Enjoy this Valentine's Day Meditation, created by Chrissy Carter. Valentine’s Day, at its heart, is an opportunity to practice love in many forms. Chrissy shares that it starts from within, with love for ourselves with no strings attached. We’re believers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emily Fletcher, former stressed-out broadway actress, now world-class meditation teacher and Founder of Ziva Meditation, shares how a combination of mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting can help optimize performance for anyone. Her Stress-Solution program gives high performers simple meditation hacks to stress less and accomplish more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jonathan Foust is an author and a guiding teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC. With wisdom and humor, he shares some suggestions for how we can become more familiar with the feelings that fuel our anxiety and anger. He also shares some great advice for dealing with conflict in our personal relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Denise Jacobs is the author of "Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work". She shares several ways you can turn down the negative voice in your head and quiet that inner bully so you can do anything more effortlessly. Great insights if you've ever experienced self-doubt! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dianne Bondy is a leading advocate for positive body image--at any size. She's a celebrated yoga teacher and social justice activist who shares how her personal journey began with negative body image and low self esteem. She shares the tools she used to shift to a positive body image, and how she now helps others do the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stefanie Goldstein, mother, psychologist and mindfulness teacher, shares this original meditation and short inspirational message created in honor of the 2017 Women's March. She inspires us to connect with and lead from our hearts, and reminds us that we can choose how we show up in our lives each and every day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist and author of several books, including his New York Times Bestseller, "Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence." He shares how we can hardwire our brains for happiness using practices that help us cultivate and experience the good in our lives while reducing our natural negativity biases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kristen Noel is the founder of "Best Self Magazine" and believes that it's always possible to rescript our lives to be our 'best selves,' and to live more authentically and with more joy. She shares her own 'reinvention' journey and why "Best Self Magazine" was born out of the vision to inspire, empower, and connect us to one another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this New Year's episode, host Patricia Karpas shares some of the gems from her 2017 guests. Spoiler Alert: keep your heart open, make peace with your inner critic, life is messy, real love is about connection, and more! Emily Fletcher, Founder of Ziva Meditation and Meditation Studio App Teacher, provides inspiration for the New Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Joe Dispenza, a New York Times bestselling author, researcher, and educator is driven by the conviction that each of us has the potential for greatness and unlimited abilities--including the ability to heal ourselves. He shares how he healed himself after a devastating bike accident and the mind-body work he's continued to do to help others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Karen Brody, women's well-being expert and author of "Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation", shares how Yoga Nidra has the power to reboot and transform our exhausted lives. If you're tired, cranky or the least bit overwhelmed and in need of a power nap, this one is for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Congressman Tim Ryan, Author of "A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit", shares why mindfulness plays such a big role in his life. He believes that honoring and valuing diversity, and listening to one another, can help us build empathy and find solutions that connect us, rather than divide us. His vision for an America 2.0 is one where our priority is truly taking care of one another. Learn more about your ad cho...
Noah Levine is an author, Buddhist teacher, founder of Against the Stream and Refuge Recovery centers and is featured on the Meditation Studio App. He believes that all individuals have the power and potential to free themselves from the suffering that is caused by addiction. His programs offer an alternative to theistic 12-step programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Albert Flynn DeSilver is a poet, meditation teacher, and author of the recent book, "Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life". He shares how his rough childhood led him to writing, poetry, and meditation. He believes that writing, coupled with a meditation practice, can help us unleash our own creativity and that we all have the potential to be great writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard-trained physician Parneet Pal discusses her efforts to revolutionize healthcare by looking at prevention and "Lifestyle as Medicine." She shares her personal story and why she believes behavior change and mindfulness are our best tools to inspire a healthier mind and body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meditation Studio App Teacher Chrissy Carter works her magic again as she shares this Thanksgiving Meditation. When we're stressed, overwhelmed, and frenzied we become disconnected from ourselves. Chrissy asks us to contemplate what we're grateful for and to let this fill us up with joy. We wish you a heart filled with joy and gratitude this holiday season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tracy Cochran is a popular meditation teacher and the editorial director of "Parabola Magazine". She shares how a mindfulness practice can help us in our crazy busy everyday lives. She also shares why holidays with families can often trigger us--sending us back to our 12-year-old selves--and offers some tips on how to handle this as we head into holiday season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The talented and creative Emily Fletcher is a former Broadway actress who began suffering from insomnia, anxiety, and graying hair at the age of 26. A fellow actress turned her on to meditation and it changed her work and personal life forever. She's now the Founder of Ziva Meditation and devotes her life to teaching meditation to others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Waylon Lewis is the Founder of Elephant Journal, a popular digital publication that focuses on 'the mindful life.' Waylon grew up with Buddhist parents and learned meditation at a young age. He shares his journey as a 'conscious but messy' human being, entrepreneur, author, and talk show host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Apollo talks about Buddhism, mindfulness at work, and how to get started with your own meditation practice. Michael is an educator at the University of Toronto and leads the Meditation Studio Meditation Essentials course. His teachings draw from neuroscience, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Penn Harris is the 7-year-old son of Shelby Harris, a psychologist and the flagship sleep meditation teacher on Meditation Studio. Penn shares how he has learned meditation at home and at school and how it helps to quiet both his brain and body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lynne McTaggart is an award-winning journalist, science writer, and bestselling author of several books on the power of intention. She shares how she overcame her own skepticism and insights from her recent book, "The Power of Eight: Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life, and the World", suggests interesting results when small groups of people gather to focus on a shared intention to heal others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...
Vanessa Potter is the author of "Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight". She was a talented television producer until an illness caused her to suddenly become blind and paralyzed. Meditation and brain science are central themes to her incredible story of recovery and how the experience transformed her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rachel Cook is a former stock trader turned CEO of Seeds, a social impact tech company that provides tools that allow companies to donate a portion of every in-app purchase to microloans for those in need around the world. She shares how her first Vipassana meditation retreat was life-changing for her and how her practice continues to inspire her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stephen Batchelor is a contemporary Buddhist teacher and author, best known for his agnostic and controversial approach to Buddhism. He's known as a skeptical Buddhist who questions the strict dogmas and beliefs of Buddhism while exploring and engaging in what's truly distinctive in the teachings. His insights are illuminating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tina Staley is a social worker, author and Founder of the Kindness Action Network. Her Kindness In Action 12-step tool is designed to inspire positive change. She works with individuals, corporations, healthcare organizations, cancer patients, veterans, and many others. Turns out kindness really does have the power to heal! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dani Shapiro is a bestselling memoirist of the books "Slow Motion", "Devotion", and her newest book, "Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage". She explores how we make meaning of what happens in our lives and how we shape our experiences into story. Meditation is a part of her everyday ritual to stay grounded and to tap into her inner landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Shelby Harris is a psychologist, behavioral sleep and medicine expert, and flagship sleep meditation teacher on Meditation Studio. This episode is for anyone who struggles with falling asleep or waking up in the middle of the night. She shares valuable advice for getting a better night sleep--plus great tips and tools for eliminating insomnia for good! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Susan Piver is a meditation teacher, Founder of the Open Heart Project, and New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including the award-winning "How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life", and "The Wisdom of a Broken Heart". She shares her personal story and how meditation helps with fearlessness, creativity, and joy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brilliant choreographer Alonzo King shares how finding stillness is key to fueling our creativity and intuition, cultivating the relationship we have with ourselves, and tapping into our natural state of joy. He finds stillness and his own inner voice through yoga and meditation, and inspires his dancers to use heart and mind in addition to the body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
