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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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
More Compassionate? 

Mindfulness is more than moment-to-moment awareness. It's a kind, curious awareness that helps us relate to ourselves and others, says Shauna Shapiro.  Read More 

  • Shauna Shapiro
  • March 1, 2013
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Guided Meditations
Tame Your Inner “Puppy Mind” for Less Stress 

The mind is like an untrained puppy with its favorite toys that it likes to grab onto and vigorously shake, and that it never tires of running after," writes Donald Altman. He offers a practice to tame our inner puppy mind. Read More 

  • Donald Altman
  • November 28, 2012
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