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.
How Mindfulness Helps Me Thrive with Asthma—A woman in a red jacket reaches a mountain peak surrounded by other mountains.
Breathing Meditations
How Mindfulness Helps Me Thrive with Asthma 

When Georgina Miranda was diagnosed with severe asthma, she realized how working with mindfulness could help her find the courage not only to summit mountains, but also to slow down and embrace taking things one breath at a time. Read More 

  • Georgina Miranda
  • November 6, 2021
We’re All Biased. Here’s How Meditation May Help—Painting of two hands painted in many colors coming together from left and right with their fingers interlocking in the middle over a red background.
Learn
We’re All Biased. Here’s How Meditation May Help. 

By engaging in practices that increase awareness, focus on our similarities, and develop care and kindness, writes Mind & Life Institute Science Director Wendy Hasenkamp, we might also be loosening the hold of implicit bias. Read More 

  • Wendy Hasenkamp
  • November 4, 2021
A 12-Minute Meditation for Connecting to Your Body
Body Scan
A 12-Minute Meditation for Connecting to Your Body 

The four elements have the ability to connect us, both internally and externally, with the world around us. Jeanne Corrigal brings her Métis heritage, and her training as an insight meditation teacher, to this guided practice to connect with the four elements within our own body. Read More 

  • Jeanne Corrigal
  • October 19, 2021
10 Mindfulness Tips for Every Day—Illustration of a yellow apartment building where people are doing various activities on their balconies.
Getting Started
10 Mindfulness Tips for Every Day 

It can sometimes be difficult to take the time out of a busy day to meditate. Author and mindfulness coach Keith Fiveson offers some small ways to bring mindfulness into the things you’re already doing. Read More 

  • Keith Fiveson
  • October 15, 2021
A 12-Minute Meditation to Foster Compassion—A red puzzle fits together in the shape of a heart on a plain light blue background.
Guided Meditations
A 12-Minute Meditation to Foster Compassion 

In this guided meditation from Tara Brach, we investigate a relationship where there is tension or conflict. With compassion for ourselves and for the other person, we can go beyond the difficulty and find healing. Read More 

  • Tara Brach
  • October 7, 2021
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