Mindfulness, meditation + more
Mindfulness and meditation based activities, music, podcasts, visualizations, and guided meditations.
Enthusiastic Yes Practice
How much good news does it take to balance out a single piece of bad news?
Breathing on Purpose
Mindfulness-based strategies that target stress-management, pain-management, and quieting often encourage a light focus on the out-breath because that simple shift in attention can ease both physical and mental discomfort.
Patience with Mindful Listening
You can train your mind to pay attention to even the littlest things. Like sounds. Enhance your awareness, deepen empathy, and bring more presence to your interactions. Ideal for both beginners and experienced meditators.
Awareness of Sound and Emotion - a six-minute guided meditation for teens and adults
Discover the calming power of sound awareness in this six-minute guided meditation. Perfect for teenagers and adults, this live recording from a webinar for parents helps you pause and tune into the sounds within and around you, offering a practical alternative to mindful breathing during intense emotions.
Mindful Mama Podcast: Special Pandemic Episode
We can broaden our bandwidth and use mindfulness skills to parent with more presence during difficult times.
Ten Percent Happier: Parenting in a Pandemic #231 | Susan Kaiser Greenland
We’re in the middle of one of the greatest tests for parents in modern memory. Tens of millions of us, cooped up in our homes with our kids, as a consequence of the coronavirus. Susan Kaiser Greenland can help.
A ladle of self-compassion, from "Mindful Parent, Mindful Child"
Inspired by a Zen practice taught by Thich Nhat Hanh, this guided meditation uses a calming visualization to cultivate self-compassion. Imagine pouring a cup of nectarlike compassion over your head, washing away negativity, judgment, and doubt. Perfect for parents and children to practice together, fostering kindness and emotional resilience.
Susan Stiffelman's Parenting Without Power Struggles Podcast
A fun and engaging conversation about easy ways to make mindfulness part of a family's routine, and how kids want parents to be the "captain of the ship."
Mindful Mama Podcast
Mindfulness practices help you become less reactive, so how can you share it with your kids?
Sharon Salzberg – Metta Hour
For episode 103 of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon Salzberg speaks with friend and colleague, Susan Kaiser Greenland.
The TeachThought Podcast
Drew Perkins talks with Susan Kaiser Greenland about how mindfulness, meditation, and awareness can help students be more successful learners.
Your Special Star
We imagine that everyone has a special star with them all the time and learn how just imagining it can help us feel more relaxed and calm.
Learning to Float, from Mindful Parent, Mindful Child
Discover how the law of reversed effort, or the backwards law, applies to meditation in this brief guided practice. Sometimes, the harder we try, the less likely we are to succeed. Learn to let go, relax, and find ease with simple, clear instructions inspired by swim teachers—perfect for busy adults.
Listen To The Rain
Young children learn how everything changes when they listen to the rain.
5 Enthusiastic "Yesses" for Every "No," from Mindful Parent, Mindful Child
A cognitive bias that gets a lot of attention, at least in meditation circles, is the negativity bias. Simply put, having a negative bias means we’re wired to give more weight to lousy news than good news. Let’s change that with this guided practice where we focus on the good.
Zip-Up, Tick-Toc, and Fading Tone
We play three mindful games in a row to practice paying attention while moving and having fun.
Mindfulness First
When strong emotions take over, it’s called emotional hijack—a term from Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence. This guided meditation teaches mindfulness-based calming strategies to quiet your nervous system, helping you regain openness, flexibility, and focus. Perfect for adults seeking balance and resilience.
Insights At the Edge Podcast with Tami Simon: Nothing Is More Important than Teaching Mindfulness To Kids
Susan talks with Tami Simon, the founder of Sounds True, about all things related to mindfulness for kids and parents, including ways to lead a kinder, wiser, and happier life.
Introduction to Mindful Parent, Mindful Child: An Audio Journey from Sounds True
The surest way to raise a mindful child is to be a mindful parent.