Intro classes and Group Meditations available now!
Join us in San Francisco on Mondays in May, or in Sunnyvale on Tuesday, May 21st, to get started with meditation. We also have Group Meditations in Sunnyvale on Tuesdays for anyone who's come to an Intro class before.
Details on all the whens and wheres are posted in the calendar.
Meditation can help you make the changes you want to see in life. It can bring clarity, balance, a renewed outlook, and overall joy to the everyday. Yes, it's that amazing! Want to know more? Learn about the
benefits of meditation and discover
the basics of how it works - and hopefully we'll see you soon!
Our meditation classes are fun, fast & easy—why not check one out?
Meditation is one of those things... You've heard that it's beneficial and can make you healthier or less stressed or whatever, but it sounds stuffy... even boring. But it's totally not! Attend one of our
INTRO TO MEDITATION classes in Sunnyvale and learn how to meditate using a really simple, and even exciting, and especially straightforward meditation technique that you'll actually want to
do every day. Meditation does not have to be difficult or painful. You don't need to twist yourself into a pretzel on the floor to do it, either! Come check out the way that we meditate and see for yourself how meditation can
change your life!
Meditation in the media... and other fun stuff
- News: Meditation and healing combats stress in the military, DVIDS, April 10, 2013
- Even Brief Meditation Can Improve Student Performance, Psych Central, April 10, 2013
- Mindfulness and meditation training could ease PTSD symptoms, researchers say, Washington Post, February 18, 2013
- A neural basis for benefits of meditation, Brown University, February 13, 2013 (via the awesome Annie Murphy Paul and her Brilliance Blog: Meditation Tune's the Brain's "Volume Knob")
- How Does a Mindful Practice Do Anything?, Huffington Post blog, February 6, 2013
- The Power of Concentration, The New York Times, December 15, 2012
- Goldie Hawn's Anti-Aging Secrets, omg! from Yahoo!, November 30, 2012
- Meditation’s positive residual effects: Imaging finds different forms of meditation may affect brain structure, HarvardScience, November 13, 2012
- Meditation reduces loneliness in seniors (study finds benefits to the immunse system, too), UCLA Newsroom, August 14, 2012
- Reading, Writing And Character The new push to teach perseverance, self-control, and mindfulness at school. NPR's OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook, August 7, 2012
- Meditation in... politics?!? In meditative mindfulness, Rep. Tim Ryan (not to be confused with Paul Ryan) sees a cure for many American ills, Washington Post, April 4, 2012
- Eat, Smoke, Meditate: Why Your Brain Cares How You Cope, Forbes, September 21, 2011
- Darshan: How To Photograph Hindu Deities, NPR, July 28, 2011
- Optimism Associated With Lower Risk of Having Stroke, Science Daily, July 22, 2011
- 'Turn Down the Volume': Meditation may help the brain reduce distractions, HarvardScience, April 22, 2011
The Lighten Up blog also has periodic postings about meditation and self-discovery in our modern age.
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Lighten Up Meditation offers classes in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. If you're curious about meditation, now's the time to find out more! Come learn how to meditate, Bay Area! Meditation is simple and fun and it can radically change your life. With the technique you'll learn at one of our San Francisco "how to meditate" classes, you'll be up and running in no time! Establishing consistency with meditation — doing it every day — can bring changes to your life remarkably fast. Meditation is just like working out: the results build the more you do it.
Learn how to meditate in Sunnyvale or at our new San Francisco location at one of our free Intro to Meditation classes, and then join our ongoing meditation group (also free! see
location info here). Meditating with a group can be especially powerful, and we happen to have an especially motivated group! You'll find lots of fun people looking to change their lives through meditation at these classes. If you're anywhere in the Bay Area and ready to learn to meditate, please come to our free meditation classes to see if you like what we do — we'd love to have you!
