mindfulness, yoga, meditation, wellbeing
Accessible, engaging, and fun, these workshops are designed on a bespoke basis based on the context of each unique group. Participants will learn research-based approaches to integrative wellbeing that incorporate theories and practices from contemplative, somatic, and positive psychologies, as well as from traditional wisdom practices around the world. Previous offerings: Woman Rising Workplace Wellbeing Stressed Out? Go…
A consistent mindfulness or meditation practice can bring about distinct and profound physical, mental, and interpersonal benefits. While these techniques have been practiced in monasteries and communities around the world since 500 BCE, it has seen an exponential rise as a topic of research and application in Western medicine, psychology, public health, and behavioral sciences since the…
As the substrata of the system of Yoga can be dated back 5000 years or more – and its branches have expanded from roots in India to shores across the planet – it is a dazzlingly complex multi-layered ever-evolving phenomenon. Jo offers customized yoga classes across a variety of individual and group needs, including: trauma- and…
Born on the island of ʻOahu in the state of Hawaiʻi, Jo is currently a graduate student of psychology at Columbia University, a research assistant at the READ Lab, and a teacher of yoga, mindfulness, and meditation. Jo has been blessed to teach mind/body/spirit approaches to wellbeing with practitioners in Arizona, California, Thailand, the UAE, Hawaiʻi,…
Karma Yoga initiative: Project Surya Brilliance on the web: Mind-Body / Integrative Medicine The UCSF Osher Center Columbia’s Spirituality Mind Body Center Johns Hopkins Center for Mind Body Research Britton Lab Mass General Mind Body Medicine National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine Yale School of Medicine Therapeutic Neuroscience Clinic…
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ~ Lao Tzu Civic engagement is the glue that binds a democracy together, while prosocial behavior, including altruism, has been scientifically proven to increase meaning, belonging, and happiness in people’s lives. Altruism is an evolutionary necessity to human existence, and a central…
