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iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series To help us with the inevitable challenges that arise while meditating, Sharon Salzberg leads a guided practice for working with pain, anger, sleepiness, and other classic “hindrances.” Learn to objectively observe whatever arises in your experience in...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series Sharon Salzberg guides you in a breathing practice that unfolds the experience of “letting go.” Bringing your full attention to your natural breathing process, you learn to simply observe whatever arises in your experience without judgment, clinging, or...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series In this guided meditation, Sharon Salzberg helps you learn to reside in the natural flow of your breath, and to trust in the support you receive through your interconnection with the surrounding world...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series By slowing down and looking within we lay the foundation for knowing ourselves more completely. In this guided bodyscan practice, Sharon Salzberg helps you directly perceive our ever-changing experiences through the world of physical sensations...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series A solitary tree may seem like a distinct object, but with closer reflection we see that it is supported by a network of connections that make its existence possible. In the same way, we are joined together with everyone and everything in the world through...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series In this introductory guided breathwork practice, Sharon Salzberg teaches you a time-tested way to calm the mind and improve concentration by counting the breath. Without stress or self-judgment, we simply rest in the natural rhythm of each breath, mentally...

A Traditional Meditation for Applying Love As a Healing Force The Insight Meditation Society is one of North America’s oldest institutions dedicated to bringing the life-changing gifts of mindfulness training to the West. On Lovingkindness Meditation, IMS cofounder and senior instructor Sharon...

In Real Love, one of the world's leading authorities on love tells us how to find it, how to nurture it, how to honor it—and most of all how to rethink it ... This book has the power to set your heart at peace.' —Susan Cain, author of Quiet What is love? Sharon Salzberg believes that love is...

Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy—both with others and with ourselves—creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up the spiritual path.

A Traditional Meditation for Applying Love As a Healing Force The Insight Meditation Society is one of North America’s oldest institutions dedicated to bringing the life-changing gifts of mindfulness training to the West. On Lovingkindness Meditation, IMS cofounder and senior instructor Sharon...

Teachings to Cultivate the Practice of Faith We tend to think of faith as a commodity you either have or you don’t. But in many of the world’s wisdom traditions, faith isn’t something you possess; it’s something you do. “Faith is a willingness to take the next step, to see the unknown...

This program is read by the author. Merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own understanding of mindfulness, New York Times bestselling author Sharon Salzberg shows us how we can recover from the emotional effects of crisis. When confronted with pain and obstacles, we often shrink...

Love Is More Than an Emotion—It's a Buildable Strength for Facing Your Greatest Challenges When we're confronted with crisis, what inner strength helps us the most? Courage? Self-control? Sheer determination? Many of us might be surprised to discover that in times of need, our most powerful...

Most of us are well aware of the benefits of meditation, and new research is providing us with more and more evidence of what the world's spiritual traditions have known for years: meditation can positively impact every area of our lives. So why do many of us struggle to make time for this...

Coping with anger and pain is more challenging than ever in these times—and more necessary. Two acclaimed Buddhist teachers offer strategies and wisdom in a book that’s been called “possibly the most inspiring and liberating meditation on love ever written.” When people and circumstances...

This program is read by the author. From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build our inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world. In today’s fractured world, we’re constantly flooded with breaking news...

Between the smartphone, laptop, tablet, and whatever else is demanding your attention, sometimes you just need to unplug! Room to Breathe brings you a series of beginner-friendly guided meditations and mindfulness techniques to help you regain a sense of spaciousness and ease. These essential...

Ten million Americans will meditate today—and that number is only expected to rise. What’s the best way to get started? Learn from an experienced teacher. Sharon Salzberg, known for her ability to make meditation accessible while keeping true to tradition, offers Guided Meditations for Love...

Acclaimed meditation teacher and author Sharon Salzberg guides us step-by-step into four essential qualities for awakening love Have you ever found yourself struggling with anger, despair, or worry, and then someone shared a few kind words or a simple smile . . . that changed everything? Love...

In A Heart as Wide as the World, one of America’s most popular and beloved Buddhist teachers offers encouragement and inspiration for anyone on the spiritual path. In short sections that include many stories and anecdotes drawn from her years as a student and teacher of Buddhist meditation, Sharon Salzberg reveals how our own happiness is found in the capacity to open our hearts to others—and that this capacity is far vaster than we ever thought possible.