524. Challenges to Mindfulness - With Diana Winston

Mindfulness teacher Diana joins me to talk the worldly winds, how to choose meditation, mindfulness evidence base, are retreats a good fit, does meditation exclude people, tech and mindfulness, life integration, relational mindfulness, online retreats, and is mindfulness just “Buddhism Lite”. A robust but friendly confrontation.    To join our courses and our community go to www.embodimentunlimited.com Find Mark Walsh on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/warkmalsh/   About Diana: Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). She is the author ofThe Little Book of Being, and co-author of Fully Present: The Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness. She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1999 in a variety of settings including in healthcare, universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools in the US and internationally. Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, O Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Women’s Health, among others. She created the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices Program (MAPs) and is a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. The LA Times calls her one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness.” A former Buddhist nun, you can find her on the UCLA Mindful, Waking Up and Ten Percent Happier apps or at Www.marc.ucla.edu and www.dianawinston.com