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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du Jour #527: Life is Practice

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6554 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with returning guest Annie Mahon about using mindfulness to get through a health crisis, how it's changed how she's living now, and the lessons she learned.

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Guest
Annie Mahon (she, they) is a white, Armenian-American, ordained layperson in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh (2009), founder of Circle Yoga Cooperative (2003),  DC Community Yoga and DC Yoga Week (2005), the Pink House Foundation (2010)—a grant-making organization supporting the development political and social capital for marginalized groups in the United States, moving land, wealth, and power to historically oppressed groups, Opening Heart Mindfulness Community (2014), and most recently Making-Visble (2018), an ongoing webinar series grounded in mindfulness and led by those most impacted by issues of social injustice, internal biases.
 
Annie has been a student of mindfulness since the early 1990s. Her book, Things I Did When I Was Hangry: Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food was published by Parallax Press in 2015.
 
Annie holds masters degrees in both Computer Science, from the University of Michigan, and Religious Studies from Howard University and became a licensed massage therapist in 2011. Her first yoga teacher training was with Suzie Hurley at Willow Street Yoga Center in 2004, and she was one of the country's first certified Children's Yoga teachers. She is a certified Focusing professional, Trauma-informed Clinical PracticeNonviolent Communication (NVC), and many other modalities.
 
Read about Annie's blog and other inspiration and practical guidance on mindfulness here.
Mentioned in the Podcast

Previous Tranquility du Jour Interviews

Everyday Mindfulness #341
Mindful Eating #357

Find Our Guest

Instagram @annielakemahon
Facebook @rawmindfulness
Twitter @rawmindfulness
LinkedIn @Annie (Chalgian) Mahon
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0:00.0

Welcome back to Tranquility DeJure, nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful life with doses of tranquility.

0:14.1

This is episode 527.

0:17.9

I'm your host, Kimberly Wilson, bringing you tranquility through this podcast since 2005.

0:25.1

I'm your host, Kimberly Wilson, bringing you tranquility through this podcast since 2005.

0:32.6

Today we're talking with returning guest Annie Mahan.

0:37.0

Now, I invited her back on to the podcast. She's been on here

0:40.6

a couple times before and has so much to share with regard to mindfulness, living a mindful life,

0:46.9

and how mindfulness has helped her. So you're going to hear about how she used mindfulness to get

0:53.5

through a health crisis, how it's changed, how she's living now, and she's going to hear about how she used mindfulness to get through a health crisis, how

0:55.7

it's changed, how she's living now, and the lessons that she's learned.

1:02.0

Now, you'll find the show notes at Kimberlywilson.com slash 527.

1:08.3

And be sure to hit the subscribe button on whatever platform you may be using, Spotify, Apple Podcast,

1:13.9

Amazon, Overcast, etc. I've got links to all these in the show notes. And also, if you have a

1:20.2

moment to pin a review, I would be so very grateful. My hope is that you are learning a lot about ways to incorporate tranquility into your

1:31.2

life with the TDJ tenants, right? Mindfulness, which is one of our tenants clearly today.

1:37.9

Style, creativity, wellness, and compassion. Now those of you who are new to Tranquility DeJure, a big, big welcome

1:47.4

and you can learn more about Tranquility DeJure and our online community over at Kimberlywilson.com

1:54.2

slash new. Also, save the dates. We've got lots coming up this spring. March 21st is our TDJ live one-hour

2:02.7

free master class. We've got March 27th freshly announced the TDJ style pop-up where I'm going

2:09.7

to be talking all about creating and styling a capsule wardrobe. And then April 3rd is our next

2:16.0

half-day virtual retreat. We'd love to have you with us.

2:21.2

Now, without further ado, the lovely Annie is a white, Armenian-American, ordained layperson in the

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