LIFE NAVIGATION COURSES

Bring Meditation Into Your Everyday Life

Our relationships, responsibilities and moments of change all offer opportunities for practice. Explore authentic online meditation courses for meeting these experiences with greater understanding, resilience and genuine confidence.

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BRING YOUR PRACTICE INTO THE WORLD

Life Navigation Courses Take You Beyond the Cushion

Meet Stress with Perspective

Recognize the patterns that make demands feel overwhelming, and explore a more spacious way to respond.

Work with Difficult Emotions

Learn to understand and welcome your emotions, discovering how even the difficult ones can become ground for practice.

Deepen Your Connections

Bring presence and kindness to relationships, with greater understanding of your own part in giving and receiving care.

Live with Clarity and Purpose

Explore what gives your life meaning and how your everyday choices can reflect it.

WORK WITH LIFE’S CHALLENGES

10 Transformational Courses

Choose from ten self-paced meditation courses exploring stress, emotions, relationships, parenting, health, recovery and more. Follow the subject that speaks to what’s happening in your life, studying on its own or alongside a Mindworks Journey.

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Meditation Essentials

Experience more joy, clarity and ease with an authentic, complete meditation training

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Mind Body Health and Harmony

Nourish the body and mind connection by harnessing the power of meditation

Relationships are fertile ground and can be worked with in meditation

Improving Relationships

Connect to your most authentic self to become available for meaningful connection with others

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Working with Stress

Reduce stress and anxiety with the proven coping skill of authentic meditation

Addiction, Recovery and Forgiveness

Addiction and Forgiveness

Appreciate forgiveness as vital for sustaining recovery, whether your own or another’s

Psychology, Modern Trauma Theory & Meditation

Psychology of Addiction

Understand the causes of addiction and how meditative intervention helps recovery

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Meditation for Parents

Parent with greater perspective and patience with the insight of meditation practice

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Course in Happiness

Experience presence as the basis of well-being through daily meditation practice

Bart Mendel, Founder of Mindworks & Meditation Teacher

The Mindful Executive

Let a greater sense of meaning and purpose become the drivers for your success

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Working with Emotions

Embody a healthier relationship with your emotions through meditation

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Choose Your Course or Membership

Purchase an individual Life Navigation course with lifetime access, or choose a Premium membership for access to all Mindworks courses. If you’d like to get to know Mindworks first, Level 1: Fundamentals is free, with no credit card or commitment required.

Individual Courses – Lifetime Access

$25 – $50 per course

Billed once

Life Navigation courses give you the tools and confidence you need to meet life’s challenges.

Start Free with Level 1: Fundamentals

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Mindworks Premium Membership

$225 / year

Billed annually

Access all Mindworks online meditation courses, guided meditations and live events with Premium membership.

Mindworks Premium Membership

$25 / month

Billed monthly

Access all Mindworks online meditation courses, guided meditations and live events with Premium membership.

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STUDY AT YOUR OWN PACE

Meditation Made Accessible

An engaging mix of teaching videos, guided meditations, readings and contemplation gives you different ways to explore each subject. Courses contain 7–14 days of teaching and practice, with 10–30 minutes of daily study and practice, depending on the course. Study in your web browser, at your own pace, and return to the material as you put it into practice.

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Alice Keech – Practice Assistant

Your team and your courses have changed mine and my family’s life for the better. I am truly humbled by how we have not only weathered some challenging situations but in the course of deepening our understanding of ourselves, we have come out the other side stronger than before. Thank you for showing me how to love life again; and even more so during challenging times.

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Virginia – Retired writer

The Journey levels are proceeding well – very high quality content! I love meeting the all-star cast of meditators.

Mindworks has instilled truly transformative changes in my personal and professional life

Chris – Fund Manager

I’ve found that Mindworks has instilled truly transformative changes in my personal and professional life and relationships. It’s intelligently designed by experienced meditators, with short, carefully interwoven guided learning segments that are both joyful to use and immediately rewarding. I couldn’t be more pleased with my Mindworks experience and highly recommend it to everyone.

