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Mindful Lessons from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Shane, our resident pop culture expert explores mindful lessons in the holiday themed film Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
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Home is Where the Heart is: Mindfulness and The Wizard of Oz

On this 85th anniversary of the nationwide release of The Wizard of Oz, Shane Ledford reminds us that mindfulness can help us feel at home within ourselves any time, anywhere.
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“Lost in Translation” and Mindful Lessons from Chance Encounters

Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness teacher Shane Ledford explores mindful lessons in chance encounters and the movie “Lost in Translation”
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Ferris Bueller’s Lessons on Mindfulness

Shane Ledford explores what the 37-year-old coming-of-age teen comedy, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has to teach about being in the moment