About Teacher
Amanda Gilbert
Amanda Gilbert is a meditation instructor, speaker, and former lecturer of mindfulness at the University of Southern California. She trained in meditation at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, ...
More
Collections
See all 
Meditation for Better Work-life Balance
The Meditation for Better Work-Life Balance Collection offers a series of practices to help you explore what work-life balance can look like for your unique schedule and lifestyle. These meditations support you in turning your aspirations into reality, empowering you to create a healthier balance that boosts productivity, presence, joy, and overall mental well-being.
Incorporate Mindfulness in Your Daily Life
This meditation explores mindfulness practices to cultivate joy, gratitude, and presence in daily life. Through meditations on savoring moments, grounding during overwhelm, and mindful activities, you’ll discover tools to stay connected, calm, and appreciative anywhere, anytime.
How to Build a Daily Habit
The meditations in this collection will explore how unique work-life balancing can look like in life. These practices will support the participant in bringing their own work-life balance aspirations and goals into reality.
Achieve Your Goals
The Achieve Your Goals Collection helps turn your aspirations into reality. These practices combine questions, mantras, non-judgmental awareness, and breathing techniques to guide you toward your goals and take actionable steps to achieve them.
Building Resilience to Achieve Your Goal
The Building Resilience to Achieve Your Goals collection helps you develop the resilience needed to turn your goals into reality. These practices teach you a growth mindset, help you enjoy the process of work, and bring clarity to your vision, supporting both short- and long-term success.
Concentration and Focus
This collection of meditations invites you to discover essential techniques that can enhance your focus and concentration. By engaging with these practices, you'll find yourself gaining more clarity and a sense of balance in your meditation journey.
Leadership and Meditation
This Collection explores the intersection of leadership and meditation. These practices will help elevate your leadership skills through visualization techniques, skill-building exercises, and the development of presence and innovation.
Practice One-pointedness for an Efficient Mind
The Practice One-Pointedness for an Efficient Mind Collection explores various techniques to enhance concentration. It guides you in cultivating awareness of your thoughts, balancing calm and energy, and applying these practices not only to your work life but also to bring greater presence to your personal life and moments of play.
Classes
See all
Defining Work-life for Yourself
This meditation helps you reflect on your work-life balance. It invites you to pause and reassess your energy direction for greater productivity and presence throughout your day. You’ll learn to set boundaries and make better decisions.
Protecting Your Rest Time
This meditation guides you through a body scan to relax. It helps prioritize rest in your day, teaching you to protect this time for greater refreshment and rejuvenation.
Mindfulness Intervention to Break Cycle of Burnout
Return to the present moment with mindful pauses to interrupt burnout. Mindfulness techniques intervene in stress responses, promoting relaxation and clarity for body and mind.
Reactivity Vs. Response
Recognize the difference between reacting and responding to choose a mindful approach to stress. By examining stress triggers, you’ll see how overwhelm affects your reactions and find tools to respond with awareness and intention.
Meditation While Traveling for Work
Traveling for work? Use this visualization exercise to take your meditation practice with you. It encourages presence, reduces stress, and helps you navigate your workday with ease.
Why Practice Daily?
Understand the importance of establishing a daily habit. This session will guide you in setting an intention, understanding your goals, and defining your reasons for practicing daily meditation.
How Meditation Feels in the Beginning
This meditation guides you through breathing exercises to explore sensations and feelings. It prepares you for the basics of meditation, debunking common myths. You’ll learn to meditate with less pressure and an open mind.
Common Questions and Thoughts
In this class you will learn basics of meditation to help beginners navigate common questions and thoughts about the practice. This session debunks common misconceptions, allowing you to practice meditation with greater ease.
Try What Works Best for You
Discover the meditation practices that work best for you and your schedule. This class will enable you to build consistency in your practice.
Progress Over Perfection
This class teaches you to let go of perfection in your practice, allowing you to see consistent change over time. You will learn through a technique to notice and navigate self-judgment, helping you foster a more compassionate perspective.
Mindfulness During Moments of Joy
Mindfulness During Moments of Joy Meditation guides you to connect with the present moment, naturally increasing the joy that is already available to you and emphasizing the importance of savoring life's simple pleasures.
Mindfulness During Daily Chore
This meditation guides you in applying mindfulness to everyday activities. Through the practice of mindful dishwashing, you will discover how regular chores can become opportunities for presence and gratitude.
Active Gratitude Practice
Active Gratitude trains your mind to recognize things to appreciate, guiding your journey in valuing both the significant and minor aspects of life. This practice extends gratitude beyond meditation, enhancing fulfillment and joy in daily life.
Find Refuge in Meditation When Lost
This class helps you feel at home within yourself during moments of external overwhelm. When you feel lost, this practice guides you back to your inner resource—a steady and grounding presence that is always with you.
