Few people have guided me through mindfulness and meditation quite like Janet Solyntjes. As a longtime silent retreat leader, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and co-owner of the ...

Serial entrepreneur Ben Casnocha has long been interested in meditation’s potential to reduce stress. But in 2012, he delved into it seriously–really seriously–through silent meditation retreats. He ...

On the fourth day of my 10-day silent meditation retreat, someone spoke to me. "Hey, you." I didn't look. You're not supposed to engage with people. Noble silence is a foundational tenet of the ...

A week in silence may sound like a dream to anyone drained by the constant stimulation of modern life. But the reality of a silent retreat can be far from what you might imagine. Beyond the immediate ...

Is there anything more L.A. than learning about the coronavirus pandemic only after emerging from a 12-day meditation retreat in the desert, thereby also presumably undoing all the stress release that ...

Visitors come in droves to a Morristown Jesuit center to leave modern chaos behind. Could our reporter unplug from a frenetic lifestyle?

Yom Kippur is a day many Jews associate with dread and cynicism. Until recently, I was one of them. On top of harshly judging your questionable life choices, you’re expected to fast for 25 hours while ...

AS THE TRAIN noisily sped me to my first silent meditation retreat, in upstate New York, I decided to practice—by panicking quietly. I’d never meditated before, not for a minute let alone a weekend.

For almost two weeks, I lived like a nun at a silent meditation retreat center. But to do so, I had to be down with some of the center's basic ground rules. That included waking up at 4 am, wearing ...

Robert Wright, the New York Times online columnist and author of The Evolution of God, is pretty much what you’d call a cynic. That’s why I was surprised when he spoke with such reverence of the ...

Amanda Knox offers a meditation course to engage friends in a journey of personal development and inner well-being.

March Mindfulness is our new series that examines the explosive growth in mindfulness and meditation technology — culminating in Mashable's groundbreaking competitive meditation bracket contest.