EXPERIENCE THAT INFORMS THE TEACHING

Meet Your Mind Trainers 

Alongside experienced meditation teachers, these courses draw on the perspectives of psychologists, physicians and practitioners working with life’s challenges. Their guidance connects contemplative practice with lived and professional experience.

Bart Mendel is the architect of Mindworks progressive meditation system.

Bart Mendel

Founder and Chief Meditation Officer

Chogyal Rinpoche teaches meditation and supports humanitarian causes

Chogyal Rinpoche

Meditation Master and Humanitarian

Dr. Cynthia Thaik is a holistic cardiologist who teaches mindfulness as a way to improve heart health

Cynthia Thaik, M.D.

Holistic Cardiologist

Dr. David Schechter is a specialist in mind body medicine for Mindworks meditation

David Schechter MD

Physician Specializing in Mind-Body Medicine

Julia Stenzel PhD is a long time meditation teacher who specializes in the benefits of compassion meditation

Julia Stenzel, PhD

Meditation teacher and Buddhist professor

Khaydroup Podvoll is a Mind Trainer on Mindworks who teaches the benefits of being in the present moment

Khaydroup Podvoll

Contemplative Practitioner, Meditator & Teacher

Khenpo Dharma Mitra, a respected meditation practitioner and teacher

Khenpo Dharma Mitra

Meditation & Buddhist Philosophy Teacher

Lama Jampa Thaye, Meditation Master and Scholar

Lama Jampa Thaye, PhD

Meditation Master and Buddhist Scholar

Lama Tsony teaches meditation practices on Mindworks

Lama Tsony Devroux

Life-Long Meditator & Teacher

Lara Braitstein Phd, Professor at McGill University and Mindworks Mind Trainer

Lara Braitstein, PhD

Professor and Buddhist Teacher

Maggie Lehnert Kossowski has been a meditator for over 35 years

Maggie Lehnert Kossowski

Longtime Meditator and Teacher

Maria Camara PhD - meditation teacher, therapist and psychologist

Maria Camara, PhD

Psychologist, Therapist & Meditation Teacher

Pamela Gayle White is a skilled write on all things meditation for Mindworks

Pamela Gayle White

Longtime meditation teacher, author and translator

Rachel Parrish teaches how to meditate on Mindworks

Rachel Parrish

Dedicated Meditator and Teacher

Reverend Joseph Rogers is a specialist in addiction recovery and teaches meditation to aid recovery

Reverend Joseph Rogers

Chaplain and Meditation Instructor for Recovery

Sara-Mai Conway is a Buddhist writer who bases her writings and teachings on her Buddhist practice and experience

Sara-Mai Conway

Writer and Meditation Instructor

Dr. Stephen Dansiger teaches meditation and addiction recovery at Mindworks

Stephen Dansiger, PsyD

PsyD, MFT, therapist and meditation teacher

Tillman Lhundrup has been teaching meditation and Buddhist philosophy for over 40 years

Tilmann Lhundrup

Longtime Meditation Teacher and Retreat Coach

Tokpa Korlo is the Chief Creative Officer on Mindworks and teaches meditation

Tokpa Korlo

Founder and Chief Creative Officer

Trinlay Rinpoche is a meditation master who teaches philosophy and the benefits of meditation on Mindworks

Trinlay Rinpoche

Accomplished Meditator and Buddhist Scholar

Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche is a Mind Trainer for Mindworks

Trungram Gyalwa, PhD

Internationally Renowned Buddhist Master & Scholar

Vinny Ferraro teaches meditation from the heart on Mindworks

Vinny Ferraro

Meditation Teachings from the Heart

Wendelin Wagner teaches meditation to parents and teenagers on Mindworks

Wendelin Wagner

Progressive Educator & Meditation Teacher

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