#24: Mindfulness 101 with Neuroscientist, Artist, and Meditation Guide Nkechi Njaka

Black Girl In Om

Lauren Ash

Women Of Color, Religion & Spirituality, Holistic, Women, Self-care, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Black Women, Manifestation, Health, Yoga, Mental Health, Self-love, Wellness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, Black Girl In Om Founder Lauren Ash and Art Director Deun Ivory explore the question what is mindfulness? with neuroscientist, multi-disciplinary artist and integrated lifestylist Nkechi Njaka. Nkechi has spent the majority of her life investigating the relationship between the brain and the body and has always felt the significance of their integration. For several years, Nkechi worked as a neuroscientist as well as a professional modern dancer and choreographer. Through this work, she discovered that mindfulness and creativity are crucial for sustaining individual and global wellbeing. Both Lauren and Deun have been intentionally cultivating mindfulness practices, have benefited from them, and add their insights to this conversation. This episode offers valuable revelations for anyone interested in starting a mindfulness practice inclusive of mindful meditation, mindful movement, and integrated mindfulness through everyday activities. This episode is sponsored by Thrive Market, a membership community that uses the power of direct buying to deliver the world’s best healthy food and natural products to their members at wholesale prices, and to sponsor free memberships for low-income American families. Thrive Market's mission is to make healthy living easy, accessible and affordable for everyone. Thrive Market is gifting BGIO listeners with 25% off their first purchase, free shipping, and a free 30 day trial using code BGIO.

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0:00.0	Black Girl in Rome creates space for women of color to breathe easy.
0:05.0	We promote holistic wellness and inner beauty for women of color.
0:08.0	We encourage self-care, self-love, and self-empowerment for communities of color.
0:12.8	This is Lauren Ash and Yacht Ivory.
0:15.3	And thanks so much for listening to our podcast. Hey y'all, it's Lauren Ash. I am so excited about this episode's abundant sponsor. Thrive
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0:49.0	amazing prices. 25 to 50% off the normal retail prices for really great organic, non-GMO, healthy
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1:00.2	So definitely, stay tuned for my chat with Natalie later on on but know that you can go online right now and save
1:05.8	Go to thrive market.com slash bgio for 25% off of your first order. This is our second to last episode of the season.
1:27.0	So sad, but so happy.
1:30.0	I know, all the things.
1:31.0	All the things.
1:32.0	All the things. Yeah. And one conversation that we really wanted to make sure that we had before the end of season two was about mindfulness.
1:40.6	Absolutely, which is so important. It's an important aspect of wellness. It is it really is so I feel like this term gets thrown around a lot
1:49.2	Just like self-care and self-love and wellness do.
1:53.0	Right.
1:54.0	So I think what we are interested in doing with this conversation
1:56.6	with a good friend of ours who will be introducing shortly
1:59.5	is debunking it, making it accessible, making our community aware of how you can really practically
2:09.1	put mindfulness into your everyday lifestyle.
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