An Interview With Melissa Llarena

Imagine this: It’s Saturday morning. 6:30 am. You are sitting at the beach on soft sand. It’s warm. You are surrounded by other people who are doing the same thing. And you’re sitting in silence for 20 minutes. You watch the sunrise on a beach in Sydney, Australia. Then you feel heard and supported as each of you has a chance to share what you got or learned out of that time alone with your thoughts. This has become my Saturday morning ritual and it’s just as amazing as it sounds. In this week’s episode, I wanted to bring to you the founder of The Sit, Jason Partington who first thought of this free weekly meditation experience you can find on many beaches in Australia, and later on, even in Portland, Maine. Jason talks about how one day, he was watching the news with his two sons, and then they learned there have been 33 suicides in their local area.  We are constantly looking at the news. For instance, our eyes are so glued to what’s happening in Ukraine and Russia. We might have seen images of X and Y. The