Mindfulness Monthly

Welcome to Mindfulness Monthly!

Mindfulness Monthly is an online mindfulness and meditation training that brings together leading teachers and practitioners from around the world to create a global community for mindful living.

Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present without getting overwhelmed or reactive. It helps us accept reality as it is and respond to whatever is happening from a place of calm and clarity.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you
are attentive, you will see it.

—Thích Nhãt Hạnh

Mindfulness Monthly provides you with a virtual home for your practice, a community to turn to whenever you need support:

Explore time-tested practices, science-based techniques, and new strategies for living a more mindful life
Receive weekly guided meditations on a variety of themes
Learn from our most celebrated teachers, gaining exclusive access to live trainings throughout each month
Enjoy monthly bonus gifts, hand-selected to enhance your practice
Become a vital member in our global community of mindfulness practitioners

Beginners and experienced meditators alike can find a powerful resource in Mindfulness Monthly, one that helps you live fully in the present and discover greater well-being in every area of life.

We hope you'll join us in creating a worldwide movement of mindfulness.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world,

we lose connection with one another—and ourselves.

—Jack Kornfield

A mindful life

More and more people are turning to mindfulness every day. Why?

Personal Empowerment

When you become more aware of your thoughts, sensations, and reactions in each moment, you are better able to manage them
Creativity Boost

Mindfulness balances the freedom and control regions of the brain, optimizing creative expression, thinking, and problem-solving
A Longer, Healthier Life

Your brain, immune system, pain levels—even the expression of your genes—have all been shown to improve with mindful meditation
Authentic Joy

Find greater satisfaction and meaning in life as you heal old patterns, reduce stress and anxiety, and deepen your relationships
Greater Well-Being

Resilience, outlook, attention, and generosity directly impact overall well-being—and all are enhanced through mindfulness
Good Company

CEOs, athletes, educators, performers—those at the highest levels in every field credit mindfulness with their success

Join a growing
mindfulness community

Practicing mindfulness and meditation on your own is certainly valuable, yet when we come together, something shifts. Each individual practice merges with the energy and intention of the whole, magnifying effects for us all.

woman with eyes closed and palms at her heart

Mindfulness Monthly welcomes you into a thriving global mindfulness community—one where you play an essential role in creating a more mindful world.

Our private online community serves as a sacred space for connecting with others. Here, you can interact with our teachers, moderators, and other group members in a safe, supportive environment.

You'll be able to discuss your experiences, ask questions, and give and receive feedback in the spirit of our collective growth. Posting relevant articles and generating new insightful conversations are welcomed. We've even had members self-organize independent activities in regions around the world!

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

—Amit Ray

Perhaps most importantly, we'll host regular live online events with your featured teacher. These exclusive events are your opportunity to join with others around the world in mindful meditation, adding your intention and heart to our collective experience.

An offering designed to support
your practice

Mindfulness comes more easily with daily practice. Different areas of the brain light up when we're being mindful rather than running on autopilot. The more we practice, the more significant and lasting these shifts become.

New lessons each week

Our teachers will share new insights and meditations each week you develop a consistent, nourishing practice—one that serves you throughout your life.

Live online sessions

Every month culminates in a live virtual gathering so you can ground the practices you've been learning. Ask the featured teacher questions and discuss your experiences in small breakout groups.

A private online community

Your private Facebook community provides a safe and active container for your continued exploration. Receive exclusive access to bonus sessions with our teachers and enjoy lively conversations with your fellow members.

Hand-picked bonus gifts

You'll also get a complete product from our Sounds True library on a new topic each month (these will be different from the monthly theme).

Mindfulness is a lifelong path. There is no destination—just a continued journey to create more compassion, authenticity, skill, and joy in your life and your world.

