Meditation For Beginners (video) - Jack Kornfield

Getting started with meditation isn’t as hard as you may think—especially if you have the right teacher. With the Meditation for Beginners app, Jack Kornfield guides you step-by-step through everything you need to know to start—and stick with—a daily meditation practice. In this complete training video, Kornfield introduces you to the “insight” tradition of meditation that has helped practitioners throughout the ages cultivate profound inner calm and a lasting capacity for happiness. Highlights include:

- Getting started: Your daily meditation practice
- Basics of body postures, breathing, and more
- How to clear distractions and cultivate awareness
- Exploring the energy of love as a healing power
- A mental strategy for “making friends” with anger
- Forgiveness, the key art of spiritual life
- How to focus healing attention on your body
- Four cornerstone meditations for your practice, and much more

With his gentle delivery and ability to translate ancient practices for modern audiences, Jack Kornfield has become one of the most accessible and sought-after teachers for helping first-time meditators get their start. With the Meditation for Beginners app, he helps you develop the foundational skills to start practicing immediately—and discover the life-changing power of meditation for yourself.

The Meditation for Beginners app features:
- Everything you need to know to start meditating now: an introduction to meditation from a trusted teacher (1 hour, 39 minutes of video)
- A Good Minute—video selections that offer concentrated wisdom to inspire you any time
- Many Voices, One Journey: wisdom teachings in the rich tradition of contemplative reading
- Bookmarking to help you easily find your favorite content

About the Author

Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught worldwide since 1974. He is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practices to the West. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is the cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society as well as Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. He has written more than a dozen books, including The Wise Heart; A Path With Heart; and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry. His many audio programs with Sounds True include The Jewel of Liberation, Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, and Awakening Is Real.