Teaching Meditation

Upasaka Upali & Dr. Tucker Peck
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This is the only podcast we know of devoted to the teaching of meditation. We interview teachers and others about the process of teaching, how they became teachers, their thoughts on who should and shouldn't teach, tips for new and veteran teachers, and more. While teachers and prospective teachers of meditation will of course find lots to learn here, this is also a great resource for anyone who wants to peer behind the curtain of being a meditation teacher. You can learn more about your hosts Upali over here https://upalimeditation.com/ and about Tucker over here https://meditatewithtucker.com/

  1. 02/12/2025

    Boaz Feldman: Relational Meditation

    Upali interviews Boaz about the relational meditation practices he's been doing, including relational qi gong.  Their conversation then pivots to the role Boaz sees meditation practice holding in healing and altering societies.  Boaz will be speaking at a conference Dec 5 - 7, 2025, and you can find more information at this link.  Boaz's newest paper is over here. Support the show

    1 h 1 min

  2. 19/11/2025

    Professor Steven Haberlin: Teaching Meditation in Academia

    Professor Steven Haberlin is a professor at the University of Central Florida.  In this episode, you'll hear him talk about teaching small amounts of meditation to very large amounts of people.  Steven tells us about the benefits of this style of teaching, as well as what risks there are.  The episode then focuses on research he's been doing on technological adjuncts to meditation and the use of meditation apps.  The research forms part of his new book, Meta-Meditation for Mental Health: How Neuroscience, Virtual Reality, and AI are Changing Practice and How You Can Benefit. Support the show

    50 min

  3. 11/07/2025

    Learning Meditation: Anusheh. Meditation (Kinda) Resolved My Anxiety.

    Upali interviews Anusheh, who began practicing The Mind Illuminated in order to improve her anxiety.  While it did help, it was a more convoluted path than she had been expecting.  One topic she and Upali talk about is the idea that striving is actually helpful, in that it causes you to burn out enough that you stop doing it, which is the route to good practice.  Anusheh also talks about the transition from lusting after enlightenment -- "future happiness" -- with the focusing on what happiness could look like in the present moment.   "Rejecting your experience right now takes a lot of energy!" Support the show

    59 min

  4. 27/06/2025

    Stephen Zerfas: Making the Jhanas Accessible

    Stephen Zerfas, founder of the Jhana startup Jhourney (get it?), covers a wide range of topics in today's interview.  He and Tucker talk about the relationship of the jhanas to the rest of the path, how Stephen has succeeded in getting so much publicity, and how the larger Dharma community has responded to a tech startup teaching meditation retreats. Support the show

    53 min

  5. 13/06/2025

    Learning Meditation: Yuri. Using Meditation to Cope with War

    Upali interviews Yuri, a Ukranian-British meditator.  Yuri talks about how difficult his first retreat was, and how permanently his life changed following this.  He then goes into how much better he became as a father as a result of his meditation practice.  Later, Upali asks Yuri about what it was like when his country was attacked while his family was still there, and what impact his practice had on his ability to cope with this. Support the show

    1 h 10 min

  6. 30/05/2025

    Dr. Tucker Peck: Freedom is the Opposite of Community

    Upali interviews Tucker in this episode.  In a wide-ranging conversation, they touch on: Many of us look for self esteem to pretty much everyone we meet, or to no one at all, rather than in a sane place.Doing what you'd like to do, and being in community, are opposite stances.  How do we balance these?Tucker talks about Sanity & Sainthood, both the name of his book and what he sees as the two goals of dharma practice and psychotherapy.  This is distinguished from the point of practice being to get and keep an awesome feeling. Support the show

    38 min

  7. 14/05/2025

    Learning Meditation: Kacee. Dealing with Overwhelm in Meditation

    Kacee is the first in a series Upali will do with guests who are longtime students, rather than teachers, of meditation.  Kacee talks about a number of changes over her years as a practitioner, including her view of what to do when practice makes you feel worse, her view on integrating parts work into her meditation practice, and she deals with the inner critic. Support the show

    51 min

  8. 25/04/2025

    North Burn: Spending 20 Years on Retreat

    Dharma teacher North Burn has been on a meditation retreat for most of the last twenty years.  He teaches a 3-month retreat each spring in California.  Tucker talks with North about choosing a monastic life rather than dating, marriage, and a career.  North opens up about his relationship with his own teacher, including a period where their relationship was temporarily severed, and what this was like for him. For more information about North, head to https://boundlessness.org/ or contact team@boundless.org. Support the show

    54 min
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Información

This is the only podcast we know of devoted to the teaching of meditation. We interview teachers and others about the process of teaching, how they became teachers, their thoughts on who should and shouldn't teach, tips for new and veteran teachers, and more. While teachers and prospective teachers of meditation will of course find lots to learn here, this is also a great resource for anyone who wants to peer behind the curtain of being a meditation teacher. You can learn more about your hosts Upali over here https://upalimeditation.com/ and about Tucker over here https://meditatewithtucker.com/

Ficha técnica

  • Creado por
    Upasaka Upali & Dr. Tucker Peck
  • Años en activo
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodios
    31
  • Clasificación
    Apto
  • Derechos de autor
    © 2025 Teaching Meditation
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Teaching Meditation

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