Your Teachers

Kelly Boys

Kelly Boys is a certified iRest^® Yoga Nidra teacher and former director of operations for the Integrative Restoration Institute. She most recently directed the creation and implementation of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute's facilitator training program, bringing 100 of the top trainers from around the world through a yearlong mastery program in neuroscience-based emotional intelligence and mindfulness. Kelly has also taught meditation to US veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, as well as to women in prisons, cancer survivors, and those with substance abuse addictions. She currently consults with the UN Foundation to create a mindfulness and well-being program for humanitarian workers both on and off the front lines. Kelly’s new book, The Blind Spot Effect: How to Stop Missing What’s Right in Front of You, was published with Sounds True in Spring of 2018.
Lama Surya Das

Lama Surya Das, who the Dalai Lama affectionately calls “the American Lama,” is the one of our foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. He has spent over 45 years studying with many of the great masters of Asia, among them some of the Dalai Lama’s own teachers. He established the Dzogchen Center and Dzogchen Retreats and worked with the Dalai Lama to found the Western Buddhist Teachers Network. Lama Surya Das is the author of several books, including the international bestselling Awakening trilogy (Awakening the Buddha Within, Awakening to the Sacred, and Awakening the Buddhist Heart), as well as his latest book, Make Me One With Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation. He is a regular contributor at HuffPost and Elephant Journal, as well as writing his own blog Ask The Lama.
Diana Winston

Diana Winston is the director of mindfulness education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and is the founder of UCLA’s Certificate in Mindfulness Facilitation. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma, and has been teaching mindfulness nationally and internationally for two decades. Called by the LA Times “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness,” Diana Winston and her work have been mentioned in the New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Newsweek; the Los Angeles Times; and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. She is the author of Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens, and the coauthor, with Susan Smalley, PhD, of Fully Present: the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness.
Rhonda V. Magee

Rhonda V. Magee, MA, JD, is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco. She teaches mindfulness-based interventions, and is a student of awareness and compassion practices from a range of traditions. She is a facilitator of mindful and compassionate communication. A fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, she serves as an advisor to institutions ranging from the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness to the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.
Thupten Jinpa

Thupten Jinpa, PhD, trained as a monk at the Shartse College of Ganden Monastic University, South India, and holds BA in philosophy and a PhD in religious studies, both from Cambridge University. He has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama since 1985 and has translated and edited many of his books, including the New York Times bestsellers Ethics for the New Millennium and The Art of Happiness. His own publications include translations of major Tibetan works featured in The Library of Tibetan Classics series and his latest book, A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives. He is the main author of CCT (Compassion Cultivation Training), an eight-week formal program developed at Stanford University. Jinpa is the president of the Compassion Institute and has been a core member of the Mind & Life Institute from its inception. Jinpa lives in Montreal and is married with two daughters.
Mirabai Bush

Mirabai Bush holds a unique background of organizational management, teaching, and spiritual practice. She was cofounder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as the executive director until 2008, codeveloped the curriculum for Search Inside Yourself at Google, and taught writing and English literature at SUNY Buffalo, where she directed an innovative program for diversifying the university. Mirabai is or has been a board member of Shambhala Sun, Omega Institute, Seva Foundation, Military Fitness Institute, the Dalai Lama Fellows, and Love Serve Remember. With Ram Dass, Mirabai coauthored Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service, as well as Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning with Daniel Barbezat. She is the editor of Contemplation Nation: How Ancient Practices Are Changing the Way We Live.
Kelly McGonigal

Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist and award-winning lecturer at Stanford University. A leading expert on the mind-body relationship, her work integrates the latest findings of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine with contemplative practices of mindfulness and compassion from the traditions of Buddhism and yoga. She is the author of The Willpower Instinct and Yoga for Pain Relief.
Andrew Holecek

Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher who offers seminars internationally on meditation, dream yoga, and the art of dying. A long-time student of Buddhism, he has completed the traditional three-year Buddhist meditation retreat and frequently presents this tradition from a contemporary perspective. He is the author of several books, including Meditation in the iGeneration: How to Meditate in a World of Speed and Stress and The Power and the Pain: Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy, as well as the audio learning course Dream Yoga: The Tibetan Path of Awakening Through Lucid Dreaming. His work has appeared in Parabola, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Utne Reader, Buddhadharma magazine, light of consciousness, and many other periodicals. For more, visit andrewholecek.com.
Kelly Boys

