Guest Mentor Series
Meet and learn with wise mentors on the spiritual path.
Join us on select Saturdays for a dharma talk, Q&A, and guided discussion.
Shadow Wisdom
with Karin Green
February 24th, 2024 @ 9 am PST / 12 pm EST
Live Online via Zoom
“Join me on a transformative journey with our one-hour experiential and interactive webinar. Unveil the subtle influences of unconscious programming that may be holding you back, as we explore the depths of limiting beliefs that linger in the recesses of your mind. Delve into the transformative power of awareness, recognizing that you possess the ability to shape your own reality. Just as I navigated the constraints of an academic environment, challenging my own self-imposed limitations, you too can break through your barriers and embrace your true potential. This webinar offers a unique Shadow Work® journey, guiding you to shine a light into your shadows and foster an expanded awareness of your authentic self. Join me on this enlightening adventure to discover the path to empowerment and a life filled with purpose.”- Karin Green
Karin is a Certified Shadow Work® Group Facilitator, Coach, Trainer and Mentor. She is also a Neurolinguistic (NLP) Master Practitioner and Trainer and combines all her tools in being a conduit for her clients in their transformation to a joyful and fulfilling life.
Karin is on the faculty of Shadow Work Seminars, Women In Power, Lorensberg Leader Training and a co-founder and facilitator of the Dragon Training. She is also bringing transformation though her Shadow Wisdom Process Coaching Program to her clients.
Karin’s own personal inner work and healing have culminated in her taking the leap from science — where she has published and worked as a laboratory manager and scientist at a large university — into assisting others in their process towards greater joy and satisfaction in life.
Past Guest Mentors
Mind Cultivation
through the Buddhist Teachings
Rev. Dr. Jongmae Park is a monk for 50 years, born in Seoul, South Korea in 1954. He is the Patriarch of the Korean Buddhist Taego Order's Overseas Parish. Additionally, he is a former professor at USC and Loyola Marymount University - and an author of 9 books, including a Buddhist Dictionary.
He facilitated dialogue among racial and religious groups during the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles and more recently traveled to war-torn Ukraine to support victims of violence. He is joyful, approachable, generous, funny, and has much wisdom to offer for students of the Dharma.
Rev. Dr. Jongmae Kenneth Park
Embodying Jain Yoga
with Dr. Christopher Miller
In this lecture, Professor Christopher Jain Miller gives an introduction to the unique historical and philosophical contours of Jain yoga, beginning with an examination of some of the most ancient Jain sources, moving into classical Jain literature, and finally into medieval and modern traditions. Attendees will leave with an appreciation for the Jain yoga tradition’s unique commitment to self-restraint, enlightened worldview, correct knowledge, and proper conduct, inspired to embody these practices in their own life.
Christopher Jain Miller is the co-founder, Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Professor of Jain and Yoga Studies at Arihanta Institute. He completed his PhD in the study of Religion at the University of California, Davis and is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Zürich’s Asien-Orient-Institut and Visiting Professor of Engaged Jain Studies at Claremont School of Theology. He is the author of Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation.
Realizations of a 60’s Hippie:
An Adventitious Pilgrimage on Turtle Island
What do we do with our rare and precious human life?
Like many spiritual seekers in the 1960s, I sought release and relief from family and cultural conflicts and pressures, dead end wars and fears of nuclear annihilation. I read widely in my early teens, confined to bed and home by asthma and a solitary bicycle accident when I was twelve. By high school graduation in 1963 I sought to transcend the ego, I mused, with the company of avant-garde intellectuals years older, and younger social rebels on the streets of Greenwich Village. I tried drugs, free sex and a spontaneous lifestyle, seeking to go beyond the conformist, mundane “square” world. I went “on the road” by myself with little money, no contacts, no maps, no plans and no thought for the future but to find love. Hitchhiking and riding freight trains, I was taken in by strangers, ate peyote, smoked grass, opened to the Tao, was escorted out of Dallas by police on the way to San Francisco. In the maelstrom of later years, I found Zen, Haight Ashbury, Hare Krishna, mystic dancing of Sufi Sam, singing Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the austere Chinese Ch’an Master Hsuan Hua, poets Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, Tibetan gurus Tarthang Tulku and Chogyam Trungpa. Years of study, travel, people, people, all passing ephemera. Wherever you go, whomever you meet, whatever you do, there you are, dream-like in joy and suffering. Love is all that matters.
Dr. Frank Tedesco conversing with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Frank Tedesco has guided meditation for inmates in widespread Florida state prisons, sat at the bedside of innumerable dying people in hospice, hospitals, and at home, and taught at universities and adult ed programs. He holds a M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Lancaster, UK (1974), and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Dongguk University, Korea. (1998). He taught the anthropology of religion, Indian religions, Islamic culture and Buddhism. Frank also teaches preparing for the end of life, living consciously and dying consciously, without fear.
He is also the founder of True Dharma International Buddhist Mission. The non-profit’s recently shared the Good Death Auspicious Rebirth film. It is an educational film designed to bring greater awareness and sensitivity to the care of Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists at the end-of-life.
You can watch Part 1 of the film here (41 minutes): Good Death Auspicious Rebirth