Meditate Anywhere, Anytime
Meditate Anywhere, Anytime teaches you how to use breathing and mindfulness tools whenever you need them. This practice empowers you to meditate anytime and anywhere and guide yourself back to calm in any situation.
Know Your Values to Set Authentic Goals
Know Your Values to Set Authentic Goals is a meditation practice that helps you explore your true self. By understanding your core values, you can align your goals with what truly matters to you, creating a path to meaningful achievement.
Competition and Compassion Can Live Together.
This class helps you balance pursuing your goals with practicing self-compassion regarding timing and outcomes. By using a mindful mantra, it guides you to achieve success in a way that feels aligned and supportive.
Are You Seeking Approval and Avoiding Criticism?
In this class you will use mantra to cultivate openness to feedback and growth. It helps you recognize ways you might avoid criticism and guides you to embrace all forms of feedback as tools for reaching your goals.
Practice Non-judgment and Develop Grit
This class uses a mantra to cultivate non-judgmental awareness toward yourself and your work. This practice builds resilience and grit, helping you achieve your goals in a sustainable and healthy way.
Energy Boost Meditation
This meditation uses box breathing to elevate your mood and energy. Perfect for when you feel stuck, this practice helps you reset, refocus on your goals, and leave feeling refreshed and energized.
Make Friends With Failure.
This meditation helps redefine your relationship with failure through a forgiveness mantra. It empowers you to view perceived failures as valuable learning experiences, fostering growth and resilience in pursuing your goals.
Learning Mindset
This class helps you to cultivate a growth mindset, essential for success. Using a mantra technique, it encourages you to view setbacks as valuable steps in the learning process, paving the way for future achievements.
Enjoying the Journey
Inspired by Dr. Rick Hanson's mindfulness practice of "savoring the good," teaches you to embrace the present moment and find joy in the journey while appreciating life's positive experiences.
Focusing on Work - Not Fruits of Labor
This meditation helps you stay present and let go of attachment to outcomes with a mindful mantra. It encourages you to take things one moment at a time, boosting productivity and focus.
Bring Clarity to Your Vision
The Bring Clarity to Your Vision Meditation encourages you to identify what you can let go of, releasing anything blocking your goals. This practice helps you sharpen your focus and connect with your greater vision.
Concentration 101
Concentration 101 introduces beginner-friendly breathing techniques, including counting your breath to help focus the mind. This practice is an excellent way to build concentration and enhance your ability to stay focused.
Improve Focus With Meditation
Improve focus and enhance your ability to concentrate on important tasks. This class guides you through a simple and effective counting technique, helping you see quick improvements in your focus and attention.
Start Again - Every Time You Get Distracted
This meditation is designed to help you refocus during moments of distraction. Using a simple countdown technique it redirects your attention back to your task, allowing you to work more efficiently.
Mental Noting for Enhanced Focus
This class introduces you to the powerful tool of mentally noting your thoughts. This technique helps maintain focus, promotes relaxation, and improves concentration.
Point Meditation for Enhanced Focus
Point Meditation for Enhanced Focus uses a single-point breath technique to cultivate deeper concentration. This practice supports long-term improvements in focus and productivity.
Mindful Leadership
This class guides you through visualizations to become a more present, focused, and intentional leader. It helps you understand what it means to be a mindful leader and shows you how to bring this practice into your workplace.
Power With Purpose
The Power with Purpose Meditation offers a guided visualization to help you gain clarity on your mission and purpose. It fosters growth as a leader by guiding you to become clear on your purpose and act on it mindfully.
Helping Others Speak Up
This meditation teaches mindful listening, a key leadership skill. This practice helps you foster respect and cultivate a healthy work culture environment by encouraging open communication.
Breaking the Habit of Busyness
This meditation guides you away from constant doing and into being. By breaking the habit of always staying busy, it allows you moments of presence and relaxation, ultimately reducing burnout and strengthening your leadership.
Leading Mindful Teams
This class guides you to lead in a way that encourages each team member to bring their unique creativity and innovation. This approach enhances the value for the company and promotes overall well-being.
What Is One-pointedness?
This meditation guides you to focus on one point—your breath, a sound, or a visual object. Practicing this strengthens your attention and enhances your concentration.
Bring Awareness to Thinking
This class helps you manage your thoughts by using a technique to identify and label them, promoting healthier thinking and deeper meditation.
Practicing With Thoughts
Practicing with Your Thoughts teaches you how to label your thoughts more specifically, helping you find greater focus and deeper self-awareness.
Balance of Calm and Energized = Efficient Brain
This class merges calm and energy to boost mental clarity. Inspired by Byron Katie, this mindfulness technique employs inquiry questions for insight and balance, enhancing your awareness of thoughts.
Bringing One-pointedness to Work and Play
Bringing One-Pointedness to Work and Play Meditation teaches you how to maintain a focused mind in both work and play, helping you cultivate deeper awareness and presence for a more fulfilling life.
