Body Scan (32 min)

Before doing the Body Scan meditation for the first time, please read Description of the Body Scan. This 32-minute version is best for the 8-week MBSR course, but a 20-minute version is also available.

If you are deaf or hard-of-hearing, or English is not your first language, you may want to try the video version with closed captioning.

If you like, after doing this for a week or so, you might choose to do it without guidance at all. This is totally a matter of preference - some people choose to "go solo" after a time, and others always use the recorded guidance. If you do decide to do this meditation on your own, you can use the 30-minute silent meditation which is totally silent except for the three chimes that end the meditation.

In addition to accessing this meditation through this web page on a smartphone or iPad, it can also be accessed by the Insight Timer app. Once you have the Insight Timer app installed on your phone or tablet, search for "Palouse" to find this and the other MBSR meditations.

Body Scan (32 min)

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