iPause Guided Practice #1 Contemplative Movement and Stillness for Health and Well-being - Tia Rich

Enjoy firsthand the health and well-being benefits of contemplative movement and stillness practices. Guided instruction will deepen your interoceptive, proprioceptive, and kinesthetic experiences as well as cultivate compassionate mindful awareness and loving kindness toward yourself and others. Attending to breath, body, and mind together during this Contemplation by Design iPause session will support development of the equanimity, sense of agency, and sense of self fundamental to the wise compassionate actions that promote individual, community, and planetary health and well-being.

Tia Rich, PhD, MA, MSW, is the founder and director of the Stanford School of Medicine’s Contemplation by Design® program. As the principal lecturer for the School of Medicine’s Applied Contemplative Science concentration in Community Health and Prevention Research, Rich teaches and mentors Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. Academic classes she teaches include: Contemplative Science, Applying Contemplative Practices, Contemplative Competence for Sustainability of Public and Planetary Health and Well-being, Contemplative Movement, and Translating Contemplative Science into Timely Community Programming. She also teaches co-curricular classes through the Stanford Healthy Living program, including the "The Power of the Pause" contemplative retreat for faculty, staff, students, and community members. She has been integrating contemplative science and practices into Stanford academic classes and professional development programs since her completion of graduate studies in Social Welfare at UC Berkeley, and in Education at Stanford, after earning her undergraduate degree in Human Biology at Stanford.