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WELL 39 — Finding Your Meditation Practice

Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Sarah Meyer Tapia
Duration: 6 weeks
Location: On-campus
Date(s): Sep 29—Nov 3
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Class Meeting Time: 5:30—7:20 pm (PT)
Tuition: $430
   
Refund Deadline: Oct 1
 
Unit(s): 1
   
Enrollment Limit: 50
  
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Fall
Day: Tuesdays
Duration: 6 weeks
Time: 5:30—7:20 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 29—Nov 3
Unit(s): 1
Location: On-campus
 
Tuition: $430
 
Refund Deadline: Oct 1
 
Instructor(s): Sarah Meyer Tapia
 
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
 
Enrollment Limit: 50
 
Recording Available: No
 
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
 
 
Have you tried to meditate but haven’t found a practice that works for you? Meditation is widely recommended for its ability to sharpen attention, ease stress, and support mental clarity. Yet figuring it out and fitting it in can feel harder than it sounds. Taught by the head of stress management for Stanford Lifestyle Medicine, this course approaches meditation as a skill and habit for daily life. Combining insights from neuroscience with guided practice and reflection, the course explores different approaches to meditation while helping participants develop a practice suited to their own lives and temperaments. Sessions combine brief lectures with guided meditation, reflective writing, and conversation. Readings draw from scientific research, contemplative traditions, poetry, music, and creative work. Participants will develop greater awareness of their own patterns of attention and stress while building a personalized meditation practice that feels grounded and sustainable.

SARAH MEYER TAPIA
Head of the Stress Management Pillar, Stanford Lifestyle Medicine

Sarah Meyer Tapia is a wellness specialist for the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford and head of stress management for Stanford Lifestyle Medicine. For over 20 years, she has worked in employee, student, community, and corporate wellness. As director of Stanford Living Education, she oversaw 60 wellness classes and taught meditation, behavior change, and compassion. At BeWell, she managed the wellness coaches for the university’s employees. She received an MS from Santa Clara University and a PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies.