Meditation

Learn why you should vocalize your mantras instead of silently thinking them to benefit the heart and the central nervous system.

Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, —including ourselves.

Put aside your expectations and allow your mind to relax into its true state of meditation.

When we begin to practice meditation, we come to recognize the sense of limitation that has been imposed on our lives.

What keeps a meditation practice going for 25 years? Renowned author Natalie Goldberg offers some insight.

Knowing what to do with your wandering thoughts is perhaps the greatest challenge for meditators.

In 1990 River Huston was a kick-ass fitness trainer in New York City. Her workouts were about pain, tight buns, and thousands of stomach crunches. Pushing herself beyond physical limits was her modus operandi.

Finding the right concentration technique for your meditation practice means opening as many doors as possible.

Know whether to exhale through the mouth or nose during pranayama breathing or just in natural breathing.

This contemplation meditation is an opportunity to focus "thinking mind" on the mystery of being.

Shiva Rea offers a meditation is based upon the mantra "so hum," ("I am that") used within the traditions of Tantra and Vedanta.

Meditation invokes a shift in consciousness, whether in stillness or motion.

If you're not meditating, are you really doing yoga?

If you're having difficulty meditating because of back pain, you could be sitting incorrectly.

This five-part meditation clears the heart and quiets the mind.

This concentration practice grounds you in the present moment.

Are you ready to tap into all the benefits that meditation offers? Here's our go-to guide on how to get started.

Meditation and yoga allow you to weather the sudden storms in your relationships.

Meditators of all levels are drawn to silent yoga retreats for spiritual awakening and peace of mind. Here are 9 meditation centers that support silence.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Cautiously relinquishing her reservations about meditation, a Vermont writer signs up for a nine-day silent retreat.