Elisha Goldstein is a flagship instructor on Meditation Studio. A psychologist, best-selling author and co-Founder of the Center for Mindful Living in LA. In this interview, he answers top questions and discusses his groundbreaking online course, A Course In Mindful Living, and shares why mentors and community can be the keys to sustaining a practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dawn Eshelman is Head of Programs at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC. This amazing museum offers creative programs that pair meditation with art to explore a range of themes like listening, compassion, facing your fears, and happiness. It's a beautiful way to enhance the art experience and to cultivate a 'real life' mindfulness practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sara Lazar is a Harvard neuroscientist and Associate Researcher in the psychiatry department at Massachusetts General Hospital. In this episode, she shares research that shows how a regular meditation practice changes our brains--proof positive that mindfulness meditation can positively impact mood, focus, memory, and stress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wade Brill was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 21, her mother died of cancer 2 months later. Wade learned early that life can change in an instant. She shares how her meditation practice helped her through this challenging period and how it continues to sustain her so she can more fully connect with herself and with each moment of her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrea Lieberstein is a nutritionist, mindfulness teacher, and author of the new book, "Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Feed Your Whole Self, and End Overeating". She discusses how important it is to nourish ourselves on many different levels, so we don’t use food for quick comfort or to fill in the missing pieces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rob Dube is an author and the President of imageOne, a company ranked by Forbes as one of America’s Best Small Companies. He's passionate about the positive effects meditation can have on our brains, bodies, and hearts and shares how his meditation practice has changed his life, his company, and his leadership style. Wait till you hear about his amazing Leadership Retreat! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
James Fox is the founder of the Prison Yoga Project, an organization that teaches yoga and meditation inside prisons. He works with prisoners who've been impacted by chronic interpersonal trauma most of their lives. His goal is meet these prisoners with dignity and understanding and to inspire positive behavioral change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sharon Guskin is the author of international bestseller "The Forgetting Time", a story about a 4 year old boy who remembers his past life and keeps telling his mom "he wants to go home." Sharon discusses the compelling research on reincarnation, what inspired her to write this book, and how her Buddhist and meditation practices influenced her writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
La shares a heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting and courageous, journey as a gender fluid person. After years of depression and feelings of isolation, La learned self-love and deep acceptance from their first meditation teacher, Tara Brach, author of "Radical Acceptance". La now teaches mindfulness and leads retreats for the LGBTIQ community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alejandro Chaoul is Director of the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He was the first to create their Connect with the Heart meditation program for cancer patients, has studied in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and deeply believes in the healing power of the breath and sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amy Gross is the former Editor-in-Chief of “O, The Oprah Magazine” and now fully devotes her time to practicing and teaching meditation. She shares the path that lead her to this choice and why she believes meditation has the power to free us from the kinds of reactions that cause stress and suffering, and what happiness now means to her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
James Colquhoun is a filmmaker of the documentaries "Food Matters" and "Hungry for Change" and the Founder of FMTV, the Netflix of healthy programming. James is devoted to giving people tools to take charge of their own health. He shares the story of how he healed his father’s mysterious illness with real food and a blend of spiritual practices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sharon Salzberg is a leading meditation teacher and author of 10 books, including her latest, "Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection". When we redefine our current notions of love, she explains, we can connect more deeply with ourselves, others, and life itself. She explores how meditation helps to cultivate our capacity for real love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bill Duane is an engineer, meditation teacher, and head of the Well-Being and Sustainable Performance Learning Team at Google. His team’s mission is to help employees live and work in ways that allow them to be their most effective and happy selves. Bill shares how core mindfulness skills support google’s high-performance goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stefanie Goldstein is the co-founder of the Center for Mindful Living in LA and a mother of 3 boys. She knows firsthand that being a mom can be one of the greatest and most challenging experiences of our lives. She created this meditation to help us find groundedness, compassion, and love within ourselves--even on the craziest of days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Judson Brewer is an MD and Director of Research at UMass Medical School Center for Mindfulness. In this interview, Judson shares how mindfulness fits into the addiction cycle and how we can change our unwanted habits for good. He is a thought leader in the field of addiction and habit change and author of a new book called "The Craving Mind." