North American Unitarian Association

Featuring a talk by Ken Murino

GLIDING O’ER ALL. – Walk Witman

GLIDING o’er all,

through all,

Through Nature, Time, and Space,

As a ship on the waters advancing,

The voyage of the soul—not life alone,

Death, many deaths I’ll sing.

Ken’s BIO

Ken Marino serves as a chaplain for UC Davis Home Health. He is a certified Reiki master, yoga teacher, author, and musician. His work integrates contemplative practice, interfaith engagement, and trauma-informed mindfulness. He studied philosophy at Stony Brook University, focusing on hermeneutics, Indian thought under Antonio De Nicolas, and modern continental philosophy with Jacques Derrida and Edward Casey. Ken’s spiritual journey began in the yoga and meditation communities of the Northeast including the Sri Chinmoy Center, Kripalu Ashram, Zen Mountain Monastery, and Yoga Anand Ashram. Ken volunteered at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies where he was introduced to mindfulness and yoga teachers Joan Halifax, Ram Dass, Swami Satchitananda, Stephen Levine, Joseph Goldstein, Deepak Chopra, and Jack Kornfield. He later pursued yoga therapy at the Kripalu Center, and deepened his yoga studies at the New York Jivamukti Center, and at Yoga Shanti with Rodney Yee. Deeply interested in the application of yoga and mindfulness to trauma as well as inter-religious dialogue and religion as a lived spiritual practice, Ken has taught at CSU Hayward and the City University of New York, and has led yoga programs through AARP and throughout the New York area. Ken attended seminary at Drew University and is completing the Tara Brach/Jack Kornfield mindfulness certification, integrating his academic studies with a holistic, embodied approach to mindfulness.

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