Host Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and writer Tina Rasmussen about how psychology and meditation practice can work together to assist people heal, working with trauma, the importance of heart-based practices akin to metta, spiritual bypassing, using shamatha to construct recent brain networks, and Tina’s own story of her birth trauma and her path to healing.
Tina Rasmussen, Ph.D., began meditating at age 13, and has practiced within the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions for over 30 years. In 2003, she accomplished a year-long solo retreat, was later ordained as a Buddhist nun and have become the primary Western woman authorized to show by renowned meditation master Pa Auk Sayadaw. Tina has been studied by the Yale Neuroscience Lab, and is the co-author of , in addition to several books on human potential.
Tina Rasumussen’s website: luminousmindsangha.com
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