What Are the Four Foundations of Mindfulness?

By Sara-Mai Conway

Shifting our full attention to the mind itself with direct experience Mindfulness meditation teaches us to be present with whatever...

Stress Reduction And Meditation

By Sara-Mai Conway

How Meditation Helps Relieve Stress (Simple and Fast Improvements) When we’re faced with unexpected or challenging circumstances that we don’t...

The Benefits of Body Scan Meditation

By Sara-Mai Conway

Promoting our body awareness, stress awareness, and overall relaxation Body scan meditation is just one type of mindfulness meditation. In...

How Meditation Will Change Your Life

By Sara-Mai Conway

There’s an old meditation joke that says everyone should meditate for 30 minutes per day. But if you’re too busy...

The Benefits of Exercise, Meditation and Brain Health

By Sara-Mai Conway

Upon first glance, exercise and meditation offer similar benefits. Both help improve mood, reduce anxiety and depression, and can lead...

Why Breath Meditation is Not Only for Beginners

By Sara-Mai Conway

What are the Benefits of Advanced Breathing Meditation? Most people who are new to meditation are instructed to begin with...

How to Listen to Your Breath, and What it’s Telling You

By Sara-Mai Conway

8 Breathing Patterns that Reveal the Health State of Body and Mind The quality of our breath has lots to...

Simple Yogic Breathing Techniques for Stress Relief

By Sara-Mai Conway

Breathe Deeply: Why Deep Breathing Helps to Calm Your Stress When stressed, our breath gets short and shallow, a sign...

How Breath and Health are Connected

By Sara-Mai Conway

Deep Breathing and Physical Health Benefits for Stress and Anxiety You know you depend on breath to live, but did...

6 Simple Relaxation Techniques for Stress

By Sara-Mai Conway

6 Simple Stress Management Techniques When we experience stress, it triggers a sympathetic nervous system response. Heart rate, breathing and...

How Meditation and Morality are Connected

By Sara-Mai Conway

In Buddhism and other ancient traditions, including yoga, training in morality is considered a precursor to meditation practice. At the...

Which Type of Meditation is Best?

By Sara-Mai Conway

The Best Types of Meditation for Beginners — Mindfulness & Awareness Once people understand there’s more than one type of...

Meditation and the Autonomic Nervous System

By Sara-Mai Conway

About Your Nervous System: Calming Your Nerves & Heart with Meditation You might have heard meditation can heal your central...

How Meditation Improves Physical Health

By Sara-Mai Conway

The Proven Health Benefits of Daily Meditation According to Science When considering its benefits, most people focus on how meditation...

Common Meditation Myths Debunked

By Sara-Mai Conway

Mistaken assumptions about meditation, how it works, and what the outcomes should be can prevent us from starting a practice...