Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell

Today I sit down with Dr. Tawni Tidwell, a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medicine doctor at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Together we discuss how Tibetan medicine approaches the challenges that arise in the course of meditation. Along the way, we talk about reconnecting with indigenous knowledge, establishing a more intimate relationship with the body and the land, and the importance of social context in supporting spiritual practice. If you want to hear scholars and practitioners engaging in deep conversations about the dark side of Asian religions and medicines, then

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Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell is an episode from New Books in Psychology by New Books Network.

This episode is 63:05 long.

This episode was published on Mar 8, 2026.

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