Latest Posts on Engaged Mindfulness & Teaching Mindfulness

Rachel came to the Engaged Mindfulness Institute's Mindfulness Teacher Training with a wealth of experience in meditation, mindfulness, and traditional Buddhist dharma. EMI's trauma-sensitive mindfulness training offered her a natural next step — a way to ground her practice in frameworks that could meet people where they are, including those carrying the weight of trauma, marginalization, and systemic harm.

Why experienced mindfulness practitioners are choosing to teach — and how EMI's Mindfulness Teacher Training prepares them to do it well.

Are we teaching mindfulness, or are we just life-hacking? As the practice goes mainstream, there is a growing fear that we are losing the depth of ancient traditions in favor of stress-management techniques. But according to Fleet Maull, the secret to deep practice isn't in the technique you choose—it's in the person teaching it.

I.V. came to the Engaged Mindfulness Institute teacher training not as a beginner, but as someone already doing the work — teaching mindfulness in Charlotte's school system and serving as both a teacher and operations manager at the Charlotte Center for Mindfulness. But even with that experience, she knew something was missing.

Doubt is the quietest hindrance, often masquerading as wisdom or responsibility. Learn how to identify hindering doubt and return to the direct practice of mindfulness.

There was a class where no one could land. People kept adjusting their posture. Someone cleared their throat every thirty seconds. When the silence stretched even a little, eyes opened, hands moved, and a few people looked around the room like they were checking for an exit. When we shifted into dialogue, the words came fast and scattered, jumping from topic to topic without much pause.

When Jamie Reygle enrolled in the Engaged Mindfulness Institute's teacher training in 2022, he had a clear, straightforward goal: earn a certification. As founder and executive director of InStill Mindfulness, a nonprofit bringing contemplative practices to underserved communities in rural southwestern Virginia, Jamie needed formal credentials to support the organization's growing work. What he didn't expect was that the training would fundamentally r

Struggling with low energy in your mindfulness classes? Explore how naming "sloth and torpor" can transform a flat room into a space of honest connection and renewed presence.

Aversion shows up like this all the time in mindfulness teaching. A student who talks too long. A group that feels disengaged. A tone in the room that’s heavy, angry, or flat. Sometimes the aversion is obvious in students. Sometimes it’s quietly living in us. Either way, when it’s unacknowledged, it starts running the show.