Other Mindfulness Resources

Books, apps, podcasts, and other mindfulness organizations that support our approach.

Books – Introduction to Mindfulness

• Mindfulness: An Eight Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World, by Mark Williams
• Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness in Plain English, by Henepola Gunaratana
• The Mind Illuminated, by Dr. John Yates
• 10% Happier, by Dan Harris (a good book for skeptics)

Other Books on Mindfulness

• The Way of Mindful Education, by Daniel Rechtscaffen
• Mindful of Race, by Ruth King
• Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfully, by Deborah Schoeberline
• Say What You Mean, by Oren Sofer
• Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement, by Keith Kaufman, Carol Glass, and Timothy Pineau

Apps

• 10% Happier
• Insight Timer
• Headspace
• Waking Up

Podcasts

• 10% Happier
• Making Sense
• Present Moment Mindfulness Practice and Science

Mindfulness in Education Organizations

• Calmer Choice
• Learning to Breathe
• Inward Bound Mindfulness Education
• Ivy Child
• Center for Resilience
• Koru
• Mindful Schools
• Still Quite Place
• Peace in Schools
• Mindfulness in Schools Project

Retreat Practice Organizations

• Insight Meditation Society (Barre, MA)
• Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (U.S., Canada, U.K.) – mostly for teens and young adults
• Insight Meditation Community of Washington (Washington, D.C.) – List of affiliated retreats
• Southern Dharma (Hot Springs, NC)
• Spirit Rock (Woodacre, CA)
• Vallecitos Mountain Refuge (Taos, NM)
• Cloud Mountain (Castle Rock, WA)
• University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness (Worcester, MA) – List of retreats and retreat centers
• Mindfulness Center at Brown University (Providence, RI) – Upcoming events and programs
• Vipassana Meditation Centers (Worldwide)