Program & Replays
Welcome Message From Your Summit Hosts
Join summit hosts Deborah Eden Tull and Kaira Jewel Lingo for an inspiring welcome to the Mindfulness and Meditation Summit series.
Eden and Kaira Jewel (and guest host Nick Mattos of The Shift Network), interviewed over 25 of today’s leaders, teachers, researchers, and practitioners in the field of mindfulness and meditation who lovingly model the compassion, deep listening, and cultivated presence they so skillfully teach to others.
You'll learn from experts in a wide variety of mindfulness and meditation modalities — including Zen meditation, “Indigenous Presence meditation,” somatic meditation, and many more.
As Eden says, “The purpose of meditation is not to find an island of peace, but to bring peace and presence to every aspect of our lives — including how we communicate, work, love, and engage with the world around us...
"This is not a practice of 'getting there' or attaining anything. There is nowhere to get to. Awareness is already awake. We practice to remember the already awakened state.”
Deborah Eden Tull
Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation and engaged mindfulness teacher, author, activist, deep ecologist, and sustainability educator. She teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives. Eden spent seven years training as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery, and has been teaching dharma for 20 years. Eden has also been living in, and teaching about, sustainable communities and the essential wisdom of nature for over 25 years.
Her teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, experiential learning, meditative inquiry, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation. She teaches engaged awareness practice, which emphasizes embodiment and the connection between personal awakening and collective transformation, helping people make connections between conditioned beliefs and systemic biases.
Eden draws upon her own experience and embodiment of teachings from the natural world, shamanism, deep ecology, and wisdom from diverse spiritual traditions. She walks her talk as a practitioner and teacher, and emphasizes the joy and responsibility of daily practice. Eden brings relational mindfulness, conscious movement, and gentle yet fierce compassion into all that she teaches.
Eden is author of Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Our Self, Each Other, and Our Planet and The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide for the Sustainable Food Revolution. Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Tricycle, Yogi Times, GOOP, Shambhala Times, and The Ecologist. She also teaches The Work That Reconnects, a program created by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy, and teaches for UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center. Eden offers retreats, trainings, online courses, and consultations internationally.
Kaira Jewel Lingo
A dharma teacher and ordained nun of 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, Kaira Jewel Lingo now leads retreats internationally, offering mindfulness programs for educators, parents, and youth in schools, and for activists, people of color, artists, and families, in addition to individual spiritual mentoring. In addition to teaching in the Zen tradition and secular mindfulness, she's a Spirit Rock-trained teacher in the Vipassana lineage. She teaches and mentors regularly with Schumacher College, Sangha Live, iBme, the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, the Power of Awareness online course, and is a guiding teacher for One Earth Sangha.. She explores the interweaving of art, play, ecology, and embodied mindfulness practice, and is a certified yoga teacher and InterPlay leader. She edited Thich Nhat Hanh’s Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children and has been published in numerous books and magazines.
