#1235 - Virtual Meditation in the Midst of COVID-19
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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When a professional bodyworker starts an online meditation community in February 2020, it takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of the coronavirus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, what's up? Welcome to Side Us All School. Welcome friends, listeners, community. |
| 0:08.9 | So glad you were here. I'm wondering if you have heard about any unique or interesting online meetings |
| 0:14.8 | and digital experiences that have started or ramped up during the age of COVID-19. |
| 0:20.0 | Just to name a couple of examples, I have heard of support groups like AA and other support groups |
| 0:25.6 | going online, yoga classes, other exercise classes, book clubs. By the way, I have a book that you might |
| 0:31.7 | want to consider for your book clubs called The Money Tree. Also, Tell a Health Online Therapy, |
| 0:37.0 | Online Belly Dancing Lessons. It's one of the things I've mentioned a couple times because I'm |
| 0:40.8 | just like, well, if that can be online, then anything can be online. Family meetings, I'm actually doing |
| 0:45.5 | family meetings with my parents once in a while. He's kind of like hop on Zoom and say hello. |
| 0:49.7 | And of course, I'm sure there are many other examples. This time has shown us that maybe some of |
| 0:54.0 | the stuff that we thought could not be digital or could not be replicated in some virtual way. |
| 0:59.2 | In fact, can be. What is that old expression about necessity being the mother of invention? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, today I will share the behind the scenes of an online meditation community. A professional |
| 1:09.6 | body worker starts this community in February 2019 and then it takes an unexpected turn for the |
| 1:14.9 | better with the arrival of the coronavirus. So let's dive into this. Here, how it came to be, |
| 1:20.0 | what's happening now and what you might take away from this example? Because there really is |
| 1:24.2 | something out there that everybody can do to create more income and freedom for themselves. That's |
| 1:28.4 | what we're all about here on Side of Soul School. So this story, virtual meditation in the midst of |
| 1:32.8 | COVID-19 is coming right up. The bodywork practice known as rulping began nearly a century ago |
| 1:49.2 | in the United States. It was invented by Dr. Ida P. Rulfer, a biochemist who was searching for a |
| 1:54.8 | way to help solve her son's health problems. Decades later, a 20-something named Brooke Thomas |
| 2:00.4 | found her way to rulping to manage her own chronic pain. All she was hoping for was to |
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