Mirabai will share insights from her life, which has spanned 7 decades, from a NYC childhood in Catholic schools, to work on the Saturn Apollo, to a journey to the East where she discovered yoga, meditation, and many great teachers, to a life dedicated to learning through being in the world (karma yoga). A mother, wife, grandmother, business entrepreneur, writer, co-founder of Seva Foundation and the Center for Contemplative Mind in society, Mirabai will talk about how she saw each chapter of her life as a way of following her guru's direction: Love everyone and serve everyone. She wrote 'Walking Each Other Home' with Ram Dass, published just a year before he died, leaving us a guide for how to live life fully to be prepared for death.

There will be a presentation, discussion with Q&A, short guided practices, and a little chanting interlude with Nina Rao.

$30

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More about Mirabai Bush:
Mirabai Bush is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society which introduced contemplative practices into education, law, business, environment leadership, the military, and social justice activism.

She has been teaching workshops and courses on contemplative practice in life and work for 45 years. She co-developed the curriculum for Search Inside Yourself for Google, the first program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence. A founding board member with Ram Dass of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization, she directed the Seva Guatemala Project.

She is co-author with Ram Dass of Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying and Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service; co-author with Daniel Barbezat of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning; and editor of Contemplation Nation: How Ancient Practices Are Changing the Way We Live.

She has been a board member of Lions Roar, Omega Institute, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, the Dalai Lama Fellows, and Love Serve Remember. She is an advisor to Mindful magazine and Mindful.org.

She studied meditation with Shri S.N. Goenka and Anagarika Munindra; bhakti yoga with Neem Karoli Baba; and studies with Tibetan lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Gehlek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and others. She studied aikido with Kanai Sensei and has practiced Iyengar and Sivananda yoga.

She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, EJ Lynch. She has one son, Owen, a filmmaker, and a divine grand-daughter, Dahlia. Some information on Mirabai can be found here: https://www.contemplativemind.org/archives/1463