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Rebellion & Mindfulness with Argos Gonzalez

Episode Summary

Argos Gonzalez is a mindfulness instructor for both educators and students, and in this episode he shares his personal spiritual journey, including rebellious teenage years, prayer-as-a-conversation, the power of meditation, and social justice work.

Episode Notes

Argos Gonzalez is a mindfulness instructor for both educators and students, and in this episode he shares his personal spiritual journey. We discuss:

Parenthood, teenage rebellion, and the powerful vision his own father had before he was born
The transformational power of a near-drowning experience
Argos' journey in the Lucumi tradition, shamanism, and meditation
Rigidity, fluidity, and finding balance
How to develop your intuition
Why meditation might feel like it “makes things worse” and how to sit with and through that
Prayer as ritual and prayer as a conversation
Mindfulness as a secular practice
The inclusivity of mindfulness
Agency and mindfulness within radical social justice work
What to do with anger
Modeling mindfulness and making it fun for children

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