In conversations that I have been having personally and professionally, I sense a growing understanding that many of the changes we made...

Swept away like breadcrumbs in the moment, I decided to gather up the bits and pieces of my life to see if the trail ended in gratitude....

In our fact-paced lives, the mind-body connection – the complex relationship between a person’s physical body and internal state – is not...

A powerful form of self-care can boost wellbeing and manage chronic pain Phoning a sibling, meeting a friend for dinner, doing volunteer...

Susan O'Conner-Von is many things: a PhD, an RN, a professor and, for the last seven years, the Center’s Director of Graduate Studies. By...

NEARLY A MILLION PEOPLE are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States. That’s greater than the number of people...

Heading to my cabin in Wisconsin, I passed the Franconia Sculpture Park in an unmown hay field adjacent to County Road 8. Among its giant...

Raised in Bemidji, Minnesota, Jamie Hazelton (she/her) is a frequent camper, a role model, a gay transgender woman, and a Health Coach....

Before the global pandemic forced the world into lockdown, staff at the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing created a series...

Talking about planetary health, suggests Dr. Laalitha Surapaneni, is no longer enough. An internal medicine hospitalist at the University...

In the Fall 2019 issue of Mandala, to honor the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing’s 25th Anniversary, I thought it would...

Bakken Center Offers Support to Students During Covid-19 Pandemic Since March 2020, students at the University of Minnesota have been...

It’s more important than ever that the Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing makes its courses accessible in these unprecedented...

Like many, I am very eager to put 2020, which was a year like no other, to rest. I am not sure that anyone could have anticipated the...

Anyone at the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing will share that it’s hard to imagine the Center...

About three years ago, Roni Evans and her research team were in the middle of a pilot study exploring how mindfulness might encourage...

At 16 years old, Jasmine Bennetsen got a life-changing diagnosis: Fanconi anemia (FA), a rare disease that prevents her cells from...

“Good health begins at home.” That’s more than just an old adage. Throughout the past three decades, public health data has shown that...

The mixed election results and pandemic have left me, like many others, dealing with melancholy and depression–struggling to keep disgust...

The Integrative Nursing specialization covers how to return nurses to their point of expertise – caring and healing.