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Buddhist-inspired liberal arts university combining traditional academics & eastern wisdom practices.
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Experience Naropa for Yourself with a Free Introductory Course 📒✏️Naropa’s approach to education is a little different - and often best understood through experience. We created this course to give you a feel for it: a chance to step into the classroom, engage the work, and see what resonates for you.“Whether you’re just beginning to explore Naropa or you’re already imagining yourself here as a part of our community, we hope that this space helps you to have an authentic deep understanding of our community and our programs and to feel how learning feels different at Naropa feels like learning should feel.” - President Paul Burkhardt, PhD Find the new course linked in our bio 🌿 by @naropau

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The path isn’t found by stepping away from life, but by meeting it with intention. Ram Dass reflects on the Bhagavad Gita’s invitation to let everyday life become the practice. 💜#RamDass #BhagavadGita #Mindfulness #ContemplativePractice #Presence by @naropau

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Community Practice: In the summer of 1974, Ram Dass impacted Naropa University by teaching a course on the Bhagavad Gita that drew over 1,000 students and helped launch this university into existence.His teaching, at its core, was about presence: showing up fully for the moment you're in, instead of the one in your head.This week's practice: Pick one ordinary task today - washing a dish, walking to your car - and do only that, fully. Notice what shifts when you stop multitasking and become present. 💜#50YearsOfNaropa by @naropau

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Feeling disconnected from yourself isn't always a mindset problem. Sometimes it's a nervous system problem.Modern psychotherapy and neuroscience are showing that nervous system regulation plays a major role in how we experience connection, curiosity, purpose, and even spirituality. When we feel safe instead of stuck in survival mode, our capacity for healing and self-awareness naturally expands.This perspective is changing the way many therapists approach trauma healing, mental health, and personal growth.Learn more from Dr. Harmony Kwiker at Naropa University#MentalHealth #Therapy #TraumaHealing by @naropau

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'Awakening' - a Naropa Summer Writing Program experience, recapped by Poet and Psychology Student Nick Greenspan.Listen in as Nick describes his experience of a broader worldview, deeper connection to his writing, and finding his niche within the diversity of poets at Naropa's 2026 Summer Writing Program. 🖋️📜 by @naropau

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The longest day of the year, spent the way we love best: outside, together, hands getting crafty with flowers 💐Members of our community gathered on the Naropa grounds this Summer Solstice to craft flower crowns. A simple practice in presence - fitting for a season of celebration as we continue the next #50YearsOfNaropa. 🌻 by @naropau

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Sometimes the most powerful movements begin with the smallest actions. Vandana Shiva reflects on the lasting lesson of Gandhi’s spinning wheel. 💜#VandanaShiva #Gandhi #Leadership #Change #Community by @naropau

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In Buddhist practice, wisdom and compassion are cultivated in different ways. Thupten Jinpa explains why. 💜#Buddhism #Wisdom #Compassion #Meditation #Mindfulness by @naropau

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Contemplative Practice of the Week:Fifty years ago, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche founded Naropa on a simple premise: that contemplative discipline - meeting the moment fully, the way a hungry person eats or a thirsty person drinks - is its own kind of education.In a world where we are often doing, fixing, even competing, let's find balance in presence.This week's practice: Sit for a few minutes - however many feel right. No goal. When your mind wanders (it will), just come back. That return is the practice.Let us know in the comments how your practice goes. 🌱#NaropaUniversity #ContemplativeEducation #50YearsOfNaropa #MindfulnessMovement by @naropau

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@netanelmy, discusses what becomes possible when we see perspective as a gift instead of a certainty. 💜#BelovedCommunity #Perspective #Dialogue #Connection #Mindfulness by @naropau

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Words to return to when the future feels uncertain. Kirsten Wilson’s Commencement Address (MFA in Theater, 2006). 💜 #Commencement #Hope #Resilience #Community #Courage by @naropau

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Joanna Macy on facing pain, transformation, and the web of life. 💜#JoannaMacy #ActiveHope #Mindfulness #Transformation #Spirituality by @naropau

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