Be gently guided into rest with a short meditation woven into the warm hum of brown noise. The brown noise continues throughout the track, supporting deep relaxation and rest. There’s no ending bell to pull you back to full wakefulness in case you’re deeply sleeping, only a fade into silence.

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Practice reflection:

Rest is not a retreat from the world—it’s a return to what sustains us. In a culture that conditions us to be constantly productive, choosing rest can be a quiet act of resistance. This practice invites you to soften the nervous system, replenish your inner resources, and reconnect with your inherent worth beyond output or urgency. As you rest, you participate in a collective remembering: that liberation requires care, regulation, and the capacity to imagine life beyond exhaustion. May your rest support not only your own well-being, but the shared work of tending a more just and humane world.

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In this practice, you’ll be guided to explore what quality you’d like to cultivate in these times. The practice isn’t about finding the right answer or fixing anything. It’s about the pause itself—the act of turning toward yourself long enough to listen.

In slowing down and pausing, something becomes available, a kind of clarity, a remembering. This meditation is less about achieving a particular state and more about cultivating the muscle of tending to yourself—now and anytime you need it, even if just for a few seconds at a time.

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I'm finding myself in a new cycle of news addiction, and the regular and constant exposure to it is certainly leaving me feeling anxious and overwhelmed. This meditation was originally created in a cycle of overwhelm during the pandemic, and yet, it is serving me yet again.

There’s something both humbling and reassuring about that. The same practices return when we need them. The same questions become anchors: What would serve me right now? Can I pause long enough to listen?

If you’re feeling it, too—the pull toward regularly refreshing the news page or app, the undertow of anxiety, the sense of being swept away—I hope this brief practice can offer a moment of returning.

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In this mettā practice, you’ll be invited to offer loving-kindness to the different parts of yourself. Even if you might experience some parts of yourself as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, each part deserves and responds to kindness. Perfect for when loving or accepting yourself is hard.

This meditation was guided during my 4-month Mindfulness Facilitation Certification Program.

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In this practice, the guiding question becomes: what would serve your mindfulness right now? Perhaps practicing with pointed focus, or in an open, spacious way, or tuning into feeling tone is what you need. Whatever your experience, this meditation encourages an autonomy and responsiveness, as a way to support our natural quality of awareness that is kind and curious, not forced or effortful.

This meditation was guided during my 4-month Mindfulness Facilitation Certification Program.

In this practice, curiosity becomes your companion as you move through the entire body—What sensations are present that weren’t there before? How does one side of the body expand differently than the other? If you don’t feel anything, can you get curious about the numbness itself—where it begins, how big the area is? You might explore in great detail or in broad strokes, whatever feels supportive.

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In this week’s practice, we’ll explore feeling tone—that quality of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral that colors every experience. Like so much in mindfulness, this might be simple, but it’s not always easy. Yet, it’s a skill worth cultivating, one that can lead to freedom from suffering. You might actively note the feeling tone, or relax your effort and listen for it to make itself known.

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In this practice, you’ll be guided to tune into the four elements as they appear in your body—how earth element holds you, pressing up from below; how air element moves through you, borrowed briefly before you breathe it out again; how water element appears as tears, saliva or sweat, before being released back into the atmosphere; and how fire element is experienced as warmth or coolness, shaped by forces around and in you. You might stay with one element as your anchor, or let your awareness move between them, noticing what’s here in this body made of borrowed earth, air, water, and fire.

This meditation was guided during my 4-month Mindfulness Facilitation Certification Program.

In this 10-minute practice, you’re invited to work in the spirit of ease—using whatever you’re already noticing as your anchor, rather than hardening or forcing yourself to be aware of something else. You’re encouraged to let go of how practice “should” be and instead meet what’s arising with curiosity and friendliness.

This meditation was guided during the Spirit Rock Living Dharma Program.

