Meditation, Step by Step
Most people who read a good meditation guide sit once, feel something real, and then never sit again. Not because the instructions were wrong — because nobody told them what to do about the second day, and the tenth, and the one where you really don't feel like it. This course exists for exactly that gap: not how to sit once, but how to keep sitting, and how the practice actually deepens once you do.
Haven't sat before? Start with Begin to Meditate first — the posture, the breath, and your first ten-minute sit. This course picks up exactly where that page leaves off.
Read Begin to Meditate →- A daily practice that survives the days you don't feel like sitting — not through willpower, but through a rhythm designed around how motivation actually works.
- A working relationship with a wandering mind, using the noting technique — a concrete tool sharper than "just watch the breath."
- The traditional foundations of mindfulness in order — the body, feelings, and the mind itself — each explored through an actual week of practice, not just reading about it.
- A working knowledge of the five hindrances, and what to actually do when one shows up mid-sit.
- A first real sense of the shift from calm (samatha) to insight (vipassanā) — where steadiness stops being the goal and starts being the ground for seeing clearly.
A different rhythm from the reading courses — this one is built around a week of actual sitting.
Session 1 is live; the rest are being piloted with real students before they're published here.
- A seat and a timer. A cushion or a plain chair — nothing else to buy.
- 10–15 minutes, most days of the week. This course only works if you actually sit, not just read.
- A simple practice log. Each session includes one — a few lines a day is enough.