Experience Holistic Life Foundation’s unique variation of Loving Kindness meditation, grounded in trauma-informed principles and rooted in community healing. This guided practice fosters self-compassion, emotional safety, and connection—honoring both personal resilience and collective well-being.

This guided practice is one of two sessions led by Atman Smith in the Contemplation By Design Summit. You are welcome to attend one or both sessions. The other session is a lecture titled Empowering Communities Through Contemplative Practices in Schools on October 16th. 

Atman Smith is one of the co-founders of the Holistic Life Foundation. Since 2001, he has been teaching yoga and mindfulness to a diverse population, including underserved and high-risk youth in drug treatment centers, wellness centers, detention centers, mental crisis facilities, corporations and colleges world wide. A native of Baltimore, Atman attended the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a letter award winner for the university's men's basketball team. He graduated with a B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Atman's work with the Holistic Life Foundation has been featured on Steven Spielberg's Discovery Channel ‘Why We Hate’, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and CBS, as well as in O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Upworthy, Mindful Magazine, and many other Publications. In 2024, Baltimore Magazine named Atman and the other co-founders of the Holistic Life Foundation "Game Changers." He is also a published author in the Journal of Abnormal Childhood Psychology, and co-authored "Let Your Light Shine". Smith also partnered with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Penn State's Prevention Research Center on the first randomized control study on the effectiveness of yoga and mindfulness on urban youth.

This sessions is part of the FREE Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 15-27, 2025.

The full summit schedule is posted at: https://med.stanford.edu/contemplation/summit.html.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stanford-contemplation-by-design-summit-2025-online-oct-15-27-registration-1520413249959