Latest Posts on Engaged Mindfulness & Teaching Mindfulness

There is a grief that lives beneath the surface of ordinary days. You feel it when you read the wildfire report and put your phone down a little too quickly. When you notice the absence of bees in a garden that used to hum. When a child asks you what the future will look like and something in you goes very still. This grief has many names. Climate anxiety. Eco-distress. Ecological overwhelm. But underneath all the names is something simpler, something the body already knows:

Can enlightenment really be packaged into a $69.99 annual subscription? A look at why meditation apps are great for opening the door, but why true transformation still requires the messy, beautiful reality of human connection.

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.