Podcasts & Audio

Listen and learn with podcasts, audio meditations, and recorded talks from mindfulness teachers and researchers. Perfect for practice on the go or when you'd rather close your eyes than read a screen.
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Guided Meditations
Try These Meditations from UCLA 

Drop-in meditation sessions at the Hammer Museum, led by UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), are catching on. You can follow along with these podcasts.  Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • March 20, 2015
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Kids & Teens
Teaching habits of mind in school (audio podcast) 

Meditation: coming to a school near you? In this episode of NPR's "On Point," Tom Ashbrook looks at how mindfulness practices are being integrated into North American schools and the research that drives these programs.  Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 8, 2012
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How to harness willpower 

In this podcast, Kelly McGonigal, Mindful.org blogger and author of The Willpower Instinct, talks about strengthening willpower, especially when dealing with bad habits and distractions. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • April 25, 2012
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