Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Friends & Enemies
When a sharp word turns a friend into an enemy, it’s always difficult to go back to the way things were. Sylvia Boorstein tells her own story of estrangement and healing. Read More 
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.
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
The Perfect Love We Seek, the Imperfect Love We Live
Love is what we long to receive and to give, yet our intimate relationships are conflicted and often painful. Psychologist John Welwood reveals the difference between absolute and relative love, and the wound within each of us that no other can heal. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
The Great Mirror
To see clearly in a relationship we must notice where we connect and where we idealize. Buddhist teacher Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche gives us the tools for greater understanding and insight. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Grandmother Mind: Becoming “Abuelita” and the Compassion That Holds a Family (and the World)
Parents must attend to the nuts and bolts of their children’s care. But grandmothers, says Susan Moon, can pay attention to what's in the background—water, air, stories, and love. Read More
Magazine
Love Is the Measure of Our Practice: Caregiving & Yoga
As the children of aging parents do, Cyndi Lee, teacher and founder of the OM Yoga Center, returns the love and care her mother showed to her. She finds teaching yoga has given her the tools to help. Read More
Guided Meditations
Meeting Pain with Awareness
Jon Kabat-Zinn, a keynote speaker at the 2011 Creating a Mindful Society conference, teaches you how. Read More
Getting Started
Five Steps to Mindfulness
You can learn how to create a moment of joy, a feeling of happiness, at any time of the day. Explore these 5 simple steps to enjoy more mindfulness. Read More
Meditation Practices
Body and Mind Integration
Yoga practice and meditation work extremely well together, say Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern. They show us how. Read More
Getting Started
Waking Up to Your World: Using the Pause Practice to Break Habitual Patterns
Throughout your day you can pause, take a break from your usual thoughts, and wake up to the magic and vastness of the world around you. Pema Chödrön says this easy and spacious type of mindfulness practice is the most important thing we can do with our lives. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Mindful Emailing: How a Simple Blessing Can Transform Your Inbox
E-mail is so fast it’s almost magical, says Sylvia Boorstein. Yet with a little mindfulness it could be more than that—it could be truly transformational. Read More
