Impermanence - studio BE

How to Face Mortality with Creativity, Humor, and Art: An Interview with Ned Buskirk

Meaningful conversation about grief, death, creativity, and more with You're Going To Die founder Ned Buskirk

How Death Contemplation Can Illuminate and Bring Joy To Life: An Interview with Sarah Jane Shangraw

Heart-driven reflections on death, impermanence, and companionate palliative care from a mindful end-of-life educator and death doula

Resilience

7 Tips For Building Resilience

Lean into these practical mindfulness-inspired tips to cultivate your innate capacity for resilience

Grief

Inviting Grief In For Tea

Pain is inevitable. We will all get sick at some point, and experience loss of some kind. My Buddhist meditation practice teaches me that suffering, however, is optional.

Five Elements

Finding Stillness In Water This Winter

Introspective practices like meditation and Yin Yoga are good ways to support the Water element and stay balanced in winter

Meditation

How To Take Responsibility For Your Own Awakening: An Interview with Jonathan Foust

Welcome wisdom from a beloved senior meditation teacher

Wisdom

Farmhouse Love in the Time of COVID: 4 Lessons from Being Quarantined in a Half-Renovated Old Homestead

How a charming-but-dilapidated 120-year-old farmhouse humbled my high expectations and taught me the true meaning of "labor of love"

Writing

How To Publish a Long-Awaited Memoir During A Pandemic: An Interview with Phyllis Grant

Real talk about publishing, parenting, pastries and more from an acclaimed food writer and chef

Impermanence

Radical Gratitude for COVID-19

Working with cancer patients has shown me that nothing of this world is ever secure. COVID-19 offers us a sudden jolt into this same reality.

Death

Losing someone you love can be unbearable. Here's how I learned to sit with it — and see the hidden grace.

Being forced to contemplate your own death can bring your whole life into perspective. Every breath is precious.

spring

Lean into Nature: Lessons from the Spring Equinox

Together all over the world we are grasping for promise, the promise for the end of the uncertainty and anxiety, the end of the pandemic. If we lean into nature, spring can offer us the reminder of not only new life, but of impermanence - that this too shall pass.

Mindfulness

What does Valentine's Day have to do with meditation? More than you think.

Sometimes the center I meet in my meditation is as sweet and appealing as a fudgy chocolate. Sometimes, it’s as distasteful as that strawberry mush. I can’t predict. And that's ok.

Meditation

This Little Story Just Might Change Your Life

Whether you're brand-new to meditation or a seasoned vet, this little story just might change your life.