Absolutely! And I’m not just saying that because everything is moving online. Learn to Meditate in a Month of Lunches is an online professional meditation education program with pre-crafted content so that you can accomplish it anywhere and at any time. Use this beginner’s guide to meditate if you’re looking for an at-your-fingertips way to learn something new while also taking a break from the stresses of your day. There are additional live interactions on Facebook live. My standards are extremely high, and I actually use the online platform to even more skillfully curate and reform the program behind the scenes, more-so than what may happen in the spur of the moment during an in-person session. I’ll guide you through every step, whether you’re interacting with our curated content, or our live events together.

Good point. And I use them too. But what I was missing, especially in the earlier days of a young meditating Matt (when there wasn’t such a thing as a meditation app, but I had plenty of CDs) was the ability to ask questions, and understand why some things were happening. With this program, you’ll get that.

Meditation can be done by anyone, at any time. But we have to recognize that if there were one magic answer for everyone, we’d probably already know it. Meditation can stir stuff up. One of the first things we’ll learn is how to make choices in our meditation practice on what we want to be with, when we want to be with it, in what way, and for how long. Ultimately, you’ll have Choice in your meditation on what you want to work on. But, meditation is only one tool in the toolbox. Many others, like myself, complement meditation with movement, exercise, sleep, talking life out with close friends, and other professional therapies. All of those are equally important, and this program is focused on meditation so we won’t touch on the others. As your own best advocate, use this practice as a time to get to know yourself, and what tools you want supporting you.

First, you’ll get an email each weekday (Monday through Friday) with a mini-lesson and meditation. There will be additional emails and links to other curiosity-sparking videos or short articles. And there will be some Facebook Live videos on my Facebook page (join here). You’ll also get access to my membership page where you’ll have access to all of the past day’s material so you can have everything in one spot once the month is over. Remember- you get access to the program material and any of its updates for an entire year.

As long as you have access to a smartphone or computer and can navigate your email inbox, you’ll be all set. It’s a low-tech program, and you’ll always have support if you need it.

No problem! Even though most of the material builds on itself, having to miss a day is totally fine, and understandable. You can either skip that day and come back to it when you can, or pick up where you left off. The most important part is that you hopped back on the path you picked and are continuing along!

The program lasts for 30 days, with some bonus material at the end to support you in building up your practice. Each lesson and meditation will last about 30 minutes, with the lesson and meditation split up so you can do them separately if you wish.

There’s no magic number, but I like to say that when starting out, ‘a little bit often is better than a lot occasionally”. Let yourself ease into it. And if a longer period works one day, and the next day you feel like doing less, then honor that. You can push your boundaries later, after you get to KNOW your boundaries. For years, I forced myself to sit on a cushion for 20-60 minutes, and didn’t really get where I wanted to go. Then I unlearned a lot of things that we’ll unlearn in this course, was given permission to build a practice that worked for me, and now I meditate for 1-5 minutes a bunch of random times throughout the day, 10-20 minutes a couple times a day, and more than 20 minutes at a time pretty irregularly.