Med CDs

Mindfulness for Beginners (2 CD-set)
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The first CD is an introductory lecture on the philosophy of mindfulness, and the second CD is composed of five meditation practices.

Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series (Each series is a 4-CD set)
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Looking for a variety of mindfulness practices? Jon Kabat-Zinn is probably the foremost mindfulness meditation researcher and teacher in the US today. His new Series 3 contains meditations focusing on the breath, body, mind, and heart (each roughly 20-30 minutes in length), plus a brief walking meditation. Series 2 contains 3 sitting and 3 lying-down meditations of varying lengths (10 min; 20 min; 30 min), plus lake & mountain meditations and tracks with just silence and bells. Series 1 offers four 45-minute tracks: a body scan, a sitting meditation, and two yoga practices. Series 1 is available from the Alternatives Library in Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell.

Mindfulness Meditation and Body Scan
Carolyn McMannus
This is a great choice for some relaxing mindfulness meditation with a self-nurturing focus. This CD includes two tracks: a 30-minute bodyscan meditation and a 30-minute mindfulness meditation. The second track guides you through a brief bodyscan, a period of thinking “in” and “out” with each breath, counting outgoing breaths, and direct observation of your experience.

Meditation CDs & Websites
Ithaca Opportunities & East Coast Retreat Centers	Meditation CDs & Websites	Emotional Healing Meditations
Sleep Preparation & Body Scan Meditations	Walking & Movement Meditations	Children's Meditation
Mandalas, Labyrinths, & Gratitude	Books for the Journey	Home

