Mindfulness Daily

A FREE 40-day training in mindfulness meditation with two of the world’s most respected meditation teachers, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach

Course Overview

Mindfulness Daily brings you a 40-day training in mindfulness meditation with two of the world’s most respected meditation teachers, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Each daily 10 to 15 minute lesson includes a short talk and a guided meditation. To create this program, Jack and Tara distilled their extensive body of work into the 40 essential lessons you need the most.

The course includes four modules:

Mindful Basics – 13 days
Emotional Intelligence – 8 days
Resilience, Healing & Inner Freedom – 8 days
Mindful Living – 11 days

Feel free to navigate at the pace that best fits your learning style. You might want to engage with a new lesson daily, or take a few days to re-listen and further absorb each lesson before moving on. To establish a daily habit of meditating, we recommend completing one lesson per day.

Course Curriculum

Welcome and Introduction

Welcome to Mindfulness Daily – Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield
Getting Started – “Mindfulness Daily

Week 1

Week 1 – Reflection Questions
Day 1: Pausing for Presence
Day 2: Conscious Relaxing
Day 3: Coming Back to Your Senses
Day 4: Attitude of Friendliness
Day 5: Mindfulness of Breath
Day 6: Calming and Steadying with the Breath
Day 7: Counting the Breath

Week 2

Week 2 – Reflection Questions
Day 8: Deepening the Focus
Day 9: Mindfulness of the Body
Day 10: Feeling from the Inside Out
Day 11: Body Scan
Day 12: Naming Sensations
Day 13: Working with Intense Sensations
Day 14: Mindfulness of Emotions

Week 3

Week 3 – Reflection Questions
Day 15: Naming Emotions
Day 16: Working with Difficult Emotions
Day 17: Fostering Positive Emotions
Day 18: Recognizing Thinking
Day 19: Wise Relationship to Thought
Day 20: Life Under Thoughts
Day 21: Beyond Thoughts

Week 4

Week 4 – Reflection Questions
Day 22: Mindfulness: The Core Practice
Day 23: Self-Judgment and Self-Compassion
Day 24: RAIN
Day 25: Emotions and Inner Resources
Day 26: Beginner’s Mind
Day 27: Spacious Awareness
Day 28: Equanimity

Week 5

Week 5 – Reflection Questions
Day 29: Who am I? (Mindfulness of Awareness)
Day 30: Empathy and Compassion
Day 31: Forgiveness
Day 32: Seeing Goodness
Day 33: Intention
Day 34: Conflict
Day 35: Listening

Your Teachers

Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught worldwide since 1974. He is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practices to the West. He is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and of Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. He is a husband, grandfather, and activist and holds a PhD in clinical psychology. He has written more than fifteen books including The Wise Heart; A Path With Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; and more.

Tara Brach

Tara Brach has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975, as well as leading workshops and meditation retreats at centers throughout North America and Europe. She has a PhD in clinical psychology, is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), and is the author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, Radical Compassion, and Trusting the Gold. Tara’s weekly podcasts of talks and meditations are downloaded more than three million times each month.