ANDY HOBSON
10 am EST
Andy Hobson guides us through 10 mindfulness meditation sessions, each one introducing a different dimension of mindfulness
OWN THE MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION SUMMIT UPGRADE PACKAGE
Lifetime streaming and downloadable access of the entire Mindfulness and Meditation Summit
Digital session recordings: Over 37 hours of practical breakthrough video learning presentations with over 20 complementary guided audio practices
The complete 10–part mindfulness meditation series led by Andy Hobson and 10–part lovingkindness meditation series led by Sharon Salzberg
Complete video transcripts, all printed presentation materials, and additional resources
When you order this upgrade package, you’ll also receive over 12 valuable bonuses, including:
The Science of Enlightenment Mini–Retreat
Shinzen Young
An exclusive live two–hour experience with this pioneer of modern day meditation. Drawing upon principles in his book The Science of Enlightenment, this online event gathers on February 17, 2018.
(live video event; 2 hours)
Good Medicine
Pema Chödrön
Join this beloved Tibetan Buddhist nun as she reveals a time–tested Buddhist antidote to suffering—and shows how to apply it in your own life. Here, she teaches us the simple and elegant meditation practice of tonglen, a way to engage life’s difficulties to befriend ourselves, accept the past we have rejected, and widen our circle of compassion.
Meditation for Beginners
Jack Kornfield, PhD
From renowned teacher and author Jack Kornfield, his perennial favorite introduction to meditation. This audio program guides you step by step through the most important foundations of mindfulness meditation. An excellent daily support for getting started and staying inspired.
The Art of
Mindfulness in Daily Life
Vidyamala Burch
A short ebook that points the way toward establishing a fulfilling daily practice, especially for those facing chronic pain and discomfort.
Lake Meditation
Andy Hobson
A guided audio meditation with a relaxing musical accompaniment performed by Andy himself.
Relax and Retune
Meditation
Elisha Goldstein, PhD
A 20–minute guided audio practice for calming our nervous system and resting more fully in awareness.
The Five Ways to
Know Yourself
Shinzen Young
An ebook PDF introduction to the ways mindfulness practice can help bring insight and clarity to the search for self.
Generosity
Christopher Willard, PsyD
A selection from his new book Raising Resilience: The Wisdom and Science of Happy Families and Thriving Children.
Guidelines for Forming
a Racial Affinity Group
Ruth King
An ebook PDF excerpt from Ruth’s upcoming book Mindful of Race, including inquiry questions for your first group meeting.
The Art and Science
of Neuroplasticity:
How Self-Reflection
and Discipline Cultivate
Neural Integration
Dan Siegel, MD
This 90–minute video offers fascinating and useful insights into the science behind neural activity and its relationship with attention, experience, and memory.
Karma:
Taking Responsibility
for Home
Ethan Nichtern
An ebook PDF that reflects upon the concept of karma and how it is largely misunderstood in modern culture.
A Guided
Self-Compassion Letter
Writing Practice
Kelly McGonigal, PhD
Through writing, this self–reflection exercise helps us to tune into self–compassion and compassion toward others. An excellent weekly or monthly practice for nurturing ourselves and building an essential skill of emotional self–care.
32 WORLDWIDE LEADERS IN THE FIELD OF
MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION
RICHIE DAVIDSON, PHD
Author of The Emotional Life of Your Brain and coauthor of Altered Traits
Examines contemplative practice through the lens of recent neuroscience
Details different types of meditators and why they achieve varying results
JEWEL
Singer, songwriter, and author of Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
Explains how self–observation practices helped her work through chronic anxiety and trauma
Offers on–the–spot methods for dealing with negative thoughts and self–talk
ALICE WALKER
Pulitzer Prize –winning author of The Color Purple and Meridian
Describes how different forms of mindfulness meditation have affected her writing
Considers the practical effects of lovingkindness andtonglen meditation
ECKHART TOLLE
Author of The Power of Now and A New Earth
Explains the importance of incorporating meditation in our daily lives
Offers methods for achieving inner–body awareness
“We only have one wireless connection with the real internet, and that’s our mind. There isn’t a single moment in our lives when our mind is not functioning as the basis of all our interactions—not even one. So it makes sense to train ourselves in the skillful operation of this basic interface. This is what meditation is for.”
