AS THE TRAIN noisily sped me to my first silent meditation retreat, in upstate New York, I decided to practice—by panicking quietly. I’d never meditated before, not for a minute let alone a weekend.

It’s always a great idea to stop, look back where you have been, think about where you are going and reflect on your life, relationships and surrounding world. How you decide to reflect and slow down ...

Few people have guided me through mindfulness and meditation quite like Janet Solyntjes. As a longtime silent retreat leader, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and co-owner of the ...

March Mindfulness is our new series that examines the explosive growth in mindfulness and meditation technology — culminating in Mashable's groundbreaking competitive meditation bracket contest.

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. — Viktor Frankl Silence. From peace to fear, being ...

The first time I ever went on a silent meditation retreat, 11 years ago, I thought I had entered the zombie apocalypse. After arriving and having dinner with my fellow retreatants, we went into ...

No matter how much you understand about mediation’s benefits or enjoy the experience of having someone like J Balvin to guide you through it, some may still find it hard to practice regularly. Even in ...

Is there anything more L.A. than learning about the coronavirus pandemic only after emerging from a 12-day meditation retreat in the desert, thereby also presumably undoing all the stress release that ...