Welcome to Week 3
Mantras for Peace:
A Wisdom Gathering
Featuring global thought leaders dedicated to a vibrant future through both ancient and innovative subtle activism practices.
Week 3 Speakers
The Interviews
Gemma Perry
Psychology researcher, Gemma Perry, shares her doctoral research and personal experience with the use of mantra for healing the body and mind by creating a sense of community, connection and a deeper relationship with self while motivating the practitioner to seek harmony by pursuing their potential.
“About 60% of the mantra research participants reported extreme alterations in their consciousness. That was across all different traditions – Hindu, Buddhist, and other chanting traditions. We found that people who were experiencing these mystical states were higher in (the category of) altruism… Once you have an experience of feeling connected to everyone, you are going to be a better, kinder person. When you think that we are all connected, you start to treat others as if they were a part of yourself. It brings a natural connection and kindness.”
GEMMA PERRY is a meditation and yoga teacher currently doing her PhD in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Gemma investigates the effects of chanting meditations on emotional and cognitive processes. Her interests are primarily in how the chanting of specific sounds can decrease psychological and physiological stress, increase social connection, and ultimately expand states of awareness.
Follow the links to view Gemma's published research "Rhythmic Chanting and Mystical States across Traditions" in Brain Sciences Journal, and "Assessing Vocal Chanting as an Online Psychosocial Intervention" in Frontiers.
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Jori Manske
Radical compassion leader shares tools for a more empathetic, peaceful life.
“Non-violent communication is a quality of connection that inspires giving and receiving. Empathy is respectful understanding of another’s experience.”
Jori has been part of spiritual communities for decades and began mantra meditation in her early 20's. She, along with her husband, Jim Manske, are CNVC Certified Nonviolent Communication trainers and continue to contribute to many through several online offerings each week.
JORI'S FREE GIFT
A one hour online personal empathy and support session to deepen your own self-awareness exploration, navigating in relationship(s) or focused on mission. Schedule at [email protected].
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Bhavani Maki
Yoga philosophy teacher brings to life the timeless universal wisdom of the sūtras.
“We can leverage our yoga practice to be a transformational experience. We can self generate breakthrough experiences and learn about embracing the fullness of our being, with a sense of freedom and joy that radiates from within.”
Aloha! My named is Bhavani Maki. I am the author of "The Yogi's Roadmap: The Patañjali Yoga Sūtra as a Path to Self Realization" and have been teaching Yoga Internationally since 1995 and training teachers since 2003. In 1978, I had a spiritual awakening when I attended my first Yoga Class at the age of 9. The path now before me, I made 7 trips to India to deepen my studies of classical Yoga. My main teachers were Masters Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, South India, and Baba Hari Dass of Hardwar, North India. I regard Rama Jyoti Vernon as integral in my understanding of the Patañjali Yoga Sūtra.
The Yoga Sūtra are at the heart of my offerings of Yoga as an embodiment process. Through Yoga's full science of weaving of metaphysical teachings with the practices of Yoga, we discover that deep, personal inquiry is both the means and the experience, of embodying our true spiritual awakening. I am dedicated to exploring Yoga in its complete expression, with an emphasis on integrity of alignment and the use of Yoga as therapy for mind, body and heart. Yoga is a journey that is specialized for each individual to discover their unique path to greater joy and freedom.
I believe that that engaging in all the aspects of Yoga is a means of compressed evolution that uplifts, connects, and accesses the inner source of Since 1993, I live on the island of Kaua’i with my husband Ray and son Nikola, on our organic permaculture farm. I offer live and online workshops, intensives, Yoga Sutra mentorship programs and teacher training programs at my studio, Kaua'i Yoga Shala, as well as Yoga workshops abroad.
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Environmentalist monk & author speaks on the power of repeating sacred words.
“If you’re not in peace with yourself, peace with others can be put on stage like a show, but it’s not really genuine and others do feel that. Mantras are perfect for that because it makes you realize there is this inner peace waiting for you so you just have to tap into that wonderful pool of loving devotion.”
Radhamadhav Das is a monk, author and teacher living in Vrindavan, India. He is a disciple of the great Bhakti Yoga master Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj who served as the President of the World Vaishnava Association and wrote the classic Sri Chaitanya: His Life and Associates.
At present, Radhamadhav Das is focusing on making a green transition to a sustainable life in order to prevent the impeding ecocide and infrastructure collapses. This is lined out in Need of the Hour, his latest publication. He lives in Vrindavan, where he is building a self-sufficient Eco Village with local villagers and friends. He was given the 2016 Munger Raj Award for sustainable development.
To raise global eco-awareness, he is teaming up with VR producers in Hollywood to make a VR experience of Mother Earth, for which he has composed the song “I am Your Mother" as well as the script.
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Meenadchi
Author speaks on Non-Violent Communication skills facilitated through a transformative justice and decolonial lens
“I think words are really important…our words are spells, so however we put them together they make the spells of our lives, so it's important to phrase them in ways that are true.”
Meenadchi (pronouns: them/they) has worked for over a decade in trauma services and crisis stabilization. Meenadchi’s Non-Violent Communication (NVC) practice began in 2002, and it quickly became a natural fit to weave these magical tools for self-compassion and accountability into Meenadchi’s daily work. Meenadchi's NVC practice lays the groundwork for a somatic and intersectional approach to communication, incorporating tools to divest from shame and to deepen interdependent vulnerability. Meenadchi is a craniosacral therapist, facilitator of family constellations, and the author of the workbook Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication.
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We invite participants to think, chant, or sing simple mantras for peace at least once per day for 108 days.
Lokāḥ Samastāḥ Sukhino Bhavantu
May all the beings in all the worlds be happy!
