Teaching Meditation

About Teaching Meditation

This is the only podcast we know of devoted to the teaching of meditation. We interview teachers and others about the process of teaching, how they became teachers, their thoughts on who should and shouldn't teach, tips for new and veteran teachers, and more. While teachers and prospective teachers of meditation will of course find lots to learn here, this is also a great resource for anyone who wants to peer behind the curtain of being a meditation teacher. You can learn more about your hosts Upali over here https://upalimeditation.com/ and about Tucker over here https://meditatewithtucker.com/

Publisher

Upasaka Upali & Dr. Tucker Peck

Category

education · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2021

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Monica Heiser: Mindfulness in Daily Life

   Send us Fan Mail Upali interviews Monica Heiser, a teacher in the insight lineage Mindfulness in Daily Life (MIDL). Monica is one of the few guests we've had on the show who is a fulltime school teacher, so she and Upali talk about how this informs her pedagogy. She and Upali talk about effort and overeffort in practice, and how this can lead to big distractions such as lust for jhanas, and they contrast this with the positive feedback loop of wellbeing that comes from balanced pr...

2. 

   13 Jul 2026

   Lysha Smith: Teaching Goenka's Vipassana

   Send us Fan Mail Lysha Smith is a senior teacher in the lineage of SN Goenka, running the Dhamma Dhara center in Massachusetts. The conversation touches on a number of issues, including How they manage to keep their courses free of chargeWhy they're so "unhip"? (We think we're the first big<ish> Dharma podcast to do an episode on Goenka)Do Goenka retreats cause serious mental health side effects at a higher rate than other traditions, or is it just the sample bias (way...

3. 

   9 Jun 2026

   George Haas: Developing Secure Attachment

   Send us Fan Mail Meditation teacher and attachment theory expert George Haas talks about the effects of insecure attachment, as well as how combining meditation with other modalities can cause a permanent shift in attachment style. See mettagroup.org for more information. Support the show

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 23 / 100

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Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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