mindfulness lessons + more
Susan’s Books + More
Learn about Susan’s books and other offerings, and how they relate to one another.
Towards Real-World Enlightenment
Embodying attention, balance, compassion, and playfulness
Rituals, Routines & Body Rhythms: The Simple and Profound Impacts of When We Eat, Sleep & Play For Health Across the Lifespan
A video of my presentation at the 2019 Simms / Mann Think Tank exploring mindfulness-based ways to free yourself from emotional reactivity, patterned thought, and biased thinking.
Pizza Meditation
Are you game to try a pizza meditation?
You can think of anything you like in this meditation.
Except for pizza.
Thoughts, Emotions, and an Awareness Meter
We use an awareness meter and barrel of plastic monkeys to demonstrate how to work with thoughts and emotions when we meditate.
Caring With Wisdom and Compassion - Susan talks with the Tergar Meditation Community on YouTube Live
Watch Susan talk about caring with wisdom and compassion on Tergar Meditation Community’s YouTube Live channel.
Is Helping Always Helpful? - Susan talks to Dan Harris on Ten Percent Happier Live
While some people become more selfish in times of crisis, some of us (especially parents and other caregivers) go to the opposite end of the spectrum: "helping" overdrive. Susan and Dan Harris meditate for five minutes and then talk strategies for parents and other caregivers to discern whether what they're about to say or do is more likely to be helpful or to backfire.
Everyday Freedom - Susan's Talk at Heart-Mind 2019
In the noise and confusion of modern life it’s often lost on us that while we can’t necessarily change every situation, we have the freedom to choose how we respond.
Susan demonstrates the Snow Globe Game
By moving our attention away from what we're thinking to an experience in the moment, our minds help our bodies settle.
Drop the Monkeys for Older Children and Teens!
A colorful chain of plastic monkeys demonstrates how to notice thoughts and let them go.
Mindfulness helps cultivate the perspective, "We'll See" - Linda Graham talks with Susan Kaiser Greenland
Linda Graham interviews Susan Kaiser Greenland for her series, Conversations on Recovering Resilience.
Calm Under Pressure
Are you feeling under pressure or overwhelmed? Susan demonstrates what stress and pressure do to our bodies and how to move through them.
Meditation in a Jar
Watch how easy it is to settle your mind when it's busy! then, listen to this guided meditation to give it a try.
Sweet Dreams
Let any worries, stress and strain drop away in this bedtime routine. lie flat on your back with your arms by your sides, close your eyes, and you’re ready to begin.
Susan Kaiser Greenland, Kim Schonert-Reichl and Patricia Broderick on “Working with children”
Susan Kaiser Greenland, creator of the Inner Kids program, Kim Schonert-Reichl, lead researcher for the Hawn Foundation's MindUP program, and Patricia Broderick, creator of the Learning to BREATHE program, share a discussion about the complexities of training educators to teach mindfulness-based curricula to students, and the balance between scientific research and practical implementation, focusing on developmental and age appropriateness.