EQUANIMITY
What is equanimity?
Here’s a definition from my book:
The ability to fully feel the entire range of human experience without getting caught in reactivity that clouds our ability to clearly apprehend what is happening or to discern the most skillful response.
It is tender-hearted without sentimentality, vulnerable without weakness, wise without detachment, humble without diffidence, and surrendering without passivity.
My Work
In 2018 I created a four hour 2 week workshop on cultivating equanimity through the Compassion Institute.
Having worked at the cutting edge of translating compassion and mindfulness into mainstream formats, I set out to do the same thing for equanimity.
Inspired by a talk from my teacher Joseph Goldstein, the paucity of teaching on equanimity, and the political upheavals we were navigating, I was inspired to make equanimity more widely accessible.
Since then, I have offered the training in various formats through the UCSD Center of Mindfulness, the Mind and Life Institute and at a variety of conferences.
The power of this short program led me to write a book on equanimity. For almost three years I studied equanimity through a wide variety of lenses and practiced with a wide variety of teachers. Writing the book afforded me the opportunity to interview religious and Indigenous leaders as well as psychologists, meditation teachers and neuroscientists about equanimity. I even interviewed a politician!
17 Minute Guided Equanimity Practice