FREE MEDITATION GUIDES

DOWNLOADABLE POSTERS

COVID-Specific support:

• Facing Fear With Compassion Meditation - Elizabeth Gilbert, Insight Timer

• Breathing Practices - Yogi, Ryan Quire

• Healing Circles Langley - Secular Online Healing Circles

• WEBINAR with Washington Resource Library Consortium: Processing Emotions, Developing Resilience and Connecting in Uncertain Times

• Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Videos - David Treleaven

• Exercise for optimal immune function (Article) - Test Gym

• Google’s SIY Institute Covid Resources

OnLine Courses:

• The Science of Happiness - Berkeley Center for Greater Good (FREE)

• The Science of Well-Being - YALE (FREE)

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - UMass Medical 

• Authorized MBSR Curriculum - UMass Medical (FREE)

• 5-Day Racialized Somatics - Cultural Somatics and Resmaa Menakem (FREE)

• One Commune - Various Teachers (FREE weekly courses and paid options)

• Mindfulness Fundamentals - Mindful Schools (Discount Code Available)

mindfulness Videos:

• The Mind Body Project’s You Tube Channel: Breathing and Movement for Kids, Trauma Sensitive Facilitation Best Practices and more.

• Happify: Mindfulness is a Super Power

• Dan Siegel: Hand as a Brain

• Brene Brown: Vulnerability

• Brady Gill: Mountain of Should

• Tracee Stanley: Resources for Empowered Living

Meditation Apps:

• Calm App (great natural sounds)

• Insight Timer (1000s of meditations, courses and music)

  • Guided Meditations:

    • Tara Brach

    • Jack Kornfield

    • Sharon Salzburg

Movement-Based Activities

• HATHA Yoga ( most appropriate style for mental health, healing and breathwork)

• NIA with Susan Tate

• Healing Somatics with Janet Evergreen

• Yoga with Adriene (FREE 30-Day Challenge)

• The Underbelly, Jessamyn Stanley

• Body Positive Yoga, Amber Karnes

• Cosmic Kids Yoga, You Tube

Beginner Brain science + Emotional development Books

• Search Inside Yourself – Chade Meng Tan

• Buddah’s Brain – Rick Hanson

• 10% Happier - Dan Harris

• Mindfulness for Beginners – John Kabat Zinn

• The Whole Brain Child – Dan Siegel

• Rewire Your Brain — John B Arden

• Mindfulness for Teachers – Tish Jennings

• The Brain That Changes Itself — Norman Doidge

• Mindset — Carol Dweck

• Rising Strong — Brene Brown

Trauma Sensitive Resources:

• Trauma-Informed Mindfulness -- David Treleaven

• The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Waking the Tiger — Peter Levine

• My Grandmother’s Hands — Resmaa Menakem

Communities:

• Insight Meditation Society

• Kripalu

• Shambhala

• Spirit Rock

• The Garrison Institute

• Holistic Life Foundation

• The Sanctuary

• Yogaville

WANT MORE?

Email erin@themindbodyproject.com for a PDF of resources we suggest for teachers, employers and individuals.