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That’s what connected AHA! – the highly-regarded Santa Barbara nonprofit that has provided social-emotional education to more 20,000 teens, educators, parents, youth care providers and therapists over the course of 20 years, inspiring communities to feel safe, seen, celebrated and emotionally connected – to connect with Eden in the first place about two years ago.ĪHA! founder Jennifer Freed brought five staff members to one of Eden’s retreats at Esalen Institute, and then booked her to bring the work to Santa Barbara for the first time last year, mostly for other staff members.

“Sitting meditation is the training, but all of life is the practice.”Įden’s book is subtitled “A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Ourselves, Each Other, and the Planet,” and her mission these days is to embody and teach not only personal transformation through mindfulness, but to help heal the world through the process. Nothing is separate,” she said, after a brief pause.

Even so, it was almost surprising when it took a moment for the words to emerge in response to a question about Eden ’s own practice, as she exhibited employing the tenet in the moment. Taking a mindful pause is one of the most important tenets of Relational Mindfulness, according to Deborah Eden Tull, the veteran meditation and mindfulness teacher who wrote a 2018 book of the same name.