{"id":14144,"date":"2022-07-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2023-01-19T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T17:16:51","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth English: Gentle mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this conversation, we talk about freeing meditation from the pressures of what we believe it should be and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"English Elizabeth\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/720480440?h=4f11c8220e&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Elizabeth&nbsp;English began meditating as a student in 1983. Three decades later, she was&nbsp;appointed as Cambridge University\u2019s first ever Mindfulness Practitioner. Her&nbsp;courses are the subject of research published in&nbsp;<em>The Lancet&nbsp;<\/em>showing significant&nbsp;benefit to students, and are now also offered more widely online.&nbsp;Elizabeth draws on four decades of personal meditation practice and her&nbsp;ordination within a Western Buddhist tradition, as well as her doctoral&nbsp;research at Oxford, where she studied Buddhist meditation texts. She is also a certified&nbsp;teacher of Focusing, Somatic Experiencing, and Nonviolent Communication. She&nbsp;spends much of her time singing and writing, both poetry and prose. Her first \u2018gentle&nbsp;guide\u2019 to meditation was published this year:&nbsp;<em>Journeys to the Deep: A Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation<\/em>.<a href=\"https:\/\/2b639cb7-8ee6-4c86-961b-edfd3c84b95b.mailbutler.link\/p2\/900ec292-cd8c-4319-9d50-01137a3933b1\/5c5fb9aa-40f3-47c2-8cf9-21cacb582e65\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a>She lives in Cambridge with her cocker&nbsp;spaniel, Cherub. For more information on her courses and her book, see her <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethenglish.life\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7110\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14144-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/English-2022-07.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/English-2022-07.mp3\">https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/English-2022-07.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/English-2022-07.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"English-2022-07.mp3\">Download<\/a> (16.5MB) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Published July 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}