Mindfulness Meditation
The little things? The little moments? They are not little. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn	Mindfulness for Beginners (2 CD-set) Jon Kabat-Zinn The first CD is an introductory lecture on the philosophy of mindfulness, and the second CD is composed of five meditation practices. Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series (Each series is a 4-CD set) Jon Kabat-Zinn Looking for a variety of mindfulness practices? Jon Kabat-Zinn is probably the foremost mindfulness meditation researcher and teacher in the US today. His new Series 3 contains meditations focusing on the breath, body, mind, and heart (each roughly 20-30 minutes in length), plus a brief walking meditation. Series 2 contains 3 sitting and 3 lying-down meditations of varying lengths (10 min; 20 min; 30 min), plus lake & mountain meditations and tracks with just silence and bells. Series 1 offers four 45-minute tracks: a body scan, a sitting meditation, and two yoga practices. Series 1 is available from the Alternatives Library in Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell. Mindfulness Meditation and Body Scan Carolyn McMannus This is a great choice for some relaxing mindfulness meditation with a self-nurturing focus. This CD includes two tracks: a 30-minute bodyscan meditation and a 30-minute mindfulness meditation. The second track guides you through a brief bodyscan, a period of thinking “in” and “out” with each breath, counting outgoing breaths, and direct observation of your experience.
Yogic Meditation
Everything is absolutely ok just now. ~ Stephen Cope	AM & PM Yoga Meditations (2-CD set) Gael Chiarella The AM and PM CDs each include four 15-minute tracks. The PM tracks support relaxation: “Letting Go and Completing Your Day” guides you through a review of your day, “Relaxation Body Scan” track uses the tense-and-relax technique with each body part, “Restful and Rejuvenating Sleep” helps you set your intention for your dreams, and “Lullaby with the Breath” encourages you to increase length of your exhalations to help you fall asleep.
	Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing (2-CD set) Andrew Weil, M.D. (Available at Alternatives Library in Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell) The first CD in this set is a lecture describing the multiple benefits of breathwork. The second CD includes 8 breathing exercises to help you extend your exhalation, breathe in an energizing way, or breath in a slower, relaxing way. Weil has broken down these yogic breathing exercises into steps that are easier for a Western audience to master. You can mix and match the tracks for a custom-made sequence that works best for you.
	Meditations for Everyday Mindfulness Beryl Bender Birch This CD features tracks on conscious breathing (Pranayama yoga), chanting OM (Japa yoga), and Tonglen Yoga.
	Shavasana Rama Berch This CD contains body scans and music in the Svaroopa yoga tradition. It explains how to lie down on your back with your legs supported in the shavasana position and then it guides a body scan from feet to head, followed by 6 minutes of ujjayi, a yoga ocean-breathing exercise that is very rejuvenating.
	Yoga Websites Enjoy the sites of the Kripalu Center and the Yoga Journal and Laughter Yoga.
Buddhist Meditations
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ The Dalai Lama	Meditation for Beginners (2-CD set) Jack Kornfield (Available from Alternatives Library) This recording of Jack Kornfield leading an introductory meditation retreat answers the questions many meditators have, provides a number of 10-minute meditation practices, and introduces Buddhist philosophy. He has a very compassionate, non-judgemental style that is engaging and down-to-earth.
	Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality (3-CD set) Pema Chödrön (Available from Alternatives Library) Pema Chödrön is an American bhikshuni, or Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition, and in this recorded 3.5 hour retreat lecture she discusses how to handle the cycle of urges: an urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger because we give in to them repeatedly. Pema Chödrön guides us through this "sticky feeling" of shenpa and offers tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others and ourselves, and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment.
	Buddhist Websites There are many websites devoted to different Buddhist periodicals, including Shambala Sun, Tricycle, and Buddhazine. Daily Om has daily articles on spiritual growth, periodically on meditation specifically; for example, "Transendental Chores: Everyday meditation in everyday tasks." Daily Zen has a new Zen-related quote to ponder daily and beutiful e-cards to send to friends. If you click the "Zendo" link, it takes you to a portal to a an image that is a Zen-like rendition of a meditation room.
Mantras & Chants
Indescribable ecstacy beyond words. Wow! Great is the teacher within me. ~Erin Kamler, translating "Wahe Guru Wahe Jio"	Sa Re Sa Sa Guru Shabad Singh This CD features two 30-minute chants: Sa Re Sa Sa & Wahe Guru Wahe Jio. These chants are a beautiful accompaniment to the meditations featured on pg. 112 and 152 in A Woman's Book of Meditation by Hari Kaur Khalsa. Truth Mantra Girl In this truly Western take on the traditional yogic mantra tradition, Erin Kamler does chants backed by elctronic beats and the New York Philharmonic! Erin is a KRI certified Kundalini yoga instructor with off-Broadway musical theatre background and a knowledge of Sanskrit. You can review the lyrics of the mantras on this CD. Goddess Blessings: Daily Meditations & Goddess Mantra Chants Mary Marzo The second CD of this set includes one 15-minute chant to each of four goddesses: Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, and Sri Yantra.
Emotional Healing Meditations
When life gives you lemons, put them in a pretty bowl. ~ Meg Schutte The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. ~Helen Keller	Yoga for Emotional Flow (2-CD set) Stephen Cope Stephen Cope is a psychoanalyst and yoga teacher who combines Western and Eastern knowledge of how to heal the whole self. The first CD in the set is an excellent lecture about how embracing all our feelings, not just the good ones, can help reduce suffering. The second CD is perfect for learning to meditate with feelings, rather than denying them. It contains three 25-minute meditations for revisiting unresolved issues and working through stuck places: the Daily Body Scan, Riding the Wave, and Closing the Day.
	Emotional Healing Through Mindfulness Meditation: Stories and Meditations for Women Seeking Wholeness (book) Dr. Barbara Miller Fishman (Foreward by Shinzen Young.) This book includes written meditation exercises following the stories of 7 women in crisis who, with Dr. Fishman's help as a psychotherapist and meditation teacher, found peace through meditation. A companion CD (that comes with the book purchase from Amazon) has 4 reflections & 4 meditations on the topics of stillness, awareness, equanimity, & impermanence.
	The Mindful Way Through Depression: How to Free Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (book & CD set) J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, Jon Kabat-Zinn 1 copy is available at the Alternatives Library in Anabel Taylor Hall and Waverly Free Library. For 50 cents you can request the Waverly copy be sent to you at the TCPL. This latest book from the top researchers in the treatment of depression combines cognitive therapy & mindfulness approaches and includes a CD narrated by Jon Kabat-Zinn. This book describes in detail an expanded and refined MBSR/MBCT program specifically designed for those struggling with depression.
	Break Through Pain: A Step-by-Step Mindfulness Meditation Program for Transforming Chronic and Acute Pain Shinzen Young (book & CD set) This CD includes a number of brief meditations that help you learn to manage pain in an emotionally skillful way that reduces the emotional suffering that often goes along with chronic pain. For a recorded lecture and longer meditations, see Shinzen's tape series with practically the same name.
	Break Through Difficult Emotions: How to Transform Painful Feelings with Mindfulness Meditation Shinzen Young This CD includes meditations on connecting with how emotions manifest in the feeling body and thinking mind, as well as how to experience emotions as flowing energy that expands and contracts, rather than static blocks.
	Relaxation, Imagery, and Meditation: Healing Practices to Complement Cancer Treatment (CD) Carolyn McManus This CD helps you apply the medical research findings that meditation can reduce anxiety, nausea, improve sleep and promote general well being. It includes a breathing exercise, a progressive relaxation exercise, and a Loving Kindness meditation to direct your love and goodwill toward yourself, someone who has helped you, other people diagnosed with cancer and to all beings. All profits from the sale of this CD are donated to Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA.
	Breathe to Beat the Blues: Manage Your Mood with Your Breath (CD) Amy Weintraub This 60-minute CD starts with an introduction track about how yoga helped the author recover from depression and anxiety, and then guides you through 11 pranayama breathing exercises (sitting & standing postures), closing with a 15-minute relaxation track. You might find it helpful to get the book out of the library by the same author, Yoga for Depression, for pictures of how to hold your body for a few of the exercises, but the verbal instructions are also good.
	Meditation 24/7: Practices to Enlighten Every Moment of the Day (CD and book) Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche Create more balance in your busy day by incorporating these fourteen 5-minute tracks that help you grab a few moments of meditation during transitional moments that are already part of your routine, such as drinking your morning beverage, getting dressed, walking out the door, eating, waiting, coming home from work, reflecting on your day, falling asleep, and waking up in the night. The companion book includes suggestions to go along with each meditation.
	Sounds True Check out the endless print, audio, and video meditation resources at the site from this eclectic publisher.


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