On today's episode with San Qing, we welcome Dena Merriam, author, and ambassador of the Global Peace Initiative of Women. Ms. Merriam is the Chair of the International Advisory Committee for Auroville. She began working in the inter-faith movement in the late 1990s when she served as Vice Chair of the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders held at the United Nation in New York in the year 2000. She subsequently convened a meeting of women religious and spiritual leaders at the Palais des Nations in Geneva and from that gathering founded the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) in 2002, an organization chaired by a multi-faith group of women spiritual leaders. In 2008, Ms. Merriam was one of the founding members of the Contemplative Alliance, which later became a program of GPIW. The purpose of the Alliance is to bring together meditation teachers and practitioners in a collective effort to uplift and transform society, while caring for and honoring our Mother Earth. For over 40 years, Dena Merriam has been a student of Paramahansa Yogananda and a practitioner of Kriya Yoga meditation. She is also a long time student of the great texts of the Vedic tradition. Ms. Merriam received her master’s degree from Columbia University and has served on numerous boards. In 2014 she received the Niwano Peace Prize for her interfaith peace efforts and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Peace Studies from Mahachulalongkornvajravidyadara University (MCU) in Thailand. She is the author of My Journey Through Time, The Untold Story of Sita, When the Bright Moon Rises, Rukmini and the Turning of Time and To Dance with Dakinis. Dena's social:Author’s Website: www.denamerriam.comhttps://www.instagram.com/dena.merriam.books/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denamerriamwritesHer organization: The Global Peace Initiative of Women www.gpiw.org*Brand New Book*Buy the TAO TE CHING transcribed by San Qing as a direct channel of Lao Tzuhttps://buy.stripe.com/8wMdSe0s8ayIgtq4jC?locale=en&__embed_source=buy_btn_1PCJtqLqVWuQP7qZFOPvn24W The Way 126 app LIVE now on web, IOS and Androidhttps://theway126.com/instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/theway_126Sleep Frequency of The Way YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@sleepfrequencyoftheway#mentalhealth #meditation #consciousness #selfimprovement #personaldevelopment #taoism #theway126 #Sanqing

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