In this meditation, you’ll be guided to explore the breath as an anchor for attention—noticing where it lives in your body, its natural rhythm, the sensations that arise. If the breath happens to feel activating or inaccessible, you’re encouraged to find what works for you. Whether you settle into subtle awareness of the breath or simply rest, the practice emphasizes meeting yourself where you are.

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From choosing an anchor to relaxing your effort, this loose exploration of the four foundations of mindfulness sets the stage for your practice to become organic and remixed, moving between breath, sensation, sound, emotions, and thoughts. Over the course of the 30-minute practice, there may be enough settling for mindfulness itself become the anchor. Try it and see what’s possible for you.

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Join me for a 25-minute mindfulness practice invites you to slow down, turn inward, and to find your natural anchor—whether breath, sound, or body sensations.

This meditation was guided during my 4-month Mindfulness Facilitation Certification Program.

Many meditators become attached to the idea that meditating must be done with the eyes closed, but how can we use sight - much like we've used sound in the past - as an anchor and a window into a budding self-awareness? Observing your body's responses and reactions to visual stimulus is a beautiful way to practice. Try it with me!

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In this practice, you’ll be guided to let your meditation be a refuge, a place you actually want to come to, where you can give your heart, mind, and body a rest from the ways you might normally navigate the world.

The core invitation is twofold: Can you practice with what’s already naturally drawing your attention, rather than forcing yourself toward an anchor that feels performative or arbitrary? And can you notice the choice points that arise moment by moment—when the mind wanders, when discomfort appears, when you wish something was different? Not to get it right, but to become aware that choices are constantly being made, consciously or unconsciously.

This meditation was guided in the monthly meeting of my membership community.

Practice reflection:

This meditation was inspired by the Buddhist teaching of Samma Sankappa (Wise Intention or Skillful Thought, the intention for goodwill, harmlessness, and renunciation), which acts as an energetic bridge between understanding and action, adding wisdom and purpose to our actions. Your wise intention empowers you to align your thoughts, words, and actions with your deepest understanding. Through the doorway of mindfulness, we develop clear seeing or clarity, and out of that clarity the possibility of wise response and action arises.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Whether it is peace, energy, love, kindness, understanding, or something else you are looking for, this meditation will help you find pieces of yourselves that already contain that which you are seeking. It's a practice in resourcing from within. Which isn't meant to eliminate the need for others, only to keep us feeling sturdy and in harmony with ourselves.

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Sound is an amazing tool for observing our natural reactions and inclinations. Noticing how we physically receive certain sounds, what happens in the body when we can't seem to find a sound after the meditation we are listening to *told us to hear*! This meditation will use sound and the sense of hearing as a portal to observing the self. It will sort of replace the more frequently used anchors like breath, etc. Give it a listen! See what comes up!

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Sometimes a simple check in is incredibly powerful. This meditation will guide you through a little self-diagnostics check, to notice what is present in you in a precise moment. Doubt? Agitation? Fatigue? Practice saying "I see you! It's all good!" before diving deeper. Removing judgement allows us to be honest with ourselves and those around us about what we're navigating in a given moment which can create space for compassion towards yourself and others.

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One of the most common misconceptions I come across as a meditation teacher is the belief that you need to be able to empty your mind or stop it from wandering in order to meditate. The practice of meditation is a continual returning from wherever your mind wanders to. This meditation focuses on that very fundamental part of every practice: Returning. Over and over.

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Some days we just feel a little bit wired and unsettled. This meditation is a simple yet effective tool for helping to settle the mind, the nerves, and the spirit. In the meditation, I use the visual of a snow globe all shaken up and slowly settling. Think of this as *that* but for your mind.

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In a highly individualistic society that celebrates independence, it can feel hard sometimes to accept and embrace support. But the truth is, there is massive strength and freedom in allowing loved ones and our communities to support us. This meditation will tune into the ways your body and mind are resisting support as a practice in leaning into it.

