Episode 90: Kindness Now with Amanda Gilbert

In today's podcast, we talk to Amanda Gilbert who is a meditation teacher, speaker and author of Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention and Compassion. During this conversation, we talk about the importance of bringing heart-based practices into our modern day life. We explore how people are being drawn to deepen their meditation practice, these days, because they are looking for healing and how to live a more compassionate and intentional life. Amanda shares how she has deepened her own meditation practice over the years by following a certain formula that she outlines for readers in her new book. Take a listen to this episode and share your takeaways with us on Instagram @AmandaGilbertMeditation and @OneWade    Want more mindfulness and self-care resources at your fingertips? Explore how Centered in the City's growing data base of meditations, journaling prompts, pilates flows and nourishing recipes can support you having a consistent place to feel centered and grounded. Learn more and sign up for your free 7-day trial here.    ***** Amanda Gilbert is a meditation teacher, lecturer of mindfulness at the University of Southern California, speaker, and author. She has been a meditator for over seventeen years and now leads meditation for top companies like NBC, Paramount Pictures, W Hotels, Merrill Lynch, Macy's, and YouTube. Before dedicating herself to teaching full-time, Amanda was the center director for the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center at the University of California, San Francisco, a world-renowned health psychology laboratory conducting scientific research and publishing investigations on the biological and psychological effects of mindfulness, meditation, and stress resilience. Her formal meditation training has been with UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, in primordial sound meditation with Deepak Chopra, and in the Insight Meditation tradition. She is now a modern leader in the field of teaching secular meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist meditation.