Opening up part two of our course

This week marks the beginning of part two of the Mindfulness Meditation and Education course. In this part we delve deeper into bodyfulness and mindfulness in alternating weeks.

In the first week we focus on deepening our forays into bodyfulness by discussing the work of Bessell van der Kolk on "How Trauma Lodges Itself in the Body." And we also discuss research studies that isolate the deep-physiological benefits of meditation.

In the second week we switch our focus to mindfulness by exploring cultural ideologies that in various ways have come to inform what we currently refer to as 'mindfulness meditation.' For this exploration we will employ a documentary film "Yoga: The Architecture of Peace."

Then in a third week we return to bodyfulness through an examination of the work of Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Lacan.

In a fourth week, we brainstorm topics for "pop-up research" projects that we will engage in as a class.