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
Why We Made a Magazine About Compassion 

The Mindful editors share why they decided to make The Compassion Issue and a peek behind the scenes of making the 2025 Annual Edition of Mindful magazine. Read More 

  • Amber Tucker
  • November 28, 2024
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Breathing Meditations
How to Meditate through Exercise 

Meditating through exercise isn't complicated: You can train the mind and body with the breath as part of any exercise that you already do. Read More 

  • Laurie J. Cameron
  • November 15, 2024
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Focus & Attention
An Election Day Meditation 

Follow along as Rhonda Magee guides us through a S.T.O.P. practice for focused awareness. The invitation is to be kind to yourself, take a conscious breath, and gently relate to thoughts, emotions, and sensations that arise. Read More 

  • Rhonda Magee
  • November 5, 2024
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