Several times a year Gil Fronsdal offers a 5 or 6 week instructional series for beginning meditators. These classes provide a good overview of insight meditation practice as well as many guided meditation sessions which help the student learn how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice.
This course is also available in:
- Chinese:
- A similar course by Ying Chen is available in Mandarin Chinese.
- recordings and transcripts of Gil's 2007 course in Chinese
- Spanish:
- A similar course by Andrea Castillo is available in Spanish.
- Transcripts of this course in Spanish
For further instruction, see the Intermediate Mindfulness series.
Documents:
| Postures for Meditation |
Wednesday Evening Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation 2024
| Title | Speaker | Date | Length | Length/ Date |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Breathing | Gil Fronsdal | 2024.01.31 | 1:33:07 | 1:33:07 2024.01.31 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Body | Gil Fronsdal | 2024.02.07 | 1:13:20 | 1:13:20 2024.02.07 |
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| Intro to Mindfulness Meditation - Emotions | Gil Fronsdal | 2024.02.14 | 1:39:26 | 1:39:26 2024.02.14 |
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| Intro to Mindfulness - Thinking | Gil Fronsdal | 2024.02.21 | 1:31:32 | 1:31:32 2024.02.21 |
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| Wednesday Evening Introduction to Meditation - with Wisdom | Gil Fronsdal | 2024.02.28 | 1:27:28 | 1:27:28 2024.02.28 |
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Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (series used in the 2021 online course)
| Title | Speaker | Date | Length | Length/ Date |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (1 of 9): Mindfulness of Breathing | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.03.30 | 58:15 | 58:15 2020.03.30 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (2 of 9): Mindfulness of Breathing | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.03.31 | 58:47 | 58:47 2020.03.31 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (3 of 9) | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.04.01 | 54:25 | 54:25 2020.04.01 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (4 of 9) | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.04.02 | 59:39 | 59:39 2020.04.02 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (5 of 9) | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.04.03 | 1:02:45 | 1:02:45 2020.04.03 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (6 of 9) | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.04.06 | 57:12 | 57:12 2020.04.06 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (7 of 9) | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.04.07 | 1:02:14 | 1:02:14 2020.04.07 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (8 of 9) | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.04.08 | 1:09:41 | 1:09:41 2020.04.08 |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (9 of 9) | Gil Fronsdal | 2020.04.09 | 1:14:12 | 1:14:12 2020.04.09 |
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Foundations of Mindfulness
Introduction to Meditation (Talks for online course prior to 2020)
| Title | Speaker | Date | Length | Length/ Date |
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| Introduction to Meditation - Breath (Part 1) | Gil Fronsdal | 2007.10.03 | 1:11:57 | 1:11:57 2007.10.03 |
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| Introduction to Meditation - Body (Part 2) | Gil Fronsdal | 2007.10.10 | 1:21:27 | 1:21:27 2007.10.10 |
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| Introduction to Meditation - Emotions (Part 3) | Gil Fronsdal | 2007.10.17 | 1:23:29 | 1:23:29 2007.10.17 |
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| Introduction to Meditation - Thinking (Part 4) | Gil Fronsdal | 2008.01.30 | 1:25:40 | 1:25:40 2008.01.30 |
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| Introduction to Meditation - Mind (Part 5) | Gil Fronsdal | 2008.10.29 | 1:25:47 | 1:25:47 2008.10.29 |
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| Introduction to Meditation - Daily Life (Part 6) | Gil Fronsdal | 2008.02.13 | 1:35:00 | 1:35:00 2008.02.13 |
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Meditation Instructions
| Title | Speaker | Date | Length | Length/ Date |
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| Brief Instructions for Sitting Meditation | No Teacher | 2001.01.01 | 05:14 | 05:14 2001.01.01 |
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| Instructions for Walking Meditation | No Teacher | 2001.01.01 | 06:47 | 06:47 2001.01.01 |
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| Mindfulness Meditation as a Buddhist Practice | No Teacher | 2001.01.01 | 06:16 | 06:16 2001.01.01 |
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Other Meditation Instructions
| Title | Speaker | Date | Length | Length/ Date |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation | Gil Fronsdal | 2005.10.02 | 44:12 | 44:12 2005.10.02 |
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| Mental Noting | Gil Fronsdal | 2008.07.20 | 46:16 | 46:16 2008.07.20 |
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| Guided Body Scan | Gil Fronsdal | 2003.07.17 | 25:05 | 25:05 2003.07.17 |
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| Guided Metta | Gil Fronsdal | 2001.09.06 | 28:04 | 28:04 2001.09.06 |
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Other Meditation Instructions
| Title | Speaker | Date | Length | Length/ Date |
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| Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation | Gil Fronsdal | 2005.10.02 | 44:12 | 44:12 2005.10.02 |
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| Mental Noting | Gil Fronsdal | 2008.07.20 | 46:16 | 46:16 2008.07.20 |
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| Guided Body Scan | Gil Fronsdal | 2003.07.17 | 25:05 | 25:05 2003.07.17 |
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| Guided Metta | Gil Fronsdal | 2001.09.06 | 28:04 | 28:04 2001.09.06 |
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Appears in Series:
| Title | Speaker | Date | Length | Length/ Date |
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| Meditation Fundamentals | <multiple> | 2001.01.01 | 73:25:29 | 73:25:29 2001.01.01 |
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| Meditation Fundamentals | <multiple> | 2001.01.01 | 73:25:29 | 73:25:29 2001.01.01 |