Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction – Guided Mindfulness Meditation Audio Recordings

The Mindful Living Center has prepared the guided mindfulness practices we use in the workshop. These are available in MP3 format. Please feel free to download.

To download one of the files, please right click on the title and select “Save Target As.” This will then prompt you to select a location on your desktop to save the file to.
Please note: These MP3 files are rather large. If you do not have a broadband internet connection, you may not want to download them.

• Guided Body Scan – a meditative practice strengthening concentration, attention, and becoming more familiar with awareness as a way of knowing. Paying close attention to what you are experiencing as we do in all mindfulness practices.

• Guided Yoga l (on yoga mat) – connecting mind and body through gentle stretching with awareness.

• Guided Mindfulness Meditation – the full seated mindfulness mediation practice

• Guided Yoga II (standing) – connecting mind and body using standing postures

Other Resources

• Mindfulness meditation and body scan tapes available at www.mindfulnesstapes.com

• Healing Arts Center – Yoga, meditation, and more: Prince Ave., Athens GA, http://healingartscentre.net/

• Southern Dharma Retreat Center — www.southerndharma.org

• Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA – www.dharma.org/ims.htm

• OMEGA —Holistic Learning Centers Contact: www.eomega.org

• Meditation tips for the day – www.deeshan.com

• For peer reviewed journal articles on mindfulness research, visit the American Mindfulness Research Association

Recommended Readings

• Joseph Goldstein (2013). “Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

• Joseph Goldstein (1976). “The Experience of Insight: A Natural Unfolding.” Santa Cruz, CA: Unity Press.

• Mike Healy (2001). “The Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Transformational Learning Process: A Phenomenological Study.” Ed.D. Dissertation. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia.

• Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990). “Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness.” New York: Dell Publishing.

• Jon Kabat-Zinn (1994). “Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life.” New York: Hyperion.

• Jack Kornfield (1993). “A Path With Heart.” New York: Bantam Books.

• Jack Kornfield (2000). “After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.” New York: Bantam Books.

• Krishnamurti (1972). “The Flight of the Eagle.” New York: Harper & Row Publishers.

• Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler (1998). “The Art of Happiness.” New York: Penguin Putnam.

• Mary Rose O’Reilley (1998). “Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice.” Portsmith, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

• Sharon Salzberg (1995). “LovingKindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness.” Boston, Shambhala Publications.

• Saki Santorelli (1999). “Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine.” New York: Bell Tower.