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Live Meditation with Roshi Joan Halifax

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Live Meditation with Roshi Joan Halifax

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Wed., May 12 2021 - 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

We are pleased to announce that Roshi Joan Halifax— renowned Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care—will join us live on May 12 for an extended 30-minute edition of Virtual Meditation on the Lawn. Roshi Joan will lead a 15-minute meditation followed by an audience Q&A period.
 
SAVE THE DATE: May 12, 2021
11:00-11:30am ET
Online via Zoom webinar
Free and open to the public
VIEW THE RECORDING.

Resources from the session:
Roshi Joan recommended the books of William DeBuys: https://williamdebuys.com/books/

Roshi Joan Halifax is the founder, Abbot, and head teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology in 1973 and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress.

From 1972-1975, she worked with psychiatrist Stanislav Grof at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center with dying cancer patients. She has continued to work with dying people and their families, and to teach health care professionals and family caregivers the psycho-social, ethical and spiritual aspects of care of the dying. She is Director of the Project on Being with Dying, and Founder of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners. She is also founder of the Nomads Clinic in Nepal.


Learn more about Roshi Joan Halifax.

This event is part of a special monthly series of Virtual Meditation on the Lawn offered by the Contemplative Sciences Center and our UVA partners during the spring semester. Each month a special guest from among the world’s leading meditation teachers will facilitate a 15-minute meditation followed by a Q&A. These events will run 11–11:30am ET. Please stay tuned for additional announcements and registration information regarding upcoming events in this series.

Special guest presentations of Virtual Meditation on the Lawn are sponsored by private philanthropy. Please consider making a gift today to support events in this series.