Kelly Boys is a certified iRest® Yoga Nidra teacher and former director of operations for the Integrative Restoration Institute. She most recently directed the creation and implementation of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute's facilitator training program, bringing 100 of the top trainers from around the world through a yearlong mastery program in neuroscience-based emotional intelligence and mindfulness. Kelly has also taught meditation to US veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, as well as to women in prisons, cancer survivors, and those with substance abuse addictions. She currently consults with the UN Foundation to create an “Inner Peacekeeping” mindfulness and well-being program for humanitarian workers both on and off the front lines.
Larry Yang

Larry Yang teaches mindfulness and lovingkindness retreats and has a special interest in creating access to the Dharma for diverse multicultural communities. He has practiced meditation for almost 30 years, with extensive time in Burma and Thailand and a six-month period of ordination as a Buddhist monastic. Larry is on the Teachers Council of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is a founding teacher at both East Bay Meditation Center (Oakland) and Insight Community of the Desert (Palm Springs). His current focus is training spiritual leadership within communities of color and LGBTQI communities. Larry was honored for his work in racial justice by being selected as the community’s choice for Grand Marshal in the 2016 San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade. His new book is Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community.
Adreanna Limbach

Adreanna Limbach is a personal development coach and meditation instructor who helps women access their inherent clarity and confidence so that they can expand their freedom in business and life. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, Refinery29, Women's Health, and xoJane. As a coach, she’s mentored hundreds of people at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and catalyzed cohorts of tomorrow’s leaders in social change as an executive coach and faculty at the Institute for Compassionate Leadership. As a meditation instructor, she has taught secular Buddhist studies and meditation at The Interdependence Project in the heart and hustle of NYC, and served as a lead coordinator of the Meditation Working Group at Occupy Wall Street, bringing daily practice to the volunteers at Zuccotti Park in 2011. Most recently, you can find her on the cushion as head teacher at MNDFL, NYC's premier drop-in meditation studio.
Rolf Gates

Rolf Gates, author of the acclaimed book on yogic philosophy, Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, conducts yoga workshops, retreats, teacher trainings, and coaching and mentorship programs throughout the US, abroad, and online. Rolf and his work have been featured in numerous media outlets, including Yoga Journal, ORIGIN, Natural Health, People, and Travel and Leisure’s 25 Top Yoga Studios in the World. Rolf is the cofounder of the Yoga, Meditation, and Recovery Conference at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is a teacher at Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center in Northern California and is also on the Advisory Board for the Yoga Service Council and the Veterans Yoga Project. A former addictions counselor and US Army Airborne Ranger who has practiced meditation for over 25 years, Rolf brings his eclectic background to his practice and his teachings. Rolf and his wife, Mariam Gates, live in Santa Cruz, California with their two children.
Roshi Joan Halifax

Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She received her PhD in medical anthropology in 1973 and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. A founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and founder of Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order, she has focused her work for more than four decades on engaged Buddhism. She is founder, abbot, and head teacher of the Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico; director of the Project on Being with Dying; founder of the Upaya Prison Project, which develops programs on meditation for prisoners; and founder of the Nomads Clinic in Nepal. Her books include The Human Encounter with Death (with Stanislav Grof), The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom, Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, and her forthcoming Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet to be released May 2018.

Host

Kelly Boys
March

Lama Surya Das
April

Diana Winston
May

Rhonda V. Magee
June

Thupten Jinpa
July

Mirabai Bush
August

Kelly McGonigal
September

Andrew Holecek
October

Kelly Boys
November

Larry Yang
December

Adreanna Limbach
January

Rolf Gates
February

Roshi Joan Halifax

Coming up in Mindfulness Monthly

Mar
Lama Surya Das

Calm, Clear, and Content: Integrating Present Awareness into Daily Life

So much of our pain and suffering arises through our familiar knee-jerk reactions and habits, which can deepen our ruts and often intensify our difficulties in life. The antidote—the key to liberation, compassion, and enlightened wisdom—lies in mindful awareness. This month, Lama Surya Das will teach us how to cultivate and experience a new way of seeing and being through Tibetan awareness training.

