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.
getting uncrossed
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Getting Uncrossed 

Nowadays, when I feel my body tightening, I also practice softening, opening up, and breathing into the areas of physical tension, as well as having a sense of offering whatever loving-kindness I can muster to myself and others. Read More 

  • Ed Halliwell
  • December 2, 2011
Why don't you try meditation dear.
Guided Meditations
Present, with Cramps 

It is the time of the month... to meditate, says Corinne Zupko. In fact, she redefines PMS as the Perfect Meditation Space. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • November 25, 2011
A chocolate cake with the word waiting written on it.
Eating & Body Image
Taming the Wanting Mind 

You're hungry, but what are you really hungry for? Sasha Loring on opening your heart, offering your attachments, and being mindful of when you're satisfied. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • October 25, 2011
Getting Started
Mindfulness and Youth: To dot-be or not to dot-be? 

It’s estimated (conservatively) that one in ten children in the United States would qualify for a diagnosis of Attention Hyperactivty Disorder. We live in an age of "continuous partial attention," where the constant pressure to react to a flood of stimuli goes beyond the reasonable capacities of our brains. Read More 

  • Ed Halliwell
  • October 25, 2011
Meditation Practices
Take a walk down “the meditation hallway” 

In my talk at Creating a Mindful Society, I introduced the concept of “the meditation hallway.” You might know what a meditation hall is—but what is a meditation hallway, and why should you have one? Well, it is exactly what it sounds like, a hallway—one that is very near… Read More 

  • Janice Marturano
  • October 17, 2011
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