Cultural Lifeways:

Sue Doherty – Anthropologist & Author

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Sue Doherty, M.A., is the author of Kinergetics: Dancing with Your Baby (Barricade Books, 1994; revised edition 2021). As a cultural anthropologist, she specializes in oral history and cultural landscapes. Her award-winning research on the Song Wong Collection documented Chinese American heritage in Santa Rosa’s Chinatown from 1877 and aided in developing the museum exhibit Sonoma Stories. Sue is also a certified mindfulness teacher (UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center) and offers guided meditations and selective consultations. Email storiesmatter@yahoo.com 

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Babies, Books, Cultural Lifeways:

Dancing With Your Baby — 2021 edition in paperback, ebook, & audiobook

An unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into our evolutionary instinct to rock a baby in our arms. Must-have cutting-edge research, advice, and insight into the art and science of song, dance, and melodies–and their profoundly nurturing, therapeutic, and developmental effects for infants and caregivers. Available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. Sample on SoundCloud.

With a Foreword by Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist and best-selling author of the Oprah acclaimed The Conscious Parent and her follow-ups Out of Control and The Awakened Family; and with praise from academics, therapists, clinicians, mindfulness teachers, parenting coaches, pre and post-natal dance instructors, and the general public.

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Cultural Lifeways:

Guided Mindfulness Meditations

Doing a meditative body scan (practice 1) and practicing awareness of your breathing (practice 2) are ways of being with your body and with yourself in the present moment. They are excellent ways to relieve tension and stress. I invite you to bring awareness to your breath or every part of your body, to know it, learn from it, and manage whatever arises. Also, for those experiencing physical pain (or emotional pain that causes tension in your body), practice 3, a guided meditation on pain is helpful.

Guided Mindfulness Body Scan Meditation

Guided Mindfulness Meditation on Breathing

Guided Mindfulness Meditation for Pain