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
Share a story of compassion 

Adrian Grenier upholds the Charter for Compassion. He hopes you might, too. Andrea Miller reports. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • March 30, 2012
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Getting Started
Welcome to meditation, Liz! 

Liz Lemon, one of pop-culture's great curmudgeons, has taken up the practice. What does it mean? Rod Meade Sperry explores the question. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • March 30, 2012
Getting Started
How to use your mindful instinct—and why 

Dr. Christopher Germer is a friend and colleague of mine who grew up with a great fear of speaking. It wasn’t always easy, but over time he began to cultivate an awareness of the feeling of fear as it arose and practiced systematically relating to it with greater mindfulness and… Read More 

  • Elisha Goldstein
  • March 8, 2012
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