NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 03: Helen Day leads a meditation class as Headspace collaborates with Lucasfilm to master sleep, stress and focus with STAR WARS™ mindfulness content on May 03, 2022 in New ...

Right now is the perfect time to begin a new practice with online mindfulness courses because you know your brain needs a rest. We could all use a sense of inner peace right now, right? As this year ...

What prompted the idea for the course? As a professor of religion and ethics, particularly Asian traditions, I had already been interested in teaching a course about mindfulness. Its popularity seems ...

That’s what I realize on the last class of the Cultivating Compassion Training (CCT) course at Stanford University. We’ve spent nine weeks strengthening our attention, building awareness of our bodies ...

A short training course in mindfulness improves children’s ability to ignore distractions and concentrate better. A short training course in mindfulness improves children's ability to ignore ...

Practicing mindfulness — a main tenet of meditation and yoga — may improve mood in women, but not men, a new study has found. Authors from Brown University say their research suggests teachers in the ...

Losing weight is hard. Keeping it off is even harder. Despite decades of advancement in our understanding of weight loss, scientists are still perplexed by how to sustain weight loss over time.

Mindfulness training can help support students at risk of mental health problems, concludes a randomised controlled trial carried out by researchers at the University of Cambridge. While the ...

This semester, Student Wellness at Yale will expand its Koru Mindfulness program — a seminar series that aims to teach students basic skills of meditation and mindfulness — to three additional ...

A new course at Brown University has sparked controversy after it was offered solely to minority students. The teacher training class in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) was recently made ...