How to Stay Calm No Matter What’s Happening | Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
A master class in equanimity. It’s the latest installment of our Meditation Party series. Live from Omega.
Sebene Selassie describes herself as a “writer, teacher, and immigrant-weirdo.” She teaches meditation on the Ten Percent Happier app and is the author of a great book called You Belong. She’s based in Brooklyn.
Jeff Warren is also a writer and a meditation teacher. He and Dan co-wrote the book, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics. He also hosts the Consciousness Explorers podcast. He’s based in Toronto.
Tickets for the two more Meditation Party retreats this year at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York are available now. The last one was a blast. Come join us for both. One is in May, the other October.
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Meditation Party: The “Sh*t Is Fertilizer” Edition | Sebene Selassie & Jeff Warren
A More Relaxed Way to Meditate | Alexis Santos
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts. What the fuck is this? It just sounds like how all retreats begin. |
| 0:27.0 | I realized I was walking out here, I was like, |
| 0:31.0 | man, I'm old, I brought a sweater and my glasses. |
| 0:33.4 | It's the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | It's the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm your host Dan Harris. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello everybody how we do it |
| 0:55.6 | how we doing as an anxious person the holy grail for me is equanimity the |
| 1:00.1 | skill of staying calm no matter what's happening. I'm still very much in the beginning |
| 1:04.8 | phases of developing this skill, but I'm definitely working on it. Today you're going to get |
| 1:10.1 | a master class in equanimity from two great teachers. |
| 1:14.1 | As some of you may know, we recently launched a grand experiment putting on our first ever |
| 1:18.2 | meditation retreat. |
| 1:19.4 | We called it meditation party. |
| 1:21.3 | We did it at Omega, which is a retreat center a couple of hours |
| 1:24.1 | north of New York City was basically a live version of the meditation party |
| 1:28.0 | episodes we've been doing here on the show. In fact today is yet another |
| 1:32.3 | meditation party episode. The retreat, while I'm on the |
| 1:35.8 | subject, was amazing. More than 400 people came. By the way, we're going to do two more |
| 1:39.5 | meditation party retreats in May and in October so you can buy your tickets in the show |
| 1:44.5 | notes. In this episode which is an experiment in and of itself we're going to play |
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