Ancient yet timeless, Tibetan awareness training reveals many important step-by-step mindfulness practices that support us in lifting out of our habitual patterns. Throughout the month, we will:

Cultivate six essential life skills—quieting, focusing, seeing, reframing, caring, and connecting
Discover the buoyant joy of natural meditation—how to sit, breathe, smile, center, and relax
Receive guided practices on the ABCs of mindfulness, the three keys to freedom, and natural meditation
Learn techniques to align with your best self and authentic, radiant nature

Bonus Content:

The Art of Mindful Living: How to Bring Love, Compassion, and Inner Peace into Your Daily Life by Thich Nhat Hanh

In this complete downloadable audio program, Zen meditation master Thich Nhat Hanh offers practical teachings on bringing love and mindful awareness into our daily experience. Kind, purposeful, and illuminating, The Art of Mindful Living presents traditional teachings that unify our meditation practice with the challenges we face in today's world. (Audio download, CE credits available.)

Apr
Diana Winston

Opening to Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a powerful practice that takes courage and patience. It can be a tremendously transformational practice, but it must be done slowly and with care, never trying to force an outcome. This month, we will explore how forgiveness operates, why it is important, and how practices can be used to foster the growth of our capacity to forgive.

We will look at the three dimensions of forgiveness: forgiving others for ways they have harmed us, asking forgiveness from others for ways we have harmed them, and learning to forgive ourselves, which is at the root of all forgiveness practices. Together, we’ll:

Bring mindful awareness to “forgiving is not forgetting“
Explore what forgiveness is, and why it’s important
Learn reflection practices to understand others and ourselves more fully in preparation for forgiveness meditations
Receive instruction in the meditative practices of: forgiving others, asking forgiveness, and self-forgiveness

Bonus Content:

The Mindful Brain: The Neurobiology of Well-Being by Dan Siegel

Does mindfulness practice improve your physical, social, and mental well-being? To what extent can your mind shape your brain? What does the latest research have to say about meditation and other awareness practices? In this complete audio program download, Dr. Daniel J. Siegel answers these questions and more. From paradigm-stretching new discoveries in brain science, to the ways that mindfulness practice can amplify health and meaning in your life, Dr. Siegel invites you to discover the many facets of the mindful brain. (Audio download, CE credits available.)

May
Rhonda Magee

Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Social Engagement

In a time of much disruption and suffering in our world, this session will support you in bringing mindfulness and compassion to your engagement with others. When we’re grounded in intentional commitments to our personal mindfulness practice and the related ethics that arise, we transform our awareness of and interaction with those around us. We become more aware of how we can be blind to the suffering of others, and we begin to develop awareness of ways that our lived experiences may be profoundly different and yet inherently interconnected.

This month, we will explore ways that our mindfulness and compassion practices support deepening engagement with the personal, interpersonal, and structural dynamics of othering and assist us in co-creating experiences of belonging. Our month will include:

Understanding how mindfulness assists us in working with our embodied, lived experiences and biases
Compassion practices to deepen our capacity for personal and collective transformation
Engaged mindfulness practices, including mindful listening and speaking, to support us in deepening connection with so-called “others”
Additional guided practices for exploring identity, compassion, communication, and more

Bonus Content:

Effortless Mindfulness Now: Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy by Loch Kelly

“Effortless mindfulness” is innovative teacher Loch Kelly’s term for an advanced yet simple form of mindfulness, designed to access a natural, loving flow state in the midst of our daily lives. With his latest four-part audio program, Effortless Mindfulness Now, Loch helps us transition from a foundation of basic mindfulness to the skills of effortless mindfulness, so we can live from a place of natural compassion, joy, and creativity. (Audio download, CE credits available.)

Jun
Thupten Jinpa

Conscious Intentions Lead to Compassionate Awareness

Most of us endeavor to live our lives in accord with our deeper aspirations and the values we cherish. Contemplative practice teaches us the essential skills to bring closer alignment between our aspirations and our everyday life. Connecting with our deeper aspirations in a conscious manner and setting our daily intention helps promote greater self-awareness and focused effort—two factors crucial for ensuring a life of purpose, compassionate connection with others, and joy. Because of its critical importance, in Tibetan tradition, a strong emphasis is placed on conscious intention setting both as a starting point as well as a sustaining factor for one’s contemplative practice.

