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.

Creativity

Taking Your Practice Off the Meditation Cushion with Improv

An unlikely tool for cultivating compassion lies well beyond the meditation cushion. We find it, instead, in improv communities. Read More

Belinda H. Y. Chiu
September 2, 2020

Breathing Meditations

A 20-Minute Practice to Deepen Your Awareness

Explore this guided meditation focused on allowing ourselves to settle in the present moment. Read More

Rhonda Magee
September 1, 2020

Loving-Kindness & Compassion

This is Why We Practice Mindfulness Meditation

Mindful Editor Anne Alexander reflects on the importance of leaning on our practice when the known falls away and we’re left with anger, confusion, fury, or despair. Read More

Anne Alexander
August 31, 2020

Loving-Kindness & Compassion

3 Practices to Come Back to Your Heart

Heather Hurlock, Executive Editor at Mindful, explores ways we can tune into our innate capacity for love and compassion. Read More

Heather Hurlock
August 25, 2020

Gratitude

A Practice to Welcome Gratitude with Sharon Salzberg

This practice, from Sharon Salzberg’s book Real Change, opens a doorway in your heart to gratitude and receiving happiness. Read More

Sharon Salzberg
August 21, 2020

Breathing Meditations

10-Minute Practice to Ground, Breathe, Soothe

Allow stressed and fearful emotions to dissipate with this calming, guided practice. Read More

Calmer Choice
August 18, 2020

Guided Meditations

A 4-Step Practice to Awaken Your Intention

A strong intention is like a rudder to navigate us through stormy seas. Wendy O’Leary offers a practice to reflect and return to our personal intention, no matter the weather. Read More