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Our first monthly meditation session at Next Step Fitness was a great success! After our previous events where we featured the powerful documentary, The Dhamma Brothers, we have been working with Next Step to bring regular, ongoing meditation sessions to their members, Artists for Trauma members...

Our hearts and prayers go out to our dear friends, the Adamson family, who suffered a hot air balloon accident which took the life of husband and father Grant.  We send prayers, support and love to surround Terry and their daughters in their time of...

It is Sunday evening, and I’m on a mother/daughter retreat far away from home, Los Angeles, and the United States. From far away in another country, we learn of another act of unacceptable violence and the trauma it brings to the lives of the innocent.  I...

[gallery ids="1056,1057,1058"] Artists for Trauma is pleased to announce that we are the new Healing through Art program for Next Step Fitness based in Lawndale, CA. Next Step Fitness was founded by Janne Kouri and his wife, Susan, after an accident left him paralyzed, and rehabilitation facilities...

  “The 2 million veterans who are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. As they come home, they have the potential to change the lives of civilians, too.” At the recent UCLA and Zocalo event “How Veterans Are Changing America,”...