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The body naturally wants to move towards balance. We don't really need to *do* anything about it. The mind however, often seeks perfection. This meditation will invite you to notice the way this mental tendency towards fixing and adjusting manifests in the body. The more we practice this, the more easily we can respond when we notice it happening in our day to day lives, slowly healing our perfectionist minds.

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This meditation is part of my end of year rituals I do to honor the past year and to usher in the next year with connection, intention, and purpose. The meditation includes visualizing the year that is ending in reverse chronological order and letting any memories of whatever happened during the year arise naturally. Afterward, you can fill out the template available for download via the link below. The template prompts you to specify one to two highs and lows from each season, reflect on the one biggest lesson you (re)learned, and contemplate on how you want to feel in the coming year.

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For those familiar with the practice of cultivating loving-kindness, you probably have done so through a recitation of phrases. Reciting phrases is just one doorway into this particular heart quality, and it doesn’t always work for everyone. In this practice, you’ll be guided to use images or a memory to inspire the sensations of loving-kindness to arise, and then to share it outward.

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The acronym RAIN - recognize, allow, investigate, non-identification - was created by Michelle McDonald and popularized by Tara Brach. Often taught as a tool to deal with overwhelming emotions, this twist on a more traditional RAIN practice is guided so that it can be an essential technique you refer to regardless of what your current experience is.

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In this practice, you’ll be guided to work with feeling tone, the quality of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral that colors every moment of experience. The guiding question throughout is: what would serve my mindfulness right now? Because often, what serves us is noticing the feeling tone itself—the subtle pull of pleasant toward “more of this,” the resistance of unpleasant toward “less of this,” the drifting quality of neutral. Not as something to answer perfectly, but as an invitation to listen into what your practice needs.

This meditation was guided during my 4-month Mindfulness Facilitation Certification Program.

Practice reflection:

We often move through meditation (and life) without noticing how feeling tone (or vedāna in Pali, the language in which the Buddha’s teachings were written) shapes our experience: how it quietly directs our attention, our choices, our sense of ease or struggle. This meditation invites you to get curious about that often-invisible layer. When you relax, what’s that like? When the mind wanders, what’s the feeling tone present? What about the field of your practice as a whole?

The invitation is to notice, without needing to change anything. Pleasant, unpleasant, neutral—all of it is welcome.

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Inspired by teacher Martine Bachelor, altruistic joy asks us to be joyful for others even if we may be not feel like it. In this meditation, you’ll be guided through a number of doorways into cultivating this heart quality.

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How are you right now? How are you really right now? Is it possible to go beyond the label, or concept, or construct of sadness or joy or busy and drop into the body? How does whatever you’re feeling manifest right now? Sensations are information! This meditation follows the thread of your experience back to an immediate awareness of what is felt in a moment. Over and over again.

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Tuning into the embodied experience of a phenomena–a sound, a thought, a sensation–can give us important insight into how we are feeling at any given moment. This meditation will invite kindness in as we practice returning over and over again to the most present sensations in our body.

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In a society obsessed with productivity and "doing" it can be really challenging to honor moments of stillness, even though these moments often hold vital wisdom for our well-being. This meditation is simple, yet can be challenging since. You'll be guided to put down the doing–seeking out the next instruction or thinking about the next thing to "do– and to direct your attention in a way that is mindful of whatever is attracting your attention.

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Whenever an emotion or a sensation arises and we get caught in thinking that it shouldn’t be this way, what is happening is simply nature living through us, being expressed in the moment. Much like how the heat or the air in your body comes and goes, much like the expressions of fire and wind in daily life fluctuate and waiver, so it is that all things come and go, arise and pass away. This meditation helps us tune into the elements as they live within us.

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In a news-obsessed, 24-hour information cycle society, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of suffering there is in the world at any given time. Between the people closest to us, those who challenge us, and those we know only from a distance ... It can be a lot to hold. This meditation introduces a few sentences to help you focus your care and attention where it needs to be, while also letting go of the urge to control every outcome. 