This month, we'll explore the intimate connection between conscious intention setting, awareness, focus, and living our everyday life from our natural, compassionate core. We'll explore several practices and guided meditations, including:

Meditations for delving deeper into yourself to connect with your core aspirations and personal values
Develop a daily intention-setting practice, a Tibetan tradition that is an essential part of contemplative practice
Explore practices to make compassion an active force in your everyday life, leading to a way of living that brings a greater sense of purpose and joy

Bonus Content:

Self-Compassion Step by Step by Kristin Neff

Self-Compassion Step by Step, by groundbreaking researcher Kristin Neff, PhD, reveals the clinically proven power of self-kindness, with practical training for cultivating an enduring and unshakable sense of your fundamental human worthiness. In this six-hour audio training program, you'll learn to transform self-criticism into genuine compassion toward yourself. Dr. Neff offers guided meditations, experiential practices, and on-the-spot techniques to help you build a strong foundation of self-compassion in your daily life. (Audio download, CE credits available.)

Jul
Mirabai Bush

Mindfulness in the Workplace

Many of us spend a significant amount of time doing work, thinking about work, and relating to those we work with. How we spend our time in the workplace greatly impacts our physical, mental, and emotional energy—not to mention the quality of our work and ability to enjoy our day-to-day experience. This month, we'll explore how mindfulness can transform our experience in the workplace. Increased focus, managing negative emotions, enhanced listening skills, coping with change, and developing creative problem-solving skills are just a few of the outcomes that arise when we bring mindfulness to work. Mirabai will help us explore several practices and guided meditations to support our workplace experience, including:

How mindfulness can help us build our capacity for kindness and compassion
Meditations for deep listening and increasing our ability to understand others
Bringing mindfulness into our daily communications—including mindful emailing

Bonus Content:

Practices for Growing Up Mindful: Guided Meditations and Simple Exercises for Children, Teens, and Families by Christopher Willard, PsyD

We do our best when we feel relaxed, capable, and confident. Teenagers and children are no different. In Practices for Growing Up Mindful, clinical psychologist Dr. Christopher Willard shares 38 practices that teachers, parents, counselors, and caregivers can use to help children and teens cultivate the core building blocks of mindfulness. Practices include guided visualizations that strengthen our ability to pay attention on purpose, body-based practices to cultivate present-moment contact, self-compassion practices for acceptance and non-judgment, and more. (Audio download, CE credits available.)

Aug
Kelly McGonigal

The Mindful Path to Positive Habits

How do positive habits take root? What helps these habits flourish? This session explores how mind-sets like gratitude, joy, love, compassion, and celebration support positive change. Learn how these states of mind affect the body and brain, and why they should be the foundation for any change you are trying to make in your life. We’ll also consider how habits get formed, and what a mindful approach to habit formation looks like. Highlights include:

Breathing practices to balance the nervous system, entrain the heart and breath, and help you tap into your own wisdom
Meditation for joy—connect to states of mind that fuel energy, hope, and courage
Harnessing the power of love and compassion to inspire change

Bonus Content:

Recovery One Breath at a Time: Mindfulness Practices for Overcoming Addiction by Kevin Griffin

There is no more powerful tool than mindfulness for helping us cope with the moment-to-moment challenges of recovery. With his downloadable audio program Recovery One Breath at a Time, Kevin Griffin presents two sessions of mindfulness training adapted to support anyone currently in a recovery program or coping with addiction. This beginner-friendly audio offers both guided meditations and on-the-spot practices for dealing with cravings as they arise, working skillfully with physical and emotional strain, identifying and disarming the triggers that lead us back to addiction, and cultivating positive states of mind for long-term health. (Audio download, CE credits available.)

