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Resources

Browse this ever-growing collection of mindfulness learning and practice resources. From books and mobile apps, to teachers and retreat centers - there's something here for everyone!

Featured Videos

Concise videos that explain Mindfulness & Meditation

Featured Videos
Why Mindfulness Is a Superpower: An Animation
Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes - TEDx
60 Minutes: Anderson Cooper Interviews Jon Kabat-Zinn
Dan Harris & Sharon Salzberg: 
How to Meditate

Mobile Apps

Available on both Apple and Google app stores

Mobile Apps

Head Space

Meditation made simple. Mindfulness training offered in many subject categories from the workplace to relationships.​​

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Insight Timer

An elegant, simple meditation timer app - offering a variety of high-quality bell sounds to denote the start, mid-point, and end of your meditation

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Waking Up

From acclaimed author Sam Harris, this app offers meditation instruction from top teachers and deep dialogues on the nature of consciousness and the mind.

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Happier

The successor of Dan Harris's award-winning mindfulness education platform, best-selling book, and web training series.​​

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Calm

A full-featured mindfulness-training tool that brings more clarity, joy, and peace to daily life.​​​

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Buddhify

Buddhify’s specialty is guided meditations, which uniquely holds your hand as it leads you through simple exercises that address anxiety, stress, sleep, and more.

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Best wisdom on the web

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Mindful is dedicated to sharing the gifts of mindfulness through content, training, courses, and directories—helping people enjoy better health, foster more caring relationships, and cultivate a more compassionate society.

At Happier, get a glimpse into how expert teachers incorporate mindfulness into real-life situations like parenting, running, and even dishwashing. Explore actionable practices that bring mindfulness into daily moments, making it easy to connect with your practice in the midst of your busy life.

With a full spectrum of mindfulness offerings for beginners, advanced practitioners, and mindfulness professionals alike, Mindful Leader meets you where you are and provide all the resources you need for a life-long journey. 

Zen Habits is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, and find happiness.

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Mindfulness Articles

Excellent news links submitted by our Ambassadors

Mindfulness Articles
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How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body

Why Does My Mind Keep Thing That?

Mindfulness: Getting it's Share of Attention

Book Recommendations

For Amazon link - click on the book cover image

Book Recommendations
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10% HAPPIER

How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

by Dan Harris

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MINDFUL WORK

How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out

by David Gelles

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SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF

The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

by Chade Meng Tan

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BREATH

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The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor

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FROM SUFFERING TO PEACE

The True Promise of Mindfulness

by Mark Coleman

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REAL HAPPINESS

A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation

by Sharon Salzberg

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WHEREVER YOU GO THERE YOU ARE

Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

by Jon-Kabat Zin

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MEDITATION FOR BEGINNERS​​

Step-by-step instruction for newcomers to meditation

by Jack Kornfield, PhD

Favorite Teachers

Mindfulness teachers who have inspired us...

Favorite Teachers

Sharon Salzberg

An early realization of the power of meditation to overcome personal suffering determined her life direction. Her teaching and writing now communicates that power to a worldwide audience of practitioners.

Jack Kornfield

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

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Tara Brach

Tara Brach's teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society.

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Shauna Shapiro

Shauna Shapiro, PHD, is a best-selling author, professor, clinical psychologies and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion.

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Joseph Goldstein

Joseph Goldstein has studied and practiced meditation since 1967 and is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, Massachusetts.

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Spring Washam

Spring Washam is a well-known meditation teacher, author and visionary leader based in California and Peru. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment.

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Mark Coleman

Mark is an inner and outer explorer, who has devotedly studied mindfulness meditation practices for three decades.

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Lori Schwanbeck

Utilizing evidence-based practices and skill building, I lead experiential programs where the competencies of mindfulness, emotional intelligence, growth mindset, compassion, resilience and social skills are learned through engaging interactive exercises.

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Global Retreat Centers

U.S. based centers of contemplative wisdom

Global Retreat Centers

Garrison Institute

Garrison, New York, USA

"The Garrison Institute was founded on the belief that action in the world is more compassionate and more effective when infused with the wisdom and skill cultivated in contemplative practices."

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Insight Meditation Society

Barre, Massachusetts, USA

"IMS is a spiritual refuge for all who seek freedom of mind and heart. We offer meditation retreats rooted in the Early Buddhist teachings of ethics, concentration and wisdom."

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Omega Institute

Rhinebeck, New York, USA

"Through innovative educational experiences that awaken the best in the human spirit, Omega provides hope and healing for individuals and society."

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Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Garrison, New York, USA

"Set among 411 acres of serene oak woodlands in the secluded hills of West Marin County, Spirit Rock is a refuge from everyday life where it's truly possible to quiet the mind, soften the heart and see life in a new way."

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