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Catherine Burns is the Artistic Director for The Moth, the storytelling organization, and the editor of their new book, "All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown". Catherine shares why stories have the power to change both the storyteller and the listener--giving us a way to be vulnerable and to connect more deeply with one another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elisha Goldstein is the Co-founder of the Center for Mindful Living in LA. Enjoy this special guided meditation in honor of Earth Day. This simple breath meditation invites you to take a moment to connect to the earth and its many gifts. It also helps you to connect to your own heart and all living things on this planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sarah Kaufman is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dance Critic for the Washington Post and author of the book, "The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life". She defines "grace" as a kind of physical, social, and spiritual ease and teaches us how to enact it in our everyday lives, and describes the similarities between grace and mindfulness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Anne Marie Albano is a clinical psychologist, an expert on anxiety and mood disorders, and author of "You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child from Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family Life." She describes the many different types of anxiety, what triggers it, and why so many people suffer from anxiety disorders today. She shares groundbreaking coping skills for kids, teens, and young adults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emily Fletcher interviews Mark Krassner, Founder of Expectful--a platform that introduces meditation to pregnant women and new moms. Mark’s inspiration has been his own mom, who struggled with anxiety during her pregnancy and throughout his childhood. He’s shares how a meditation practice can positively impact both mother and child. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Travis Barton is a sought-after life coach who shares why it’s important to find your passion and purpose in life. He believes that doing what makes you ‘come alive’ can change you--and the world. He shares why meditation is a key to finding your best self and how it’s helped him personally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Gelles is a New York Times reporter and author of "Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out". He started meditating as an anxious teenager, then spent a semester in India, and has been a sporadic, but devoted, meditator ever since. David is convinced of the power of mindfulness to change us personally and at work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ann Friedman is a journalist, New York Magazine columnist and co-host of a VERY popular podcast Call Your Girlfriend, where she covers politics and pop culture with co-host Aminatou Sow. Ann started meditating last year, using Meditation Studio App, and shares her insights on the hilarious challenges of becoming a ‘good’ meditator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark Coleman, mindfulness teacher and author of "Make Peace with Your Mind," shares how mindfulness and compassion can free us from our inner critic--the one that blasts us with messages that "we’re not good enough." Mark shows us, with wisdom and humour, how we can quell that inner voice and stop beating ourselves up--for good! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Melli O’Brien is a devoted meditation teacher and practitioner from Australia, known worldwide as Mrs. Mindfulness. Her mission is to help us lead more conscious and connected lives with more peace and purpose. She shares wisdom from her program, The Art of Mindful Living, where she teaches life-changing tools that have the power to transform us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lodro Rinzler, author of "Love Hurts" and co-founder of MNDFL Studios in New York shares the universal nature of heartbreak and how it connects us to one another. Whether we’re experiencing little everyday heartbreaks or the big, crushing heartbreaks, Lodro reminds us that it’s all part of the human experience: it will change--and we’re not alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emily Fletcher, Ziva Meditation founder and Meditation Studio app teacher, shares how meditation helps us to be a more ‘present’ partner in our relationships and--bonus!--gives us a boost in our sex lives too. Spoiler alert? Don’t expect someone else to ‘complete’ you: it all begins with loving and accepting ourselves first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chrissy Carter, Meditation Studio teacher, offers two favorite meditations from our app Relationship Collection. The first is called Relationship Lessons and reminds us how relationships teach us what we need to learn, especially when they trigger us. The second is called Being Open to Possibility and reminds us that love is always possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ashley Turner is a meditation and yoga teacher and psychotherapist. On today's episode, she answers our biggest love questions. How does meditation help us in relationships? How does it help us to be more authentic and vulnerable? To forgive, let go and move on? To have compassion for ourselves and others? This interview is our Valentine’s Day gift to you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
