Meditation Links
Yoga Meditation Sites
Buddhist Meditation Links
Shambhala Meditation Links
Healing Meditation Sites
Jewish Meditation
Christian Meditation
Sufi (Islamic) Meditation
Creativity Meditation
How to Meditate/Meditation FAQ Resources
Yoga Meditation Links
Yoga Journal magazine's website
is a great resource. www.yogajournal.com You
can search for Yoga classes by city or by style. There is also
a great directory of Yoga teachers.
The Yoga Directory www.yogadirectory.com lists
resources from around the country.
Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado offers Buddhist,
Shambhala, and Yoga meditation retreats in a beautiful Rocky Mountain
setting. www.shambhalamountain.org
Buddhist Meditation Links
BuddhaNet is a comprehensive and widely-used directory of Buddhist
resources on the web. www.buddhanet.net
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi founded the
San Francisco Zen Center, the Tassajara retreat center, and Green
Gulch farm. All three accept overnight guests and offer a rich array
of meditation training programs. www.sfzc.com
The Tibetan Government in Exile maintains information
about the Dalai Lama at their site: www.tibet.com
Thich Nhat Hanh founded a practice center called Plum
Village. Their site has information about him
and his teaching schedule.
Gelek Rimpoche's organization is called Jewel
Heart. Their site has his biography and teaching schedule.
Pema Chodron’s biography and teaching schedule
is on her website: www.gampoabbey.org And
there is also information about Pema through the Shambhala organization: www.shambhala.org
The Insight Meditation Society, founded
by Sharon Salzberg and others, offers training in Loving Kindness
and Vipassana meditation techniques. Their site has links to other
centers teaching these practices.
Sharon Salzberg’s biography
and teaching schedule is on her webpage: www.dharma.org
The Shambhala organization offers both Buddhist
and Shambhala meditation programs all around the world. Check the
site www.shambhala.org.
Biography
of Chogyam Trungpa The Shambhala organization carries
on his teachings in centers worldwide. www.shambhala.org.
Robert Aitken founded the Diamond Sangha zen
centers in Hawaii. www.diamondsangha.org
Zenspace is
an online directory of zen documents and resources maintained by
a volunteer.
Stephen Levine is no longer teaching. He was interviewed
for the PBS program "Thinking Allowed" and that video
tape is available at www.thinkingallowed.com.
Information about Vipassana meditation is available
at www.dhamma.org. This
is the international home page of the organizations which offer
courses in Vipassana Meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba
Khin as taught by S.N. Goenka and his assistant teachers.
Daily
Zen offers artwork for sale and quotes from Zen
masters.
Alan Watts lived from 1915 to 1973. During the
1960's, he gave a weekly radio lecture on Zen Buddhism, taught,
and is credited with introducing the 'Beat' poets to zen. He is
one
of
the most
popular writers about Zen Buddhist meditation, even today. His
life and writings are detailed a www.alanwatts.com. Many
of his lectures were recorded and are available on cassette, DVD,
or CD though Amazon.
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship was founded by Robert
Aitken. Pema Chodron,Thich Nhat Hanh and Joanna Macy are on the
advisory board. The BPF site has links to socially engaged groups
of meditators, and to their publication, Turning
Wheel. www.bpf.org
Joanna Macy's biography and teaching schedule are
posted at www.joannamacy.net
Jack Kornfield co-founded the Insight Meditation Society www.ims.org and
Spirit Rock meditation center www.spiritrock.org. His
biography and teaching schedule are available at the Spirit Rock
site.
Dharmanet.org has links to socially engaged Buddhist
groups and other social activist organizations at www.dharmanet.org.
Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado offers Buddhist,
Shambhala, and Yoga meditation retreats in a beautiful Rocky Mountain
setting. www.shambhalamountain.org
Tricycle magazine has a feature called, Buddhism 101'
with introductory articles from many great writers. www.tricycle.com
Mandala magazine promotes Mahayana Buddhism and publishes
insightful articles on their website. www.mandalamagazine.org
Shambhala Meditation Links
The Shambhala organization offers both Buddhist
and Shambhala meditation programs all around the world. Check the
site www.shambhala.org.
Biography
of Chogyam Trungpa The Shambhala organization carries
on his teachings in centers worldwide. www.shambhala.org.
Biography and teaching schedule
of Sakyong
Mipham Rinpoche.
Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado offers Buddhist,
Shambhala, and Yoga meditation retreats in a beautiful Rocky Mountain
setting. www.shambhalamountain.org
The Shambhala Sun magazine covers
all types of meditation, including both Buddhist and Shambhala.
Addresses many worldly issues, plus
practice tips. Their site has an excellent directory of meditation
centers and Yoga centers. www.shambhalasun.com
Healing Meditation Resources
The Chopra Center for
Wellness www.chopra.com offers
meditation classes and has information about speaking and teaching
tours of Deepak Chopra. They conduct public retreats, and also train
people who offer their methods in other parts of the country. Check
with them for more details.
Thomas and Beverly Bien have a therapy and teaching
practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico which is described at their
website: www.mindfulpsychology.com
Many Vipassana Buddhist meditation centers offer
retreats and classes for people in recovery or working with illness
or stress.
Check with these two: the Spirit Rock Meditation Center www.spiritrock.org and
the Insight Meditation Society www.dharma.org
The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care,
and Society (CFM), founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn, has information about
him, his teaching schedule, and his meditation techniques. www.umassmed.edu/cfm
There is additional introductory information on Buddhism
at the About.Com site www.buddhism.about.com.
Jewish Meditation Links
Rabbi Jonathan Ober-Man has a Jewish meditation
center in Los Angeles www.metivta.org
Rabbi Avram Davis founded Chochmat HaLev, a school
and practice center for Jewish meditation in Berkeley. www.chochmat.org
Christian Meditation Resources
World Community for Christian
Meditation groups meet in homes, parishes, offices, hospitals, prisons
and colleges. Find
them at www.wccm.org.
Contemplative Outreach is a 'spiritual network of individuals
and small communities' practicing Centering Prayer and other Christian
contemplative disciplines. Their website has links to help you find
a local chapter. www.centeringprayer.com
St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado is the
home of Father Thomas Keating. Their site has links and also information
about their residential programs for lay people. www.snowmass.org.
Sufi/Islamic Meditation Links
Until his recent death,
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order
International. Their site provides
information about his teachings and their meditation practices. www.sufiorder.org.
The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship is a mosque in Philadelphia.
Their site offers information at www.bmf.org.
Creativity Meditation Links
The International Shambhala Art Program is a non-profit arts education
program created by the late Chogyam Trungpa and presided over by his
son and heir, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. The program explores the creative
process and the product we call art from the viewpoint of a meditative
discipline. Learn more at www.shambhalaart.org
Beginners/Meditation FAQ Resources
The Omega Institute
has retreat centers and meditation programs taught by many of the leading
meditation masters of our day,
including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Rabbi David Cooper, and others. Information,
including teacher biographies and teaching schedules, is at www.eomega.org.
Stephen Bodian has a site www.meditationsource.com which
includes his biography and information about his teaching, writings
and therapy practice.