Simple Meditation Practices You Can Do Anywhere

This is an abridged edition of How to Train a Wild Elephant.

If youve heard about the many benefits of mindfulness practice but think you dont have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be proven delightfully wrong. Mindfulness is available every moment, including right now, as Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays shows with these twenty-five mindfulness exercises that can be done anywhere. Use them to cultivate the gratitude and insight that come from paying attention with body, heart, and mind to lifes many small moments.


Mindful Eating, Jan Chozen Bays, Shambhala Publications, Paperback Pocket (3x4.5) , 248 Pages, 2014, $8.95

Jan Chozen Bays, MD, is a Zen master in the White Plum lineage of the late master Taizan Maezumi Roshi. She serves as a priest and teacher at the Jizo MountainGreat Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. She is also a pediatrician who specializes in the evaluation of children for abuse and neglect.