Podcasts about annie mahon

An interview with Annie Mahon on Things I Did When I Was Hangry. Learn how to figure out what's eating you, evaluate your activities and habits, and have  a more peaceful relationship with food.     Featured Guest Annie Mahon founded Circle Yoga in 2003 in order to bring mindfulness and yoga to people of all ages. She is the co-founder of DC Yoga Week and Yoga on the National Mall and the Opening Heart Mindfulness Community, and she is active in much of the grassroots community yoga and mindfulness activities in the Washington DC Area. She is also a writer and published her second book, Things I Did When I Was Hangry: Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food with Parallax Press in 2015. Read Annie's mindfulness blog at rawmindfulness.com. Annie holds masters degrees in both Computer Science (University of Michigan) and Religious Studies (Howard University). She is also trained in massage therapy. Annie teaches mindfulness in the tradition of her primary teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and yoga in a mixed Anusara-mindfulness style. Other teacher and influences include Philip Moffit, Alan Watts, Jack Kornfield, Kate Miller, her four children, and the monks and nuns of Plum Village. In October 2009, Annie was ordained into the Buddhist Order of Interbeing with the ordination name True Blue Lake. Annie is an ERYT-200, having completed an Anusara 400-hour training in 2004, and is also one of the first certified Children's Yoga teachers in the country, holding a C-RYT. She is certified as an Inner Relationship Focusing professional, and has studied and practiced non-violent communication (NVC) for over a decade, including with Marshall Rosenberg and Robert Gonzales. Annie has a strong interest in using mindfulness, yoga, focusing, NVC, and therapeutic touch to help support reduce suffering in herself and others. She also pioneers community-based business and programs that foster shared decision making, rather than typical hierarchical structures. Toward that goal, in 2012 she gifted the equity in Circle Yoga to the workers, making it the first Cooperative Yoga Studio in the area, and one of the very first in the country.  Savvy Sources Website: rawmindfulness.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/rawmindfulness Facebook: facebook.com/rawmindfulness/ Book: rawmindfulness.com/book Former Tranquility du Jour podcast with Annie on Everyday Mindfulness Join my complimentary 52 Weeks of Tranquility Program New Year, New You Seasonal Podcast Fall's online book club pick: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Sign up for weekly Love Notes and access Tranquil Treasures Podcast app: Tranquility du Jour iPhone and Android Upcoming Events Mini Retreat in DC: December 31 2016 Art + Asana in Costa Rica: February 13-20 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in DC: Starts February 26 Art + Yoga in West Virginia: May 13-15 Penning in Paris: June 6-10 Art + Asana in Tuscany: October 8-15 Writing in the Woods: October 28-30 Stay Connected New to Tranquility du Jour? Peruse my FAQs. Tranquility University E-courses. Read along on Goodreads. Connect on Facebook. Follow on Twitter. Pin along on Pinterest. Eye candy on Instagram. Browse my books. Read about my passion for animals. Pen a review on iTunes. Techy To listen, click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes. New to podcasting? Get more info at Podcast 411. Do you have iTunes? Click here and subscribe to the podcast to get the latest episode as released. Get the Tranquility du Jour apps to get the podcast automagically on iOS or Android.

Bonjour. Welcome to the 341st edition of Tranquility du Jour with Annie Mahon. Be inspired to bring mindfulness into your every day through eating, speaking, and living.     Featured Guest: Annie Mahon grew up in Macomb County, a blue-collar suburb of Detroit, during the 60s and 70s.  Starting in junior high school, she spent her lunch money for “spiritual” pursuits purchased for $1 in the smoking area.  At the University of Michigan she continued her spiritual quest in sorority life, leading to excessive alcohol use, an eating disorder, and academic probation.  She interspersed poetry, journaling, and sleeping too much with reading about Buddhism and occasional attempts at meditation. All of this somehow resulted in a graduating with a master’s degree in Computer Science, a move to DC, and a brief stint in the quintessential office place, IBM, before moving to an exciting but soul-killing position in sales at Oracle.  During her first months in DC, where she reverse commuted an hour from city to suburbs, Annie was stalked by a handsome stranger. He sat down with her at an outdoor café one morning and asked her what part of Michigan she was from.  It seems that this man had a second floor condo with bay window (and high-powered night scopes) across the street from her first floor efficiency apartment, and had been monitoring her comings and goings, including her family’s visit in a car with Michigan plates.  Obviously, she married him. Working at a job which championed the Genghis Kahn motto “It’s not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail” encouraged her to try motherhood, which seemed like a gentler place to live.   But giving birth to four children in three years left her with less time, way more belly, and even more questions about life and how to live it.  Meditation and reading books by Thich Nhat Hanh, Angeles Arrien, andPema Chodron helped.   She took a side trip into Christianity and what-it’s-like-to-be-a-minority by attending Divinity School at Howard University, where she received her M.S. in Religious Studies, and discovered which direction her path was not leading. In 1999 she accepted the Five Buddhist Precepts (aka the Five Mindfulness Trainings) from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh at a retreat in upstate NY.  The fifth training suggests letting go of using drugs and alcohol, which was a challenge, requiring Annie to more fully engage in life and her mindfulness practice to get through each intoxicant-free day with four kids, a husband and graduate school. Being more awake in the world isn’t always easy. For the first couple of years after accepting the precepts, Annie struggled off and on with anxiety and depression, periodically falling back into old escapist habits.  This shifted quite suddenly on 9-11-01 when she got the message that life was too short to waste sitting on her ass, and that if she ever wanted to contribute to the world, now was the time. On that day, she connected with peace activist Coleman McCarthy, and later that week began teaching mindfulness, conflict resolution, and peer mediation in nearby Washington, DC public schools. Realizing that kids learn best by moving their bodies, and wanting to support their continued mind-body connection, she began teaching kids’ yoga in schools and local venues, eventually opening a children’s yoga studio, Budding Yogis, in her neighborhood.  That program expanded to become a full-scale adult and family yoga and mindfulness community studio, serving 900 students per week.  In 2011, with a nod to her anarchist daughter, she reorganized the studio into a workers’ cooperatively owned business, Circle Yoga Cooperative. Always wanting to expand her understanding of mindfulness practice and real life, Annie attends several retreats each year with various mindfulness teachers, including her main teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, and trained in an 18-month program at Spirit Rock Mediation Center in Marin County with Insight Meditation Teachers Jack Kornfield, Phillip Moffit, Anne Cushman, and many other renowned meditation and yoga teachers. In 2009, she furthered her commitment to mindfulness practice and the mindfulness community by accepting the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings, which continue to challenge and support her practice and make her part of the Tiep Heim Order of lay Buddhist practitioners, a community founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in Vietnam during the war.   Her most recent training was a two-year massage therapy program, grounding her mindfulness in the body senses and touch.  She became a Licensed Massage Therapist in 2011. Annie has been writing all her life, starting with her Dear Ziggy journal in junior high school, editing the University of Michigan Greek Newspaper, writing for the U-M yearbook and founding and editing the Micro Digest, the U-M Computing Center’s first newsletter.  More recently, she has become known for her monthly essays on mindfulness, a self-published book of essays, Thoughts from Annie, and various articles on mindfulness and families.  When not visiting her children, traveling the world, trying out new fitness modalities, writing, or walking with her dogs, she practices yoga and mindfulness with her community at the Circle Yoga Cooperative in DC. 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