Meditation builds awareness, focus, and resilience. It also offers numerous health and wellness benefits. Specific meditative practices may also result in the cultivation of compassion and loving kindness. In this February noontime series hosted by Roland Hsu of the Stanford Help Center, join physician and meditation instructor Dr. Angela Lumba-Brown in guided meditations focused on the practice of self-love. Each unique session in the series will explore different techniques to support self-love and compassion such as metta meditation, standing meditation, and focused awareness. 

Angela Lumba-Brown, MD is a recognized physician leader and clinician-scientist in pediatrics and emergency medicine at Stanford University. She is an academic pediatric emergency medicine physician with expertise in injury, neuroscience, and neurocritical emergencies. Dr. Lumba-Brown co-directed the Stanford Brain Performance Center for 7 years, leading in advancing the neuroscience of development, injury, and aging through prevention, novel biomarker discovery and other diagnostics, and treatments. 

Dr. Lumba-Brown’s work has been highlighted by Stanford Magazine, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, as well as other national outlets. She is a certified yoga and meditation instructor and graduate of the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism (CCARE) Applied Compassion Training program. Dr. Lumba-Brown currently trains under mindfulness leaders Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.