Reverend angel Kyodo williams: Warrior Spirit

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Reverend angel Kyodo williams is an activist, master trainer, founder of the Center for Transformative Change, and the acclaimed author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace and Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. Rev. angel will be a featured presenter on Sounds True's upcoming A Year of Mindfulness program—a unique yearlong series of monthly talks given by a group of meditation teachers from a diverse background of traditions. In this episode of Insights at the Edge—adapted from an earlier presentation given by Rev. angel during Sounds True's online Meditation Summit—she and Tami Simon speak on the sense of retreat that attracts many to mindfulness, even when it is an engagement with our inner fullness that is meditation's most valuable gift. Rev. angel discusses the cultivation of a "warrior spirit" that enriches and empowers our interactions with the world. Finally, Rev. angel offers a meditation practice on these themes called "Effort and Release." (47 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events.
0:14.0	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.0	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Reverend Angel Kyoto Williams.
0:45.9	Riv Angel is an author, activist, master trainer, and founder of the Center for Transformative
0:52.2	Change.
0:53.6	She is the acclaimed author of Being Black,
0:57.2	Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace.
1:02.0	Rev Angel applies wisdom teachings. and of transformative social change.
1:13.0	What sounds true,
1:15.0	Rev Angel will be a featured presenter
1:18.0	on our new Year of Mindfulness Program.
1:21.0	It's a year-long offering where participants receive guidance
1:25.8	from a diverse group of leading voices, discovering new techniques for bringing
1:31.8	mindfulness into every part of our day while receiving ongoing support from a community of practitioners.
1:40.0	A year of mindfulness begins on February 13th, 2017, and you're welcome to find out more information
1:48.7	about a year of mindfulness that sounds True.com.
1:53.0	This episode of Insights at the Edge
1:56.0	was originally recorded as part of Sounds True's
1:59.3	Meditation Summit, which was a gathering online of 30 different meditation teachers who each shared
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