Each month, we invite the teachers at WITHIN to offer wisdom and inspiration around a particular topic. In April, we’re talking about physical pain: what’s happening in our minds and bodies when we experience it, and how to navigate it with the help of mindfulness.
On April 21st, three of our teachers will get together for an informal conversation on Zoom exploring this month’s theme: Kellie Aponte, Kim Nicol and Tasha Brown. Whether you join them live 1-2pm PDT / 4-5pm EDT, or listen to the recording afterwards, you’re sure to get a variety of perspectives and ideas to nourish your meditation practice.
Anyone can submit a question ahead of time for the teachers - just fill out this quick form. We also welcome your questions live! Please note, during the conversation we will record both the questions submitted and the responses from the teachers. If you’d prefer that we not mention your name, be sure to indicate that on the form or when you type your question in the Zoom chat.
This conversation will be held online via Zoom; the link will be provided to you via email when you register. Registration is $15.
If you’re a WITHIN Member, this is included in your membership - email us for the promo code!
Kellie Aponte
When Kellie Aponte no longer wanted to accept anxiety and stress in her daily life, she started her meditation journey, focusing on learning different styles of meditation and mindfulness.
Fast forward to 2022, she decided it was time to take her practice a step further, and teach.
After graduating from The Chopra Center, Kellie has dedicated a large part of her life to teaching people how simple, effortless, and easy meditation can be - if they are open to the journey.
"I've experienced such a tremendous transformation, that it's motivated me to share this information. That's what I'm called to do right now and I must honor that." - Kellie
Kim Nicol
Kim Nicol, PCC, is a meditation teacher and life coach. She uses appreciative inquiry and possibility thinking to help her clients create the results they want in life. She works with ambitious, heart-centered leaders to become more effective managers. Her mindfulness workshops help teams connect as humans, increase well-being, and find relief from stress and burnout.
Kim lives in San Francisco. She is a former lawyer. Learn more at https://kimnicol.com.
Tasha Brown
Tasha Brown came to her meditation practice seeking tools to manage anxiety that developed as a result of a number of chronic health issues. Not only did she find ways to recalibrate her nervous system but, to her surprise, she also found a practice that made her aware of and changed her relationship to negative thought patterns, supported a presence to savor all of life's joys, gave her a capacity to respond to difficult emotions more wisely and opened her heart towards compassion for herself and others.
The profound healing and awakening she has experienced led Tasha to do Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield's Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Drawing on the programs in depth training and her own personal meditation journey, Tasha helps students start and build their meditation practice through a variety of mindfulness meditation practices - wise compassion, forgiveness, RAIN (emotional awareness), awakening joy, and mind & body. What brings her great joy is to see students have those "aha" moments where they begin to trust and tap into their own innate ability to bring curiosity, non judgement, and compassion to their life and thereby, find their own wise and light responses to each moment as it arises.