In this meditation learn how to unwind a racing mind and rest your attention in the present moment.

Resting the Mind in the Moment

Learn how our thoughts can create stress and anxiety and how to unhook from those thoughts and return to a calm center.

Unhooking from Thoughts

In this meditation, we'll explore how to step out of the "story" of our mind and into the actuality of our moment-to-moment experience (which is often much less stressful).

Drop the Story, Drop the Stress

In this meditation, we do the deep work of befriending and integrating the parts of ourself that we most resent, facilitating an internal peace.

Shadow Integration

In this meditation, we'll practice strategies to embrace the unknown in life, even when it scares us.

Good Luck, Bad Luck, Who Knows?

In this meditation, we'll practice stepping back from our thoughts, letting them come and go, so that they (or we) start to settle and relax.

Relax Your Thoughts

Meditations

Overcome inner voices

A guided meditation to help you feel more grounded and present. Observe the thoughts and emotions, whilst centering in the here and now, untouched by them.

Be the Mountain Meditation

In this practice, learn to step back from thoughts and emotions, and observe what’s going on in the mind. 

Becoming Non-Reactive

In this meditation, we'll explore using the breath as an internal refuge to come back to when we're caught in stress or anxiety.

Breath as Home Base

In this meditation, we'll practice resting in stillness, learning to see that in each moment we have a choice for how we can respond.

The Space Between Stimulus and Response

In this meditation, we'll practice releasing excess tension in our body so we can settle into deep states of relaxation.

Calm Your Body

This is a meditation to help you release tension if you’re feeling a little stressed, or wound up. 

Letting Go of Tension

In this meditation, we'll practice breathing strategies that quickly settle our racing mind and tense body.

Deep Breathing

In this meditation, we will practice awakening our compassion for ourselves and for others, transforming suffering into peace and nourishment.

Tonglen Meditation

Calm your nerves

Find calm during the day, or drift more easily into sleep at night.

Relieve Anxiety / Improve Sleep

In this meditation, we practice resting in awareness. Instead of focusing on anything in particular, we observe it all coming and going.

Choiceless Awareness

This powerful breath meditation will help you gather your awareness into the present moment when you feel overwhelmed or stressed.	

Unwinding Stress 

Ground yourself in a calm, steady, non-reactive awareness. Feel the peace and stability that comes with the mountain mind.

Mountain Meditation

In this meditation, we'll practice calming our thoughts for more relaxation and deeper sleep.

Calm Thoughts

In this meditation, we practice scanning the body with our awareness, encouraging areas of the body that are tense to disengage and be at ease.

Relaxed Body

In this meditation, we'll explore a simple 3-minute practice to help settle our attention, re-ground into the present, and cultivate greater clarity and ease.

3 Minute Breathing

Feel calm

We can so easily be tossed around by the currents of life. But whatever happens, there is one thing that remains ever-present: a stillness within. 

Taking Refuge in the Stillness Within

Untangle from the unhelpful or anxiety-provoking thought process and find a new sense of inner freedom. 

Thanking the Mind: A Practice to Ease Anxiety

How to live a more balanced, sustainable and fulfilling life—even when things get busy, stressful or overwhelming. 

Are You in the Exhaustion Funnel?

This talk discusses the foundations of self-care, including your capacity to stay present to the different layers of your experience, without immediately trying to make them different. 

Thoughts on Self-Care

In this talk, Cory explores why there are only six aspects of your human experience, and how when you learn to be with each, you learn to be with your life. 

Six Dimensions of Life

Talks

Short talks

A practice to help you untangle from unhelpful thoughts and the suffering they can create.

How to 'Anchor' to Inner Calm

In this meditation we explore how to let go of striving and find a place of stillness and surrender in our own deepest nature.

Awareness Already Exists

In this meditation, we explore a simple yet powerful meditation technique for reduced stress, more relaxation, and deeper sleep.

The Magic 478 Breath

A meditation to help you ground into the steadiness and calm of the present moment. 

Grounding in the Now Meditation

In this meditation, we'll train our brain to focus like a camera, zooming in when we want more detail, and zooming out when we want more space and perspective. 

Zoom In and Out

In this meditation, we'll practice paying attention to a single focus point and bringing the mind back every time it wanders off.

Bicep Curl for the Brain

In this meditation, we'll develop our personal "happy place" through various visualizations and imagery.

Find Your Happy Place

Find joy within

Learn how the technique of mental noting unwinds anxiety, reduces our reactivity and anchors us in our calm center.

Name It to Tame It

In this meditation, we explore cultivating one of our happiness superpowers--gratitude.

Feeling Full of Gratitude

In this meditation, we'll practice a simple strategy for getting through difficult moments with more ease, compassion, and self-care.

Getting Through Difficult Moments

In this meditation, we will make space for the parts of our experience that we might typically shun or resent, allowing us to move toward wholeness and peace.

You’re Welcome Here, Too

In this meditation, we'll explore a simple yet powerful breathing pattern that can be used to reduce stress, settle your mind, and relax your body.

A Powerful Breathing Technique

In this meditation, we practice focusing on our strengths instead of our weaknesses, flooding our mind with everything we appreciate about ourselves.