Ethan Nichtern
Summit Co–host
WELCOME TO THE MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION SUMMIT
Transform Yourself, Your Community, and the World with
Over 30 Leading Spiritual Teachers and Visionaries
- Global conflicts and catastrophes
- The accelerating pace of information and daily communications
- Technological leaps full of unknown promises and perils
We are certainly living in interesting times.
Amid all of it, could you use a greater reservoir of calm, clarity, compassion, and energy?
An ever–growing number of thought leaders and influencers are realizing that to effect positive outward changes in the world, we need to start making profound shifts in our inner lives as well.
How?
With mindfulness meditation—the most powerful and effective first step that you can take to completely change the way you perceive, feel, and act in the world.
WHAT IS MINDFULNESS?
Mindfulness is an abiding “baseline” of awareness and non–resistance available in any situation, whatever we’re experiencing.
As meditation teacher Jack Kornfield describes it:
Instead of fearing painful experiences and running away from them, or grasping after pleasant experiences hoping that somehow they will last,we realize that we have the capacity to be present for all of life—that we can live more fully and freely just where we are.
The good news is that mindfulness is like any physical skill—it can be strengthened and refined on the cellular level.
Mindfulness and other forms of meditation literally change your brain to help you manage your emotions, amplify attention and clear decision–making, and improve how you relate with others.
In research spanning many fields, scientists are discovering that mindfulness–based meditation—especially when combined with training in emotional intelligence, compassion practices, and other simple practices—rewires our neural pathways to yield these and many other benefits.
TRANSFORMING THE REAL WORLD BY
TRANSFORMING OURSELVES
The healthy skeptic in you may be asking: “Is meditation really relevant when so many obvious concerns call for urgent and immediate action?”
As you’ll hear from many of our summit presenters, consider this perspective: “If we’re full of fear or anger or experiencing despair and ‘burn out,’ we simply cannot be fully effective in helping others.”
Now imagine yourself with the research–proven strengths of mindfulness and compassion on your side:
You gain a foundation of calm and inner stability.
Your empathy for and understanding of others grows.
You gain wider and deeper insight into “unsolvable” problems, both personal and social.
With that clarity of vision, you choose wiser goals and make more confident decisions.
In the face of crises and setbacks, you’re more resilient—you receive successes and failures alike with acceptance and grace.
You begin to experience who you are not just as an individual but as part of a greater, interconnected whole.
All of these shifts create a “ripple effect” that affects your family, friends, workplace, and community. And those people, in turn, influence everyone that they’re connected with.
It creates positive “chain reactions” to counter the negative ones at the heart of so many of our problems today.
And . . . it all starts within you—with much less effort than you might think.
Are you ready to begin learning how to start bringing mindfulness into your life, and into our vast, interconnected network of humanity?
“Mindfulness does not mean putting out the fire of rage or hurt. It’s about pausing to bear witness, not changing or fixing, and allowing whatever emerges to soften, shift, and change as it will.”
Ruth King
THE MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION SUMMIT
ONLINE EXPERIENCE
OVER 30 WORLDWIDE LEADERS IN MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS
Learn more about our presenters and their gifts to you
DAILY AM & PM COMMUNITY MEDITATIONS
One of the best ways to establish a solid meditation practice is with the support of community. During this summit, we’ll be doing just that. Each morning and evening will begin and end with a 15–minute group audio meditation:
SHARON SALZBERG
10 pm EST
Sharon Salzberg closes each day with a guided lovingkindness practice–a powerful and traditional complement to mindfulness meditation
When you buy the upgrade package, you’ll have access to all 20 of these daily meditation sessions.
