In a review of everything currently known about the topic, researchers recently developed a scientific model of how contemplative practices of various kinds may encourage better physical and ...

Years of practice appeared to reshape the resting architecture of their minds. A passing state had, in some measure, become a ...

Through a lifelong contemplative and mindful practice, Anne Archambault (part-time faculty in Applied Human Sciences) has witnessed how these practices generate moments of calm or at least a pause ...

A version of this story appeared in the Dec 15-28, 2017 print issue under the headline: Breathe in, breathe out. As a nursing major, Hannah Henjum has more than her share of stress. So, when one of ...

Doctors, professors and monks from around the world shared ways that contemplative practices, such as behaviors like looking inward and taking pauses in one’s day, could help combat the climate crisis ...

Sara Terrault, part-time faculty in Theological Studies, integrates contemplative practices in the classroom to support her students in finding stillness to centre themselves. The exercises encourage ...

For students in COST 0100: “Introduction to Contemplative Studies,” class begins and ends with meditation every Wednesday afternoon. The course, which aims to introduce students to the contemplative ...

Do the world’s religions and contemplative traditions send people to the same place – compassion, bliss, awe, a sense of God, awareness, or the universe? We conducted a study that asked a smaller ...

A contemplative movement of Christian Centering Prayer is quietly (almost secretly) reviving religious life and faith in society. Here in the land of “the spiritual, but not religious,” and growing ...