Meditations

Refresh your mind each Monday with a guided audio meditation. Led by experienced practitioners, these brief meditations use proven stress-reduction techniques, such as deep breathing, mindfulness and positive imaging. Take a few moments to participate. And start your week with greater clarity, focus and positive energy.

This 12 minute meditation is a good introduction to the Monday Refresh practice. Led by Joe Loizzo.

This 7 minute meditation will help you relax your mind and set healthy intentions for the week ahead. Led by Joe Loizzo.

Dr. Loizzo is founder and director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. He’s a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over thirty years’ experience studying the beneficial effects of meditation on healing and learning.

Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College

This 5 minute meditation will help you bring your most confident self forward. Led by Peggy Neu.

This 5 min meditation will help you notice the moment and experience the richness of life. Led by Peggy Neu.

This 5 minute meditation will guide you to be more mindful and feel positive about the week ahead. Led by Peggy Neu.

Peggy Neu is the President of the Monday Campaigns, public health initiatives that promote a range of healthy behaviors including stress reduction, nutrition, physical activity and tobacco cessation. She is a long time meditation and yoga practitioner and believes that these practices can be particularly powerful on Monday to set a positive frame of mind for the week ahead.

This 7 minute meditation will help you start your week with a sense of gratitude. Led by Deborah Ndao.

This 7 minute meditation on progressive muscle relaxation will help you relieve the tension throughout your body. Led by Amy Eberhardt.

This 5 minute meditation will help you relax your body with a body scan. Led by Kathleen Sanders.

This 5 minute meditation will help you relax your body with passive muscle relaxation. Led by Kathleen Sanders.

The Department of Integrative Health Programs at NYU Langone created these meditations for the DeStress Monday campaign. NYU Langone uses PMR and body scans as a way to help patients and caregivers relieve stress. The meditations are narrated by Amy Eberhardt, MPH, CYT, LMT, CPMT, and integrative health educator, and Kathleen Sanders, NP, who is a family nurse practitioner trained in mindfulness-based stress reduction.

This 7 minute meditation uses the relaxation response and visualization to guide you toward your most positive self. Led by Julie Graham.

Julie Graham is a 500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified Health Coach and a Meditation/Positive Psychology Practitioner. As co-founder of Fare Wellness, she has helped to establish a yoga/meditation program, an urban rooftop farm and a culinary medicine program at Lenox Hill Hospital. She teaches publicly and privately throughout New York City.

This longer 18 minute meditation takes you deep inside and brings you back feeling peaceful, renewed and happy. Led by Sharon Salzberg.

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation teacher and author. She is the cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, and has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The practices of mindfulness and lovingkindness are the foundations of her work.