Subtle Body Practices with Eve and Ale

with Eve Ekman and special guest Alejandro Chaoul
 
Join Eve and Alejandro as they discuss bringing subtle body practices to support emotional well-being and combat burnout.

By incorporating subtle body practices, we can transform life challenges and emotional experiences into opportunities for personal growth and healing.

Eve and Ale blend Tibetan-based subtle-body practices with contemplative science to

• deepen the connection between body, mind, and aspirations

• clarify the relationship between burnout, stress, and mind-body practices, and

• emphasize the importance of self-care, exercise, and community support in managing stress and preventing burnout

This class is open to everyone. No prior meditation experience is required.

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Eve Ekman, MSW, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Greater Good Science Center. She is also a UC Berkeley- and UCSF-trained social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher and has had meaningful collaborations with her father, renowned emotion researcher Dr. Paul Ekman. Their most recent project, The Atlas of Emotions, is an online visual tool to teach a language for improving our emotional awareness that was commissioned and supported by the Dalai Lama. Eve is the co-lead instructor for Cultivating Emotional Balance, an evidence-based meditation and emotion regulation training developed by Dr. Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace.

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Alejandro “Ale” Chaoul is a scholar, researcher, author, teacher, and educator who has studied in the Tibetan traditions since 1989, and for nearly 30 years in the Bön Tradition with Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, His Holiness Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche, and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. 

Ale holds a PhD from Rice University focusing on Tibetan mind-body practices and applications in contemporary health environments, and for over 25 years he has researched and taught mind-body techniques to help relieve stress and support wellbeing throughout the community, including at MD Anderson’s Integrative Medicine Program, UT Health, and other educational, health care, and nonprofit organizations. 

He is the executive director of Tibetan Yoga Wellbeing, the founding director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston, and the director of research for Ligmincha International.  

He loves to teach and is a senior teacher for The 3 Doors, and Ligmincha International, and teaches in the US, Latin America and Europe, including at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, and Menla Retreat center in Catskills, NY. 

Ale is also a Contemplative Fellow at the Mind & Life Institute, and is the author of over 25 articles and three books, including Chöd Practice in the Bön Tradition (Snow Lion, 2009), Tibetan Yoga for Health & Well-Being (Hay House, 2018), and Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath, and Mind (Wisdom Publications, 2021). 

You can find more information on www.alechaoul.com