Ram Dass said, “Many people share my teachings, but I need more people to share my love.” Come join our program with Vasu (Jon Seskevice) on how to share Loving Awareness through social action and bring compassion to the world. Ram Dass created the Hanuman Foundation in 1974 to form a structure for his goals and direction for his activities in the world, which included:
Bringing consciousness to the death and dying process
Spiritual support for people in prison
Helping to bring meditation teachers and teachings to the West
Bringing a Hanuman Murti to America
Vasu will use this as a framework for discussing how to bring Loving Awareness into service and social action—weaving in his own personal experience with these projects as a lifelong friend and student of Ram Dass.
Vasu is a student of meditation and practitioner of mind-body medicine, nursing and healing. He helped create the Duke University Hospital Stress Management Consult Team and has been a pioneer in integrating therapies that build resiliency. Now retired, he has seen over 40,000 patient consults throughout his career, helping people to skillfully navigate the sufferings and joys of life, right up to their last breath.
Ram Dass wrote these words about Vasu in 1996:
“I have known Jon Seskevich for more than fifteen years...
“In all the projects in which I have been involved with Jon, I have found him to be responsible, thorough and disciplined in his efforts. His recognition of the need for both a spiritual dimension in healing work and grounded, responsible social action in spiritual work have defined his career in nursing. To that career he has brought a creative energy for mind-body healing, meditative practices with stress reduction healing touch with traditional nursing practices and a spiritual perspective for patients facing traumatic illness.
“The integration of spiritual dimensions in his work is very personal for Jon. His own inner work takes the form of being fully present for both patients, fellow staff members, and offering a very warm heart-full human dimension to what are too often impersonal medical procedures.
“Jon is truly a brilliant example of compassion in action. He not only serves his patient community but seems tireless in his willingness to share and teach, and to explore innovative techniques for humanizing nursing for nurses and patients alike.”
Learn more about Vasu at: https://jonvasu.com/
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