Meditation Practices

Explore meditation techniques for every level - from your first sitting practice to advanced methods like body scan, breathwork, and loving-kindness. Each practice includes step-by-step guidance to help you build a meditation habit that lasts.
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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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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Compassion: Brain Food for Happiness 

Our brain is equipped to uncover happiness, says Elisha Goldstein. One way we can do that is to tap into a deeper source of meaning and purpose: connection with others.  Read More 

  • Elisha Goldstein
  • February 6, 2015
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