Neurodharma
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The Wise Brain Bulletin is published bimonthly (6 times a year), and contains major articles as well as lots of nuggets about the brain, inspiring quotes, links to awe-inspiring pictures and websites, and much more.
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Your Best Brain workshop
- San Rafael, CA – Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and Jan Hanson, M.S., L.Ac. – Physical Interventions, Mental Interventions, (9/25/10)
Taking in the Good workshop
- Taking in the Good, Portland Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Collective / Lewis & Clark College, Oregon – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (9/10)
- Taking in the Good, Openground, Sydney, Australia – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (2/10)
Natural Contentment workshop
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center – Taking in the Good meditation, Self-Compassion practice (3/11)
The Neurology of Awakening workshop
- London Insight – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 (11/09)
- Insight LA – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (11/09)
- Deepening Contemplative Absorption, Dharma Zephyr – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (9/09)
- Neuro-Dharma: Mindfulness and the Shaping of the Brain, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies –
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (4/09) - Spirit Rock, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (9/08)
- Sati Center, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (12/07)
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (11/06)
Equanimity workshop
- Spirit Rock – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (5/10)
- Spirit Rock, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1 (starts 20 minutes in), Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (5/09)
- Spirit Rock, with Christina Feldman and Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (5/08)
The Neurodharma of Love workshop
- London Insight – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, (10/10)
- Spirit Rock, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (7/09)
- Spirit Rock, with Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. and Rick Mendius, M.D. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (3/08)
Not-Self workshop
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (12/13)
- Australia Retreat – Part 1, [Sorry: these remaining audio files are very muted but still audible] Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11 (5/11)
- Neuroscience and the Teachings of Anatta, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2 (12/10)
- London Insight – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (10/10)
- East Bay Open Circle (3/10)
- Barre Center for Buddhist Studies – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (3/10)
- Dharma Zephyr – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (9/09)
- Spirit Rock, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (11/08)
- Sati Center, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (10/08)
- California Institute of Integral Studies, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (10/07)
The Hard Things That Open the Heart workshop
- Spirit Rock – Rick Hanson on self-compassion (10/10)
- Spirit Rock – James Baraz on emotions and RAIN, Rick Hanson on refuges, Rick Mendius, M.D. on caregivers (12/09)
- Spirit Rock, with James Baraz and Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (11/08)
- Working with a Wounded Brain, Spirit Rock, with James Baraz and Rick Mendius, M.D. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (11/07)
Other workshops
- The Loving Brain, True North Insight, Montreal, Canada – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, (8/10)
- Tools for Awakening, Spirit Rock, with Rick Mendius, M.D. – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 (1/07)
Other talks
- Sounds True Wake Up Festival – Guided Meditation (8/12)
- Sounds True Wake Up Festival – Eddies in the Stream (8/12)
- Unity in Marin – The Neurology of Awakening (6/11)
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center – Neuro-Factors of Mindfulness (6/11)
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center – Neuro Dharma & Coming Home (6/11)
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center – The Practice of Jhana Factors (1/11)
- The Next Evolution of Health Summit – The Neuroscience of Well-Being (12/10)
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center, with Dr. Frederick Luskin – Forgiveness and Assertiveness (10/10)
- Gratitude, Spirit Rock Meditation Center (10/10)
- Taking in th422e Good, True North Insight, Montreal (8/10)
- The Nondual Brain, East Bay Open Ground (3/10)
- You Can Change Your Own Brain, podcast, Sounds True (10/09)
- Coming Home to Happiness, Awakening Joy (11/08)
- Science of Mindfulness (2/08)
- Buddhism and Brain Science (1/08)
- 7 Facts about the Brain That Incline the Mind to Joy (1/08)
- KPFA, Mind and Brain, with Rick Mendius, M.D. (10/07)
- Empathy (9/07)
- Grief Recovery: Perspectives from Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom (5/07)
- The Two Wings of Psychological Growth and Contemplative Practice (2/07)