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One of the biggest barriers many people face when starting their meditation practice is the idea that they are inherently either “good” or “bad” at it. In reality, though, a lot of meditation is the practice of coming back over and over and over again. This 10-minute meditation, which is my "go-to" when I'm in a pinch, is a simple and yet effective practice that kindly reminds you to begin again and again. The good news is that this practice will always be there to welcome you back each time.

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Whether you're just getting started with meditation, wanting to jump start your old practice, or looking to support your existing practice, Dawn Mauricio is here to help. Drawing on her decades of personal practice and years of study, you can find what you need right here. Season 3 meditations drop on Wednesdays starting October 12.

"Balance" and "ease" are words used interchangeably to mean equanimity, while equanimity itself can be defined as a steadiness of the heart and mind. In other words, it is the groundwork for freedom and compassion through wisdom. Like many parts of mindfulness practice, discomfort can't be bypassed to an equanimous state, however, practice helps to cultivate the conditions for equanimity to arise naturally. In this meditation, you'll be guided into cultivating a balanced heart and mind.

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Anyone else feeling some overwhelm right about now? I'm finding myself in a new cycle of news addiction and the regular and constant exposure to it is certainly leaving me feeling anxious and overwhelmed. This meditation was originally created in one of my last cycles of overwhelm, and yet, it is serving me yet again. If you're feeling it, too, I hope this meditation can be of support.

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In this practice, you'll be guided to bring to mind one or a few benefactors—people who have held you in a wish of love, who care deeply for your wellbeing. You'll visualize them gazing at you, sending wishes of happiness, safety, and compassion. The invitation is to receive their loving-kindness, to receive their wholesome wishes.

This meditation was guided in a monthly meeting of my membership community.

Practice reflection:

For many of us, receiving care can be more vulnerable than offering it. This meditation invites a gentle exploration of what it’s like to be seen with kindness, and to allow those wishes to land—at whatever pace feels possible.

The invitation is simply to receive.

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A natural human reaction is to avoid that which is unpleasant, especially anything painful. Like so much of mindfulness practice, the most immediate way in which we can find any sort of freedom is by moving toward it. Beware, though, because jumping into feeling pain without first establishing a foundation could alter your relationship to what you’re feeling but not for the better. This meditation invites you to gently lean into pain so that you can eventually establish a new relationship to it.

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When sayings like “forgive and forget" are commonplace, being quick to forgive someone without ever really tending to your own hurt feelings, or letting someone back into your life despite your better judgment. For these reasons (and more), forgiveness can be a challenging and  commonly misunderstood quality. Forgiveness doesn’t condone the past, doesn’t mean you need to stay connected to anyone who has caused you pain, nor is weak or naive. It takes time and is really about not leaving anyone out of your heart, including yourself, for any hurt that may have been caused.

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Mindfulness is a simple yet powerful practice that can be integrated it into anything we do. So much so that even if you don’t have the time or space to practice regularly, you can find countless opportunities throughout the day during which you can be mindful. In this practice, you'll be guided how to eat mindfully, which suddenly creates at least three opportunities daily to practice. For this meditation, it’s best to have some food in front of you, whether it's a whole meal or a snack.

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As humans, we have become really good at avoiding what we don’t want to feel or experience, especially if it's painful or unpleasant, resulting in us (consciously or unconsciously) spending a lot of our time running away from perceived or future pain. What then happens is our past pains start to dictate our future. Although that might be true in many circumstances, we can learn how to cultivate a skillful relationship to pain and discomfort through self-compassion.

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Some days, the thought of loving ourselves can feel impossible, while other days it can feel selfish, leading us to offer love to others instead of ourselves. But it’s imperative that we start with ourselves, much like how we are told in an airplane to secure our own oxygen mask before helping others. 

