SDAI welcomes author and mindfulness expert Julie Potiker for guided meditation in the gallery.

We will provide chairs but feel free to bring your mat or zafu. We welcome you to clear your mind, and enjoy a peaceful Sunday morning as part of our Beyond the Age of Reason programming. Admission to the event and the exhibition is complimentary but space is limited, so please reserve below.

Author and mindfulness expert Julie Potiker is an attorney who began her serious study and investigation of mindfulness after graduating from the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program at the University of California, San Diego. She was trained by Kristin Neff, Christopher Germer and UCSD as a Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher. She went on to study with Rick Hanson, becoming a graduate of his Positive Neuroplasticity Training Professional Course. Potiker also completed Brené Brown’s Living Brave Semester. Now, she shares these and other mindfulness techniques with the world through her Mindful Methods for Life trainings and her new book: “Life Falls Apart, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm In the Midst of Chaos.” She holds a B.G.S. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from George Washington University.