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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.

Biography and teaching schedule of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

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.