This meditation, inspired by Susan Piver, is a remix of a traditional loving-kindness, or metta, meditation in which we practice sharing this quality with the different parts of ourselves.

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Maybe it's stress and anxiety, maybe it's prolonged periods of looking down at our devices. Regardless of the reason, many of us have tense neck and shoulders. With sustained and consistent practice, mindfulness can act as a preventative tool, cueing you to adjust your posture and to manage your stress better. If you add this to the simple movements in today's practice, you can also awaken these areas in a way that may not have been possible before.

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As beings with eyes positioned to see forward and minds conditioned to think ahead, we often forget about the back of our body. As a result, once we start practicing mindfulness, we don’t realize we often focus on the front of our body when we tune in to our breath or physical sensations. This mindfulness practice, which includes movement, aims to balance things out by enlivening this area that we so often ignore as well as to strengthen the muscles in our back.

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Since we can’t control our lives or our surroundings, the next best thing we can do is learn how to navigate whatever comes our way despite the discomfort. Luckily, mindfulness helps us do exactly that.

In this 7-minute meditation (with ending bell), you’ll be guided to turn toward what is unpleasant or challenging, as a way to simultaneously takes care of yourself while also broadening your comfort zone.

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This 33-minute meditation with proceeding talk was part of the Morning Instructions given at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center retreat Journey Into Refuge.

The meditation explores grounding in the body and eventually opening up to the sense doors. The talk touches on using our practice to transform our bodies into a refuge so that we can be home wherever we are.

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Being mindful of the breath is often the first instruction given to beginners, yet it can be supportive no matter your level of experience. One of the reasons why the breath is a common meditation anchor is that it is always with us, wherever we go.

This 5-minute meditation (with ending bell) was written with that in mind—no matter where you are, tuning in to the breath, even if for just one breath, can help shift your perspective in profound ways.

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This meditation begins by grounding attention in a steady anchor, offering a sense of support and arrival. From there, you’ll be guided to gradually widen your awareness, allowing thoughts, emotions, and sensory experiences to come into your experience without needing to fix or follow them. The practice emphasizes curiosity, ease, and trust in the changing nature of experience, with space to soften identification and rest more fully in open awareness by the end.

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Meditation can often be mistaken as a mental or “heady” practice, but really, it is an embodiment practice. Most mindfulness meditation techniques aim to bring the body and mind into the same place—right here, right now. As easy as it sounds, it can be challenging because we are so used to running from one thing to next, planning, strategizing, or worrying.

This 5-minute meditation (with ending bell) was designed to help you live in and through the body.

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Often times, we may be aware of the breath in a generally broad sense, whether noticing a certain quality of the breath or a part of the body moving with the breath. Although that can be incredibly supportive, we sometimes miss the breath as a full body experience.

This 15-minute meditation (with ending bell) guides you to sense both your breath and body, tuning into the energy getting sent to your entire body with each inhale, and how each exhale cleanses your entire body.

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Walking is something most of us get to do on a daily basis, whether we're walking to our car, from one place to another, or simply from our bedroom to the bathroom in the morning. During these times, however, we are often lost in planning the next thing we have to do, rehashing what just happened, fantasizing about something, or as mentioned in yesterday's session, jumping into the information stream.

In this 10-minute meditation (with ending bell), you'll be guided through a formal practice of walking meditation. Afterwards, you will be prepared to try to integrate this knowledge during non-formal opportunities of walking.

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• This meditation is part of the meditation course “Mindfulness for the Modern Meditator”

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Anxiety has the power to lock us in a tunnel vision that, when unmonitored, starts a chain reaction of reactivity. In the moments where we might have a sliver of mindfulness whilst feeling anxious, we can try the countdown in this 5-minute meditation (with ending bell). It can help you get out of your head and into the moment, a sound antidote to the limiting effects of anxiety.

Pro tip: If you’re prone to anxiety, try this meditation in non-anxious moments so it’s easily accessible when you are feeling anxious.

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