#32 - Music, Mindfulness & The African Diaspora

Dr. AZA Allsop is a Resident at the Yale Department of Psychiatry, multi-instrumentalist deeply rooted in the experience of music from the African Diaspora and first-generation American from Trinidad. He is currently researching the effects of music and mindfulness as tools that help enhance empathy, social justice, health equity, and wellness. In this episode, he shares some initial findings on his research from The Music + Mindfulness Study,what neuroscience tells us about these practices, his mission to bring these practices to underserved communities,  and his personal experiences with panic attacks. He and Wolf also explore the crossovers of science and spirituality, what we can learn about meditation from jazz music, mindfulness as a social justice tool, quantum physics and expressions of consciousness.

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