Posts in meditation
Bob Roth - The Science of Transcendental Meditation (TM)

Bob Roth is the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, bringing TM to millions of people worldwide, and has taught the technique to numerous celebrities, including Oprah and Tom Hanks.

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Laura Bakosh, PhD - Inner Exploration

Laura Bakosh is the Co-Founder of Inner Explorer, which has brought mindfulness to over 1 million students. Previously, Laura worked in GE's healthcare division for 13 years before co-founding her mindfulness and mental health organization and has spoken at major venues like TEDx and Wisdom 2.0.

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Diana Winston - The Spectrum of Awareness

Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA Semel Institute’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). She wrote The Little Book of Being and was called "one of the nation's best-known teachers of mindfulness” by the LA Times.

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Judson Brewer, MD, PhD - Mindfulness & Addiction

Dr. Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, author, and Founder of MindSciences, Inc. He has used his skill set to research and develop treatments for addiction using mindfulness meditation.

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Willoughby Britton, PhD - Can Meditation Be Harmful?

Dr. Willoughby Britton is a neuroscientist at Brown University studying the neurocognitive effects of mindfulness-based interventions for mood and anxiety disorders. In this episode, we discuss the potential dark sides of meditation practice.

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Ash Sangoram, MD, PhD - Neuroscience, Meditation & Elite Performance

Dr. Ash Sangoram is a neuroscientist, neonatologist, former assistant Stanford Golf coach, and the Founder of GoaLoGolf, an elite performance training company. Ash is also an experience insight meditation practitioner, and he is integrating these principles with science and elite performance.

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Loch Kelly, MDiv, LCSW - Brooklyn Mahamudra Nondual Meditation

Loch Kelly is a meditation teacher and psychotherapist who combines western science and psychology with ancient eastern methods for training the mind. He's the Founder of Open-Hearted Awareness Institute and author of Shift Into Freedom and The Way of Effortless Mindfulness.

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Ben Pakulski - The Bodybuilding Yogi

Ben Pakulski, a.k.a. BPAK is the CEO of Muscle Intelligence and a former IFBB professional bodybuilder who won the Mr. Canada competition in 2008. In this episode of the FitMind Podcast, we discuss how Ben got into yoga as a 320-pound muscle man, achieving mental fitness through meditation, covert influence, the attention economy, and tips for optimizing the mind.

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Jevan Pradas, MA - Biohacking, Amazonian Tribes & the Evolved Human Mind

Jevan earned a masters degree in Mind, Brain and Behavior Research, worked as a brain trainer and lived with Amazonian tribes. He wrote The Awakened Ape: A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy and Stress-Free Living. On this episode of the FitMind Podcast we discuss how the human mind evolved, what it’s like to live with indigenous tribes in the rainforest and how to find “natural ecstasy.”

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Richard Lang - Headless Way Meditation

Richard Lang is the primary teacher of a popular meditation technique known as Headless Way. He was a close friend of Douglas Harding, the philosopher who first invented this method, and is also coordinator of UK charity Shollond Trust.

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Tami Simon - Meditation & Non-Dogmatic Spirituality

At the age of 21, Tami Simon founded Sounds True, a large multimedia publishing house with a mission to disseminate spiritual wisdom. She is also a renowned meditation instructor and wrote Being True: What Matters Most in Work, Life, and Love.

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David Gandelman - Modern Relationships & Meditation

David Gandelman is the Founder of Grounded Mind and teaches meditation at the DEN Meditation Studio in LA, Cornell, Parsley Health and other organizations. David's a hilarious guy with a fascinating background and a specialty in relationships.

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Sara Lazar, PhD - Your Brain on Meditation

Dr. Sara Lazar is a neuroscientist at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School studying meditation and its effects on the brain. She is one of the world's leading researchers on the neuroscience of meditation.

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