Episode 6: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo
Barbara’s Lesson 6: In meditation we're listening to ourselves and finding space to open up and offer ourselves the attention and the care.
I really love talking about this whole issue of listening and in meditation we're listening to ourselves and finding space to open up and offer ourselves the attention and the care. You sit on the cushion, nobody's there, inviting a sense of receiving the attention that we might find helpful in the moment, and acknowledging in order to do so what it is that we are feeling at any given moment, whether it's pain, fear, distress, acknowledging that to ourselves as if we're holding ourselves being in this distress or confusion and opening up to a larger space of awareness
Meet the Guests of the Episode
Barbara Chutroo
Barbara Chutroo has made use of SHARE’s services since her first diagnosis in 2015 and is eternally grateful for all the support she has received. She is a clinical social worker and movement therapist who worked with severe and persistent mental illness in the South Bronx for thirteen years. She also taught psychology and child development at NYC College of Technology. She is especially interested in the integration of body and mind, an investigation she makes use of in her meditation practice. She began to study zen as an undergraduate in 1976 and has continued since then to explore various different meditation practices. The meditation community has provided her with valuable guiding principles for her life and personal growth.
She was born and raised in New York City where she lives with her husband and two rescue cats.
