Tonglen Meditation

Led by Kyla Pearce

The Buddhist meditation practice of Tonglen is a process of ‘sending and receiving’. In synchrony with your breath, you welcome your own and others’ challenges and suffering, then you send out whatever you feel will comfort and relieve these challenges and suffering. This empowering practice builds your connection with others through the raw and real emotions of suffering, and helps you begin to transform those challenges into opportunities for growth and learning.

Kyla (she/her) serves as the Senior Director of Programs and Research, overseeing the design, implementation, and evaluation of LoveYourBrain programs on a large scale. By turning inward through mindfulness, Kyla believes we learn to be with our whole selves with greater compassion, which is fundamental to wellbeing and inspiring positive social change. Kyla has blended her expertise as a yoga and mindfulness teacher and practitioner, researcher, and advocate to develop evidence-based, TBI-centered yoga and meditation curricula, which she trains yoga teachers and clinicians to deliver in clinical, community, and online settings. She recently completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dartmouth College investigating the impact of yoga and meditation for people with neurological conditions, and has published broadly on this topic. She has been part of the Pearce family for years, and, following Kevin's accident, played an integral role in the launch of LoveYourBrain.