Mindfulness Resources and Media
10% Happier is a clear, simple approach to meditation with bestselling author Dan Harris and the most respected teachers and scientists on the planet. As an NYU community member, you have access to a suite of classes and meditations absolutely free. Your access will get you a subset of what's available with a full subscription to the app. It includes three full courses with two of the world's leading meditation teachers—The Basics with Joseph Goldstein, Focus with Sharon Salzberg, and Compassion with Joseph Goldstein—as well as about three-dozen of the most played meditation tracks, which can be found by looking for those meditations without lock icons on them in the app.
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Mobile Apps
- Insight Timer Free.
- Stop Breathe Think Free.
- Omvana Free & premium content.
- Smiling Mind Free & premium content.
- MindApps.se Free & premium content.
- Calm Limited free content & 1-year discount on premium for students
- Headspace Currently $9.99/year for students.
- Buddhify $2.99-4.99.
People of Color Resources
- New York Insight Meditation Center's POC Sangha. POC. Monday/weekly, 7-9pm. Chelsea.
- Brooklyn Zen Center POC Sangha. POC. 2nd Saturday & 4th Sunday, 1:30-3:30pm.
- Shambhala Race, Racism, and Racial Inequality Sangha. POC and White Allies. Thursday/monthly. Chelsea.
- Love Circle Sangha. BIPOC and invited White Comrades/Allies. 2nd Sunday & 4th Saturday/monthly, 2-5pm. Gowanus/Brooklyn.
- New York Insight Brooklyn People of Color and Allies. POC and White Allies. 2nd & 4th Monday/monthly, 7-9pm. Chelsea.
- The Interdependence Project QTPoC Group. QTPoC, including all Indigenous LGBTQ2IA+ persons. Friday/monthly. Chelsea.
- MNDFL POC Group. POC. Monthly. Greenwich Village/Williamsburg.
- People of Color Tea Group. POC. Bimonthly.
- Inside Meditation Society's POC Retreat. POC. June 18-24, 2019. $20+/night. Barre, MA.
LGBTQ Meditation & Mindfulness Resources
- New York Insight Meditation Center's LGBTQ Sangha. 4th Wednesday/monthly, 6:30-8:30pm. Chelsea.
- Shambala New York City Queer Dharma Sangha. Saturdays/bimonthly, 6-8pm. Chelsea.
- QueerBuddhist Woman Sangha
- The Garrison Institute LGBTQ Retreat. May 24-27, 2019. $270+ (possible scholarships). Garrison, NY.
- Insight Meditation: Freedom and Ease of Being LGBTQ Retreat. September 3-8, 2019. $20+/night for 18-26 (& scholarships available). Barre, MA.
Meditation Retreats
- Blue Cliff Monastery. Ongoing personal and themed retreats. $40+/night for students. Pine Bush, NY (2 hours north of NYC).
- Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds at the Insight Meditation Society. July 24 - July 31, 2019. $140. Barre, MA.
- IMS has discounts for 18-26 year olds on select other retreats.
- Vipassana Meditation Center. Regular retreats. Free. Shelburne, MA.
- Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. Teen (15-19) retreats during school breaks. Sliding scale fee. Locations across the US.
Video Resources
- Jon Kabat Zinn on Mindfulness
- Meditation for Beginners
- Andy Puddicombe — All it takes is 10 Mindful Minutes
- 60 Minutes — What is Mindfulness
- Tara Brach on Pausing
Audio Resources
- Dharmaseed.org
- Audiodharma.org
- Guided Meditations by Tara Brach
- Free Guided Audio Meditations by UCLA
- Meditation Oasis
- Chopra Guided Meditations
Desktop Apps
Books
- What Now?: Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond by Yael Shy*
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn**
- No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Naht Hahn
- Work, Sex, Money by Chögyam Trungpa**
- The Mindful Therapist by Daniel J. Siegel* **
- True Refuge by Tara Brach**
- Real Happiness at Work by Sharon Salzberg**
- Guided Meditations for Difficult Times by Jack Kornfield
- The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama*
- Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren with Carlye Adler**
*Book available at Bobst library
**Ebook available for NYPL library card holders on Overdrive
Related Studies and Research
Summary
Neuroscience
- Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density
- Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise