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We’re bringing our content to life with Mindful Live—a new series of in-depth, online conversations and events featuring mindfulness experts on how we can enjoy better health, cultivate more caring relationships, and create a more compassionate socie

How do you express gratitude toward those you love? Does your mindfulness practice include gratitude? If you could tell one person you appreciate them, who would it be, and why? Next Question… What regularly pops up in your mind while you’re meditati

What has ten meditation pods, four wheels, and an iconic aluminum shell? The MeditationWorks mobile meditation studio, of course. In early May, the new Canadian mobile meditation service guided a session for healthcare workers in Scarborough, Ontario

Q When I practice loving-kindness meditation, I can’t tell whether it’s working. I feel like nothing is happening. Shouldn’t I be feeling something? A The first time that I ever did loving-kindness practice was without a teacher. I was on a self-retr

Prolific Wu Tang Clan producer and filmmaker RZA recorded Guided Explorations, an album of guided meditations, to a backdrop of ambient soundscapes and light beats: “I’m looking to inspire and break that stagnation for artists and other creative mind

In Seattle, 20 miles of street have been permanently closed to motor traffic so people can bike and walk safely in the road. The Stay Healthy Streets project offers routes to essential services and expands the city’s parks system, part of “rebuilding

Before the pandemic, 25% of Americans suffered from acute insomnia every year, according to a 2018 study from the University of Pennsylvania. We can only assume that number has gone up. Bills, chores, work, technology, and now a global pandemic all c

Jennifer Reis is a certified yoga therapist, faculty member at Kripalu Center for Health & Yoga, and creator of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra. She suggests four poses, all done lying down, which can help encourage sleep. Do each for a minimum of five exhal

When it comes to memory loss, it’s not forgetting where you put your reading glasses or the car keys that grabs your attention. It’s hearing someone tell you, “But I already told you that.” Dealing with a memory lapse like completely forgetting a rec

I guided the meditation with fewer words, leaving ever more space. The air seemed to crackle with restless silence. Afterwards, several students said they prefer more guidance—otherwise, they felt they were floundering. I grew curious and asked the g

You’ve probably found yourself, on occasion, spending long uninterrupted hours with digital technologies, particularly during months of social distancing. Just as our smartphones are always close at hand (both to serve and to distract), the feelings

This is why we practice. As climate change, a global pandemic, a racial justice reckoning, and suffering of all kinds wrack our world, we remind each other: This is why we practice. In our second annual focus on women leaders of mindfulness, we invit

DIANA WINSTON Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA One of the first, basic mindfulness practices to resonate with Diana Winston still guides her today. She was 21 years old, on a ten-day meditation retreat, learning various principles. “And one

JENÉE JOHNSON Mindfulness, Public Health, and Racial Healing Innovator Jenée Johnson’s mindfulness practice has been a place for her to root and remember who she is. “I am not who you say I am,” says the Program Innovation Leader at the San Francisco

SEBENE SELASSIE Mindfulness Teacher, Author, and Speaker As a teacher and writer (Sebene Selassie’s first book, You Belong: A Call for Connection will be out this August with Harper One; see review on page 68), Selassie is looking outward at what she

LESLIE BOOKER Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Speaker, and Author Leslie Booker found her way to yoga and meditation in her twenties, and from there, began working with young people of color who were incarcerated. “There is this narrative when you’re lo

GHYLIAN BELL Founder, Urban Yoga Foundation When Ghylian Bell talks about mindfulness, she can’t help but talk about interconnectedness. She remembers how hard her elders worked. “Understanding the hard life they had, that was carried in their bodies

TAMI SIMON Founder & CEO of Sounds True, Writer, and Podcast Host Tami Simon learned to meditate when she was in college, studying philosophy and religion, and it changed her life. “I had a sense that I belonged on the earth for the first time. That

MICHELLE MALDONADO Founder & CEO of Lucenscia Michelle Maldonado was just seven years old when her great-aunt—her Titti—introduced her to meditation. Titti placed her hand on Maldonado’s head. “Quiet here,” her auntie said, and then moved her hand to

JESSICA MOREY Founder, iBme Jessica Morey finds all kinds of hope and inspiration about the future in the teens she works with on retreat with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme). Morey was working at the World Bank, with two master’s degrees i

After 17 years of living with a life-threatening kidney disease, at the end of 2008 I received a new kidney from a generous former student. The surgery extended and revolutionized my life. My skin turned from a sad yellow to a vibrant pink. After yea

In my college days, a thousand years ago, I used to hang out in part of the library that contained a large multivolume work: Pokorny’s Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. I would idle away hours looking up the derivations of words and tracing thei