Sep
Andrew Holecek

The Retreat Principle in Daily Life

Meditation retreats are a powerful way to enhance our daily practice of mindfulness. By understanding the principles that underlie traditional retreats, we can learn how to apply them to daily life. These principles will also reveal a host of “near enemies” to daily practice, subtle snares that unwittingly limit our meditation. Understanding these enemies will help us turn them into “friends,” enabling us to stretch our meditation to include all facets of life. By meditating in different postures and places, and practicing in short sessions or while moving, we can expand the meditative mind and strengthen our mindfulness. Highlights include:

Expanding meditations to help you enter a form of "retreat" on the spot, in a variety of situations
Meditations for working with pain, suffering, and unwanted circumstances
An introduction to nocturnal meditation—learn to initiate lucid dreaming as a way to consciously engage your dreams

Bonus Content:

The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal & Jon Kabat-Zinn

If you’ve ever struggled with depression or know someone who has, take heart: mindfulness practice is a simple, powerful way to naturally break depression’s self-perpetuating cycle. With The Mindful Way Through Depression, four leading researchers present insightful lessons drawn from both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy about how to triumph over this illness—and, more importantly, how to prevent it from striking again. (Audio download, CE credits available)

Oct
Kelly Boys

Seeing Our Blind Spots: Meditation as a Tool for Discovering Truth

We all miss stuff that's right in front of us, from the underlying emotions that drive us unconsciously to our core stories that form patterned ways of relating to the world around us, all the way down to the way we can miss the most essential truth about who we are. Sometimes what we miss can cause us and those around us suffering and bring unnecessary conflict and confusion into our lives. This month, we will illuminate the nature of blind spots and shine a light into our own shadow so we can discover the gifts that have been hiding out and waiting for a little bit of loving care and attention. When we find the truth hidden in what is blind—from big truth to small truth—we get set free and we find aligned actions to take in our lives as a result. One key aspect of mindfulness is the path of insight. Meditative inquiry is a wonderful tool to gain insight by meeting what is hidden and shadowed and getting to know it, thereby gaining access to a fuller perspective of ourselves and of life as it is. Highlights include:

Uncover the "recycled" emotions that have been with you along your life journey—befriend them and discover their hidden gifts
Meet the wholeness of your being—discover what is driving you unconsciously as a core way that you view yourself in the world
Find home base—get to know the ways that you "go away" from your inner knowing and get in touch with the sense of inner alignment that happens when you "stay home" with yourself
Guided practices to encounter the light of truth and treasures that emerge when you excavate your shadows and dive into your blind spots

Nov
Larry Yang

Integrity: The Practice of Wholeness

As we continue on our life’s journey, wherever we have come from and to wherever we may go, the necessary supports to navigate our challenges—our faith, our insight, and our hearts—emerge when we bring all of who we are into our being. This is the experience of integrity, or creating wholeness, from the different pieces of our lives. We know intuitively, experientially, and empirically that the whole is so much greater than the sum of the parts. Join us to explore cultivating integrity and wholeness in our personal lives, in the path we walk, and in the community we call the world. Highlights include:

Guided practices to explore integrity and wholeness in our personal lives, our journeys, and our world
Bringing all of ourselves into this one and precious life, feeling that we totally belong without being dependent upon external conditions
How we can walk with the highest ethics possible amidst challenges and difficulties with a clear mind and tender heart
Explore the connection between elevating the collective consciousness and raising our potential in the evolution of the human species

Dec
Adreanna Limbach

Mindfulness and Self-Acceptance

What if we are complete, just the way that we are? What if all of this goal-setting, self-helping, and stretching to improve is simply distracting us from the fundamental worth that is available at any moment? In this session, we’ll explore the Buddhist teachings on the Eight Worldly Concerns, alongside the obstacles and access points to feeling our own worthiness—and ultimately, what it means to learn how to rest there. “Our ambitions, goals, self-improving, and even our spiritual practices are often driven by the underlying sense that we just aren’t enough,” teaches Limbach, “but what if we could accept ourselves just as we are? Open our hearts and invite our demons to tea?” Highlights include:

A complete guided meditation for "Touching the Earth"—bring yourself back to the essentials and hold your space fully and attentively, without reservation
Practices to befriend your mind and welcome whatever arises
How to work with physical awareness as the entry point for offering ourselves the acknowledgement, kindness, and credit our bodies deserve

