Helpful Resources

After studying this infographic and perusing all the benefits of mindfulness (and how mindfulness actually works), I’m going to be more mindful about being mindful.

This brief document provides a working definition of mindfulness, an overview of the
scientific rationale for offering mindfulness to children and adolescents, a review of the
professional and personal benefits of practicing mindfulness, specific suggestions for
developing your own mindfulness practice (which is a prerequisite to sharing mindfulness
with your students), and two examples of practices you can use in your classroom.

The Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) is a partner of the Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology within the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. 

Freely Offering Western Buddhist Vipassana Teachings

Author, Buddhist practitioner, Spirit Rock Meditation Center founding teacher, and one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West.

“Just One Thing” is the free e-newsletter that suggests a simple practice each week that will bring you more joy, more fulfilling relationships, and more peace of mind and heart.

We welcome those new to Insight Meditation as well as those who wish to deepen and sustain their practice in a heartful community. 

We are a global community of meditators who believe that human beings are basically good.

A simple way of relating to our experience, which can have profound impact on painful,
negative experiences we encounter.

Is there real science in the spiritualism of meditation? Jo Marchant meets a Nobel Prize-winner who thinks so.