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Sue Doherty – Anthropologist & Author

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Sue Doherty, M.A., is the author of Kinergetics: Dancing with Your Baby (Barricade Books, 1994; revised edition 2021). As a cultural anthropologist, she specializes in oral history and cultural landscapes. Her award-winning research on the Song Wong Collection documented Chinese American heritage in Santa Rosa’s Chinatown from 1877 and aided in developing the museum exhibit Sonoma Stories. Sue is also a certified mindfulness teacher (UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center) and offers guided meditations and selective consultations. Email storiesmatter@yahoo.com 

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Guided Mindfulness Meditations

Doing a meditative body scan (practice 1) and practicing awareness of your breathing (practice 2) are ways of being with your body and with yourself in the present moment. They are excellent ways to relieve tension and stress. I invite you to bring awareness to your breath or every part of your body, to know it, learn from it, and manage whatever arises. Also, for those experiencing physical pain (or emotional pain that causes tension in your body), practice 3, a guided meditation on pain is helpful.

Guided Mindfulness Body Scan Meditation

Guided Mindfulness Meditation on Breathing

Guided Mindfulness Meditation for Pain

Dr. Thynn’s Oral History & Mindfulness in Daily Life Q & A

This oral history of Dr. Thynn, conducted in August 2017, is a follow-up to our meeting at the end 2014, which appears at the end of this update and Q & A.  Dr. Thynn moved back, after a two year hiatus in Santa Rosa, to the Sae Taw Win II Dhamma Center in 2014, which she established in 1998. It was, in her words: “the best thing I did for myself”. In this continuing oral history, she explains her decision, the period since her return, current happenings at the center, and answers questions about mindfulness practice in daily life.

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