Elena Antonova, PhD - The Brain of a Mental Olympian

Elena Antonova, PhD, neuroscientist and senior lecturer at Brunel University London, talks about the brains of long-term meditators and the 4 stages of meditation practice development.

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Amishi Jha, PhD - The Power of Focus

Amishi Jha, PhD, neuroscientist and professor of psychology, talks about her research on the neural basis of attention and the effects of mindfulness-based training programs on people in high-stress situations.

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Shauna Shapiro, PhD - The Science of Compassion

Shauna Shapiro, PhD, professor at Santa Clara University, clinical psychologist, and expert in mindfulness talks about the science supporting self-compassion.

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Sharon Salzberg - Sublime Qualities of Mind

Sharon Salzberg, world-famous meditation teacher and bestselling author, speaks about her training with legendary teachers in Asia and how to achieve sublime states of mind.

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Jay Sanguinetti, PhD - Brain Stimulation Technology

Dr. Jay Sanguinetti, Chief Scientific Officer at Alchemas and Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies, discusses his ultrasound technology for enhancing mindfulness and cognition.

Sean Fargo - From Businessman to Monk

Sean Fargo, a meditation teacher and Founder of Mindfulness Exercises, talks about his rigorous training as a Buddhist monk and how it transformed his mind.

Michael Taft - Deep Mind Training

Bestselling author, podcaster, and meditation teacher Michael Taft discusses frameworks for understanding the mind and methods for deep mind training.

Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD - The Science of Happiness

Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar discusses the science of happiness and how we can all lead happier lives.

Tamara Russell, MSc, PhD, PsyD - Martial Arts, Neuroscience & Mindfulness

Author, lecturer and black belt, Dr. Tamara Russell talks about her training in Shaolin Kung Fu and the neuroscience of martial arts and mindfulness.

Melanie Greenberg, PhD - Creating a Stress-Proof Brain

Dr. Melanie Greenberg is a clinical psychologist and consultant who wrote the bestselling book The Stress-Proof Brain. We discuss getting off of autopilot, the neuroscience of stress, and some direct tips for creating your own stress-proof, or at least stress-resistant, brain.

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Laura Bakosh, PhD - Inner Exploration

Laura Bakosh is the Co-Founder of Inner Explorer, which has brought mindfulness to over 1 million students. Previously, Laura worked in GE's healthcare division for 13 years before co-founding her mindfulness and mental health organization and has spoken at major venues like TEDx and Wisdom 2.0.

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Daniel Ingram, MD - Meditation Mastery, Pragmatism & COVID-19

Daniel is an advanced meditator and controversially a self-described Arahant (one who has become fully "enlightened" in Buddhist terms). He holds an M.D. and M.Sc. in Epidemiology from UNC Chapel Hill.

Diana Winston - The Spectrum of Awareness

Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA Semel Institute’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). She wrote The Little Book of Being and was called "one of the nation's best-known teachers of mindfulness” by the LA Times.

Judson Brewer, MD, PhD - Mindfulness & Addiction

Dr. Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, author, and Founder of MindSciences, Inc. He has used his skill set to research and develop treatments for addiction using mindfulness meditation.

Willoughby Britton, PhD - Can Meditation Be Harmful?

Dr. Willoughby Britton is a neuroscientist at Brown University studying the neurocognitive effects of mindfulness-based interventions for mood and anxiety disorders. In this episode, we discuss the potential dark sides of meditation practice.

Ash Sangoram, MD, PhD - Neuroscience, Meditation & Elite Performance

Dr. Ash Sangoram is a neuroscientist, neonatologist, former assistant Stanford Golf coach, and the Founder of GoaLoGolf, an elite performance training company. Ash is also an experience insight meditation practitioner, and he is integrating these principles with science and elite performance.

Ben Pakulski - The Bodybuilding Yogi

Ben Pakulski, a.k.a. BPAK is the CEO of Muscle Intelligence and a former IFBB professional bodybuilder who won the Mr. Canada competition in 2008. In this episode of the FitMind Podcast, we discuss how Ben got into yoga as a 320-pound muscle man, achieving mental fitness through meditation, covert influence, the attention economy, and tips for optimizing the mind.

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Richard Lang - Headless Way Meditation

Richard Lang is the primary teacher of a popular meditation technique known as Headless Way. He was a close friend of Douglas Harding, the philosopher who first invented this method, and is also coordinator of UK charity Shollond Trust.

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Cortland Dahl, PhD - Science, Meditation & the Mind's Full Potential

Dr. Cortland Dahl is a leading scientist at The Center for Healthy Minds, the top meditation research lab in the world. He also has decades of meditation experience and is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Tergar International, a global network of meditation groups and centers. We talk about what science has to say about unlocking the mind's full potential through meditation.

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Tami Simon - Meditation & Non-Dogmatic Spirituality

At the age of 21, Tami Simon founded Sounds True, a large multimedia publishing house with a mission to disseminate spiritual wisdom. She is also a renowned meditation instructor and wrote Being True: What Matters Most in Work, Life, and Love.

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