How to Meditate
(for Beginners)

Discover the power of meditation when you learn these easy techniques, which will help you to start (and keep) meditating. Use meditation to unlock deeper self-awareness, reduce your stress, and become peacefully aware of the present moment.

Featuring Soken Graf, Certified Meditation Coach

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Format
Every lesson includes expert insights, practical advice, and homework exercises to put your learning into practice! Completely mobile-friendly.
Duration
This course lasts 5 days, with one lesson per day delivered to your inbox.
Time
Each lesson takes 10-15 minutes to read.

What you will learn

  • The fascinating history and holistic benefits of meditation
  • How to create a habitual ritual around meditation
  • The difference between transactional and transformational self-help
  • How frequently you should meditate to reap the full benefits of meditation
  • Guided meditations, body scans, walking meditations, and more

Why should you take this course?

  1. To improve your mental and physical health. Meditation is well known as an antidote to stress and anxiety, but it can also help conditions such as asthma, high blood pressure, and chronic pain.
  2. You’ve had trouble getting meditation to stick. If you’ve tried meditation in the past and struggled to make it a habit, this course will reveal how you can make it work this time around.
  3. To learn a new (and extremely effective) relaxation tool. Meditation is like a bubble bath on steroids. Learn how to calm your mind, whenever you need to.


Course Overview

5 Lessons

Reap the Benefits of Meditation
Create Your Own Ideal Meditation Environment
Practice Meditation
Make Time for Meditation
Take Advantage of Meditation’s Flexibility


Meet the Expert

Soken Graf
Certified Meditation Coach
Soken Graf is a Meditation Coach, Buddhist Priest, Certified Advanced Rolfer, and a Published Author who runs Bodhi Heart Rolfing and Meditation, a spiritual life coaching business based in New York City, New York. Soken has over 25 years of Buddhist training experience and advises entrepreneurs, business owners, designers, and professionals. He has worked with organizations such as the American Management Association as a consultant for training courses on such topics as Mindful Leadership, Cultivating Awareness, and Understanding Wisdom: The Compassionate Principles of Work-Life Balance. In addition to his work as a priest, Soken has certifications in Advanced Rolfing from the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, Visceral Manipulation, Craniosacral Therapy, SourcePoint Therapy®, and Cold-Laser Therapy.
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What are others saying?

Divine

Very informative. I really learned a lot. The information was very well-detailed and understandable. After all these months of saying I want to begin meditating, I can now finally start, because I have the exact information I need! Thanks.

Pallab

I was looking for peace and calm for a long time, and I wanted to remove my mental tiredness and find rejuvenation. I knew that only correct meditation could help me, and I tried lots of different processes. Nothing worked well. Finally, I feel I have a guru to follow. I only can say, “thank you.”

Dee

This really helped me a lot. I've become more calm, and I free my mind once or twice a day. I could really tell the expert knew what they were talking about. It’s usually hard to find great resources like this online. Thanks!

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