1. RICHIE DAVIDSON, PHD January 22, 2018 at 10 am MT, 12 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation and the Science of Altered Traits”
In this opening interview, Tami Simon speaks with Richie Davidson, PhD, about his neuroscientific research into the effects of contemplative practice on the mind and body. Drawing on recent discoveries, Richie details the principles that underlie the development of resilience and equanimity, how to confront toxic personal narratives, and the cultivation of innate human goodness. Join Richie to learn about:
- The differences between constructive and deconstructive practices
- The three “levels” of meditators and what differentiates them
- Why some practitioners are able to alter personal traits and others cannot
2. ALICE WALKER January 22, 2018 at 2 pm MT, 4 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation as a Doorway to Joy and Liberation”
In this special interview between celebrated author Alice Walker and Tami Simon, Alice discusses her early discovery of a deep peace and radiance within herself, which she later rediscovered through the practice of meditation. Alice talks about the necessity to meet all beings with compassion, without exclusion. She also talks about meditation as a “loyal friend” and the specific practices of lovingkindness and tonglen, two practices which have played an important role in Alice’s life. Other topics include: how meditation has influenced Alice’s writing; “disappearing” in meditation and how Alice understands this experience; what it means to embrace the part of us that feels broken and how meditation can help; meditation and the work of social activism; why Alice believes joy and wisdom are linked; and more. Join Alice for a conversation that transmits her love of life and learn more about:
- Using meditation to cultivate an awareness of emptiness, personal bravery, and an interconnection to all things
- The interplay between formal meditation and the meditation of everyday life
- Meeting our own suffering with joy, compassion, and lovingkindness
- Meditation as a step toward liberation from all of the forces that tie us down
2. ALICE WALKER January 22, 2018 at 2 pm MT, 4 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation as a Doorway to Joy and Liberation”
In this special interview between celebrated author Alice Walker and Tami Simon, Alice discusses her early discovery of a deep peace and radiance within herself, which she later rediscovered through the practice of meditation. Alice talks about the necessity to meet all beings with compassion, without exclusion. She also talks about meditation as a “loyal friend” and the specific practices of lovingkindness and tonglen, two practices which have played an important role in Alice’s life. Other topics include: how meditation has influenced Alice’s writing; “disappearing” in meditation and how Alice understands this experience; what it means to embrace the part of us that feels broken and how meditation can help; meditation and the work of social activism; why Alice believes joy and wisdom are linked; and more. Join Alice for a conversation that transmits her love of life and learn more about:
- Using meditation to cultivate an awareness of emptiness, personal bravery, and an interconnection to all things
- The interplay between formal meditation and the meditation of everyday life
- Meeting our own suffering with joy, compassion, and lovingkindness
- Meditation as a step toward liberation from all of the forces that tie us down
2. ALICE WALKER January 22, 2018 at 2 pm MT, 4 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation as a Doorway to Joy and Liberation”
In this special interview between celebrated author Alice Walker and Tami Simon, Alice discusses her early discovery of a deep peace and radiance within herself, which she later rediscovered through the practice of meditation. Alice talks about the necessity to meet all beings with compassion, without exclusion. She also talks about meditation as a “loyal friend” and the specific practices of lovingkindness and tonglen, two practices which have played an important role in Alice’s life. Other topics include: how meditation has influenced Alice’s writing; “disappearing” in meditation and how Alice understands this experience; what it means to embrace the part of us that feels broken and how meditation can help; meditation and the work of social activism; why Alice believes joy and wisdom are linked; and more. Join Alice for a conversation that transmits her love of life and learn more about:
- Using meditation to cultivate an awareness of emptiness, personal bravery, and an interconnection to all things
- The interplay between formal meditation and the meditation of everyday life
- Meeting our own suffering with joy, compassion, and lovingkindness
- Meditation as a step toward liberation from all of the forces that tie us down
2. ALICE WALKER January 22, 2018 at 2 pm MT, 4 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation as a Doorway to Joy and Liberation”
In this special interview between celebrated author Alice Walker and Tami Simon, Alice discusses her early discovery of a deep peace and radiance within herself, which she later rediscovered through the practice of meditation. Alice talks about the necessity to meet all beings with compassion, without exclusion. She also talks about meditation as a “loyal friend” and the specific practices of lovingkindness and tonglen, two practices which have played an important role in Alice’s life. Other topics include: how meditation has influenced Alice’s writing; “disappearing” in meditation and how Alice understands this experience; what it means to embrace the part of us that feels broken and how meditation can help; meditation and the work of social activism; why Alice believes joy and wisdom are linked; and more. Join Alice for a conversation that transmits her love of life and learn more about:
- Using meditation to cultivate an awareness of emptiness, personal bravery, and an interconnection to all things
- The interplay between formal meditation and the meditation of everyday life
- Meeting our own suffering with joy, compassion, and lovingkindness
- Meditation as a step toward liberation from all of the forces that tie us down
2. ALICE WALKER January 22, 2018 at 2 pm MT, 4 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation as a Doorway to Joy and Liberation”
In this special interview between celebrated author Alice Walker and Tami Simon, Alice discusses her early discovery of a deep peace and radiance within herself, which she later rediscovered through the practice of meditation. Alice talks about the necessity to meet all beings with compassion, without exclusion. She also talks about meditation as a “loyal friend” and the specific practices of lovingkindness and tonglen, two practices which have played an important role in Alice’s life. Other topics include: how meditation has influenced Alice’s writing; “disappearing” in meditation and how Alice understands this experience; what it means to embrace the part of us that feels broken and how meditation can help; meditation and the work of social activism; why Alice believes joy and wisdom are linked; and more. Join Alice for a conversation that transmits her love of life and learn more about:
- Using meditation to cultivate an awareness of emptiness, personal bravery, and an interconnection to all things
- The interplay between formal meditation and the meditation of everyday life
- Meeting our own suffering with joy, compassion, and lovingkindness
- Meditation as a step toward liberation from all of the forces that tie us down
2. ALICE WALKER January 22, 2018 at 2 pm MT, 4 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation as a Doorway to Joy and Liberation”
In this special interview between celebrated author Alice Walker and Tami Simon, Alice discusses her early discovery of a deep peace and radiance within herself, which she later rediscovered through the practice of meditation. Alice talks about the necessity to meet all beings with compassion, without exclusion. She also talks about meditation as a “loyal friend” and the specific practices of lovingkindness and tonglen, two practices which have played an important role in Alice’s life. Other topics include: how meditation has influenced Alice’s writing; “disappearing” in meditation and how Alice understands this experience; what it means to embrace the part of us that feels broken and how meditation can help; meditation and the work of social activism; why Alice believes joy and wisdom are linked; and more. Join Alice for a conversation that transmits her love of life and learn more about:
- Using meditation to cultivate an awareness of emptiness, personal bravery, and an interconnection to all things
- The interplay between formal meditation and the meditation of everyday life
- Meeting our own suffering with joy, compassion, and lovingkindness
- Meditation as a step toward liberation from all of the forces that tie us down
2. ALICE WALKER January 22, 2018 at 2 pm MT, 4 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation as a Doorway to Joy and Liberation”
In this special interview between celebrated author Alice Walker and Tami Simon, Alice discusses her early discovery of a deep peace and radiance within herself, which she later rediscovered through the practice of meditation. Alice talks about the necessity to meet all beings with compassion, without exclusion. She also talks about meditation as a “loyal friend” and the specific practices of lovingkindness and tonglen, two practices which have played an important role in Alice’s life. Other topics include: how meditation has influenced Alice’s writing; “disappearing” in meditation and how Alice understands this experience; what it means to embrace the part of us that feels broken and how meditation can help; meditation and the work of social activism; why Alice believes joy and wisdom are linked; and more. Join Alice for a conversation that transmits her love of life and learn more about:
- Using meditation to cultivate an awareness of emptiness, personal bravery, and an interconnection to all things
- The interplay between formal meditation and the meditation of everyday life
- Meeting our own suffering with joy, compassion, and lovingkindness
- Meditation as a step toward liberation from all of the forces that tie us down
2. ALICE WALKER January 22, 2018 at 2 pm MT, 4 pm ET Day 1: Mindfulness Comes of Age
“Meditation as a Doorway to Joy and Liberation”
In this special interview between celebrated author Alice Walker and Tami Simon, Alice discusses her early discovery of a deep peace and radiance within herself, which she later rediscovered through the practice of meditation. Alice talks about the necessity to meet all beings with compassion, without exclusion. She also talks about meditation as a “loyal friend” and the specific practices of lovingkindness and tonglen, two practices which have played an important role in Alice’s life. Other topics include: how meditation has influenced Alice’s writing; “disappearing” in meditation and how Alice understands this experience; what it means to embrace the part of us that feels broken and how meditation can help; meditation and the work of social activism; why Alice believes joy and wisdom are linked; and more. Join Alice for a conversation that transmits her love of life and learn more about:
- Using meditation to cultivate an awareness of emptiness, personal bravery, and an interconnection to all things
- The interplay between formal meditation and the meditation of everyday life
- Meeting our own suffering with joy, compassion, and lovingkindness
- Meditation as a step toward liberation from all of the forces that tie us down
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