual studies include meditation in Bodh Gaya, India, with Shri S.N. Goenka and Anagarika Munindra; bhakti yoga with Hindu teacher Neemkaroli Baba; and studies with Tibetan lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kyabje Gehlek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and others. She studied aikido with Kanai Sensei and has practiced Iyengar and Sivananda yoga.