Jan
Rolf Gates

What This Moment Brings

Mindfulness is an attitude and an intention that can turn any situation into an opportunity to learn, grow, and love well. This month, acclaimed yoga and meditation teacher Rolf Gates will help us identify the qualities of attitude and intention that are being practiced in mindfulness. We'll explore how by focusing on the cultivation of these qualities, our time in meditation is truly a period of practice for everyday life. The meditations will offer us a chance to become familiar with the movement from conscious choice-making into conscious being, while practicing an open-minded, open-hearted attitude. Highlights include:

Guided practices for examining our attitudes and coming into a state of rest
Working with our intentions in our mindfulness practice
Exploring new ways we move from "choosing" to "being"

Feb
Roshi Joan Halifax

Cultivating Compassion

The great and wise teachings of Buddhism help us realize that this whole life is practice, including our service to others. Being completely and vividly present for the rich details of our lives and the lives of others and all beings is the means that we use to transform our anguish and stress, discover truth, and meet others in a wholehearted way. From the point of view of engaged Buddhism, integrity, stability, resilience, and compassion are essential in our work of service to others. To strengthen these qualities, we integrate values and practices that make it possible for us to meet the world with compassion. In addition, recent scientific research suggests that compassion is a source of hardiness and well-being. It is as well an important feature of our collective well-being. In this series, we will explore a new model of compassion, the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers, and three core compassion practices.

Mindfulness Monthly

Welcome to Mindfulness Monthly!

Personal Empowerment

Creativity Boost

A Longer, Healthier Life

Authentic Joy

Greater Well-Being

Good Company

New lessons each week

Live online sessions

A private online community

Hand-picked bonus gifts

Kelly Boys

Lama Surya Das

Diana Winston

Rhonda V. Magee

Thupten Jinpa

Mirabai Bush

Kelly McGonigal

Andrew Holecek

Kelly Boys

Larry Yang

Adreanna Limbach

Rolf Gates

Roshi Joan Halifax

Host

Kelly Boys

March

Lama Surya Das

April

Diana Winston

May

Rhonda V. Magee

June

Thupten Jinpa

July

Mirabai Bush

August

Kelly McGonigal

September

Andrew Holecek

October

Kelly Boys

November

Larry Yang

December

Adreanna Limbach

January

Rolf Gates

February

Roshi Joan Halifax

Coming up in Mindfulness Monthly

Mar Lama Surya Das Calm, Clear, and Content: Integrating Present Awareness into Daily Life

Apr Diana Winston Opening to Forgiveness

May Rhonda Magee Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Social Engagement

Jun Thupten Jinpa Conscious Intentions Lead to Compassionate Awareness

Jul Mirabai Bush Mindfulness in the Workplace

Aug Kelly McGonigal The Mindful Path to Positive Habits

Sep Andrew Holecek The Retreat Principle in Daily Life

Oct Kelly Boys Seeing Our Blind Spots: Meditation as a Tool for Discovering Truth

Nov Larry Yang Integrity: The Practice of Wholeness

Dec Adreanna Limbach Mindfulness and Self-Acceptance

Jan Rolf Gates What This Moment Brings

Feb Roshi Joan Halifax Cultivating Compassion

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Weekly Guided Practices

A Live Q&A Session

Group Breakout Sessions

Access to a Private Online Community

Downloadable Recordings in a Private Members' Area

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Mar
Lama Surya Das

Calm, Clear, and Content: Integrating Present Awareness into Daily Life

Apr
Diana Winston

Opening to Forgiveness

May
Rhonda Magee

Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Social Engagement

Jun
Thupten Jinpa

Conscious Intentions Lead to Compassionate Awareness

Jul
Mirabai Bush

Mindfulness in the Workplace

Aug
Kelly McGonigal

The Mindful Path to Positive Habits

Sep
Andrew Holecek

The Retreat Principle in Daily Life

Oct
Kelly Boys

Seeing Our Blind Spots: Meditation as a Tool for Discovering Truth

Nov
Larry Yang

Integrity: The Practice of Wholeness

Dec
Adreanna Limbach

Mindfulness and Self-Acceptance

Jan
Rolf Gates

What This Moment Brings

Feb
Roshi Joan Halifax

Cultivating Compassion