Welcome to the Journey Your Own Meditation Series with Jyothi V. Robertson, DVM. In this episode, we explore the practice of sound awareness meditation to cultivate open curiosity. In our fast-paced lives, establishing a contemplative practice can be quite challenging. The constant distractions and noises of everyday life often make us feel like we’re failing ... Read more
A warm thank you to those of you who joined me for this month’s Journey You Own Meditation Gathering. If you missed us this time, I hope to see you in the future. Below we’ve included some highlights of the practice. Intention for the Session: Open Curiosity We began the session by acknowledging the challenge ... Read more
In meditation, the way we engage with our physical self supports wholeness of our body, speech, and mind. Used by experienced practitioners in many traditions, the seven-point meditation posture is one way to give support to the body in order to foster a clear, attentive, and calm mind. The posture can be adjusted depending on ... Read more
A warm thank you to those of you who joined us for the second Journey You Own Meditation Gathering. If you missed it this time, we hope to see you in the future. Below we have included some highlights of the practice. This session’s practice: Loving-Kindness Meditation Our first session set the groundwork for exploring different meditation techniques monthly through a shamatha ... Read more
Thank you to those who joined us for the first Journey You Own Meditation Gathering. Here are some highlights of the session. Intention for the Session: Open Curiosity Our first session began with providing some groundwork for our upcoming series, presenting different broad categorizations of meditation, and setting an intention for our practice together. ... Read more
This talk centers around the oft-posed question, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Wapnick’s Talk has been viewed 261,000+ views on YouTube and 2.7 Million on the TED Talks website since being delivered in April of 2015. The troubling implication of Wapnick’s leading question is that we are raised to believe ... Read more
There is a shocking and devastating rise in suicide rates among veterinarians today. Not One More Vet is a documentary about the high incidence of veterinarian suicide rates in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Veterinary Medical Association published a joint study in the Jan. 1, 2019 issue ... Read more
In this discussion with Maddie’s Fund Executive Leadership Team member Mary Ippoliti-Smith, Dr. Jyothi V. Robertson postulates how different fields (environment, education, etc.) are interwoven, and that relying on an animal-centric focus keeps us from examining some of the systemic, root causes of the issues we face. Her focus on how to bring new conversations ... Read more
Animal welfare, shelter health and the care of shelter pets may look dramatically different in the future. Learn more from this recent podcast from Merck Animal Health featuring Dr. Jyothi Robertson, DVM, DABVP (Shelter Medicine) and Angela Baysinger, DVM, MS as they discuss animal welfare, shelters, and the community.
Tucked away in our subconscious minds is an idyllic vision in which we see ourselves on a long journey that spans an entire continent. We’re traveling by train and, from the windows, we drink in the passing scenes of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at crossings, of cattle grazing in distant pastures, of ... Read more