Ep 9: Near Death Experience Ft Amy Edelstein- #1 Amazon Bestselling Author)

About Amy Edelstein: 

• IPPY-award winner and #1 Amazon bestselling author 


• Begun her own meditation practice in 1978, spent four decades practicing, studying, researching, writing about


• Founder of Inner Strength Education, which brings mindfulness, systems thinking, and social-emotional tools to under-resourced schools, training more than 17,000 teens in Philadelphia public high schools. 


• Created a trauma-informed free mindfulness app for teens Inner Strength VIBE, available on GooglePlay and App Stores. 


• Awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award for her organisation’s work in Violence Reduction. 


• She is a Cornell University College scholar and the author of six books, including The Conscious Classroom.

Transcript: here

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(02:46): Amy and why she spent her 21st in the Himalayas

(09:04): What is wisdom?

(12:19): Learnings & experience in Zanskar

(19:06): Do you need to go to the mountains to experience inner awakening?

(22:41): Tapping into love amidst rising gun violence in the neighbourhood

(26:44): Increasing our capacity to love ourselves

(30:02): Severe Car Crash and mindfulness to rise above anxiety

(36:13): Making meditation possible even if we're busy

(40:12): How to choose your spiritual teacher to guide you

(43:40): Where to find Amy's work and her new book

More from Amy:

Book: Adventure to Zanskar - A young woman’s solitary journey to reach physical and metaphysical heights

Book: The conscious classroom - The Inner Strength System(TM) for Transforming the Teenage Mind

FB: https://www.facebook.com/AmyEdelstein.Educator 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/innerstrengtheducation/

Insight Timer Guided meditation 

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August Lum for creating the new sound track for our podcast: His work here 

Sopisa for editing the transcript for this episode

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