Meditation Book
I wrote An Inside Look at Meditation: Experiences for healing, support, and transformation because my experiences with meditation are more mind-blowingly cool than any science or yoga books I have read.
I wrote this book because I want to share the joy and possibility of the kind of meditation I study, practice, and design.
An Inside Look at Meditation weaves together meditation stories, explanations, commentary, examples, illustrations, and big ideas from yoga and science.
You’ll encounter many of my own personal stories. You’ll read about experiences of the seven long-time meditators who I interviewed.
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If you are new to yoga meditation, you’ll gain a tangible sense of what meditation can be. Perhaps you will be tempted to try it.
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If you already do yoga meditation, my simple explanations will feel familiar and you may gain new insights.
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If you teach yoga or meditation, this book may inspire new ideas and meditation objects to use in your teaching.
You can purchase the paperback on Amazon
I am making the digital version of my 322-page book available for free as my gift to you and to my teachers.
Complete this form to download your copy.
The kind of meditation I design and practice includes connecting with a meditation object
Connecting with a meditation object gives your mind a new experience. Your mind takes on qualities of what it connects to and, as a result, operates in a different way.
An object of meditation can be almost anything, including but not limited to:
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objects in the natural world—such as the moon or a lake,
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tangible and subtle qualities—such as vastness or stability,
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ideas—such as freedom or kindness,
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aspects of the body—such as the breath or the spine,
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aspects of our self—such as our habits or activities of our mind.
Why you need an inside look
The awesomeness of meditation reveals itself through ongoing experiences over time. How can someone new to meditation fathem what is possible?
Instructions about how to meditate can explain how to have a beginner experience. As someone who has been studying and practicing meditation for a decade, I assure you that early experiences don’t begin to hint at the magic that comes later.
An explanation of how bicycles work conveys nothing of the experience of riding a bicycle across the Golden Gate Bridge. An explanation of how meditation works conveys nothing of the experience of meditating about the moon every day for a month.
The experience of meditation evolves and keeps getting better with expert guidance, ongoing practice, and exploration.
In my book I explains key elements of how meditation works intertwined with stories and examples of what the process looks like from the inside.
I interviewed 7 long-time meditators
In the book you will encounter stories from me and from these 7 meditation enthusiasts.
They share personal experiences with one-time meditations and daily meditation practices. They also reveal ways they use meditation professionally as yoga therapists, mentors, and yoga teachers.