Dwell on Your “Cans”

In this meditation, we'll practice rewiring the brain to savor and appreciate more of the "good" moments in our life, and not endlessly ruminate on the "bad "moments.

Negativity Bias

Quiet your inner critic

In this meditation, we'll practice meditation techniques that help us melt bodily tension that we didn't even know we had.

Deep Relaxation

Let go of mental and physical tension, and relax into the simplicity and clarity of the present moment.

Tension Release and Mindfulness

In this meditation, we explore a meditation sequence to help reduce the intensity of tinnitus and/or help find peace within the frustration.

Tinnitus Meditation

Tap into the intelligence, wisdom and intuition of your head, heart and gut to make better decisions and stay more in touch with what really matters. 

The Head-Heart-Gut Check-In

In this meditation, we'll explore how to use mindful awareness to reground ourselves when we're caught up in thoughts, anxiety, or chaos.

STOP: A Technique to Re-Ground

Learn to be non-reactive and at peace with what is happening inside and around you through the practice of developing equanimity. 

Learning to Be Non-Reactive

In this meditation, we'll practice using mental imagery to develop a calm emotional state.

Calm Imagery

Calm a racing mind

In this meditation we’ll explore how self-compassion eases anxiety and stress, soothes our nervous system and calms our minds.

The Power of Self-Compassion

In this meditation, we use a simple mantra to help us meet our experience with presence, balance, and ease.

Equanimity: Right Now, It’s Like This

A meditation to help you learn to listen to yourself and grow in self-awareness and wisdom.

Self-Awareness Meditation

Train in cultivating a broad, open and welcoming awareness that cultivate joy, kindness and self-awareness.

Befriending What Is

In this meditation, we practice centering our presence in the present moment by attuning to our breathing.

Awareness of Breath

In this meditation, we'll explore how to be with pain in a new way that doesn't create more tension and suffering.

Primary vs. Secondary Pain

In this meditation, we'll practice a mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral approach to changing our beliefs as a way to positively change our experience of the world. 

The ABC Model

Accepting yourself

In this meditation, we simply practice calming down the mind and body by making space for our experience without resistance.

Settling Your Nerves

In this meditation, we'll practice embracing our anxiety as an ally rather than resisting it as an enemy.

Befriend Your Anxiety

A practice to help you befriend your experience and rewire your mind for greater happiness and inner strength.

Anxiety Is Not Your Enemy

This four-step self-compassion break meditation will help soothe you in your hardest moments.

Self-Compassion for Difficult Times

Dissolve tension, let go of burdens and relax into greater ease and well-being.

Letting Go With Breath

In this meditation, we'll practice developing an internal safe space so that our nervous system can let down its guard and we can relax more deeply.

Feeling Safe

In this meditation, we'll practice using a mantra to experience this moment with greater spaciousness, acceptance, and peace.

A Mantra for Inner Peace

From Skeptic to Meditator 

Rick shares the science-backed benefits of mindfulness and how the practice affects the body and brain, and therefore our lives. 

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness 

Judson Brewer shares how the practice of mindfulness for addiction can also teach us how to untangle ourselves from what is said to be the biggest obstacle to mindful living—our attachment to craving.

Mindfulness for Addiction 

In this talk we explore seven techniques to work through negative thoughts. Pick and choose which ones most resonate and see how they work.

7 Tips to Stop Negative Thoughts

Tara discusses how mindfulness can help us wake up to our true nature, alleviate our suffering and move through fear. 

How to Overcome Unworthiness and Fear

In this interview Russ reveals why popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and often make us miserable. 

How to Unhook Yourself from Thoughts 

Deep dive talks

A key way to calm the mind is to ground the attention in the body. By attuning to the body, breath and the senses we can allow awareness of the present to relieve the anxiety of the mind.

Calming the Anxious Mind

Explore how to declutter your mind and cultivate deeper focus not only in your meditation but in your daily life too. 

Decluttering Your Mind

In this meditation, we explore cultivating mindfulness through the various experiences that move through our awareness. 

Basic Sequence

A meditation to help you 'ride out' urges and therefore overcome unhelpful habits and addictions. 

Urge Surfing

In this meditation, we'll explore a powerful cognitive hack to step out of our mental chaos and into presence.

Shift “What if” to “What is”

In this meditation, we'll practice a 15-minute sequence of breath awareness, open monitoring, and gratitude. 

Basic Guided Meditation

In this meditation, we practice reframing stress is a positive tool, ultimately reducing its negative impact on our well-being.

Stress Helps Us Grow

Mindfulness With Mental Noting

Reset your mind

Grounding practices to quiet worries and overcome anxious thought spirals.

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Drop the Story, Drop the Stress

Shadow Integration

Good Luck, Bad Luck, Who Knows?

Relax Your Thoughts

Calm your nerves

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Becoming Non-Reactive

Breath as Home Base

The Space Between Stimulus and Response

Calm Your Body

Letting Go of Tension

Deep Breathing

Tonglen Meditation

Feel calm

Relieve Anxiety / Improve Sleep

Choiceless Awareness

Unwinding Stress

Mountain Meditation

Calm Thoughts

Relaxed Body

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Taking Refuge in the Stillness Within

Thanking the Mind: A Practice to Ease Anxiety

Are You in the Exhaustion Funnel?

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