Ali Smith, Executive Director, Holistic Life Foundation

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ali Smith co-founded the Holistic Life Foundation in 2001, where he currently serves as Executive Director.

He has over 15 years of experience teaching yoga and mindfulness to diverse populations.

Through his work at the Holistic Life Foundation he has helped develop and pilot yoga and mindfulness programs at public and private schools, drug treatment centers, juvenile detention centers, mental crisis facilities, and retreat centers, nationally and internationally.

In this conversation we discuss how they got schools to buy into their mission, the way in which they’ve made a big impact in many kids lives, and Ali provides some concrete examples of what his mindfulness practice entails.

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0:00.0	Meditation isn't going to be easy right away, just like I couldn't go out and I couldn't go out and run a marathon right now.
0:06.7	You know what I mean? I couldn't do it. I have to train myself up to being able to do it.
0:11.4	And I just start off slowly and I slowly build myself up to
0:15.2	being able to do it and it's the way it is with meditation like you're it's not
0:18.7	going to be easy right away you are going to have to put in work and but it's going to be fun like you're going to feel you're going to have to put in work. But it's going to be fun.
0:23.2	Like you're going to feel,
0:24.6	you're going to feel yourself becoming more relaxed.
0:26.4	As long you can realize that every meditation
0:29.0	was the exact way it was supposed to be.
0:31.3	And you're not grading yourself on your meditations or beating yourself up or
0:34.9	or just judging yourself. Like if you can really just be with your meditations when you're doing it and
0:40.4	put the time in, you'll notice a difference and you'll get to know yourself
0:43.8	very very well.
0:44.8	All right, very well.
0:47.8	All right,
0:54.0	Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast.
0:57.0	I'm Michael Jervay.
0:58.0	And by Trade and Training on a Sport and Performance Psychologist,
1:02.0	and the whole nature of these conversations, this
1:04.0	podcast if you will, is to sit down with people who are on the path of mastery to
1:07.8	better understand what they're searching for, to work to understand their
1:10.8	psychological framework and to dig to understand their psychological framework and to
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