Meditation
Websites & Apps
Insight Timer (great, free timer with optional guided mediations)
Des Moines Area Meditation Groups
Awakening Heart Sangha - Mondays 7-8:30 pm - Unitarian Universalist Church - free
Des Moines Meditation Group - Tuesdays 7:30-8 pm - Friends Meeting House (42nd/Grand) - free
Online Meditation & Mindfulness
Mindful Mondays (Zoom) - Mondays 12 - 1 pm, recordings available - Bakken Center at the University of Minnesota - Free, donations accepted
Articles
Walking & Meditation
Tara Brach’s Walking Meditation instructions (PDF)
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Walking Meditation
Meditation & Mindfulness When You Don’t Like Meditation
A Guide to Meditation for People Who Hate Meditating (with a great list of myths about meditation!)
Neurodiversity & Meditation/Mindfulness
Autistic- and Neurodiverse-Friendly Mindfulness Practices
(Mindful.org has many free articles and practices that are great guides!)