Latest Posts on Engaged Mindfulness & Teaching Mindfulness

Choosing a mindfulness teacher training program is not just about enrolling in a course. It’s a wholehearted step toward your own transformation—a commitment to growing in wisdom and compassion, and to bringing those qualities into the communities and systems you touch. At the Engaged Mindfulness Institute (EMI), we often hear an essential question: “Is a hybrid training really as meaningful as being in person?”

Emmanuel pressed his finger into a bullet wound on his head, recounting the massacre at Murambi Technical School,

In November 2005, Ovidio—a psychiatrist, Zen practitioner, and long-time social activist—joined the Zen Peacemakers' retreat at Auschwitz.

Having a process of learning how to pay attention to positive or neutral sensations inside of the body can be life-changing. In EMI’s...