The East Coast Mindfulness Video Library

A growing collection of selected videos from the weekly Worldwide Online Sit, and more.

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Videos of the Weekly Worldwide Online Sit
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Guest Teachers

Jon Kabat-Zinn on the Worldwide Online Sit

2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, created by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Jon led a very special 1-hour, 40 minute edition of the Worldwide Online Sit on October 24, 2019. Click on the image to watch it!

"I’d like to applaud the effort—and the love behind it—to develop and host an online, totally free opportunity for people to come together each week and sit. Even though people tune in from all over the world, there is a feeling of intimacy and deep connection among the participants, because that intimacy is intrinsic to the human heart and mindfulness practice itself. I am grateful that East Coast Mindfulness is offering this opportunity to practice together every week via the Worldwide Online Sit. It has a beyond time and space element to it that is very powerful and restorative.  I plan to join in when I can."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Saki Santorelli on the Worldwide Online Sit

Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA is an educator, meditation guide, writer, gardener, and pioneer in integrating meditation and mindfulness into medicine, health care, and the broader society. In 2017, he retired as professor of medicine, executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and director of the internationally acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic – the clinic of origin of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) - at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

His entire forty-year career in medicine and healthcare has been oriented around the integration of mindfulness into public health fueled by an abiding trust in the innate brilliance and nobility of human beings. He has plumbed the nature of the healing relationship by working with thousands of medical patients, educating and mentoring generations of medical students, healthcare professionals, educators, and researchers of mindfulness and MBSR. Through his vision and leadership, the Center for Mindfulness transmitted the ethos, practice, teaching, and science of mindfulness to individuals and organizations around the world.

Saki has been a student in the universal Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan for nearly fifty years. In 1980, his teacher, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, suggested he also become a student in the Buddhist insight meditation tradition. He did so. A year later, he met Jon Kabat-Zinn. Blessed with such good fortune, he entered an apprenticeship with Jon. As their decades-long relationship unfolded, they became colleagues, friends, and dharma-brothers transmitting the taste of mindfulness, the fragrance of the heart, and the vision of a grounded, lively contemplative science and education to people around the planet.

Saki teaches, writes, presents workshops, seminars, and leads retreats internationally. He is the author of Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine now translated into thirteen languages and founder/director of the website and online community, Guest House Awareness.

Saki led a 1-hour session on March 10, 2022 entitled "In the Guesthouse." Click on the image to watch it!

"Times of great need require our responsiveness. We say "yes" to affection; we say "yes" to generosity; we say "yes" to the unity of life and peace making. The world needs East Coast Mindfulness because of its responsiveness and hospitality. Come into this great tent, friends, bring your hearts, enjoy the meal….."

Saki Santorelli

Susan Piver on the Worldwide Online Sit

Buddhist teacher, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Open Heart Project Susan Piver led a special edition of the Worldwide Online Sit on November 21, 2019. Click on the image to watch it!

"East Coast Mindfulness makes it possible for people all over the world to meditate together with an experienced teacher. Too often, only those with time, money, and full mobility can access meditation instruction with a community. By holding these sessions online, they open the world of mindfulness far beyond its conventional boundaries."

Susan Piver

Mark Nepo on the Worldwide Online Sit

Mark Nepo is a poet and spiritual adviser who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. With over a million copies sold, Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A beloved poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.”

His work is widely accessible and used by many and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A bestselling author, Mark has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects. Recent work includes The Book of Soul (St. Martin’s Essentials, 2020), Drinking from the River of Light (Sounds True, 2019); More Together Than Alone (Atria, 2018) cited by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2018; and Things That Join the Sea and the Sky (Sounds True, 2017), a Nautilus Book Award Winner.

In his 30s Mark was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma, a struggle which helped to form his philosophy of experiencing life fully while staying in relationship to an unknowable future. Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats.

Find out more about Mark at Live.MarkNepo.com.

Mark led a special 1-hour edition of the Worldwide Online Sit on April 1, 2021, with a talk on the theme "Inside Everything." Click on the image to watch it!

"It was a complete joy to join East Coast Mindfulness for their weekly Worldwide Online Sit, a welcoming place where souls can breathe and be as they are, so needed during these difficult times."

Mark Nepo

Meredith Monk on the Worldwide Online Sit

Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer, filmmaker, and creator of new opera, music-theater works, films and installations. Recognized as one of the most unique and influential artists of our time, she is a pioneer of what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance.” In 1968, Ms. Monk founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance. In 1978, she formed Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble to expand her innovative exploration of the voice as a multifaceted instrument. Celebrated internationally, her work has been presented at major venues throughout the world. Over the last six decades she has received numerous awards and honors including a MacArthur Fellowship, Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Republic of France, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and a National Medal of Arts. 
 
A longtime Buddhist practitioner, she is a student of Acharya Pema Chödrön. In addition to workshops and master classes at the Garrison Institute, Omega, Naropa University and Zen Mountain Monastery, she has co-taught workshops with Acharya Judy Lief and Lanny Harrison both in New York and at Naropa, where she first encountered the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in the mid-‘70s. In 1999 she performed a “Vocal Offering” for His Holiness the Dalai Lama as part of the World Sacred Music Festival in Los Angeles. Currently, she is developing Indra’s Net, the third part of a trilogy of music-theater works exploring our interdependent relationship with nature.

Meredith led a special 1-hour edition of the Worldwide Online Sit on May 20, 2021, with a talk on the theme "Voice as Practice." Click on the image to watch it!

Andrew Holecek on the Worldwide Online Sit

Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher who offers talks, online courses, and workshops in the United States and abroad. A long-time student of Buddhism, he has completed the traditional three-year Buddhist meditation retreat and offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying.

He is the author of many books, including The Power and the Pain; Preparing to Die; Meditation in the iGeneration, and three books on the nocturnal meditations. Dr. Holecek is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and has authored scientific papers. His work has appeared in Parabola, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Utne Reader, Buddhadharma Magazine, Light of Consciousness, and many other periodicals. See andrewholecek.com for more.

Andrew led a special 1-hour edition of the Worldwide Online Sit on November 4, 2021, with a talk entitled "Ok, I’m Mindful . . . Now What?" in which he explored some of the obstacles to meditation, including spiritual bypassing, escapism, and McMindfulness. Click on the image to watch it!

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